This article discusses about how to change Google country redirect to whatever your want from firefox permanently.

The problem: When I’m using Google search at my office, it get automatically redirected to google.co.jp site. But I’m living in Sri Lanka and can’t read Japanese at all. The correct site for me should be google.lk. If you have used a proxy server that’s not in your country, you might have experienced the same.

One way to stop Google country redirect is to visit this link.

http://www.google.com/ncr

This sets a cookie in your browser announcing Google not to redirect. Now you are getting results from google.com. But this solution fails if you remove cookies in Firefox. And the other problem is that you’ll not get country-specific search features.

Ok, here is my solution.

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In Linux and Unix machines, getting the uptime is quite straight forward; just type uptime on a terminal and you’ll get the uptime. But in Windows XP machine, such command does not exist.

But you can view uptime or running time with systeminfo command. Get a command prompt (Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt) and type systeminfo.

In the long output, you can find the System Up Time

Up-time (Windows XP)

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How many times do you type show ip interface brief, copy run start, configure terminal, show running-config, etc. But isn’t there a way to make thing easier? Yes there is, that’s command aliases feature provided in Cisco IOS.

Aliases are configured within a mode; exec: #, global configuration: (config)#, interface configuration: (config-if)#, router configuration: (config-router)#, etc. you can issue a show aliases ? command to see how many modes are there. But practically you’ll mostly need exec mode aliases.

A filtered output of the show aliases ? command is shown bellow.

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Router#show aliases ?
--- output omitted ---
  configure                  Global configuration mode
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  exec                       Exec mode
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  interface                  Interface configuration mode
...
  router                     Router configuration mode
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