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Quite often on my Guest Ubuntu system on virtual box, I face this problem, where network is accessible via IP but not my domain name. I am able to ping any IP but DNS resolution fails. In those scenarios I have found the following command quite useful: sudo dpkg-reconfigure resolvconf This resets/regenrates the resolv.conf and everything is back to normal :)

Recently I was analyzing the data from the reports from few of my blogs and websites, to understand the how the usage of different browsers are spread among different audience profile. But data didnt give any major suprises in the browser landscape. All the blogs and websites had majority Chrome users which was lowest at 33% and highest till 39%. Firefox user base was constant around 24 to 26%. Almost all the reports have IE users around 20-22%. Opera seemed to be having a fairly good market share these days around 10%. Safari had some surprises based on profiles , in case of technology enthusiasts it had a market share of around 3% but almost all other places it was less then 1%. But Mobile Safari seemed to have a constant audience base of around 2% almost across all profiles. Other browsers which people are using these days are UCBrowser(i guess mainly on Java based smartphones), IEMobile, NokiaBrowser, Dolfin, Maxthon but with negligible audience base. Browser ...

I had this problem that Eclipse use to run very slow on Ubuntu for some reason, I always wondered that it must be my RAM issue or something. Blah! My ignorance would have been better if I would have googled it at the first go rather then making my own assumptions. The problem evidently was with GIJ(GNU interpreter for Java) which ubuntu installs by default. A workaround to this problem is by choosing SUN's java which can be done by using command: sudo update-alternatives --config java and selecting the Sun's java which was option 2 in my case. After doing this switch you need to restart eclipse. If things still does not work fine then you might have to edit the jvm config files using : sudo -b gedit /etc/jvm and move the line: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun to the top and edit eclipse's java_home file using : sudo -b gedit /etc/eclipse/java_home and add: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun to the top of the file. Now restart the eclipse. If the problem prevails, go and buy some more ...

If after sometime, the Unity Launcher stops auto hiding then don't worry. Its a bug in this version of the launcher which we hope would be solved soon. See the bug here . One of the easiest workaround which I saw to solve the problem without restarting the PC is if you are using Firefox then detach a tab or open it in a new window and then re-drag it to the original window using the launcher. Once it is done, then the launcher would again start working as before :). There can be a number workarounds to this, please comment if you come across any other.