Sanity Insanity and Moi

So happy that i’m having net at home, i try and open Twitter.

Guess what this is the message that i get…

What are the chances …

What should i comment on this browser. First thing that caught my attention was the cool technology that went into this beautiful little app. Remember the days when we used IE, then Fx came along and just tripped and toppled our whole browsing experience. Fx came up with the idea of tabs, imporved browsing experience, plugins etc. etc. You name it they had it, or rather they were ready to include that in their next realease.

I feel the same when i see Chrome or Google Chrome. Its the coolest idea that we can have for a browser at this point. A browser that doesnt crash or rather does a good crash. It never affects any of your other open sessions.

(Read the Chrome story)

The best fact - its open source. That means that even my granny can get the source code and help Google imporve it or can come out with her own Hare-Rama-Rahe-Krishna Browser for the religious kind.

After the initial interations with other users over twitter. I found that people have some common issues, worries, concerns etc etc and not to mention a funny stuff too.

Prasanth a fellow Mutineer, found the shift to Chrome taking a toll on his mental heath, it was too mentally tiring for him.

Sivaprasad was able to download the online installer, but as he was sitting behing a proxy and had to authenticate the installer didnt finish what it had started. He was kind enough to send in the fix for the problem which he found here.

For all those who need a complete offline installer, i have uploaded the same in my site and is awailable for download at this link - Chrome Download. This was Allajunaki’s idea

Interestingly Kiruba reported and error thrown by Chrome that read - “Google Chrome has encountered a problem and needs to close. Please tell Microsoft about it”.

Waiting for more reactions…

(first post on/using/with Chrome)

Chrome Offline installer Download

How cool can it get. On the very first day at office you get to do things that you just simple love doing?

The Case : A page is displayed with a certain width in IE. But is taking the whole width in Fx …

Sounds familiar ? They where about to tag it as an Fx bug. Wait a sec!!! That’s not a BUG in Fx. Its just the way Fx is handling things. Pop in some things i read at Joel’s blog - Martian Headsets. Voila!!! all agree that its not a bug… :). I’m happy, they are happy …

Here is my simple explanation :

Its all with the implementation difference of the two browsers.

In US you drive on the right side of the road. Hence all cars are left-hand drive.

Bring the same car to UK/India where we drive on the left side of the road, things seem to be a bit mixed up. You car is not buggy nor is the law in place. Cars are always designed to place the driver towards the center of the road. in UK it has to be the right side of the car, but in US it has to be the left side. There is no way out.

Why is there this problem? Coz all the countries doesnt have the same traffic rules. They have some basic guidelines in place and have the law built around it to match them. Simple!!!

To solve these confusions. Own a McLaren F1 car. It has a 3-seat setup, with the driver in the center. You never will have problem again. Just that you would have to be filthy rich ..

Bruce Almighty, the movie starts of with Bruce, a TV Reporter, asking an old woman, who owns a Patisserie -

“So tell us mama, why make Buffalo’s biggest cookie?”

“Well, man from the health department say he find rat pellet in store. I say no is big chocolate chip. So we close store down, clean up, and make big cookie for to bring back customers”

I see no difference in that and this -

Come June 17th and there is going to be this multitude of people from around the world, who are just going to download Mozilla Firefox v 3.0. Why? Just because they are attempting to set a world record on the maximum downloads of a single software in 24hrs. What a creative reason to set a record?

So what is so great about this download spree that the guys at Mozilla are hyping about? Does the people who download it get a free mug every day for the rest of their life? Or is it something like the spam mail, ‘If you dont download Fx in the next 24 hours, your system will be infected by a deadly strain of I love Fx virus!!!‘.Its all for the sake of a record and damn publicity!!!

I use Fx and its not that i wont be using 3.0. Its a great browser and i’m sure just like the way it has changed my browsing experience, it has done for millions. The plugin support is amazing. To download it on that particular day is a personal choice. I agree. But just because you like a piece of software doesnt mean that you need to join a drive just to download it.

The way i see it, is as a smart marketing strategy. If they are really as good at the cookie that they sold, then why do they need such a drive. If a product is good, people who use it becomes the biggest marketers for it. They spread the word and the number of people who are using it expands. Why does Fx3.0 need such a drive? Fx2.0 was brought in with a big bang. But it suffered as it began to eat up memory. A normal session of Fx2.0 with 3-4 tabs open is enough to consume 10s of MB of RAM.

Memory is cheap, i agree. But that doesn’t mean that an application can take up as much memory as it desires. I’m not too good at judging as to what is wrong. But can say that the memory management was poor in Fx2.0. At the time when Fx2.0 was released people with normal browsing habits found that the systems slogged badly, Windows and Linux alike. They opted to move out. Intermittent releases didn’t solve the version either. How annoying is it when you get a new version to download every couple of weeks?

Fx3.0 is hailed to be faster and secure. The Release Candidates a.k.a Beta are better than Fx2.0.

… As several of the linked posts below accurately reported, we’ve decided to add one more beta in order to make further improvements in the areas of polish, performance, memory, and overall quality … [from Mozilla: For the Record]

The question remains, are they still the same old Patisserie reopen by making a big cookie, after the Health Dpt. shut’em down?

If normal blogging was too much for you and thought that Twitter solved it with Micro-blogging… AND if you thought that 140 characters was too long to type and Twitter was too much to handle. You are in big problem.

Friends might tell you that you are being lazy and you need to see a doc. Hell NO!! we have Adocu for one-word Nano-blogging. Now all you need is a word or rather words with no spaces in them.

Just one word, one word to tell the world what you are up to..

