I have been digging into the reasons for the Firefox crashes and its heavy memory usage. Following links did throw lights on various Firefox extensions and also gave me lots of workarounds to improve my experience with Firefox.
Tips and tricks to Reduce Firefox Memory usage
Problematic extensions and WorkArounds
I’m sure you too face this problem often with your Firefox. Have a look at these links and remove those buggy extensions and rock on floor.
Yes, Smith’s Cloud is heading towards Milkyway at 240km/s. An uninvited guest or may be a Messenger from an another galaxy, Or is it is a start of new “Star War” series on our Galaxy? How much time we have got to get ready with out swords, ouch! sorry I need better weapon than this to fight if its a real Star War. What do you suggest?
Read more on this Huge gas cloud will hit Milky Way On BBC by Paul Rincon
Where we are heading to in 21st Century? What challenges are ahead of us? How it used to look like in 1970’s?
Learn more from Google’s Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, a youtube Video from Google’s Official Channels.
Sharing few videos which I thought you might miss in your busy Internet life.
It was scary to upgrade some firmware when there were no one to help you on board at DC on a weekend and you are sitting in a remote location connected via broadband facing technical glitches. Firmware upgrades failed yesterday as I had directly started upgrading the RAID Controller firmware upgrades. I did learn that I have to finish few other upgrades like BIOS, Baseboard Management Controller, Dell Remote Access Controller 4/I were supposed to be upgraded before setting off with PERC upgrades meant for raid controllers. When ever a firmware upgrades fails you should not forget to remove the temporary files else it will bring you nightmares.
When I started off with the firmware upgrades today, I started getting these lines turning up on console. This is a my first Firmware upgrade on Dell PowerEdge series servers on Linux.
An Update Package is already running.
Wait until it is complete before proceeding with another update.
I had to remove a lock file which was left on the server due to yesterdays test run : /var/lock/.spsetup
It all started when I started facing load issues on one of my Mysql Server and found that “iowait” was too high to cope up with the high traffic at peak hours. 
I had to contact Dell to check out if there is any fix which they can provide in order to resolve this issue as there was no software related changes made to the server. You can also find that iowait is a very common issue on Linux servers and many times its directly related to the hardware and the OS installed.
We use this server to provide database solutions to Soho launch installations which we have for various websites. It was funny to find various stats generation queries coming to Mysql server and hanging over there for quite a long time that too around peak hours and causing slow response issues from servers. When I contacted Joe Lain of Soholaunch asking for a solution to the issue which I have been facing with my server, he too found it funny to see SQL queries. He was found to be working on a significant server slow down issue which was already traced back to the same SQL queries which I had pointed out. Waiting for an update from him to get this thing resolved at the earliest.
Anyways, I’m done with the firmware upgrades as I had promised. Yes issue is still not fixed. Now, I got to monitor the load on the server at peak hours and wait for update from Soho Launch to get the issue resolved completely. Wish me luck 
I shall update you once I’m through with it.
Sir Edmund Hillary, Man of determination, greatest mountain climber, who made it to the top of The Great Mount Everest along with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953 is no more with us today. Died in Auckland because of pneumonia on 11th January. He leaves us with the great history to the generations to come.
Sadness has covered in hearts of millions today across the world. He had been inspiration for many through out this era. He have set an example for all of us and we can very much learn a lot from his life to reach up to those greatest levels in our lives. The lessons of humanity and determination taught by Hilary should drive more and more young people towards achieving a successful and meaningful life.
There are no words in which I can express what I feel about these great hero’s who are now in history, but here I express my deep condolences.
Image source : WikiPedia
Digg in to his life to learn more :
Photo History of Sir Edmund Hillary
Interview with Sir Edmund Hillary
Relive the Trek
Meet Your Host: Whitney Stewart
Facts about Mt. Everest
Mt. Everest Glossary
World Famous Mountains
Profile of Tenzing Norgay
Meet the Sherpas
Map of Hillary’s Route to Everest
Teacher’s Guide
Links from : http://teacher.scholastic.com
KDE 4 is out at last. The most awaited release of K Desktop Environment which enables the end users to enjoy and experience hundreds of rich applications designed for Internet, entertainment, education, graphics and software development etc in much better way.
Its beauty, Its improved and its Free. Feel it, take a tour.
Arklinux, Debian, Kubuntu, Gentoo, Mandriva, Fedora, OpenSuse have announced the availability of KDE 4.0 on their builds or on some of their Live CD’s. Check the respective distro websites for more updates on it.
Read more about Kde 4.0 here.
BackTrack, a Slackware based Linux security distribution focused on penetration testing. With its 3rd release its becoming more stable, usable and compatible with various hardwares. Bundled with more than 300 up-to-date tools its ready for security professionals use. Read its history on the project page. Its very interesting.
You can now find the most anticipated BT3 beta release on Remote-Exploit.org . Its a easy to use Live-CD distribution and you can also find it in USB, Vmware image formats. Its wiki provides extensive documentation on the distribution.
Security enthusiasts never miss to check on this. Every one finds it easy to use and its always up-to-date. Now its your turn.
Watch out BackTrack 3 Teaser Video highlighting the new features of this distro.
Its rocking on my Dell XPS 1210. Share your experiences.
“No other commercial or freely available analysis platform offers an equivalent level of usability with automatic configuration and focus on penetration testing. ” - From BackTrack project page
The world is going wireless. I would always like to be on Wi-fi as its easy to use and more powerful. Youngsters are found to be going mad at the wireless gadgets which have come in this era. Hmm, but what about security? We have already found so many security threats on wireless networks and its even possible for any one to hack into your network.
We understand the security risks involved with any technology only when we use it to the core. Hacking is an art which enables us to cross the barriers and find out what it takes to break the restrictions set by the device or the technology provided to the user at certain cost. Its so interesting to find hackers coming out various bugs in high end products developed by big shots. Its crazy! that’s what I call it.
Couple of my friends (Neo and EvilMonkey) have started to work on a new project to make people awake of Wi-fi Hacks recently.
They are planning to put up wifi security news, documents, videos to educate people on wireless hacks and many more things. Its going to be live any time.
Watch out…
Comment on this article about questions which you have on security, wi-fi, hacking etc. I shall make it easy for you to understand these terms and learn something cool and different.
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