Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide

I have not blogged since a long time mainly because I was a bit busy authoring a book Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner’s Guide for Packt Publications. The book is an introductory guide to Squid (especially the new features in Squid-3 series) covering both the basic aspects as well as the in dept details for [...]

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News: ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.2 Released. No Fedora 12 Support.

February 17, 2010
AMD ATI Catalyst Drivers Suck

After almost a month, ATI has come up with a new version 10.2 of its Catalyst (fglrx) drivers. The drivers can be download from ATI Catalyst™ 10.2 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver Page. As AMD is famous for doing nothing but just incrementing versions of there software, even this version doesn’t support xorg-1.7.4. But if [...]

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Javascript To Remove All Facebook Apps From Your Account

February 11, 2010
Stop Facebook Spam

This is a guest post by Gaganpreet Arora AKA bitgeek.
My Facebook app list was cluttered with useless apps accumulated over the time I had joined Facebook. The worst thing is that Facebook does not allow you to remove multiple apps in one go. You have to select one, confirm on “Are you sure?” first and [...]

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News : ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.1 Released. Test them now!

January 28, 2010
ATI Catalyst Drivers Linux fglrx

After a long, really long wait, AMD has released the next version 10.1 of its ATI Catalyst display drivers (fglrx) for Linux. The drivers can be download from ATI Catalyst™ 10.1 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver Page. As previous version turned out to be a big turn off for Fedora community and AMD took a [...]

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Red Hat Launches OpenSource.Com

January 27, 2010
Red Hat Open Source Com

Well, OpenSource is more or less about software source code and technology specific but OpenSource.Com scales beyond software and technology and provides a platform to discuss/learn/get involved/share.
From the website,

What problems can we solve? How would it affect the way we learn? Work? Run our governments?
We want to shine a light on the places where the [...]

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Tip: Multiproxy Switch : Easily use multiple proxies in Firefox

December 19, 2009
Multiproxy Switch - Firefox Multiple Proxyes

A lot of people (especially working people with mobile devices like notebook/netbooks) need to use different proxy servers at home and office. There are several Firefox extensions available to achieve the required functionality but IMHO Multiproxy Switch(Mozilla Addon Page) is the best because

Its simple and easy to use. It does what it should. No fancy/extra [...]

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News: Will ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.12 work with Fedora 12?

December 18, 2009
ATI Catalyst Drivers 9.12 (fglrx)

AMD has released the next version 9.12 of its ATI Catalyst display drivers for Linux. The drivers can be download from ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver Page. As of now, I haven’t tried the drivers on Fedora 12 because supposedly my SMPS is broken But since there were a whole lot [...]

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Fedora 12 ATI Catalyst Drivers

December 2, 2009
ATI Catalyst and Mesa DRI Drivers

I guess ATI graphics card owners are a bit unlucky! When Fedora 11 was released, we didn’t get the proprietary drivers from AMD for months and the older version didn’t work with default kernel at that time. When Fedora 12 was released, AMD released newer version of Drivers after a few hours. But this time, [...]

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News : ATI Catalyst Graphics Drivers 9.11 Released

November 18, 2009
AMD ATI Catalyst Display Drivers Released

Looks like AMD was waiting for Fedora 12 : Constantine release. AMD has released the next version 9.11 of ATI Catalyst Display Drivers. The drivers can be download from ATI Catalyst™ 9.9 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver Page. I have downloaded and tested them already on my machine with ATI Radeon HD 3200 (onboard) card with [...]

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News : Fedora 12 : Constantine Released [All you need to know]

November 18, 2009
Fedora 12 Constantine Released

Much awaited Fedora 12 : Constantine has been released and is available now! This post is more of a collection of things you need to know before you go all the way to download Fedora 12 and install or upgrade.
FAQs
Q. What is Fedora?
A. The Fedora Project page describes it in a short and nice [...]

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