How to uninstall a kernel using gedit

Making a Firefox extension

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/02/making-firefox-extension.html Making a Firefox extension IntroThis section explains how to basically setup a Firefox extension. Setting up the development EnvironmentBefore jumping into making extensions, we must set up a development environment.Download and install firefox: If you haven't already done so. Download firefox and install. (Link is given on right bottom)Make a folder where you are going to make your Extension. Eg: D:\extension\helloworld\Making the files ...

Adding HTML elements dynamically to a page

http://digitalpbk.com/javascript/adding-html-elements-dynamically-page Adding HTML elements dynamically to a page So when I was sitting idle, moosa asked me how to add dynamic textboxes into a form without loosing values of the form values on the previous textboxes. So I thought of documenting the method here just in case anyone of you might want this. So we have a form with a text box as shown below : Value 1 : The goal is to add a form as shown below, Clicking the Add More link will add more input boxes to the html form dynamically. var c = 2 ...

Linux style command line for Windows, Drag to Select, Right click to paste

http://digitalpbk.com/windows/linux-style-command-line-quick-edit-right-click-paste , we can select using the mouse and right click using paste. Cygwin on windows gives most of the utilities on Linux, but the command line interface is still that of the Windows. So in order to bring Linux like command line on Windows, you just have to enable an option, which most of us rarely know. Right Click on the command line title and click properties Now tick the checkbox as highlighted in the image given below : Press OK and select save the properties for all windows. Or select ...

Base 64 Encoding

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/12/base-64-encoding.html Base 64 Encoding IntroductionBase 64 encoding is a method used in email systems. The email systems that where developed back in the time of Arpanet, where designed to support only Letters (A-Z,a-z) , Numbers (0-9) and some limited puncutation marks. So inorder to transfer files which can contain more than characters and digits (for eg,a picture.jpg file), Base 64 Encoding is used. The EncodingBase 64 encoding, as the name suggests, has 64 different characters to represent all the 255 characters ...

Apache Solr MySQL Sample Data Config

http://digitalpbk.com/apachesolr/apache-solr-mysql-sample-data-config Apache Solr MySQL Sample Data Config ApacheSolr is an indexing server from apache. It is written in Java and can be used to make search pages on your website. Most Websites use a MySQL database to store its data and standard MySQL search using SQL or FULLTEXT Searching by MySQL. But with ApacheSolr we can not only search but also improve the search results. Solr recognizes plurals and similar words like read, reading or A-DATA, adata etc. Therefore Solr returns more efficient search results ...

XSS on Yaari.com

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/04/xss-on-yaaricom.html XSS on Yaari.com Lots of friendship network sites are coming up these days following the success of orkut. Another one supposedly originating from the same stanford university is yaari.com targeted at mainly Indian users. The site looks and functionality seems fine but is full of XSS holes (Cross Site Scripting). Almost all the fields can be bugged. Only thing that amazes me is that the site has used PHP. PHP has such a wonderful list of functions that can take care of the XSS problem. I wonder ...

Permission Denied on Hosts File (Windows 7)

http://digitalpbk.com/windows/host-file-windows-7-write-permission-denied Permission Denied on Hosts File (Windows 7) On Windows 7, I was trying to edit the host file using Komodo and was getting Permission Denied, and tried notepad too still got permission denied. I thought initially it was McAfee Anti Virus that was disabling the edit of host file as this file is an important system configuration file. The reason but was that Windows requires the editor to run with administrator privileges to edit the file, this is different in Windows XP because all programs ...

Sprintf Function in Python

http://digitalpbk.com/python/php-sprintf-function-in-python Sprintf Function in Python The printf or sprintf function is used to format strings in PHP and C programming constructs. sprintf in php returns the formatted string whereas printf just prints the output. $variable = sprintf("%d %s %d = %d",4,"+",5,9); print $variable; //OR printf("%d %s %d = %d",4,"+",5,9); //Both lines are identical. //Prints 4 + 5 = 9 On python, sprintf is handled using an operator instead of function. The % operator on a string ...

Tata Indicom Wimax Broadband Connection sharing via Wireless router (D-Link)

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/06/tata-indicom-wimax-connection-sharing.html Tata Indicom Wimax Broadband Connection sharing via Wireless router (D-Link) Intro: Tata Indicom Wimax BroadbandWe got a new Tata Indicom WiMax Broadband connection, and one of the first problems was sharing the net connection with the room mates. After doing a little research on it I found Tata Indicom uses a net (HTTP) based authenticating system to logon you onto their servers, against conventional setup of PPPoE. https://loginban.tataindicombroadband.in:8443Connection SharingIn order ...

ARP Spoofing or IP Masquerade

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/02/arp-spoofin-ip-masquerade.html ARP Spoofing or IP Masquerade What is IP Masquerade or ARP Spoofing?In order to understand, What IP Masquerading or ARP Spoofing is we need to look into the working of the Ethernet. Ethernet is a Data Link Layer protocol, which uses MAC addresses embedded in the network interface cards (NICs) to communicate between devices. But the network layer and the above layer communicates using IP addresses. So in order to communicate, there must be some mechanism to map the IP addresses in network layer ...