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Layout engines of various browsers

January 27th 2010

Recently, one of my friend said he has blocked Trident/4.0 from accessing his websites as he thought its a bot and then his clients complaint that they can’t access their websites. So, I thought I’ll just put some info on it..
Trident (also known as MSHTML) is the name of the layout engine for Internet Explorer. [...]

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ICMP – Destination Unreachable Message

September 17th 2009

This ICMP message is quite interesting, because it doesn’t actually contain one message, but six! This means that the ICMP Destination unreachable further breaks down into 6 different messages.
We will be looking at them all and analyzing a few of them to help you get the idea.
The ICMP Destination Unreachable Message

Code Value in ICMP Header

Message

0

Net [...]

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Using Sudo

July 24th 2009

You wanna grant root privileges to a normal user account in Linux without updating the user id’s and file/folder permissions? Then the best way is to use sudo operations on commands. Before enabling sudo, create a user account with a password. Once the user account is created, login the shell with the root user and [...]

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Load your FF Browser faster

June 15th 2009

If you think your firefox browser is taking a bit longer time than normal, its time for switching the browser to compatibility mode. This is how it’s done:
Right click on your firefox icon and select the properties tab, where it says Compatability, check “Run this program in compatibility mode for” and select “Windows 2000″ from [...]

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Boot Windows XP without Startup Programs

June 12th 2009

To start Windows XP without any startup programs, press the [Shift] key while the computer system
is booting. The key has to be pressed as soon as the Windows desktop background appears. This will prevent startup programs from being loaded automatically. It might take a few tries to get it to work.
Microsoft has disabled this feature [...]

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