I like this title much better than the ‘For Dumbies/Idiots’ ones.
Anyway if you are into this blogging thing at all and are running Firefox 3 then you really should give ScribeFire a test drive. It really make this easy.
TechnoBabel
Yahoo | Radical Paradigm Shift | Going Totally Open
This could be the move that breaks the appeal of Yahoo to Microsoft. Although Microsoft has attempted to make appearances of shifting itself into being Open Source friendly, truth of the matter is that this company is even less open than Sun. Honestly with Sun swallowing up MySql the nearly ubiquitous Open Source database player, and subsequently closing off some of it’s core componentry. I am absolutely certain the Balmer and crew performed a little heel clicking jump for joy at this maneuver.
So what to make of Yahoo’s turn about? Well honestly this company has flirted with the whole Open Source concept since it’s humble beginnings. Like Hotmail, they’ve run their systems on FreeBSD since the start. Considering that they already have many fairly open APIs this is an extremely interesting move.
succeeds I would venture that this is aimed at making the company much less attractive that it currently is to the hostility it is seeing on the market. If the ploy it is likely that this tact will strengthen their position against Myspace and Facebook as the PC World article states.
widgets, gadgets & applets
Ok so it’s interesting to see that Microtsoft followed Apple’s Dashboard lead with it’s pathetic gadget solution. However both pale in comparison to Yahoo’s Widget engine. I am currently running y!w on both Windows and Mac, without much issue. Althoughnow that I finally upgraded to Leopard I do miss my Day Planner, even after several major OS updates Yahoo still has not fixed the errors with this widget from their defualt set. Otherwise on all of the systems that I use I have subsequently replaced/disabled the built-in widget facility and erplaced it with Yahoo’s.
I have to ask the question: When oh when will these OS manufacturers figure it out that they do not need to create these half assed software packages when there is a superior alternative already available.
Had Microsoft dumped the gadgets and struck a financial deal w/ Yahoo to commercially license their widget engine as an option, Vista might have failed a bit less. Of course Yahoo might not be in the straights it’s in right now as a result. I wonder what would have happened if Apple did the same thing? But let’s face it that these widgets aren’t really anything new. Many of the window managers that run on top of the X Windowing System found on UNIXes like FreeBSD, and many Linuxes have applets. Handy lightweight mini applications that perform specific tasks.
In any event I thought it might be a good idea to cover a few of the y!widgets that I find useful, click the embedded image to jump to the widget’s source page.
IP Subnet Calculator
COLOURLovers COlor Picker
I’ll add more later.
cisco pix and ssh key troubles….
Have you ever received the following when you were trying to ssh into a Cisco PIX or ASA?
ssh_rsa_verify: RSA modulus too small: 512 < minimum 768 bits
key_verify failed for server_host_key
Then you may find the following Cisco commands handy to remember…
To examine the device’s currently installed ssh key.
sh crypto key mypubkey rsa
To reset the key to zero.
crypto key zeroize rsa
Finally to generate a new key of an appropriate length.
crypto key generate rsa modulus 1024 noconfirm
I hope this helps someone out there.
m
vista: usage is futile
The more I have become exposed to vista the more I find that it is utterly a useless pile of crap. Thus I came up with a new ad slogan for the product, aka today’s title.