These are the firefox URLs for different settings. Just paste them into the browser and bang, there you go:

chrome://pippki/content/getpassword.xul
chrome://pippki/content/PrefOverlay.xul
chrome://pippki/content/pref-ssl.xul
chrome://pippki/content/pref-certs.xul
chrome://pippki/content/pref-ciphers.xul
chrome://pippki/content/cipherinfo.xul
chrome://pippki/content/ssl2ciphers.xul
chrome://pippki/content/ssl3tlsciphers.xul
chrome://pippki/content/ssl3tlsciphers2.xul
chrome://pippki/content/PageInfoOverlay.xul
chrome://pippki/content/cacertexists.xul
chrome://pippki/content/CAOverlay.xul
chrome://pippki/content/WebSitesOverlay.xul
chrome://pippki/content/OthersOverlay.xul
chrome://pippki/content/MineOverlay.xul
chrome://pippki/content/viewCertDetails.xul
chrome://pippki/content/certpicker.xul
chrome://pippki/content/certDump.xul
chrome://pippki/content/load_device.xul
chrome://pippki/content/pref-validation.xul
chrome://pippki/content/pref-masterpass.xul
chrome://pippki/content/createCertInfo.xul
chrome://pippki/content/formsigning.xul
chrome://pippki/content/changepassword.xul
chrome://pippki/content/resetpassword.xul
chrome://pippki/content/newserver.xul
chrome://pippki/content/downloadcert.xul
chrome://pippki/content/certManager.xul
chrome://pippki/content/editcacert.xul
chrome://pippki/content/editemailcert.xul
chrome://pippki/content/editsslcert.xul
chrome://pippki/content/deletecert.xul
chrome://pippki/content/getp12password.xul
chrome://pippki/content/setp12password.xul
chrome://pippki/content/domainMismatch.xul
chrome://pippki/content/serverCertExpired.xul
chrome://pippki/content/clientauthask.xul
chrome://pippki/content/certViewer.xul
chrome://pippki/content/device_manager.xul
chrome://pippki/content/choosetoken.xul
chrome://pippki/content/escrowWarn.xul
chrome://pippki/content/crlManager.xul
chrome://pippki/content/serverCrlNextupdate.xul
chrome://pippki/content/crlImportDialog.xul
chrome://pippki/content/pref-crlupdate.xul
chrome://pippki/content/getpassword.xul
chrome://pippki/content/PrefOverlay.xul
chrome://pippki/content/pref-ssl.xul
chrome://pippki/content/pref-certs.xul
chrome://pippki/content/pref-ciphers.xul
chrome://pippki/content/cipherinfo.xul
chrome://pippki/content/ssl2ciphers.xul
chrome://pippki/content/ssl3tlsciphers.xul
chrome://pippki/content/ssl3tlsciphers2.xul
chrome://pippki/content/PageInfoOverlay.xul
chrome://pippki/content/cacertexists.xul
chrome://pippki/content/CAOverlay.xul
chrome://pippki/content/WebSitesOverlay.xul
chrome://pippki/content/OthersOverlay.xul
chrome://pippki/content/MineOverlay.xul
chrome://pippki/content/viewCertDetails.xul
chrome://pippki/content/certpicker.xul
chrome://pippki/content/certDump.xul
chrome://pippki/content/load_device.xul
chrome://pippki/content/pref-validation.xul
chrome://pippki/content/pref-masterpass.xul
chrome://pippki/content/createCertInfo.xul
chrome://pippki/content/formsigning.xul
chrome://pippki/content/changepassword.xul
chrome://pippki/content/resetpassword.xul
chrome://pippki/content/newserver.xul
chrome://pippki/content/downloadcert.xul
chrome://pippki/content/certManager.xul
chrome://pippki/content/editcacert.xul
chrome://pippki/content/editemailcert.xul
chrome://pippki/content/editsslcert.xul
chrome://pippki/content/deletecert.xul
chrome://pippki/content/getp12password.xul
chrome://pippki/content/setp12password.xul
chrome://pippki/content/domainMismatch.xul
chrome://pippki/content/serverCertExpired.xul
chrome://pippki/content/clientauthask.xul
chrome://pippki/content/certViewer.xul
chrome://pippki/content/device_manager.xul
chrome://pippki/content/choosetoken.xul
chrome://pippki/content/escrowWarn.xul
chrome://pippki/content/crlManager.xul
chrome://pippki/content/serverCrlNextupdate.xul
chrome://pippki/content/crlImportDialog.xul
chrome://pippki/content/pref-crlupdate.xul 

