FireFox and Slashdot

I guess Firefox and Slashdot are very poor companions!



First is this bug which I often face, while trying to submit a story or while commenting!

Invalid form key: Q9jRDo9JhK



Chances are, you're behind a firewall or proxy,

or clicked the Back button to accidentally reuse a form.

Please try again. If the problem persists, and all other options

have been tried, contact the site administrator."

I've mailed this to the Bill Cowboy as well.

This is not observed /encountered if using M$ ie.





And the next most irritating thing I am facing with FireFox + Slashdot is: My Login is not retained.



I login to slashdot and have customized light-weight outlook with reading only +5 comments. But I tend to lose the logged in account inconsistenly. Sometimes, just hitting the refresh button. sometimes while doing "Read More" in a new tab, times when trying to submit a story, times when commenting.



If this happened to you, would you not be irritated?

I thought it was some cookie related, but set things right ( to accept all cookies and retain cookies from parent site) but nothing worked!



Has anyone else faced the same problem? Am I alone in this world?

Ode to a School Computer

Ode to a School Computer
By David Ahl

I was stay'in after school a week or so ago
'Cause I told a teacher where she could go

She had me settin' in this big old room
With a bunch of machines that just looked like doom

There's this big Mutha machine with flashing' lights
And a couple of funny-looking' electric typewrites

Well I thought I'd type somethin' for the fun of it
So I hunted and pecked out just one word - "shit"

Before I could lean back in my chair and get steady
That machine typed WHAT, and then it said READY

So I typed a whole line of them four-letter words
But it just replied WHAT and READY like it hadn't heard

Well I figured since I couldn't go out fishin'
I'd teach that stupid machine to listen

So I picked up this book called Teach yourself BASIC
And sat down at that Teletype prepared to face it

First I found to make that machine type my bit
I just had to put a PRINT in front of it

And then I found out that thing could add
And subtract and multiply and divide like mad

I found out too it knew all kinds of games
Like craps and blackjack and a cannon to aim

I was havin' all kinds of fun when that teacher walked in
She just looked at my output and started to grin

I kind of sheepishly asked if I could stay a while more
She said: "Sure; when you just shut the door".

I tried some more games like football and poker
And a parachute jump written by some kind of joker

There was one where I could try to land on the moon
It would crash and blow up if fired the engines too soon

Well, I played on through supper and into the night
And then finally quit when I saw dawn's first light.

Some girls, I know are while lot cuter
But I found a new kind of high with that computer.

find in linux

find / -name "regex"

find / | xargs grep -r -A5 -B5 "regex"

FireFox Extension Idea

I select a portion of the website, which has lots of links and choose to
open the links as tabs.
All the links should open as in the multiple tabs.

I guess this would help me while reading slashdot and similar sites
which has lots of hyperlinks.







http://usr.blogspot.com

All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

http://uthcode.sarovar.org

Uthcode is back!

I was finally able to upload the files to the sarovar server.

So, uthcode can be accessed using a friendly, easy to remember URL

http://uthcode.sarovar.org

Now,time for some more work.

Deepest Sender, FireFox, Blogger, Comic Grabber

Using  Deepest Sender, a mozilla FireFox Extension for Livejounal.
As I am not a livejournal'ist  but more of a blogger, I find it hard to switch or use both at the same time.

There should be one like this for blogger as well is what comes to my mind.

A Comic Graber Extension to Mozilla Firefox would be cool. right.

Power Solutions article

Nice see my first article in the Dell PowerSolutions Journal.



Using Log Messages and alert actions in Dell OpenManage Server Administrator



Its not very technical, can be read and understood with ease.



Hope it is helpful to the system administrators using OpenManage and invokes some curiosity in others.



Hope you enjoy reading it!

Linus on taking up and working on open source projects

Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small
_trivial_ project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you
do, you'll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than
it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the
sheer size of the work you envision.

So start small, and think about the details. Don't think about some big
picture and fancy design. If it doesn't solve some fairly immediate
need, it's almost certainly over-designed. And don't expect people to
jump in and help you. That's not how these things work. You need to get
something half-way _useful_ first, and then others will say "hey, that
_almost_ works for me", and they'll get involved in the project.

And if there is anything I've learnt from Linux, it's that projects have
a life of their own, and you should _not_ try to enforce your "vision"
too strongly on them. Most often you're wrong anyway, and if you're not
flexible and willing to take input from others (and willing to change
direction when it turned out your vision was flawed), you'll never get
anything good done.

In other words, be willing to admit your mistakes, and don't expect to
get anywhere big in any kind of short timeframe. I've been doing Linux
for thirteen years, and I expect to do it for quite some time still. If
I had _expected_ to do something that big, I'd never have started. It
started out small and insignificant, and that's how I thought about it.

- Linus Benedict Torvalds

Reliance Internet connection over Fedora Core2

Wow! I was able to connect at last the LG LSP -340E Reliance to

Internet (Rconnect ISP). The problem was, I was able to establish a connection, but when fired up a browser, it said Alert site not found. As if no connection was present.

Checked the /var/log/messages, the IP is assigned.



The problem is /etc/resolv.conf is not getting a proper Nameserver address when using Reliance Phone on Fedora Core 2. ( I am not sure, if this the limitation of script I tried, limitation of Fedora Core 2 - Rconnect or a general problem with Reliance ISP on any Linux box).


The following information helped.

Essentially to add these nameserver addresses in your /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 202.138.97.193

nameserver 202.138.96.2



The script I used was rconnect-cmdline-1.0.tar.

Just google for it, you might get it, if not leave a comment, shall

pass that along.

Cubes and Squares

There are two whole numbers,difference of their squares is a cube and difference of their cubes is a square.

These are the smallest possible numbers.