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Archive for February, 2009

Avoiding Firefox 3.0 frequent prompts when behind the proxy

Posted by Prabhu Beeman on February 21, 2009

You are reading this blog because you are using Firefox 3.0 and you are behind the proxy which needs authentication and you are annoyed by the frequent prompts for the username password.

How to stop this?

1) Just type about:config in your address bar

2) Enter network.auth.use-sspi in the filter field

3) Change the value to false if set to true

You will never be prompted anymore (may be you have to enter for the first time after making this change)

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Connect 2 PCs using USB Cable

Posted by Prabhu Beeman on February 21, 2009

Do you know that you can establish a network connection between two PCs using a USB-USB cable. For that though you need a special USB-USB bridged cable. It costs somewhere between Rs.700 to Rs.1000. Click here to know more on how to connect your PCs using USB Cable

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