I have a Dell Inspiron 700m. I have Kubuntu Breezy Badger 5.10 on this box.
This is how I got the WiFi going on this beauty.
1. Boot up into windows and get the Intel Driver from Intels 1st site OR Intels 2nd site

2. Save the files into a location on the drive which is accessible through linux.

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root@trance:/home/trance# ls -al /media/hda1/intel/wireless_9.0.4_generic_109116/Drivers/
total 8680
dr-x—— 1 root root 4096 2006-05-14 05:42 .
dr-x—— 1 root root 4096 2006-05-14 05:42 ..
-r——– 1 root root 188416 2005-12-27 23:53 SetupWLD.EXE
-r——– 1 root root 4849 2005-01-25 15:17 SetupWLD.ini
-r——– 1 root root 13 2006-02-02 12:38 verfile.tic
-r——– 1 root root 1671168 2006-01-27 08:50 W29MLRES.DLL
-r——– 1 root root 2956544 2006-01-17 21:34 w29n50.sys
-r——– 1 root root 14821 2006-02-02 00:47 w29n51.cat
-r——– 1 root root 119785 2006-01-18 15:47 w29n51.INF
-r——– 1 root root 3325312 2006-01-17 21:32 w29n51.sys
-r——– 1 root root 466944 2006-01-27 08:49 W29NCPA.DLL
-r——– 1 root root 122880 2005-12-27 23:53 WLDMLRES.DLL
root@trance:/home/trance#

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3. Go back into Kubuntu and get the ndiwrapper-utils, ndisgtk, ndiswrapper-source using

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root@trance:/home/trance# sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper ndisgtk ndiswrapper-source

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4. As root ndiswrapper -i will use the windows inf file to install the wireless driver. ndiswrapper -l lists the driver installed.
example:

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root@trance:/home/trance# ndiswrapper -i /media/hda1/intel/wireless_9.0.4_generic_109116/Drivers/w29n51.INF
root@trance:/home/trance# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
w29n51 driver present, hardware present
root@trance:/home/trance#

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5. modprobe ndiswrapper checks if the ndiswrapper kernel module is installed. An installed module will result in no error. Then write the config file such that you do not need to go through the earlier steps every time you restart the system.

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root@trance:/home/trance# modprobe ndiswrapper
root@trance:/home/trance# ndiswrapper -m
Adding “alias wlan0 ndiswrapper” to /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper

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6. If some error occurs check the output of lsmod

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root@trance:/home/trance# lsmod | grep ndiswrapper

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7. Now that your ndiswrapper is installed and configured. We now need to start up the wireless interface. On my box the wireless interface used to show up as eth0, however, it was not configured to use the ndiswrapper so I would get ‘segmentation fault’ on doing ifup eth0.
However, with the drivers set, I checked if all was well.

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root@trance:/home/trance# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

eth0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:”MySSID”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:13:46:46:78:28
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=97/100 Signal level=-27 dBm Noise level=-89 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.
root@trance:/home/trance# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:CE:D9:0D:74
inet6 addr: fe80::213:ceff:fed9:d74/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:236683 (231.1 KiB) TX bytes:1104 (1.0 KiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000 Memory:e0206000-e0206fff

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:3F:6B:36:2F
inet addr:192.168.0.109 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::212:3fff:fe6b:362f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3050 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1534 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3117901 (2.9 MiB) TX bytes:159050 (155.3 KiB)
Interrupt:10

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2058 (2.0 KiB) TX bytes:2058 (2.0 KiB)

root@trance:/home/trance# ifup eth0
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:13:ce:d9:0d:74
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:13:ce:d9:0d:74
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
ip length 328 disagrees with bytes received 332.
accepting packet with data after udp payload.
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
ip length 328 disagrees with bytes received 332.
accepting packet with data after udp payload.
DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.101 — renewal in 241302 seconds.
root@trance:/home/trance# ifdown eth1
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 6390
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:12:3f:6b:36:2f
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:12:3f:6b:36:2f
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.0.1 port 67
root@trance:/home/trance# ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (64.233.161.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 64.233.161.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=233 time=73.5 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.161.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=233 time=51.6 ms

— www.l.google.com ping statistics —
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 51.688/62.634/73.580/10.946 ms

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8. To make sure that you don’t have to type iwconfig essid key every time you log on. Change you /etc/network/interfaces file to have these few lines at the end of the file. wireless essid is your wireless network name (SSID) and the key is the WEP key.

iface eth0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid XXXXXXX
wireless-key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

My /etc/network/interfaces of Ubuntu (in FC/RHL this is the counterpart of the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX)
looks like:

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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
script grep
map eth1

# The primary network interface
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid USC-Trojans
wireless-key # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
script grep
map eth1

