Anant Shrivastava

Many of you who will be working on firefox 3 beta 5 will be having problem’s to configure the plugin’s coz they are not compatible with firefox3b5,

YOU Don’t Need to wait til the official release you can try on your own that are the really not compatible with ff3b5

=== rest of the section is not for fainthearted people ===

The plugi’s of firefox are provided in .XPI package.

This xpi is nothing but a zip file renamed.

so to view the content of the plugin’ just change the extension to zip from xpi.

The extract the file in a folder and look for a file named “install.rdf”

This is the file that need editing

 Pasting a sample install.rdf from sparky - an alexa plugin 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<RDF:RDF xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"
xmlns:NC="http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf#"
xmlns:RDF="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mozilla:extension:file:"
em:package="content/" />
<RDF:Description RDF:about="rdf:#$qOePo2"
em:id="{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}"
em:minVersion=”2.0″
em:maxVersion=”2.0.0.*” />
<RDF:Description RDF:about=”urn:mozilla:install-manifest”
em:id=”toolbar@alexa.com”
em:name=”Alexa Sparky”
em:version=”1.1″
em:creator=”Derrick Pallas”
em:description=”Alexa Internet Statusbar Sparkline”
em:homepageURL=”http://www.alexa.com/”
em:aboutURL=”chrome://alexastatusbar/content/about.xul”
em:iconURL=”chrome://alexastatusbar/skin/logo.png”
>
<em:targetApplication RDF:resource=”rdf:#$qOePo2″/>
<em:file RDF:resource=”urn:mozilla:extension:file:”/>
</RDF:Description>
</RDF:RDF>

The lne to check out is already highlighted

em:minVersion=”2.0″
em:maxVersion=”2.0.0.*” />

This minVersion is the version number below which it will not install and maxVersion is the upper limit

To make it running on FireFox3 Beta 5 change the above lines to

em:minVersion=”2.0″
em:maxVersion=”3.0b5″ />


After this just recompress the folder and rename it with extension xpi.

and open it in firefox to install it.

more examples of such edit includes firebug and scribefire.

all three plugin are working fabulously on my pc and i keep using them around 12hrs a day so that can count to the stability issue.

Tags: firefox, web

well what can i say about this day of 25th feb,

a lot of tech events happened which can easily get any techno enthusiast get back to action

just the same  happened with me.

some of today’ highlight.

1) Pakistan’s attempt to block youtube resulting in worldwide downtime for youtube.

A simple quote i read some where said, if you can’t then don’t, this applies clearly on Pakistan’s tech team, whose action resulted in the complete blockage of the most popular video site for many hours.

2) Linkedin getting mobile version rolled out.

So finally a much awaited feature is out, with sites getting a lot of Jscript based, its getting increasingly uncomfortable to open them on mobiles hence  a good decesion.

3) EA sports bidding for take-two resulting in share hike for take-two

EA sports putted a unsolisatewd bid for take two interactives (GTA and tycoon famed, although it was put down quiockly by take two but it affected in a very good style to take-two with its shares soaring high. registering as high as 50% profit.

4) Adobe alunching AIR : an effort to bring some air for flash platform.

with constant treats from silverlight and AJAX, flash was getting some severe burns this could help in healing them also

5) Intel launcing its 8 core pc paltform

now this could be an attempt to compete with the new barcelona architectire and future paln’s announced few mothns ago by amd, as well as apple’s latest offering

Tags: , technology

Http://linuxgurus.info

I was working on this project for about 2 months now,

our aim was to develop a live community for the Linux user’s specially of Bhopal(M.P.) India

This happened to be the main reason for my absence from the blogging arena.

So in order to form a live discussion community based, we came up with an idea of a discussion forum, and after a few days workout, we found mybb most suitable.

took us almost 30days to reach the post marks currently present as well as get the video gallery setup.

http://forum.linuxgurus.info

http://forum.linuxgurus.info/vgallery.php : - video gallery.

but the good news is

SITE LAUNCHED YESTERDAY.

after 48hrs we have got

14 new registrations

above 150 visitor

Note: hope this trend continues and the forum gets going steadfastly.

Tags: , gnu, linux

Protect your PC by executing a program on Sandboxie

If you execute a dangerous program which can have an virus or visit a site which can install a spy ware into your machine, use Sandboxie!

Programs (including browser) which is executed through Sandboxie reads data from hard disk.
But when programs write something on hard disk (or register), it is written on transient storage of Sandboxie. And the written data will be removed when Sandboxie is terminated.
(i.e. Sandboxie intercepts read operation and directs data to its temporary storage)

See the following figures, you can understand its mechanism.

* existing way *

* Sandbox’s way to protect your PC *

Sandboxie has simple user interface. You can launch any programs as below,

Sandboxie monitors processors which are crated through it. And “[#]” is added after/before the original caption of an application which is executed by Sandboxie. see as below,

It’s free and you can download it here.

I also think that it will be very useful
- when you test your application (e.g. windows application, FireFox extension, etc) for testing.
- when you get rid of all of your trace on a PC of your friend.

the blog originally posted on http://alonesworld.blogspot.com/2007/09/protect-your-pc-by-executing-program-on.html

My views on this topic besides the above :

From the users point of view , small footprint makes it a good choice.

it install a startup application and then everything could be done write from it.

also right click menu has a new entry for application “RUN sandboxed”

This will bring security to new level. it could easily be implemented on cafe’s and other public place to avoid system hassles.

also its feature to start apps fro start menu opens a new menu containing a list of items available at desktop and all programs menu.

over all its a nice piece of application that should be installed prior to any other application in order to avoid any tension.

Tags: review.

You finally got your Linux environment to crash. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does nothing, nor do the F-keys. You know you shouldn’t have installed that bad driver, but you did it anyway. So you reach for the power button. Stop. Mashing in the power button to reboot could cause a problem if your hard drive is still being written to, and usually causes more problems than it solves. The Linux kernel includes a secret method of restarting your PC should it ever stop doing its job. 1. Hold down the Alt and SysRq (Print Screen) keys. 2. While holding those down, type the following in order. Nothing will appear to happen until the last letter is pressed: REISUB 3. Watch your computer reboot magically. What the individual keys do in that sequence are not as important as what it does as a whole: stops all programs, unmounts all drives, and reboots. A lot safer than just cutting the power. Here it is again: REISUB. Remember that, as it will save you a lot of time when you are configuring a system and something gets messed up. Need a mnemonic? Try Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring. As an aside, don’t try this if you just want to reboot. A normal reboot, if it can be done, should always be used instead of the REISUB keys. R-E-I-S-U-B. Source & Author: Jacob from FOSSwire

For complete list of commands that can be used head to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

Tags: linux