Oct 6th, 2005 | Blogging, Google, Personal, Web Services, WordPress | No Comments
I am planning to update the WordPress, as well as put some more plugins and functionality to the site so it may be possible for the site to misbehave for some time.
Planned:
- update WP 1.5.1.1 to 1.5.2
- install pluggin to manage Google AdSense
- install Gallery2 and try to integrate it in WP with the existing plugins (now I have a small digital cam in my phone and sometime I even do pictures, so I why shouldn’t I post them here)
- install some antispam plugins (I noticed that the site receives more and more spam nowadays)
- check some other possible/interesting stuff to add :)
Oct 5th, 2005 | Google, Networking, Technology, Web Services | No Comments
There are a lot of talks on the web about Google + Sun collaborations and the possibility of having them building web office suite or something of the kind for the past few days.
I am not quite sure yet on how this is possible to be done (although I have no doubt that it can be done), but overall I definitely like the idea of having some kind of web applications (or service based stuff) around.
From my view it will ease the work of system administrators and provide users with more flexibility. I am not really thinking of hosting office documents somewhere on [let's say] Google, but I would like to see some kind of nice solutions on having all these services running somewhere on the LANs web server so that administrators do not need to change much on workstations :)
I know that this concept is know and can be done by many means (terminal servers is one way), but I think something new here won’t do any harm :)
Sep 13th, 2005 | Google, Personal, Web Services | 3 Comments
Small background: some of you may notice that sometimes my family name appears as “mamtchenkov” and sometimes as “mamchenkov” (without “t” in the middle). This is because my (as well as my brother’s and others’ members of my family) passport translation. In the beginning it was with “t”, but when recently we changed [renewed] our passports there were no “t” in the family name (have something to do with English and French I beleive, although not very sure). Anyhow, I am not very used to the change myself so sometimes there is “t” and sometimes there is no.
Today I was playing around Google (actually Google Suggest) and found that if “mamchen” is entered in the input field, than Google shows only one auto completion option “mamchenkov” with 14,900 promissed results. After, if “mamchenkov” is entered, Google asks “Did you mean: mamtchenkov” :)
The most interesting part for me was “Why do Google offers ‘mamchenkov’ as an auto completion option and does not offer ‘mamtchenkov’ [no metter what I enter, even 'mamtchenko' won't work], but when results are displayed, it recognizes ‘mamtchenkov’ to be more correct than ‘mamchenkov’?”.
Tricky… ;)
Jun 1st, 2005 | Google, Technology, Web Services | No Comments
Few times I faced the problem while running configure scripts that were telling me:
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
since I am not in the mood of searching google for the solution every time this happens I decided to post a reminder here.
The idea is that “gcc-c++” (or similar thing I believe) have to be installed. Anyway - I solved problem by running:
apt-get install gcc gcc-c++