Entries tagged with 'Google'

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been a big Firefox fan for years, and still use it as my primary browser at work and for all my web development, thanks to the great Firebug plugin, but recently it’s performance has started to really both me, both at home on the Mac and at work on Solaris.
I’m quite limited in what [...]

ZDNET and CNET (Just paraphrasing the ZDNET article) are both reporting that apparently Google’s security team have discovered some very critical flaws in the Java Run Time Environment (JRE) that threatens security on pretty much anything that runs Java.
Hmmm, I have my reservations about this claim. Several things just don’t sit right with me. [...]

Links of interest for 9 April 2007 - 13 April 2007:

Google Summer of Code - Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been announced! They’ve accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of nearly 6,200 applications.
Sun Acquires Java-based Mobile Phone OS - Oooh, maybe Sun will be jumping on the iPhone clone [...]

I do love some of Google’s error messages. I got this one in Google Reader today:

Very descriptive.

The recent YouTube purchase by Google is one of those familiar stories from the dot com boom of the late ’90s.
As true with most of the old dot com stories, YouTube was started by three guys in their garage and evolved into a huge success and take over opportunity, which Google duly took up for [...]