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Nice Japanese Translator Extension for Firefox

Posted Mon, 05/14/2007 - 4:53pm by crmanski
I was happy to recieve one of my latest podcasts from japanesepod101.com. It mentioned a firefox extension called "Rikaichan" that would translate the translation of a Japanese word in a webpage and translate it to either English, German, French or Russian. This software is free and licensed under GNU General Public License v2. Homepage: http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/

Setting Global Defaults in Firefox on LSTP

Posted Thu, 03/29/2007 - 4:53pm by crmanski

First to set the Proxy settings we need to edit the file called all.js in the greprefs folder and find the line that starts with proxy.type. Here is how to do this...

Application Choices on the LTSP Server

Posted Thu, 03/29/2007 - 4:41pm by crmanski

~Application Choices~

Application choices for LTSP have been a trial and error process. If you do not want your client machines using a certain program the rule of thumb is do not install it on the server. The base install of ubuntu/edubutu comes with Gaim (Instant messanging), Kino (DV video editing) and others applications that would either put a heavy load on the LTSP server of violate your acceptable use policies(AUP).

Notes on Removing Default Packages:

Silent Remote Installation of Mozilla Firefox 2.x

Posted Thu, 03/22/2007 - 8:19am by crmanski

This is an example of how to deploy firefox remotely to your windows based domain client machines using psexec with proxy settings. First you need to download the latest 7-zip from here: www.7-zip.org after you have that installed find your firefox installer package. As of this articles writing the name of this file was “Firefox Setup 2.0.0.3.exe”. Right-click on it and choose the following...

Compiling SARG on Ubuntu Dapper

Posted Tue, 03/20/2007 - 5:06pm by crmanski

The version of sarg (Squid Analysis Report Generator) that comes with Dapper is a few versions behind the actually released version. This is what I did to compile on a Dapper installation that I had previously done no program compilation on...

  1. Install these packages on the command line...