Firefox Environment Backup Extension (FEBE)

FEBE allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions.  In fact, it goes beyond just backing up -- It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files.  so that you can easily synchronize your office and home browsers.

FEBE  backs up and restores your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, cookies. and much more.A "Full profile" backup includes everything contained in your Firefox profile.  It is all or nothing and cannot be selectively restored (at least not easily).  A restored profile will look exactly the same as when the backup was performed.

Backup as little or as much of your Firefox environment as you wish.  Perform backups on demand or schedule daily, weekly, or monthly unattended runs.  Sequential backups can be stored in timestamped directories so you can restore back as far as you like.

You may specify "User-defined" items to have FEBE backup Thunderbird, Greasemonkey scripts, or virtually any data on your computer - Firefox related or not.

Install FEBE Add-On

Wine 1.2 release candidate has been released.

Wine 1.2 is not yet released as expected but now a new release candidate for Wine 1.2 has been released. This is the sixth release candidate for Wine 1.2. Wine 1.2 RC6 has a lot of bug-fixes and some more translations. There are still a few bugs left to be fixed but I hope that it will get solved and Wine 1.2 will be released this month.

How Install  Wine 1.2rc6 in Ubuntu

Anyway, if you are in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and want to try out Wine 1.2 RC6, here is what you need to do:

Note: This is a release candidate not a final release. So treat it as such.

• Open the terminal (or Konsole if you are in Kubuntu).
• Add the PPA For Ubuntu Wine Team with the command

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

• Update the software list with

sudo apt-get update

• Finally install Wine 1.2 RC6 with the command

sudo apt-get install wine1.2

How to view Silverlight web content in Ubuntu.

Microsoft Silverlight is a web application framework that provides functionalities similar to those in Adobe Flash, integrating multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single runtime environment.

For linux users Silverlight is not available as it is therefore Mono has developed Moonlight  which enables viewing web content that has been created for Microsoft Silverlight.It's rather new, and doesn't deliver as smooth a user experience as we would like. Hopefully that will improve in the future.
Note: Do not install Moonlight from the Ubuntu repositories, because the version they contain is usually outdated. query moonlight-plugin-mozilla in Synaptic Package Manager (System –> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager) to see whether it has been installed. If found to be installed, remove it completely.

Then install the most recent version of Moonlight as follows: visit this website and install the plugin. If you visit Microsoft Silverlight Website you will be asked to install silverlight and be redirected to the very site mentioned above.

Then install the necessary codecs for the Moonlight player: right-click with the mouse on a Silverlight video and choose "Install Microsoft Media Pack". You can find a Silverlight video on some websites, for example on the Dutch History Channel.

When the video doesn't start to play automatically, after you've installed the Microsoft Media Pack, just  reload the web page . now you can view Silverlight web content using Firefox.

Novo Builder: Build your own Ubuntu-based distro.

Novo Builder is a simple Debian GNU Linux Operating System building tool, it is created to allow anyone with the time and interest in designing their own fully customized OS without having to spend a long time learning all the methods and tricks involved in getting a fully functional and installable OS.

You don’t have to learn all the codes or any of the technical process. With a few mouse clicks and a long waiting time, you can quickly create your very own OS

The purpose of Novo Builder is to allow the creation of a Debian GNU Linux based on Pre-sets and optional Tweaks/Settings you place in the available sections. Some of the main features of the builder are:

• 1 Click Selection of your Pre-sets/Projects.
• 1 Click Build all or manual steps.
• GUI or file/folder manipulation of your projects build process.
• Load existing Built Projects and update the OS/Packages

Novo Builder has a simple and completely open approach to making and sharing your Pre-sets between projects or with others across the world. Using the automated methods your Customizations will be easily reproduced and error free every build, with no forgotten steps.

Installation.

Download the installation installer , Extract the tar file and double click the script to run it. When prompted, select “Run in Terminal“. The installation will take quite some time, depending on your Internet speed. In some situation, the script might not works well. When this occurs, you can use the command to install Novo Builder:

sudo apt-get install novo-builder novo-preset-lastos


Note: Before you start, please be forewarned that the building of the OS can take up to 40Gb of hard disk space. Make sure that you have sufficient space before you start.

openSUSE 11.3 release candidate final is now available to download

The 11.3 release of the openSUSE Linux distribution is based on the 2.6.34 Linux kernel and features support for the Btrfs file system in the installer. Support for NVIDIA graphics cards has been improved with the integration of the Nouveau driver. Other changes include various KDE, GNOME and LXDE desktop updates and changes, and better support for netbooks.

More details about the release, including a list of the Most Annoying Bugs, can be found in the official release announcement and changelog. openSUSE 11.3 RC2 is available to download for 32 and 64-bit x86 systems as a DVD or LiveCD image from the project's developer / get it section.

The final version of openSUSE 11.3 is scheduled to be released on July 15th. The latest stable release of openSUSE is version 11.2 from November of last year.