Monthly Archives: October 2006

Tweak Firefox Extensions against version incompatibilities

Firefox 2.0 RC2 has been released. It is well polished and has good number of features which includes, better tab handling, anti-phishing, inline spell check,etc. We use to face the problem of version incompatibilites of existing firefox extensions while we … Continue reading

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Boot CDROM through GRUB

All latest computers can boot from CD when there is a bootable CDROM in the drive. It is the ability of the BIOS. But legacy PCs does not have that feature. Many operating systems provide bootable floppy for this purpose. … Continue reading

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Debian – The King of Linux Distros

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My current Home PC (PIII/192MB) is installed with Debian sid. I have this setup for last one month and found stable. Actually I installed Debian Sarge through DVD. It was just base install. After first phase of installation, the installation … Continue reading

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HOWTO: Tamil Keyboard on Ubuntu 6.06

Enabling Tamil input method on Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTD (Dapper Drake) is so sweet and simple. Here is an HowTo on that. It involves three steps: 1. Enabling Extra Repositories: System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager Settings -> Repositories … Continue reading

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