Jan 13

Display Microsoft .MHT files in Firefox

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I found this on digital inspiration blog.

Though Firefox doesn’t provide native support for viewing or writing MHTML files, the Mozilla Archive Format (MAF) Firefox extension can help you. Once installed in Firefox, this extension lets you save Web pages in the open-source .MAFF format. It can also read and write .MHT files, which IE users can open.

However, the MAF Firefox extension requires Firefox 1.5+. If you are on a previous version, you can either install the View in IE or IE Tab extension.

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Jan 12

Microsoft’s file system patent upheld

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News.com.com reports that:

In their latest action, filed last week, the examiners concluded that the company’s File Allocation Table (FAT) file system is, in fact, “novel and non-obvious,” entitling it to patentability. Now the office is in the process of issuing a “patent re-examination certificate,” which signals the finality of the decision, a Microsoft representative said.

But the sad part is as under:
“It also voiced concern that Microsoft would try to seek royalties from companies that sell and support Linux for using the technology, potentially posing a threat to the free software community. Under the terms of the Free Software Foundation’s General Public License, Linux cannot be distributed if it contains patented technology that requires royalty payments.”

Lets wait and see what the outcome of this is, we may soon see what action Microsoft plans to take.

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Nov 12

How a Linux Distro Saved Hard Disk Data

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Linux Journal is carrying an article:-

Our search-and-rescue expert is back to share how he recovered a master boot record and reclaimed lost data.
Not too long ago, a friend sent me an e-mail that said, “I want to ask for a favor and see if you can help me to recover the data in the hard disk of my daughter’s PC.” I came to learn that some combination of utilities had wiped out the partition table in the master boot record (MBR). Maybe a tool such as fdisk could fix this problem, but the cylinder numbers weren’t available. This article describes how, using a typical Linux distro (SuSE 8.0, in this case) it was possible to recover the master boot record and, with it, my friend’s daughter’s data.

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