How to: Make old extensions compatabile with firefox 3.6

On February 13, 2010, in General, by dipinkrishna

If you have currently installed Firefox 3.6 your older extensions (like adblockplus) might not be compatible with the newer version. There is an easy way to make all your extensions work properly. To do this: Type about:config in your address bar, Click I will be Careful button.Right-click anywhere on the screen, choose: New -> Bolean [...]

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How to install Open Office 3.2 in ubuntu 9.10

On February 12, 2010, in Ubuntu, by dipinkrishna

Download Open Office from HERE. What you get is a tar.gz file Extract the file with this command   tar xzvf OOo_3.2.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz  If you wish you can remove the existing version with this command.  sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*  Assuming you extracted the file to your desktop run the following two commands. sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/*.deb sudo [...]

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How to make ubuntu shutdown after a particular time

On February 10, 2010, in General, by dipinkrishna

You can do it simply from your terminal window. sudo shutdown now to shutdown your machine NOW.sudo shutdown hh:mm where hh:mm is the time on 24hr clock to shutdown at 7:50 you need to type sudo shutdown 7:50.sudo shutdown +m where m is the minutes. If you type sudo shutdown +120 the machine will shutdown [...]

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How to disable 60 sec shutdown delay in Ubuntu 9.10

On February 10, 2010, in General, by dipinkrishna

After considerable searching, head-scratching and digging, I finally found that it is accessible via a Gnome configuration setting. There are two ways to do it one by terminal and the other by gconf editor Method 1: Simply enter the command below in your terminal window gconftool-2 -s ‘/apps/indicator-session/suppress_logout_restart_shutdown’ –type bool true Method 2:  Press Alt-F2, enter [...]

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Google Upgrading Gmail to Compete with Facebook

On February 9, 2010, in General, by dipinkrishna

The search giant is upgrading its Gmail program to add social-media tools similar to those found on Facebook. Google will incorporate photo and video sharing within the Gmail application, along with a new tool for status updates. Google will hold a press conference at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters today to show off the new [...]

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Air Traffic Volume for 24 hr Period (Video)

On February 5, 2010, in General, by dipinkrishna

 Look at this amazing simulation Each of those yellow dot is an airplane 

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