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Searchmash search engine plug-in for Firefox

Searchmash is the test bed for next generation google search. This site is owned and operated by Google, Inc. It is called Google Search 2.0. It's look and feel and presentation are designed such a way that it is easy to explore the data we search. It is worth to test this site. I have developed a search engine plug-in for Firefox, to search using this site. I have done nothing more than running a wizard provided by searchy. In this site, look for searchmash and download the plug-in. It will pr...

Review: Dreamlinux 2.1 WORKS Edition

It is my long pending work to install, experience and review the DreamLinux. Atleast now I have done it. What I expected from DreamLinux screenshots are just eye candy desktop, but in reality? Let us get into the review. Configuration: Hardware: PIII 800MHz / 192MB RAM / Intel 82815 Chipset board Operating System: Dreamlinux 2.1 WORKS Edition (Debian based) with 2.6.14 kernel. Live CD: Booted the system through Live CD. GRUB menu presented a lot of options to start the CD. It is ...

Arch Linux: Kernel panic after update – a solution

I am a most impressed Arch Linux user. It is best suited for my low end system. My system is PIII-800MHz/192MB/Intel-82815. After recovery of /home files from lost partition, I cleaned up all my system partitions for fresh and compact installation of Arch Linux. In last 5 months experience in Arch Linux, I tested with a lot of applications installed. Now I know what I need. So I went for fresh Arch installation, otherwise you need not to install Arch to become current version. pacman -Syu will d...

PhotoRec – Ultimate File Recovery Tool

Here is a successful file recovery process on my Home PC. Though many tools have contributed to this recovery, PhotoRec is the Hero. I am going to narrate the entire story. My PC is PIII-850MHz/192MB/20GB+10GB-HDD, moderately old system more than enough for serving as home PC. I had Arch Linux as Production system and Debian sid, Fedora 5 and Ubuntu-Feisty as test/review system. Last week, When I try to adjust the partition to make room for one more distribution, accidentally (over confident on...

Ulteo – Distro, worth to watch!

Currently hundreds of Linux distributions available. But only a very few has its own unique feature. Recent arrival Ulteo seems to be promising distribution, if they keep up their promises given below as quoted by their site. Ulteo projects itself as Application System, which means using application is important than maintaining the system. That's good. 1- always provide the most up to date stable features and self-upgrade automatically 2- require no, or very little, administration by the user ...