A DNS server resolves domain names into IP addresses. So when you request “yahoo.com” for example, the DNS server finds out the address for the domain, and sends your request the right way.
IEs4Linux is the simpler way to have Microsoft Internet Explorer running on Linux (or any OS running Wine).
No clicks needed. No boring setup processes. No Wine complications. Just one easy script and you'll get three IE versions to test your Sites. And it's free and open source.This may be very helpful for software developers and web developers to test their applications.
In addition to Ubuntu 6-months stable releases and the next version of ubuntu is 7.04 with Code Name "Feisty Fawn".
Curretly most of the people are trying to upgrade to ubuntu edgy eft (Current Stable) but they are having some problems related to xserver,applications,nvidia,ati drivers etc.if you want to know more common problems with their solutions check here i hope you will solve with this collection.
If you want to switch to Console mode from GUI mode in GNOME follow this simple steps
First you need to take backup of xorg.conf file using the following command
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup

