Run Firefox from USB/removable media

From http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_usb

This advanced tip makes it possible to run Firefox from removable media, such as a USB memory stick. This will allow you to run Firefox with your personal settings from any computer, even those that don't have Firefox installed. It has only been tested on Windows XP/2000. The basic instructions are as follows:

1. Copy the Firefox application folder and your profile folder to the removable medium. In this example we will use R:\Firefox for the application folder and R:\FFProfile as the profile folder, assuming the drive letter for the removable media is R:.
2. Create a simple batch file called R:\Firefox.bat with the following line:

   start \Firefox\firefox.exe -profile \FFProfile
   

3. Optionally, disable the disk cache to reduce the amounts of file writes to the removable storage by entering about:config in the address field of Firefox and set browser.cache.disk.enable to false.

The reason why a batch file is needed instead of a simple shortcut is that a shortcut uses absolute paths, and since the actual drive letter for the removable media may change depending on which coputer it is plugged into, the relative path used in the batch file is guaranteed to work anywhere.

This seems to be only for Windows. I hope same exist for linux. But is there something like this which is OS independant ?

Mounting ISO images in Linux

Want to get one file out of a big .ISO file? Or want to see the contents of an ISO file. You can mount ISO file directly in Linux.
Commant:

mount -o loop /path/to/file.iso /path/to/mount/point

Google Service and Acquisitions

List of Acquisitions is here
Timeline of Google Service and Acquisitions is here
Alphabatical list of product is at List of Google services and tools
Official history is at Official History of Google Products

Google vs Yahoo

A gud comparisons of google and yahoo servisces at
http://techb.org/2006/06/09/yahoo-vs-google/

See who wins ?

Indian govt. has blocked blog sites.

Full report at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1767836.cms

Altough there are methods for reading blogs..
1) use some RSS feed reader like Bloglines
2) If blogs is at www.blogspot.com then use pkblogs
3) Use proxy servers. A good list is at http://censorship.wikia.com/wiki/Bypassing_The_Ban

you can still post on your blog as homepage of blogspot,LJ is still unblocked.

Gliffy - Diagrams Made Easy

Gliffy is a web application that allows you to create diagrams and layouts online, share them with your coworkers and publish them on the web. Gliffy was developed in Flash and is more responsive than Ajax applications like Google Spreadsheets. So what can you create with Gliffy?

* Flow charts
* Workflow documents
* Class Diagrams
* Network Diagrams (like in this diagram)
* Database schemas
* Website layouts/wireframes
* Room plans

Export feature is there. But import feature is missing :(

Installing Plugins on Mozilla/Firefox for Linux

Want to install Java,Flash or Acroread plugin in firefox? look at http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/firefox-linux.html