April 2008
Today I loaded my laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS version which comes along with Firefox version 3.0b5. As soon as I installed I tried hitting http://www.google.com but I got an error which was like an error we used to see when the internet connection is not working. So I checked all my network connections my wireless connection but in vain. Tried rebooting which also did not help. After which I tried to read the error closely which said "Firefox is working in offline mode".
Then immediately I went to Edit -> Preferences and searched through the option to enable the online mode, but couldn't find one. At last after going through all the menu Items found the menu item to enable online mode here File -> Work Offline
I have an external hard disk which is formatted in ntfs. I enabled ntfs-3g support in Debian etch box using some backport ntfs-3g deb files which was pretty old. Whenever I do a 'mount -t ntfs-3g blah blah' it gives a warning saying that ntfs partition is in use and try mounting with '-o force' option. I neglected the warning and mounted using force several times. Also used the hard disk in my ubuntu box where when I tried copying or rsyncing between folders at times it says some I/O error and failed copying/stating some files. It kept on increasing and lots of files in my hard disk got corrupted.
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