Archive for October, 2008

How To Upgrade Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) To 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) (Desktop & Server)

Today the new Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) has been released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 8.04 desktop and server installations to Ubuntu 8.10.

More details available at HowtoForge.com/…

Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" Released

Six month and six days after the release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS “Hardy Heron“, we now have the next version of this Linux desktop and server distribution led by Mark Shuttleworth. Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” has been officially released today with a number of new packages, an assortment of updated packages, and other new features.

More details available at Phoronix.com/…

Beta and Plugin Improvements in Google Chrome

After the beta launch in early September, from the first wave of feedback, we realized that a large number of users were facing plugin compatibility issues in Google Chrome. These included Adobe Flash videos not playing, as well as various browser performance issues with Adobe Flash and Adobe PDF document loading. There was even an issue where the browser consumed 100% CPU when users interacted with plugins.

This is exactly the kind of feedback we are expecting from a beta launch. We have invested a lot of effort into automating compatibility testing for large number of web pages but there is nothing like actual user feedback. We are impressed by the user response to the beta and the quality of bug reports filed. Nothing more motivating than a lot of users waiting for your work. :)

One of the big issues was support for PDF Fast WebView, which is the ability for a webserver to byte serve a PDF document. This allows a client to request specific byte ranges in the file while skipping pages that are not needed. This is supported generically by seekable streams specification in NPAPI, which Google Chrome now implements. This should improve performance with large PDF files or any other content served using Fast WebView.

More details, availalble at blog.chromium.org/…

Chromium-Announce: Beta release 0.3.154.9

Google Chrome version 0.3.154.9 has been released. You will
automatically get updated in the next few days. You can open About
Google Chrome (from the wrench menu) to get the update at any time.

This release fixes the top issues we’ve heard about from people using
the Beta release, especially with plugins (the programs that show
video on sites like YouTube).

This is a roll up of fixes that have perviously been released to our
Dev channel users. See http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel/release-notes
for details on the changes that have been made since 0.2.149.30.

More details, come to groups.google.com/group/chromium-announce/…

GoogleBlog: Eight candles for Google Toolbar

Google recently celebrated its 10th birthday. As we participated in the festivities, we realized that we are coming upon another birthday: In just a few weeks, our very own Google Toolbar will be turning 8 years old. To celebrate, we wanted to take a few moments to reflect on its evolution over the past few years and how we’ve tried to make the web a better place for the hundreds of millions of people who use Toolbar.

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Ubuntu: Using apt-p2p For Faster Upgrades From Hardy To Intrepid

ernest has today published on TorrentFreak a great howto on how to lessen the burden of the Canonical Servers for the upgrade to the new stable release of Ubuntu 8.10 – Intrepid Ibex. With his permission I publish this howto here also.

More details, come to HowtoForge.com/…

Automatic And Up-To-Date Fedora 9 Installations With Kickstart And Novi

Kickstart allows you to do automatic Fedora/RedHat/CentOS installations (i.e., you do not have to sit in front of the computer and answer the questions of the installer). This is useful and time-saving if you have to deploy tens or hundreds of similar systems (e.g. workstations). Kickstart reads the installation settings from a Kickstart configuration file. The problem with Kickstart is that it usually uses the distribution’s packages from the time the distribution was released, i.e., it does not consider updates which means you would have to update each system manually after the Kickstart installation. This guide explains how you can do up-to-date Kickstart installations with the help of a tool called novi.

More details, come to HowtoForge.com/…

Installing ISP-fw (Firewall) On Linux

ISP-fW is a firewall script that provides port forwarding, packet filtering, stateful packet inspection, port redirection, masquerading, SNAT/ DNAT, TOS, and never the last it generates htb rules for bandwidth management. With ISP-fw, you can turn a PC into a gateway with shaping capabilities.

More Details, come to HowtoForge.com/…

How To: Fixed MP3 files infected with Malware Downloader-UA.h (Cmd Urlandexit isvbr.net)

How to Fixed MP3 files infected with Malware Downloader-UA.h (Cmd Urlandexit isvbr.net)

here the solution 

 Here the Download Link (This Download link with Example File .MP3) : 

File : Executable File

Source : Source File

Google Sites now in 38 languages

In May we opened up Google Sites, and while the service itself was only in English, it has always supported the ability to add website content in any language. It’s been really exciting to see more than one million sites created in a wide range of countries and languages, for everything from anItalian improv theater group to a Spanish guide to Huitzuco to a Japanese computer store. With the addition of 37 more languages, it is now even easier for people and businesses around the world to build and host their own website on Google Sites.

The latest release includes full localized versions of the Google Sites service and interface, enabling website creators and collaborators to interact more naturally with the product in their native languages. Browser settings are used to automatically detect and display the preferred language among those supported. You can also override the browser language and set your language preference directly in Google Sites.

Here are the 38 languages we are supporting with this release: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English (UK), Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Read more on the Google Sites blog.