# The primary network interface
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid USC-Trojans
wireless-key 11111111111111111111111111

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The introduction of low-cost flying alternatives in the Indian skies is a good thing for the Indian consumers as one would reckon. However, the consumers only stand to gain if they get a service which at least gets them their money worth.
Sadly though, the quality of service provided by these low-cost airlines is also “low-grade”. The business principle seems sound that people who want food/refreshments in flight buy it but that does not necessarily mean that one gets hard pressed to board the flight itself. The airline management needs to rethink that low-cost does not mean high tension. My flight experience was as follows:
I was to board the flight from Delhi – Mumbai at around 9:00 pm. However, until 10:30 pm there were no announcements which made me ponder about the very existence of the flight itself. At about 11:00 pm it was announced that the entry would be from Gate # 3. The people rushed in like a horde of animals trying to get into a DTC (Delhi Transport Corporation) bus. Then a technical snag – the key was unable to open the gate # 3 – occurred to make the matters worse. The gates were changed to Gate # 1 resulting into a new frenzy of people trying to reach gate # 1. In what ensued, there were a series of announcements for passengers to board the flight, however, there was a slight problem. The officials on Gate # 1 were not ready to let passengers through. The flights like “Air Deccan” have given a new meaning to the term “fight to the finish” as your fight to get a seat in the flight never ends!

Now I’ve no problems considering that the population of India is huge. However, I do have a problem when seemingly intelligent (?) people do not display basic intelligence. Air Deccan issues unique numbers on it’s boarding passes when people check-in. Why these numbers are not used for seat assignments is a question that only Air Deccan can answer. Apparently, they use these numbers to identify which passengers have / have not boarded the flight.

Unitl these companies realize that cheap tickets should not mean cheap quality the consumers will continue to remain at a loss in these airlines which are advertized as a “high value for money”.

I installed KUbuntu “Breezy Badger” on my new Laptop (Dell Inspiron 700m) but none of my java based tools seemed to be working.

The errors I was getting were as follows:

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** ERROR **: file ../../../src/libjava/jni/gtk-peer/gnu_java_awt_peer_gtk_GtkImage.c: line 572 (createRawData): assertion failed: (data_fid != 0)

aborting…

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The trick is to use the Sun JVM and not the gcj (GNU Java Compiler). Apparently in Debian threads (on which KUbuntu is based) has this error in gcj-4.0. They promise that it will be fixed in version gcj-4.1 (which comes with gcc-4.1).

So follow these steps to get burp / paros etc working:
1. Goto java.sun.com and install the latest jvm for linux. Choose an appropriate location, mine was installed on /opt/jdk1.5.0_06/.
2. rm /usr/bin/java /usr/bin/javac /usr/bin/javah. (you remove symbolic links in /usr/bin which point the version of java to /etc/alternatives).
3. Create new symbolic links

# cd /usr/bin
# ln -s /opt/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/javac javac
# ln -s /opt/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/javah javah
# ln -s /opt/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/java java

Now you should be good to go!

-Rajat.

I love the site www.big-boys.com but in linux it would not play so I wanted to install a browser plugin that would play wmv files.
Here’s how I went about it. First I installed mplayer using yum (I use FC4 with kernel 2.6.13.2).
yum install mplayer
Make sure the internet connection is present when you run this command.

Then I went to Linux Plugins site to get the mplayerplugin. It redirected me to Mplayer Sourceforge site.

Then I downloaded the source of mplayerplug-in from Sourceforge download page for Mplayerplug-in.
Once I did that then came the main struggle of compiling and getting this to run.

I first untarred the file with command:

tar zxvf mplayerplug-in-3.11.tar.gz
cd mplayerplug-in
./configure –with-gecko-sdk=/usr/include/mozilla-1.7.8/
make

But this resulted in a bunch of errors.
I realized that an extra slash was put in there so I opened the Makefile with vim and removed the extra slash at the end of the string /usr/include/mozilla-1.7.8/ in the Makefile.
Tried to make again but again errors this time around some include files called prtypes.h was missing.

I noticed that in the CFLAGS section of the Makefile there was a space between -I and /usr/include. Deleted those.

So opened the Makefile in vim again and added the string -I/usr/include/mozilla-1.7.8/nspr/ to the CFLAGS section of the Makefile.

Also added -L/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/ to the LFLAGS section coz I was getting some linker errors after that. The struggle was not over.

I got a linker error :

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxpcomglue
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Changed the -lxpcomglue in Makefile to -lxpcom.
Finally, the compilation and the build were successful. Then the final command
cp mplayerplug-in*.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/plugins/
And now I have mplayerplug-in live and kicking!

-Rajat.