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Finally Fedora 9 has been released. Fedora is a community supported operating system sponsored by Red Hat. It is maintained by fedora community members accross the world. Beside RHEL, Fedora is free, open to use and modify it to best suit your need. You are always open to distribute it.

New Features

• GNOME 2.22 used in this release that includes webcam photo and video creation utility called Cheese.
• Improved network filesystem support.
• New improved international clock applet.
• Google Calendar support and custom email labels in Evolution.
• New Remote Desktop Viewer and improved accessibility features.
• KDE 4.0.3 and Xfce 4.4.2 is included in this release.
• NetworkManager 0.7 provides improved mobile broadband support, including GSM and CDMA devices, and now supports multiple devices and ad-hoc networking for sharing connections.
• It is now enabled by default on installations from DVD, CD, the network, and Live images.
• Supports partition resizing for ext2/3, NTFS filesystems.L
• Live USB images support available.
• FreeIPA makes managing auditing, identity and policy processes easier by providing web-based and command line provisioning, and administration tools to ease system administration. FreeIPA combines the power of the Fedora Directory Server with FreeRADIUS, MIT Kerberos, NTP and DNS to provide an easy, out of the box solution.
• Next generation Ext4 support for better performance, higher storage capacity and several other new features.
• Fedora 9 uses Upstart, an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon.
• Firefox 3 support for native look and feel and desktop integration.
• By default now support and installed free and open source Java environment OpenJDK 6
• OpenOffice.org 2.4 included with many new features.
• Fedora 9 includes Perl 5.10.0 features a smaller memory footprint and other improvements.
• Fedora 9 features a 2.6.25 based kernel.
• Automatic report kernel crashes to http://www.kerneloops.org

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i386 - Install DVD
x86_64 - Install DVD
ppc - Install DVD
i386 - Install CDs
x86_64 - Install CDs
ppc - Install CDs

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The site is now reloaded with revolutionary latest Wordpress 2.5 release. After two Release Candidate version, finally Wordpress 2.5 has been released for public. Enjoying new cleaner dashboard with several new features.
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WordPress 2.5 RC1 available now for testing with a completely new flavor of blogging. This Release candidate will be available publicly after few days of user feedback.

New features at glance:

• Fully customizable dashboard organized in a way to provide user fresh information about the blog stats, latest post and latest comments. You are now free to use your favorite RSS News feed on dashboard.
• New fresh admin look and feel as well as user will be able to keep old classic look and feel.
• Added multi-file upload function to provide several file at once.
• One click plug-in upgrades and better tag management.
• Reorganize admin navigation for better navigation options.

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Digsby is brand new Instant Messenger client that allow you to connect with most popular chat client like AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber. It allow you to manage your all friends list at one single place with single login plus several new cool features. Let take a glance on cool new features.

• Allow you to manage Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts digsby messenger.
• Allow you to login into several IM account with single disgsby login/password.
• New email notification and autologin to web mail account.
• Allow you to perform actions such as “Mark as Read” or “Report Spam” right from the email InfoBox in dissby.
• Allow you to send emails to your buddies just from the Instant Messenger window.
• Truly social messenger allow you to monitor and manage your social network. Currently, support only facebook and myspace other networks in pipeline.
• Search-able Chat history log to find chat info later.
• Send SMS from chant window.
• Tabbed conversation window make it easier to talk multiple buddies easily.
• Rename contact as an alias for a memorable name.
• Allow you to personalize entire look and feel of the messenger including buddy list.
• Enhanced file transfer manager allow you to tranfer multiple simultaneous file transfers.
• Support widget for your website, blog and social network that allow your visitor to communicate directly you without any messenger. The widget shows your online status so that your visitor know you are online or not. you can find widget in the sidebar for an example. You can chat with me through this widget. Digsby widget automatically generate dummy user name for your visitor that visitor can edit while browsing site. That user name automatically added in your messenger window as buddy and removed when your visitor leave website. This allow you to know how many visitors currently browsing your site.

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Digsby is currently in testing phase. You need invitation code in order to register for digsby account. To get invite code please post a comment in this post.

