VLC media player 0.9.2

The best media player in my book, VLC has a new version out. Like WL it’s my player of choice on both my Linux and Windows machines.

Read the changelog while you download the installer.

Dropbox

Dropbox has finally come out of beta and is now available to everyone. With the public launched the company also introduced their open source Linux client which integrates seamlessly with nautilus and with a bit of work, KDE too. Get dropbox now. There is also a dedicated client for the iPhone.

I guess with Dropbox and Internet connectivity one could forget about their USB thumb drives now.

Source: Dropbox Blog

oraclec e delivery

Your one stop Oracle software download site. Oracle® E-Delivery

Oracle Entreprise Linux, Oracle VM, Oracle Database, Oracle Application, Oracle Database Cluster, the goes on.

However, OTN provides more granule downloads. Those who know exactly what they need would prefer OTN compared to E-Delivery’s bundles.

Can you access support.microsoft.com? Chances are you can’t if you’re behind a squid proxy.

Here’s the fix/workaround,

Add the lines below into your squid.conf file. should be in /etc/squid/squid.conf. Restart squid and you should be good to go.

#> vi /etc/squid/squid.conf

add lines into /etc/squid.conf
# Fix support.microsoft.com by removing Accept-Encoding header
acl support.microsoft.com dstdomain support.microsoft.com
header_access Accept-Encoding deny support.microsoft.com

#> service squid restart

The other way is to remove the tick from “Use HTTP1.1 through proxy connections” in IE’s Advanced internet options tab. Beware that this might break other sites.

Source: Whirlpool.net.au

Update:

Newer versions of squid need a different approach as demonstrated by Dave over at davehope.co.uk

I am facing the same annoying beep issue which I experienced on my Linux notebook before on my XP machine now.

Most users don’ t fancy having sounds turned on their OS. In XP turning off your sound schemes will turn off all notification sounds but then all beeps get channeled to your pc speaker instead thus begins the annoyance. I read somewhere that MS claims that this is a bug with the motherboards, ya right!!

Fortunately the fix was simple. I downloaded TweakUI from MS and unchecked the “Beep On Errors” from the general options area.