website safe to browse

You can check if the website is safe to browse.  Visit the following pages to find out.

http://safeweb.norton.com/
http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/

Unzip 7zip file in Centos

Download a VMware appliance recently and copy it to my notebook for web browsing.  However, I am not sure how to extract it.  Search in Google and find the following steps (thegeekstuff).

Install p7zip package as shown below.
Install p7zip to unzip *.7z files on CentOS
# yum install p7zip

Uncompressing a *.7z 7zip files in Linux using 7za
$ 7za e myfiles.7z

7-Zip (A) 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30
p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU)

Processing archive: ../../myfiles.7z

Extracting myfiles/test1
Extracting myfiles/test2
Extracting myfiles/test
Extracting myfiles

Everything is Ok

Folders: 1
Files: 3
Size: 7880
Compressed: 404
7za – command name
e – specifies the 7z to be extracted
myfiles.7z – is the file that is to be extracted



Creating a 7zip compression file in Linux
$ 7za a myfiles.7z myfiles/

7-Zip (A) 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30
p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU)
Scanning

Creating archive myfiles.7z

Compressing myfiles/test1
Compressing myfiles/test2

Everything is Ok

rpm for ATI video card

You can download latest executables to create rpm from the AMD website. 
Or you can download the rpm from pkgs.org.  Two required rpm are
flgrx-kmod
flgrx-x11-drv

My machine is running CentOS 5.7. 
I ran rpm -i flgrx-kmod flgrx-x11-drv to install the packages.

If fglrxinfo says “mesa3d.org” instead of “ATI” Like below: (found in Madathil Unni's Blog)


you may need to type this command as root:

#set opengl ati

Now, opening the VM running Windows XP, you should not have no trouble enabling 3D accelerations on your XP VM.