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Fix for Picasa 3 Linux login problem

Posted in Play on 21 September 2009 | 3 comments
Tags: cli, fedora, google, linux, picasa, yum

(Update: Just realized that this isn’t a fix but a workaround. The fix would be for Google to bundle the working Wine binaries. (Then again, they most likely use the stable release, while Fedora uses the current development one. Oh well…))
Picasa 3 for Linux has this niggling* problem: you can’t log on to Picasa Web. [...]

Chromium on Fedora

Posted in Play on 8 September 2009 | Comments?
Tags: chromium, fedora, firefox, google, opensource

I finally have Chromium on Fedora 11, thanks to Fedora developer, Tom “spot” Callaway’s dev repo.
In /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo:

[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/$releasever/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

And it was just a matter of doing:

yum install chromium

I CAN HAZ CHROMIUM!

My launcher specifies the following:

–enable-plugins –enable-user-scripts –enable-extensions

so this build now supports plugins (it adopted the Mozilla Firefox plugins, like Flash and the Citrix ICA client [...]

Google “breaks” the internet

Posted in Play on 2 February 2009 | Comments?
Tags: google, internet, tech, web

Well, not quite. But for a few hours, any search made through Google threw out results with tags that the sites are bad and “may cause harm”. The glitch has since been corrected.
(Interestingly, at around the same time, searches through the Google applicance cluster we have at work also yielded errors. Related?)
Here’s a related [...]

Taking GMail Labs for a spin

Posted in Play on 7 June 2008 | Comments?
Tags: email, gmail, google, productivity

Google recently unveiled GMail Labs, experimental features that Google engineers are working on out of their 20%.
The idea behind Labs is that any engineer can go to lunch, come up with a cool idea, code it up, and ship it as a Labs feature. To tens of millions of users. No design reviews, no [...]

Google CAPTCHA sorry page

Posted in Play on 20 January 2008 | 2 comments
Tags: captcha, google, internet, security

Okay, I know this is old news, but lately I’ve been getting a lot of these sorry pages that prompt me to input CAPTCHA words so I can continue with the search.

This would be understandable *if* only because I go through the Tor networks sometimes when I do searches, but this also happens at [...]