Fedora 11 - Leonidas

I just installed Fedora 11 - Leonidas. Nice name for the new version! have been using it for a week now. It seems to be a really good operating system. Nevertheless, it does have bugs and they need to fixed pronto.

• Compiz Fusion does not work with this distro. After installing Compiz, i click on the Fusion icon to enable it, but then the whole screen goes white. The cube is there (you can see it when you rotate it) but the screen is white. Then you have to restart externally to get back into the system.
• The bootloader GUI doesn't open. When you try to open it, an error occurs, with the option of saving the bug for a bug report at a later time.

• Amarok 2.0, which comes with the dvd, has problems. I still haven't been able to figure out what they may be, but nothing plays! Probably, there are no codecs, but then there is no error message either.

More on the distro later!

Emergency battery power for your cellphone when you're low on charge

NOTE : Read the complete article before you try anything.

I tried this trick on my Nokia 1110i and a Nokia 3200 also and it worked for me. Hopefully it'll help you out too in some situation. Note that this will only work if you have one bar of charge or more showing on the charge display.

All you have to do is follow these steps :-

1. Switch off your phone and take out the battery.
2. Now insulate the MIDDLE terminal temporarily. You can do this by using a thin (but not too thin) piece of plastic paper. Fold it so it's just broad enough to cover only the middle terminal but not any of the others.
3. Hold that plastic paper firmly and put in the battery so the middle terminal is insulated and then keep it there. DO NOT remove it.
4. Now, with the phone in this state, switch it on and voila!!!   You should be seeing the charge bar full. 
   

However the battery isn't actually fully charged, even if it shows such. But the phone will serve you for some more time, depending on the kind of phone it is and the number of features in it. I get about 2-3 hours more talktime on my Nokia 1110i after this trick. 

NOTE : Be warned though. This isnt something that you actually should be doing. So use it only in case of an emergency, because, once again depending on the phone, there may be adverse effects. But don't worry, a few times done rarely won't hurt.

The credit for this trick goes to a friend of mine, a future electrical engineer, Arin Samajhdar.

If you wish to talk to him about this and other tricks up his sleeve, this is his facebook profile link :-  http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498330301

how to hack windows login password without booting

all you have to do is this......
When u start the computer, press F8 to get the list of the several booting modes. Boot in DOS mode.
Write the following DOS command :-

ren *pwl *xyz

This command renames the password files into something unrecognizable
Then once you log into windows. remember to change *xyz back into *pwl
You can also delete the password files, but i recommend you don't do that.

Another way is to boot in safe mode, log into the administrator account (it's named Administrator)
and change the password for your desired account from there.
But this method will not be possible to carry out if the user has put a password on the administrator account as well (I have). But most people don't bcuz this account is not shown duringnormal booting process. It's only shown during booting in safe mode.

Anyways, these are the only methods i'm aware of. If you know more, do put it in the forum.
Happy hacking!!!!

Updating firefox2 to firefox3 in linux

its a real hassle that mozilla does not provide an rpm file to install firefox.
i use mandriva 2008.0 which has firefox-2.0.0.6
I wanted to upgrade it to firefox3.0
i got the tar.bz2 file but if i wanted to run firefox3 then i had to go to the extracted folder and run from there. If I ran firefox from the desktop then the older version started up.....
what i had to do was to write commands for backing up my old firefox and then installing the new one....

here it is......

1. first backup the old firefox version :-

$ mkdir ff.backup/
$ cp -avr .mozilla/ ff.backup/

2. download firefox-3

$ cd /tmp
$ wget 'http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=linux&lang=en-us'

3. switch to root user
$ su -

4. the important part...installing firefox-3
# cd /opt
# mv firefox firefox.old
# cp /tmp/firefox-3.0.tar.bz2 /opt
# tar -jxvf firefox-3.0.tar.bz2

5. exit from root user mode
# exit

6. finally start firefox
$ /opt/firefox/firefox &

The browser will then look for updates to the add-ons and will then start......
so folks.......enjoy using firefox-3.0 !!!!

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