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Download FireFox 3 Portable USB Pen / Device Friendly Version

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 09:05 AM CDT

Firefox 3 portable is a fully functional optimized package for use on a USB pen drive. A specialized launcher will allow most favorite extensions to work as you switch between home and usb pen version. I always use FF portable version while travling or from cybercafe computer. It leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go.

Download FireFox 3 Portable USB Pen / Device Friendly Version

Visit offical project home page to grab latest version.

On a related news Mozilla estimated that more than 3 million times downloads just four hours after Firefox's official launch. Almost 5,000 and 14,000 downloads per minute.

FireFox 3 Download Counter

Posted: 17 Jun 2008 09:48 PM CDT

FireFox 3 Download Counter - I hope it will cross 1.6 million download mark within 24-hour time frame.

Apache Web Server: Log Analysis and Server Status Monitoring Tool

Posted: 17 Jun 2008 04:47 PM CDT

wtop is really cool application for web server log analysis and to see server stats at a glance. It also has powerful log grepping capability. It is just like 'top' for your webserver.

It can find out number of searches or signups per seconds. It can also create histogram of response time. There is also another tool called logrep a powerful command-line program for ad-hoc analysis and filtering for log files. You can dig up lots of information using wtop tools.

You need Python version 2.5 to run wtop.

Download wtop

Type the following command:
$ cd /tmp $ wget http://wtop.googlecode.com/files/wtop-0.5.6.tar.gz $ tar -zxvf wtop-0.5.6.tar.gz $ cd wtop-0.5.6 # python setup.py install

Configuring wtop

Once installed you can start using the tool immediately. You need to edit /etc/wtop.cfg file to setup parameters, Apache log files and other directives
# vi /etc/wtop.cfg
Sample configuration file:

[main] LOG_ROOT=/var/log/lighttpd/cyberciti.biz/ LOG_FILE=access.log DEFAULT_OUTPUT_FIELDS=ts,class,ipcnt,ip,msec,uas,url  # This must match your webserver log format. You MUST have at least %h, %r and %D LOG_FORMAT=%h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %B "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i" %D  [wtop] # max time before a request is logged in the "slow" column MAX_REQUEST_TIME=5000 # minimum requests/second before a URL class appears in top mode MIN_RPS=0.2   [classes] # you can extend these to make any classes you wish home=^/(?:\?.*)?$ xml=\.xml(?:\?.*)?$ js=\.js(?:\?.*)?$ css=\.css(?:\?.*)?$ img=\.(?:png|gif|jpe?g|cur|ico|bmp)(?:\?.*)?$  [patterns] # the generic pattern is applied if a line does not match any # of the named classes. By default it uses the top-level directory. generic=^/([^/\?]+)  # incomplete list of known web robots robots = r'(?:nutch|MSRBOT|translate.google.com|Feedster|Nutch|Gaisbot|Snapbot|VisBot|libwww|CazoodleBot|polybot|VadixBot|Sogou|SBider|BecomeBot|Yandex|Pagebull|chudo|Pockey|nicebot|entireweb|FeedwhipBOT|ConveraCrawler|NG/2.0|WebImages|Factbot|information-online|gsa-crawler|Jyxobot|SentinelCrawler|BlogPulseLive|YahooFeedSeeker|GurujiBot|wwwster|Y\!J-SRD|Findexa|SurveyBot|yetibot|discoveryengine|fastsearch|noxtrum|Googlebot|Snapbot|OGSearchSpider|heritrix|nutch-agent|Slurp|msnbot|cuill|Mediapartners|YahooSeeker|GrabPERF|keywen|ia_archiver|crawler.archive.org|Baiduspider|larbin|shopwiki)'

Now simply type wtop at a shell prompt:
$ wtop$
See all human traffic, enter:
$ logrep -m top -h access.log
See response times for all MSNBot homepage hits:
$ logrep -m grep -g MSNBot -i home -o status,msec,url access.log
Display the current log for traffic to pages about wordpress or themes sent from google.com
$ logrep -m tail --f 'url~wordpress|themes,ref~google.com' access.log

Further readings:

wtop project home page and documentation

Download of the day: Wine Final 1.0 Emulator

Posted: 17 Jun 2008 04:16 PM CDT

Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is an open source implementation of the Windows API which aims to allow Linux / Unix-like systems to execute programs written for Microsoft Windows. It does not require Microsoft Windows, but can use native Windows DLLs if they are available. It provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes. You can easily run MS-Office, Photoshop, IE browser and selected games under Wine software.

Finally, after 12 years of development, version 1.0 was released today i.e. June 17, 2008 under GPL License.

=> Visit wine project website to grab version 1.0.

Mega Download Of The Day: FireFox Browser Final 3.0

Posted: 17 Jun 2008 12:08 PM CDT

Firefox 3.0 has been released and available for immediate download. Mozilla foundation is aiming to set a world record for the most downloads in 24 hours. IE's lack of compliance with web standards and security issue made Firefox more popular among the techsavy / geek users.

For past 34 month Mozilla engineers have been working and perfecting Firefox v3.0. Now almost 15% of Internet users surf the web with Firefox. Mozilla Foundation aims to try and set a world record for the most downloads in a day. It needs to beat its own record set by Firefox version 2.0. It was downloaded 1.6 million times in Oct-2006. The attempt to break the record will begin at 10:30PM IST (10:00am PDT i.e. 17:00 GMT). Good Luck, Mozilla Team!

Download FireFox Final Version 3.0 For Windows / Linux / Mac OS X

Direct download link - Windows Firefox 3.0
Direct download link - Linux Firefox 3.0
Direct download link - Mac OS X Firefox 3.0
Visit official Mozilla site to grab FireFox version 3.0 (~~note page will be updated at 10:00AM PDT, use above links to grab FF 3~~)

Firefox 3.0 in Action

(Fig.01: Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Picture / Screenshot [Click to Enlarge image])

Firefox final 3 working plugins:

Following plugins working without any problems

Google toolbar
Stumble upon toolbar
No script plugin
Firefox adblock plug and few others

Related: How to Install FireFox version 3.0 tar.gz file under Linux operating system.

How To Install firefox-3.0.tar.bz2 in Linux

Posted: 17 Jun 2008 11:50 AM CDT

How To Install downloaded Firefox 3.0 tar.gz / firefox-3.0.tar.bz2 file under any Linux distribution?

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CentOS / Red Hat Linux Find Out Latest Available Updated Package or Kernel Version

Posted: 17 Jun 2008 10:13 AM CDT

I know how to find out current running kernel version under CentOS Enterprise Linux 4.6 x86_64, but how do I find out latest available kernel version? How do I find out if it's the latest one? How to find the latest release version for package called xyz or kernel package?

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