Recently, Microsoft has released a beta version of Internet Explorer 8 with the new cool features. This beta version comes with new exciting features. Let describe here what’s new in IE8.

• Web Slices Feature - This is new that enables users to subscribe to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like RSS feeds in that users can subscribe to them and receive notifications content updates.

• Activities - This feature allow you to access external services from current web page very quickly on mouse click based on information on the web page. This can be look up for information related to data in webpage or send content from web page to another application.

• Compatibility with old IE Engine - Internet Explorer 8 comes with three different rendering mode that can be change easily using the toolbar. The defualt render engine is IE8 Standard Mode. Following three mode supported now.
  • Quirks mode which supports Internet Explorer 5 and legacy browsers
  • Strict mode which supports Internet Explorer 7 and is accessed through the emulate Internet Explorer 7 button
  • Internet Explorer 8 standards mode
• Domain Highlighting - This feature highligh top level domain in address bar to identify top level domain quickly. The highlighted domain name is in bold black font, and rest of the URL display in Grey color.
• Improved security - Enhanced phishing filter to provide additional protection against various evolving threats.
• Inbuilt Developer Toolbar for development - The new own built-in Developer Toolbar enables developers to quickly debug HTML, cascading style sheets, and JavaScript in a visual development environment that is included with the web browser. Developers can quickly identify and resolve issues because of the deep insight the tool provides into the Document Object Model. The Developer Toolbar also allows the layout to be changed on the fly so that each rendering scenario can be tested thoroughly.

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SynXro is another web based product to connect, a PC to PC; or PC to LAN connection. SynXro allows you to access all the drives of your PC and all the network drives of all PCs connected to your Local Area Network from anywhere in the world. You only need to have access of internet and modern web browser to connect to your PC. No additional software or hardware is required.

Features:

• Navigate through your Local Area Network.
• Remote access to LAN and/or Computer.
• Remote upload and download capabilities.
• Remote execution of commands.
• Accessible from any location through the internet via any browser.

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Wordpress 2.3.3 version has been released today to fix security issues in XML-RPC implementation as well as vulnerability in the WP-Forum plugin. According to WP post, an special xml-rpc request can be made that allow one user to update post of another user. Here is full list of fixes in new version.

• Fixed flaw in XML-RPC implementation. you can update XML-RPC file without updating wordpress immediately. You just need to download updated xml-rpc file and overwrite new file in your existing installation.
• Discovered a vulnerability within this WP-Forum plugin that can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks. WP recommend to remove this plug-in until new release.
• Fixed a function in wp-includes/gettext.php that fails to determine the correct byteorder on FreeBSD6.2-amd64.
• Fixed emails sent problem to certain addresses.
• Fixed issue with maybe_create_table function using a full path definition of the location of the wp-config.php file.

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Like the windows, gz is common compression utility in Linux. This guide is to extract content of the .gz file by gunzip utility. Here is the command to see and extract content of the gz file.

View gz file content

gunzip -c mybackup.gz

Extract file file content in another file. you can use different file extension depend on the content of file.

gunzip -c mybackup.gz > mybackup.sql

Compress the mybackup.sql file as mybackup.gz in the current directory.

gunzip -c mybackup.sql > mybackup.gz

Here is the full details of the gzip command.

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Clip-Share is mature script to run your own video sharing website like YouTube. This script is available variety of features and options at low cost. Unfortunately, they don’t have good knowledge base to short out technical problems related to script installation. The common problem with Clipshare and other video sharing script is in video upload and conversion module. Here is the error i received while i tried to upload video. The script produce error in initialization of progress bar.

Error:Â “returned status code 500 Internal Server Error”

Possible Solution:

• Check cgi-bin directory and files permission. In the script, upload progress monitored by perl script so that cgi-bin directory and files inside directory should have 755 permission. Make the changes if applicable.
• Check temp and video path setting in “cgi-bin/configs/uu_default_config.pm” file. It should point to correct folder. Both these folder should be writable by webserver.
  temp_dir                => ‘/home/domain/public_html/tmp/’,
  upload_dir              => ‘/home/domain/public_html/video/’,
• Check flvideo folder permission in your installation directory. It should be writable by webserver.