Changing konqueror web browser's engine to WebKit

Konqueror is a native KDE web browser and it uses KHTML as the rendering engine. Fortunately, the smart developers of Konqueror has made it possible to change not only the interface but also the engine that renders the webpage we visit and so far only webkit is supported. We hope many more in the future. or maybe not. :)

What is Webkit?

Webkit engine is derived from KDE's KHTML engine and contains many enhancements that made it better than its mother. It has been used for Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome web browsers.

For Mandriva 2011 users, to be able to change the engine to Webkit is by installing the engine package. It's called webkitkde. (for other distro, the package name might be a bit different) You might have installed it. Install it using this command:

urpmi webkitkde

Now open Konqueror (or restart if it is open) and go to Settings --> Configure Konqueror --> General --> Default web browser engine. You should have 2 options in there. KHTML and WebKit. Screenshot below.

*UPDATE:
For KDE 4.10.x, for Mageia, the package name is kwebkitpart. So,

urpmi kwebkitpart

That's all there is to it. You should now enjoy browsing the web using WebKit engine.

Mandriva 2011 codenamed Hydrogen is out

I just copy this as announced on Mandriva blog:

Hooray! As promised earlier, we are happy to announce that Mandriva 2011 is out. You can download ISO images from here.

When downloading an iso-image, perhaps you will want to read the Release Notes.

We prepared a small manual of how to upgrade to the new release for users of the Mandriva Desktop 2010.2.

If you have never tried Mandriva, take a look at the Mandriva 2011 Tour.

Happy upgrading :)

Merging video files

Recently I downloaded 2 video files which is actually a video file splitted into two for faster upload by the uploader. To merge them on Linux, we can use the command cat like this:

cat video1.mkv video2.mkv >> video.mkv

And it took seconds to complete merging. Now I can watch the video in 1 file.

Have fun!.

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Mageia 1 is out!

A distribution forked from Mandriva, Mageia, released its important milestone, Mageia 1 stable. Read the Changelog here to get an insight of this release after 9 months it was born.

My Mandriva desktop

Sorry for not posting anything for a rather long time. I have been using Mandriva Cooker 2011 for about 2 months now since I bought my new ASUS laptop from someone with half the current market price. :) With RPM5, ROSA, and many exciting features of KDE 4 in Cooker, I didn't want to miss the chance to test and have fun with them.

Here is the screenshots of my desktop with urpmi and 3D effects in action.


Please click on the image to see bigger picture.

Load balance 2 WAN links BASH script

BASH script to load balance 2 WAN links.

#!/bin/bash

#

# bal_local Load-balance internet connection over two local links

#

# Version: 1.0.0 - Fri, Sep 26, 2008

#

# Author: Niels Horn

#

# Set devices:

DEV1=${1-eth0} # default eth0

DEV2=${2-ppp0} # default ppp0

# Get IP addresses of our devices:

ip1=`ifconfig $DEV1 | grep inet | awk '{ print $2 }' | awk -F: '{ print $2 }'`

ip2=`ifconfig $DEV2 | grep inet | awk '{ print $2 }' | awk -F: '{ print $2 }'`

# Get default gateway for our devices:

gw1=`route -n | grep $DEV1 | grep '^0.0.0.0' | awk '{ print $2 }'`

gw2=`route -n | grep $DEV2 | grep '^0.0.0.0' | awk '{ print $2 }'`

echo "$DEV1: IP=$ip1 GW=$gw1"

echo "$DEV2: IP=$ip2 GW=$gw2"

### Definition of routes ###

# Check if tables exists, if not -> create them:

if [ -z "`cat /etc/iproute2/rt_tables | grep '^251'`" ] ; then

echo "251 rt_dev1" >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables

fi

if [ -z "`cat /etc/iproute2/rt_tables | grep '^252'`" ] ; then

echo "252 rt_dev2" >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables

fi

# Define routing tables:

ip route add default via $gw1 table rt_dev1

ip route add default via $gw2 table rt_dev2

# Create rules:

ip rule add from $ip1 table rt_dev1

ip rule add from $ip2 table rt_dev2

# If we already have a 'nexthop' route, delete it:

if [ ! -z "`ip route show table main | grep 'nexthop'`" ] ; then

ip route del default scope global

fi

# Balance links based on routes:

ip route add default scope global nexthop via $gw1 dev $DEV1 weight 1 nexthop via $gw2 dev $DEV2 weight 1

# Flush cache table:

ip route flush cache

# All done...

To use the script, copy it to /usr/local/bin, make it executable with 'chmod +x' and call it with:

bal_local

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