So far only text and numbers allowed. Spaces are a Strict NO!! You can alwaysbe innovative. Joining words without spaces is already happening there. The interface looks simple and you just can keep on going.

Adocu is still in beta and is lacking a good Puclic time line, friends updates, search etc. So when its finished by Jonathan (adocu.com/Jonathan), who is busy getting feedbacks at the blog (http://blog.adocu.com/) and fixing issues that are reported, its really going to rock.

Adocu is not a Twitter clone, rather its Twitter compressed …

Time to coin new terms like - Adocuers (populace in Adocu), Adocus (updates in Adocu), Adocing (the act of updating Adocu).

Larry and Sergey would have never thought this would happen.

Any one with the bare knowledge of the internet knows about Google. It has now more or less become a house hold name. Just like the Saans-Bahu soaps. May be i should never ever compare anything to the Saans-Bahu soaps. Its more of an insult than a credit. Now the fact is, you want some thing Google has it. It has grown over the years with innovative ideas and acquisitions. You need some thing, google it!!! It has in fact become the de facto solution to most of our searches. And searching IS googling.

The mail, integrated with a chat, integrated with a social-networking site, integrated with a photo album, integrated with a video sharing site, integrated with an online office apps…. phew! One can just be hooked on to Google for the whole day.

In fact everything that we use online, is in one way or the other “Powered by Google“.

Not to mention the kind of work environment that they have and the countless eyebrows that were raised all with the same question - “Is that an office?”. Employees in the technology sector dream to work at Google.

But what really made Google, Google. Looking from a surfer’s perspective its the experience. Its like the perfect blend of coffee to make the perfect espresso. A simple page with nothing more than to let you search. No unwanted fancy stuff. More than that its the integrated environment that hooks me up with Google. The usage of a single ID to do multiple stuffs. The hustle of remembering the user ids and passwords are gone. One login and mail, messenger, album etc. etc.

So which other site offers all these - NONE. Equally likable by both techies and normal people.

Just visit the Google Products page and there is something for everyone. We all have been pwn3d by g00g73;

“You have been GOOGLED…”

Finally after more than 5 hours of trial and error i have the image uploader working fine for me. Trying this out crashed Firefox many times and i finally had to send a crash report to Mozilla.

Followed all the differsnt instruction as mentioned in this post. Changed the .htaccess file to various different formats. Nothing worked. Neither

Option -1 :

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase Content-Type \
“^multipart/form-data;” “MODSEC_NOPOSTBUFFERING=Do not buffer file uploads”
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on No
</IfModule>

Option - 2 :

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

Option - 3 :

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI ^/wp-admin/async-upload.php$ MODSEC_ENABLE=Off

Option - 4 :

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>

worked. It worked for some one. But never for me.

Finally there was one post that asked to give the full path for the upload folder. That only created a this directory path in the root folder - http:/jerrymannel.com/blog/wp-content/upload/

Yes things got messier ..

Then reading down the same forum i found this link - 2.5 Image/Media Uploader problems. Now that was a saver. Went setp by step. Bang!!! Step 4 was what had to be done and BINGO!!! Everything worked….

I recommend starting at this and then trying out editing the .htaccess file. Happy Blogging.

No before i get into the whole thing, by Free Software i mean the programs that follow the 0-3 Freedoms as stated by the Free Software Foundation. Or rather Copy-Left than Copy Right …
Why is that a Free S/w user is so good at fixing a system, trouble shooting software issues and fixes thing without even reading the manual.
Now these are the reasons

1) Free software users expect open licenses and no activation methods
2) Free software users expect regular upgrades and patches
3) Free software users expect to work the way they choose
4) Free software users want control of their own systems
5) Free software users explore
6) Free software users expect to help themselves
7) Free software users don’t fear the command line
Free software users learn software categories, not programs
9) Free software users expect access to developers and other employees

So digging about Web3.0, after hearing about that, I came across this definition of Web2.0 by Tim O’Reilly, the person who was responsible for all the versioning of web and complicating things.Something that will help you comprehend it without reading the whole thing (stolen from it word-to-word) -

In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example:

Web 1.0		Web 2.0
DoubleClick	–>	Google AdSense
Ofoto	–>	Flickr
Akamai	–>	BitTorrent
mp3.com	–>	Napster
Britannica Online	–>	Wikipedia
personal websites	–>	blogging
evite	–>	upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation	–>	search engine optimization
page views	–>	cost per click
screen scraping	–>	web services
publishing	–>	participation
content management systems	–>	wikis
directories (taxonomy)	–>	tagging (”folksonomy”)
stickiness	–>	syndication

What he says and how you interpret is up to you.

For me, a simple Web will do and all these things come to pic, no need of Web2.0 or Web3.0 or WebX.0

(pic courtesy - wikipedia)

Well, Web2.0 was defined and many people are yet to know about it, though they are living and breeding in it.

Web 2.0 as defined in wikipedia -
Web 2.0 - refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.

While many still argue and debate about the Web 2.0 as mere term and has nothing to do with the world-wide-web, when still people are trying to conceive the web in terms or versions, when half of the world is yet to get connected and many thousands are dying. Here comes Web 3.0. (WTF.. yeah that was what went through my mind first)

Read/WriteWeb reports - Eric Schmidt Defines Web 3.0

He said that while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be “applications that are pieced together” - with the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the apps can run on any device (PC or mobile), the apps are very fast and very customizable, and are distributed virally (social networks, email, etc).

He called Web2.0 as a marketing strategy too.  

His definition is towards more mobility and connectivity. Hey, Wait a sec! i have been hearing the same stuff for a long time round.