Though many users prefer Mozilla Firefox, there are people who like Opera for the speed. It has many features that are yet to be seen in Internet Explorer.
The latest version of Opera is 9 and has many unique features that is not yet found in other browsers.
It has a built in Bittorrent downloader, Content blocker(to block images and ads), Widgets - small web applications, download manager, email client, IRC and many such cool features.
Linux users can also download a client for their distribution. Ubuntu users can get a deb file and install it.
Before it you should install libqt3-mt package. Then download the .deb file and install it. All these three can be done by these commands.
sudo apt-get install libqt3-mt
wget http://ftp.wayne.edu/opera/linux/902/final/en/i386/shared/opera_9.02-20060919.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i opera_9.02-20060919.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb
To get java working go to Tools->Preferences->Advanced->Content-> Check “Enable Java”. Click the “Enable Java…” button and enter “/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/lib/i386” (for Sun Java) in the new dialog and then click the “Validate Java Path” button.
In windows I used to have uTorrent for downloading my torrents. Under Linux I searched for a nice software which doesn’t take too much system resources. Atlast I found Deluge which is written in Python and has a very easy to use interface just like uTorrent.
It shows detailed statistics about the torrent you are downloading, multiple torrents download using the same interface, even a built-in search engine.
If you are using debian/ubuntu, Deluge can be apt-getted easily. Just add the followind lines to your sources.list file. There are two repositories, you can add either one of them.
deb http://deluge.mynimalistic.net/apt dapper main
deb http://espergreen.com/apt dapper main
After adding it, run sudo apt-get install deluge
It requires python-libtorrent_0.4.0 but all the dependencies will be handled by apt-get automatically (why else do you use apt-get).
There are packages for Gentoo and Arch Linux. You can also download the package by visiting the trac page. Ubuntu Forums host a support forum for Deluge. You can ask for help there.
This new version 0.4 supports plugins and various plugins are available for monitoring the network, showing the graphs, monitoring CPU usage.
Many of you must be wanting to try some web development and would like to setup their own LAMP(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) stack. Ubuntu has a special Server Edition for setting up your own LAMP server, most of you may want to install it on your desktop (I like it that way).
This involves installing Apache, PHP, Python and MySQL. I think Python will be installed by default and we only need to install mod_python for Apache. I use Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10.
Continue reading ‘Setting up LAMP on your Ubuntu desktop’
Wordpress has this particular problem when publishing or saving a blog post where it shows a 404 page instead of the required effect. This is irritating when you have typed a long post and just after you have published it shows the 404 error, and all your data is lost. I have faced this same problem for many times.
After a bit of Googling, I found out that the problem is with mod_security being set on server.
To fix this, add the following two lines in our .htaccess file.
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
This should fix the problem. Let me try publishing this post.
Flash player 9 beta is the latest version that you can get for your linux box. This is very essential for my life because I miss all the youtube videos. So, I decided to install the flash player 9 beta on by Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10.
First you have to install the flash player 7. Remember to enable all the repositories.
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
sudo update-flashplugin
sudo apt-get install libflash-mozplugin
After flash player 7 is installed, you can carry on your installation for the new release. These three command will download the player, extract it and also install it.
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer9_update/FP9_plugin_beta_112006.tar.gz
tar xvzf FP9_plugin_beta_112006.tar.gz
sudo cp flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.78/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/
This is an easy method for installing flash player for linux and now I can enjoy my videos.
web.py is a web framework for python that is so simple and powerful. The new version 0.2 was released on 27 Nov after many days lying in the subversion repository. The website also presents a new layout.
It is a nice framework and I have also tried writing a very simple web app using it. I think I would mostly be using this framework for my final year project. Or are there any other better frameworks available?
If you want faster boot/reset times on your Linux box, you should consider switching over to OpenBIOS. OpenBIOS can save the time wasted by proprietary BIOS legacy support for MS-DOS and other unnecessary functions.
The proprietary BIOSes typically found in off-the-shelf PCs and boards often account for more than half of total boot time. And, much of this time is spent loading drivers and compiling information useful to legacy OSes such as DOS, but largely useless and redundant when using a modern OS such as Linux, which tends to do its own hardware probing, and load its own hardware drivers.
This problem can be avoided by replacing the proprietary BIOS by OpenBIOS. Open implementations can be configured to perform only the required initialisation tasks before booting the OS.
Another approach is to use linux itself to initialise its hardware. The LinuxBIOS loads a small kernel directly on the ROM. This can be easily attained as current hardware has 1-2MB of flash ROM onboard.
Do you think that Firefox is too slow for your internet experience. Maybe you need to have a special firefox built especially optimised for your architecture. You may try out SwiftFox which has various builds firefox which is suitable for your particular processor. There are Ubuntu deb files too available.
Swiftfox has builds for both AMD and Intel processors. The 1.5.0.6 release is based on Firefox 1.5.0.6.
The trunk is the most cutting edge of all the builds and is where Firefox 3 is being developed.
Branch builds are built from a code base that has been tested much more than the trunk and therefore should be considered to be more stable. The 1.8 branch is where Mozilla develops Firefox 2 which will be the next major Firefox release.
The 1.8.0 branch is the most stable build, second only to the release builds. This is where Mozilla tests security patches and other minor fixes before they release the next Firefox update. If you don’t want to wait for the next Firefox update to get those security patches then this branch is for you.
I had always wanted cliparts and nicer templates to be bundled along with OpenOffice.org. Though it is an excellent office suite, the absence of bundled pictures, fonts made many to no switch over from Microsoft Office. Here is Openoffice.org Premium which has these tools along with it.
It has new features like
- Clip Art (currently more than 2,800 objects)
- Templates (number varies by language)
- Samples (number varies by language)
- Documentation (if available)
- Fonts (more than 90 fonts)
You can download it from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170021
[Windows / Linux (deb, rpm, slackware, uhu) binaries in English, German and Hungarian language, special EnGeHu 3-in-1 one Windows installer]
OpenBSD can be called the most secure operating system used by man now. The development process of the OS focuses on building a secure, open and free UNIX platform. Most of the tools used for cryptography and security like OpenSSH were developed by these guys. Here is an article which takes a closer look at OpenBSD.