Google Toolbar says Non Compatible Browser ? No Problem.

Many of you may use Distros which ship a custom build of firefox. For example, ArchLinux has an i686 optimised version of firefox which is named Gran Paradiso to avoid copyright issues with Mozilla Corp. who hold trademark rights to the name. Now, the problem is that these browsers don’t properly identify them when a site checks for Mozilla Firefox. Google is an example, and due to this I am not able to install Google Toolbar. I finally found a solution. Here it is for you

Tutorial: Remove Recently Used Items List in Linux Apps

Are you one of those guys who is pissed off because many applications log things you don’t want them to log ? Then continue reading. I am going to tell you how you can disable history of most apps except firefox, because, luckily, they store their information in the SAME place. I am using the easier way, using GUI, so that some of you newer users won’t have difficulties.

Gautham’s guide to building the Perfect Mainstream Value PC

Many of us are at a loss as to what to buy, when we are hunting for a new PC. To solve some of those problems, I am presenting here a tutorial to build a mainstream, i.e. average level PC, which should fit quite well for most people. I am going to describe here in this tutorial how you can build the perfect Value PC, which has all the features needed by a mainstream PC, and still keeps its price under the hood. Overclocking is an excellent way to get more juice out of your PC, so I shall recommend thee a good overclocker system, i.e. – a PC which can be overclocked to much more power. The machine I am designing will definitely qualify as a mainstream PC, so no eXtreme budget parts.

The PC will be of an Intel based platform, because sadly, AMD is no longer living up to its expectations as far as cheap and good quality processors are concerned. All of its processors, perhaps with the exception of the extremely rare and elusive Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition are far below similarly priced processors from Intel.

Edit: With Recent release of its 780G platform and new Triple Core Phenoms, AMD is back in business. And it might even be better than Intel for people with a little different needs. But this is still an Intel based Guide, and for AMD based guide, just replace the CPU, Motherboard and GPU with suggestions shown IN THIS POST (click on link to visit).

The PC is intended to be as future proof and upgradable as possible, so that you need not suffer later by having extremely outdated parts. Expansion slots, ability to overclock, usability of some parts later in future, etc are given due importance. I won’t blindly suggest a rig here and you are expected to read the contents fully and only then, make a purchase after deciding what you need and what you don’t.

Important Note: Since I am publishing this now on wordpress.com, this becomes an internationally viewable site. But this post is mainly intended for an Indian audience. So please bear in mind that a small part of what I said here might NOT be applicable to you if you are not in India.

So lets get down to business and do the dirty work shall we ?

Tutorial: Configuring a standard BSNL modem to allow DHCP Protocol for Direct Internet Access

Hi there and welcome to yet another of my tutorials. Here I am going to describe you how you can enable DHCP, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, in your standard BSNL broadband modem.

Are you the kind of person who does OS hopping and/or lots of reinstalls of Operating Systems ? Have you ever been pissed off by the fact that you always need to reconfigure the internet connection for the OS ? Do you use Live CDs often, and find it troublesome to reconfigure internet again and again ? Well, then worry no longer, as I am going to describe you how you can configure your modem, so that the OS uses internet directly, without being bothered with IP Address, Gateway Address, DNS Servers, etc…

How To Have Categories in Blogger

This is propably one of the most discussed topics ever on the internet. Google Blogger is great. Kudos to google for this wonderful software, and I thank them and words aren’t enough to do this. One thing however, which makes people choose wordpress.com over blogger is the fact that blogger lacks categories. You can’t organise your posts into categories.