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Google Chrome released for Linux [Unstable]

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The Google Chrome Browser is finally out for the Linux distributions.Presently Google have marked it as unstable. Process of installing chrome on the Fedora 11 box went as below : 1. As root, added a file called google.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ for a new repository information. [google] name=Google - i386 baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub 2. Searched for chrome in the available repositories. [root@mybox yum.repos.d]# yum search chrome Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit =========================================================================== Matched: chrome =========================================================================== links.i586 : Web browser running in both graphics and text mode bleachbit.noarch : Remove unnecessary files, free space, and maintain privacy google-chrome-unstable.i386 : Google Chrome qfaxreader.i586 : A multipage monochrome/color

Getting website Offline though CLI

Mirroring a site was never that easy. No software required just a single line command all is done.Let me explain how i did that. 1. Found a site had good AWK manual. 2. Went through the AWK manual and located two good options to the command that worked just well, though i had few wrong attempts earlier. - m : Mirrors the web site [man] Turn on options suitable for mirroring. This option turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and keeps FTP directory listings. It is currently equivalent to -r -N -l inf --no-remove-listing.[/man] -k : Makes the local copy of site browsable, by making all of the links relative to the local location. [man]After the download is complete, convert the links in the document to make them suitable for local viewing. This affects not only the visible hyperlinks, but any part of the document that links to external content, such as embedded images, links to style sheets, hyperlinks to non-HTML content, etc.[/man] -w : Introduces

Celebrating 5yrs of Firefox [9 Nov, 2009]

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