Posts tagged with: google

Links of interest for 26 Jul 2010 - 6 Aug 2010: Using Oracle® Solaris 10 to Overcome Security Challenges - A great whitepaper that briefly explains and demonstrates a lot of the great security features Solaris has. This isn't a HOWTO, but more of a "look what we can do document". Well worth a read, even if you are a seasoned Solaris expert - you may just find a "I didn't know that" moment. Official Google Blog: Update on Google Wave - Good-bye Wave. I used you once to see what the fuss was all about and then promptly forgot... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 22 Apr 2010 - 19 May 2010: Chrome Incognito Tracks Visited Sites - Lewis showed me this yesterday morning before posting this blog post. Guess incognito mode isn't as forgetful as you thought. Funny Photoshop Crash Reports - It's amazing what people write in these crash reports. Oracle on ZFS Whitepaper - Quite a useful whitepaper on running Oracle on ZFS. Warning, it's a PDF. Special Report: Can That Guy in Ironman 2 Whip IBM in Real Life? - Some great hard hitting quotes from Larry Ellison explaining exactly why Sun became such an easy takeover... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 Mar 2010 - 21 Apr 2010: C language inventor spurns Google's language exam - Hey, maybe Google has a point, maybe Ken's gone crazy and forgotten everything, but highly unlikely. Apache Foundation Hit by Targeted XSS Attack - Wow!! What a detailed account of what happened. It's quite refreshing to see such an open account of a system hack. Nobody Killed OpenSolaris — Stop the FUD! - Nice to see someone outside of Sun/Oracle is actually seeing sense. Multicore requires OS rework, Windows architect advises - Errmm, I must be missing something here: doesn't Solaris... Continue reading ►

Looks like Google have been caught napping slightly. Firefox 3.6 has been in development for while and has been out for nearly a week now and we still don't have an officially compatible version of the Google Page Speed extension. Well, all is not lost, it appears Page Speed continues to work correctly and as expected in Firefox 3.6. All you need to do is bump the "em:maxVersion" number in the install.rdf file included in the extension. I've set this to 3.6.* and the extension works a treat. If you already have the plugin installed, you'll just need to ... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 3 Sep 2008 - 11 Sep 2008: 10 Principles of the PHP Masters - Some very useful PHP tips here. Some new, some old. Google restores Chrome's shine - That's better. Now you can still keep ownership of everything you already own. Hadoop Live CD at OpenSolaris.org - Distributed computing on a LiveCD. What a great way to test the waters without actually having to install anything. Happy 5th Birthday, DTrace - Wow!!! DTrace is 5 years old already. Wow time flies. Burned by Chrome - All your bases are belong to us. Not the nicest... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 12 Aug 2008 - 3 Sep 2008: Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome - Ooops. How on earth could the Google chaps have missed this one? Google Chrome Considered Harmful - Hmmm, the bad news about Google Chrome is starting to come to light now. Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project - Oooo, sounds like Firefox may have a new competitor. Now how long before we get a Solaris/OpenSolaris version? iPhone passwords not worth the paper they're written on - Ooops. This certainly won't help Apple make inroads into the business market. The latest Xeon and OpenSolaris -... Continue reading ►

The Google engineers have been hard at work in another bid to change the way we work. Today they will be releasing a new open source browser called "Chrome". As is common with announcements these days, the internet soon got wind of the project when someone at Google clicked the "Send" button just a little too early and sent a comic book by Scott McCloud about their new browser out into the world for all to see. Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 19 May 2008 - 19 Jun 2008: June 2008 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites - Woohoo!!! Sun are finally back in the top 10. Anything But a Flash in the Pan - Sun's shares may be tanking at the moment, but you've got to read this to see where Sun is going. Once again, Sun is light years ahead of the competition. Now lets hope they market this and make a killing from it. (Yes I'm a shareholder). goosh.org - the unofficial google shell. - Google CLI for the hardcore techie Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 Nov 2007 - 22 Nov 2007: Google as a password cracker - Another good use for Google - password cracking. Ok, it's not true passpord cracking, but rather MD5 hash pattern matching. Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Facebook Developers on Dell Servers. What does it mean? - I'm a very disappointed in Sun here. Joyent are probably the best known OpenSolaris users, and yet Sun couldn't pull finger and treat them with the care they deserve. Come on Jonathan, sort it out. Porting Open Source Java to Leopard - Wow. That didn't take long and is... Continue reading ►

Well, so far so good. I've been using IMAP to access my Gmail for just short of a week now and haven't hit any real problems. Things were a bit slow at first as Thunderbird built the index of the folder contents, but once done, all seems ok. The one thing that did annoy me for a while was Thunderbird wasn't checking all my Gmail folders/labels: it was only checking the Inbox. Continue reading ►