Sometimes yahoo is better

And it was proved yesterday night. Actually I was looking for installing latex on my web domain (hostmonster). So here I dont have root permissions and I might also had to deal with other issue. I thought of going the easy way and just google it as someone must have done something similar. But I tried variation combination (latex on web hosts, latex on hostmonster and other search queries too) and got nothing.

Then after some time I thought of giving yahoo search a shot (though I was not quite sure that it would fetch me anything more useful). So when I search (latex on hostmonster), voila the first result was exactly what I needed. Now I’m eager to try installing latex(/tetex) on my web hosting account. And yeah i’ll keep update you, how it went.

Share, what search engine do you use and which do you find better.

May 8, 2008 | Filed Under web | 2 Comments

Tracking firefox crashes

Firefox provides us with a special page, about:crashes (type it in location bar) to track all the crash reports that you have submitted whenever firefox crashes. Firefox crashes are being handled by Mozilla Crash reporter tool, BreakPad.You can also serach

Advantage of submitting the crash report is that if its a widely occurring bug then it will appear on Mozilla: Top Crashers, and chances are that it will get resolved in next release.

Read more about firefox crashes at MozillaZine. Also Standard diagnostic steps to take when firefox hangs or crashes.

May 6, 2008 | Filed Under firefox | Leave a Comment

Perfect password according to firefox

I was going through bits of firefox code, and I found the algorithm used by firefox to measure password strength. You can find it in function setPasswordStrength() in this file : chrome://mozapps/content/preferences/changemp.js.
So point schema for password strength:

For length :       password-length*10 – 20 (Max 30)
For Numbers:    no-of-numerics * 10    (Max 30)
For Symbols:     no-of-symbols * 15           (Max 45)
For UpperCase: no-of-Uppercase * 10        (Max 30)

Your password strength is sum of all these points. So smallest password that would get 100 on password meter can be : AAA@@@ or something similar. But there should also be some criterion for the uniqueness of the characters.

Interesting read-on how to choose good passwords. that are also easy to remember. Please share your tips on choosing passwords [but yeah dont share passwords ]