IE 8.0 shook the Market Share

Hello Friends,

I got good news for Internet Explorer users while I was searching about market share of web browsers. Internet Explorer 8.0 usage share long jumped after its beta2 release. Within three days of its release, usage share was already 500% above the peak beta 1 usage share.

 
As all of us know that beta 1 was primarily a developer's preview, beta 2 is the first release to have the new features intended for the final release. These features include a much improved address bar, private mode browsing, better tabs and improved navigation.

 

As Internet Explorer beta2 version is adding some new features including WebSlices and Activities. In the second beta release, Activities are renamed to Accelerators.

 

Some of the features and changes for the Beta 2 compared to Beta 1.

§                     InPrivate

§                     Delete Browsing History

§                     Search Suggestions

§                     User Preference Protection

§                     Caret Browsing

§                      Accelerators (previously known as Activities)

§                     Web Slices (previously known as WebSlices)

§                     Suggested Sites

§                     Tab Color Grouping

§                     Automatic Crash Recovery

§                     SmartScreen Filter (previously known as the Safety Filter)

§                     Tab isolation

 

Removed features

§                     Inline AutoComplete

§                     The option to delete files and settings stored by addons or ActiveX controls.

§                     CSS Expressions are no longer supported in Internet Explorer 8 Standards mode

 

Reference: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?sample=19&qprid=34&qpcustom=Microsoft+Internet+Explorer+8.0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_explorer_8

Windows Data Backup on Linux Server (SyncBack Details)

Hello Friends,

As I have posted my earlier post regarding Windows Data Backup on Linux Server, after reading the comments, I came to know the curiosity my friends to know more about this. As a blogger it becomes my responsibility to give more n more details to my friends.

I am feeling pleasure to give the details. Its completely one time installation and become tension free of your data backup.

Benefits :

1. Modes – Easy/Expert

2. Backup

3. Synchronization

4. Restoration

5. Finding your files (On Source & Destination)

6. Backup Scheduling

Friends, SyncBack works in two modes that are Easy & Expert modes. In Easy mode, we can take and restore backup from one device to another while in Expert mode, we can take and restore backup on remote machines/devices.

SyncBack can be used for Backup of data from Source to Destination and also supports synchronization i.e. compares the files on both source and destination.

Restoration can be done from Destination to Source but Running a restore operation is not reversible. So always be sure of data before restoration.

Data Selection on source and place for data store on destination is very simple. Data can be stored on FTP Server and Samba Server in Expert mode only.

SyncBackSE will run on the following Windows operating systems:

SyncBackSE requires Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows 2003

For more details, I think this site is good : http://www.2brightsparks.com/tutorials/tutorials-hub.html. (It will give you lot of help)

How to configure Yum Server & Client Configuration

Few days back, We were creating a network for an institute. I had installed a Linux workstation on LAN but after installation I need to install some more packages as per the requirement of client. Though I need to copy packages from CD’s again n again and due to unavailability of Internet, I was unable to use yum update/install from internet.

It was a repeated task for me to do on all workstations, so I made my own YUM SERVER which was very helpful for me to install workstation and update any package through my YUM Server.

Then I thought to share my experience with all my friends who are using Linux and face same kind of conditions and waste our time in installing dependencies n all.

This is the quickest and short method to finish our work in time.

Yum Configuration

For making YUM SERVER

First copy to cd/dvd in the directory /var/ftp/pub

#mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
#cp -rvf /mnt/* /var/ftp/pub
#cd /var/ftp/pub
#cp Server/repodata/……… .xml Server
#cp VT/repodata/………….xml VT
#cp Cluster/repodata/……….xml Cluster
#cp ClusterStorage/repodata/……….xml ClusterStorage
#
#rpm -ivh createrepo.......................
#createrepo -vg ………….xml Server
#createrepo -vg ………….xml VT
#createrepo -vg ………….xml Cluster
#createrepo -vg ………….xml ClusterStorage

#cd /etc/yum.repos.d
#vi server.repo
[Server]
name= Yum Server Repository
baseurl=file:///var/ftp/pub/Server
gpgcheck=0

[VT]
name=Yum VT Server
baseurl=file:///var/ftp/pub/Server
gpgcheck=0

[Cluster]
name=Yum Cluster Server
baseurl=file:///var/ftp/pub/Cluster
gpgcheck=0

[ClusterStorage]
name=Yum ClusterStorage Server
baseurl=file:///var/ftp/pub/ClusterStorage
gpgcheck=0

#yum clean all
#yum list
#yum grouplist

Now here you can see your yum is working.

OK.

Now u test it so install any package.

#yum install system-config-kickstart*

If you want to install a group

#yum groupinstall “Virtualization”

if u want to remove it then

#yum remove system-config-kickstart*

Now Server configurations are done.

Its time to configure on client machine


For making CLIENT

#chkconfig vsftpd on

make a repository file
#cd /etc/repos.d

#vi client.repo

[Server]
name=client server yum
baseurl=ftp://x.x.x.x/pub/Server
gpgcheck=0

[VT]
name=client server yum
baseurl=ftp://x.x.x.x/pub/VT
gpgcheck=0

[Cluster]
name=client server yum
baseurl=ftp://x.x.x.x/pub/Cluster
gpgcheck=0

[ClusterStorage]
name=client server yum
baseurl=ftp://x.x.x.x/pub/ClusterStorage
gpgcheck=0

#yum list




Now u install any package or you go to GUI and see add remove program its working fine and package option are coming that means ok. But note it client should be connected to server in LAN.

Hope, you will also got help from my experience. In case you need any kind of help, please mail me on gaur.vibhor@gmail.com.

Windows Data Backup on Linux Server

I had a work to take backup of Windows Data Server on my Linux based backup server.

As a user, i never tried for such kind of things specially merging the data of two different platforms. Mostly services offered by the Windows are different from Linux. In Win XP, could not find a suitable service to backup and synchronization of data on live server.

I tried many Open Source utilities like Cygwin, Amanda Backup etc. These are very hectic and needs a lot of hardware involvement and requires a lot of settings.

One of my friends suggested me to try SyncBack at least once.



Its amazing, all the things which i needed found and works, in a very simple graphical settings.

For further queries, please contact me on mail id gaur.vibhor@gmail.com.