Break Free and let firefox remember all the passwords even the ones that are not saved by default

2010-03-28 2 min read Fedora Linux

Here we go against one more security policy of most of the sites like Bank and paypal and so on. These sites do not allow Firefox or any other browser to save the password. This is using some tags in the html/code of the page that would mark the field as not completeable or savable. So, what do you do?

I am on a home computer to which no one has access so why not save the password!! Let do it. There are couple of hacks that have been found to make firefox remember all the passwords. Here are a few of them (but Linux is not covered in any of them).<h1 id="article-title"><a title="Permanent Link to Tweak Firefox’s Password Saver Without An Extension" rel="bookmark" href="http://cybernetnews.com/2006/06/07/tweak-firefoxs-password-saver-without-an-extension/">Tweak Firefox’s Password Saver Without An Extension <h1 id="article-title"><a title="Permanent Link to Make Firefox Remember Passwords without a Bookmarklet" rel="bookmark" href="http://cybernetnews.com/2009/02/13/firefox-remember-passwords/">Make Firefox Remember Passwords without a Bookmarklet

Linux Malware – Proof that Linux is not as secure as we all think

2010-03-26 1 min read Linux

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gnome-blog — Deskbar applet for blogging

2010-03-25 0 min read Linux

$\"SAN$: Image by Getty Images via Daylife

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Add a image to the list of background files in gnome

2010-03-23 1 min read Fedora GNOME Photo

In Gnome, when you right click on the desktop background you will get a menu for ”Change Desktop backgound. The images displayed in this menu are quite a few but if you want to add your own (read: more than some 5-6 files) then it takes really some time in using the GUI to add them. And if you want to add a few 10’s of file, like say 50 then you are done.

More windows Microsoft like openoffice and keet it working.

2010-03-22 2 min read Fedora Linux

Some people say that <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">OpenOffice doesn’t completely suit their requirement as compared to the Microsoft Office. Though most of the times I do not have that problem 🙂 But there are still couple of things that do not work with OO seamlessly and thus if you want better OO (with respect to working with MS files more seamlessly) here’s something worth a try.

You can try the <a href="http://go-oo.org/" target="_blank">go-oo OO.

Cool OpenOffice.org Easter Eggs

2010-03-21 0 min read Linux

$\"OpenOffice.\"$: Image via Wikipedia

Since it’s almost <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/easter" title="Easter" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter">Easter Sunday, I will be sharing with you several cool <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_%28media%29">virtual Easter eggs hidden inside some of our favorite <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/application_software" title="Application software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_software">software applications. Today, we will take a look at some Easter eggs inside <a href="http://www.junauza.com/2009/05/8-essential-openoffice-extensions.html">OpenOffice.org so get ready to have fun or be amused.

Quick tip to change parameters in different files

2010-03-16 1 min read Linux

for i in *.cfg; do mv $i $i.bak;sed \’s/a/b/\’ $i.bak > $i; done

The above command is very useful to change certain regular expressions in couple of files in one directory. This can be used in variety of ways to achieve a lot of things which would normally take some time to do manually.