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Google Translator Pawned

July 29, 2009

Well, I was getting bored and just googled my domain name. As I was browsing through the search results, I clicked on a Spanish site containing the word gofedora. I clicked on google’s “Translate this page” and was surprised by the result. Watch it yourself below. PS : Direct link for translated website. PS2 : [...]

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Crack: Google Authentication Services are Vulnerable

December 5, 2008

There is a vulnerability in the way Google authentication service works. Whenever you login to any of the Google’s online services like GMail, Orkut, Groups, Docs, Youtube, Calendar etc., you are redirected to an authentication server which authenticates against the entered username and password and redirect back to the required service (GMail, Youtube etc.) setting [...]

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How To: Configure Caching Nameserver (named)

November 19, 2008

Mission To configure a caching nameserver on a local machine which will cascade to another previously configured and functional nameserver (may or may not be caching. It’ll generally be your ISP nameserver or the one provided by your organization). Advantage Reduces the delay in domain name resolution drastically as the requests for frequently accessed websites [...]

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Bug: Knetstats Bandwidth Monitoring Problem

June 6, 2008

I use knetstats for monitoring my wireless traffic. One fine day my wireless connection was not working as expected. I reloaded the module and reactivated the wifi device. Just to check if there were some traffic, I opened knetstats and guess what happened. I was blown the by the huge traffic on my wifi interface. [...]

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Review: Spicebird – A Collaboration Platform

May 25, 2008

Well, I happened to attend this workshop on “How to build business around open source tools” organized by Twincling Society and IIIT Hyderabad. There I came to know about Spicebird. Spicebird is a single platform for many collaboration needs. It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging with intuitive integration and unlimited extensibility. Spicebird is being [...]

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How To: Configure Hierarchicy of Proxy Servers (Squid)

March 5, 2008

Yesterday I came across this idea of caching all the data that I browse on my hard disk so that the average load time of a website decreases. Actually the idea is I’ll cache all the static data that I browse like images, static html pages, CSS files and similar things which does not change [...]

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Review: Firefox 3 Beta 1

November 23, 2007

Firefox 3 Beta 1 is available now. I downloaded the package yesterday morning and started using it right away. While using, I figured out some of the good things and at the same time there are some bad things about this test release. Here is what I feel about Firefox 3 Beta 1. BTW, you [...]

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How To: Configure Wireless with Ralink (rt2500) Level One WNC 0301 in Fedora 7

June 6, 2007

If you are searching for wireless lan configuration in Fedora Core 6, a detailed description is available here. Though Fedora 7 – Moonshine detect the Ralink rt2500 Level One WNC-0301 wireless lan card, the network doesn’t work properly with default drivers. You may be able to connect sometime, but some other time it may not [...]

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How To: Configure Wireless with Ralink (rt2500) Level One WNC-0301 in Fedora Core 6

September 26, 2006

Well … Yesterday I switched from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6. The main problem was the wireless lan. As I was using ndiswrapper for wlan in FC4, I tried compiling it for FC6. But FC6 doesn’t have build packages so it didn’t work out. Then I installed the kernel-devel packages from here. Now [...]

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How To: Configure Wireless with Ralink (RT2500) Level One WNC 0301 in Fedora Core 4

May 25, 2006

Yesterday after a lot of trials with Fedora Core 5 to activate my wireless LAN card, I switched to Fedora Core 4, which looked much more stable than FC5. Actually with FC5, I mainly faced problems with gui , my mouse which is Microsoft USB mouse and my wlan card which is level one Ralink [...]

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