I always opt for https as opposed to http if it is supported by the site or service I’m accessing. I just noticed this in my twitter settings.

For viewing your feed using https, just go to your Settings, under Account and choose “Always use HTTPS“.

So whenever you access your twitter, even if you use http, you’ll be automatically redirected to https.

Why is Yahoo favicon appearing on Google Search website when using Chrome? Below tab is Safari’s. Safari has no problem.

Using the same query in .kw (middle tab) the favicon is Google’s but .com (left tab) it’s Yahoo’s! There’s Bing on the right

Forcing secure search, Google’s favicon appears on .com!

Safari defaults to Google’s https. But still Safari doen’t have a problem with the favicon whether it’s http or https.

And I discovered only Google.com supports https, com.kw doesn’t!

Could it be my Chrome browser? But I just noticed this today!

I agree with both Dan Farber and Maggie Fox. They are my favorite answers.

To me cloud computing is about merging the desktop environment to the Internet which is represented by the cloud. So I’m imagining that in the future the desktop/laptop or any other hardware is just a utility to provide processing power and Internet connection. You can not pin point where your data is stored, your data is out there bundled and stamped with your DNA, that would be exciting, I mean your data can be accessed only by you or by others according to the security settings you impose. No need to worry about software and installing the latest stable version for a specific operating system. This is from a user point of view.

I’m voicing out some of the set backs that I came across and really wanted a better solution. This is mostly from an administrator point of view.

When it comes to applications that is the tricky part, because some data can be interpreted by only a certain application and it needs to be converted to another format for another application to use it. There were solution of having a layer between the different formats of data and the application, so all data accessed are transformed into a format that the application can understand. Having to install applications on machines, some solutions out there were of applications being published on the web, the down side of this, not all features are supported on the web and for extensive applications that’s another matter, I can imagine running photoshop without having to install the application!!!

Also when it comes to hardware, virtualisation helps a lot, running VmWare on several IBM blades with Linux OS and both Linux and Windows virtual machines. You have the hardware, the operating system, the virtual machine middleware and the actual servers. Even as an administrator I don’t care where a particular machine is running as long as it is getting enough resources, if it is not or the running hardware server is down, it can migrate to another hardware resource whether onsite or off-site, yeah I had tears in my eyes too when I was dealing with VmWare

When it comes to data, as along as you can access it, I do not care where it is stored, nevertheless, I care it is being backed up, validated and secured. When things crashed we didn’t worry about retrieving the data as much as the time it takes to build the machine up and run it. The data is regularly backed up!

The last issue is bandwidth, why do all services exist within the same building? We can argue security, budget, staff … but I think the most important issue is response time! How long will it take for me as a client to access a service, emails, file servers, data, etc.The real performance expectations are set, measured and cleared, none of that off the shelf studies!

What was I talking about ??? Yeah cloud computing

Every information I read clears things more or just confuses me more!

BTW, watch the video if you haven’t, some of the answers are funny!

Some may see it as: Why servers rock ?

Others may see it as: Why, servers rock!

As you may notice he just talks about the processing power. Which is the major selling point but there is so much more. I came to a conclusion, well it is a fact of life that is applicable almost anywhere, the more money you have the more awesome servers you gets to see

Servers with multiple sockets for processors, hot swapping, fiber connections, RAM GOD-power, separate physical servers merged as one, my favourite, blades with their management and so much more.

You know what makes them more beautiful, virtualisation … enough said

Yeah not an ideal thing in a data centre. But imagine rocking it out and managing your IT infrastructure in soothing style

No matter the ways out there to prevent such unwanted and sometimes harmful messages, they do get smarter and more and more measures need to be tweaked and added to detect them.

Usually when I get a Pending or sometimes an Approved comment on my blog that happens to be spam, I don’t delete it, I mark it as Spam. This helps whatever system or people behind the system define how this spam managed to get around its detection method and hopefully provide more understanding so that detecting techniques can be improved.

People often refuse to contribute in reporting incidents, when windows crashes for example you can send a report to Microsoft, well in this case one can understand why they are reluctant to participate Some may fear that they are not fully aware of the information they are allowing to be included in the report, it might not be only technical.

The interesting new spam comments I noticed, are ones using sentences in legitimate comments mentioned in the post and creating a spam comment with the spam URL that you’ll be directed when you click on the author. So these comments were flagged and went into the pending queue and not the spam queue. I manually identified them as spam. Click to enlarge the picture below.

Imagine this scenario, PC, cable and another system/gadget. The cables is used to drive data from PC to system. If the PC suddenly says cable problem when you are trying to push the data to the connected device, how do you solve the problem?

Hardware people start off by touching the cable! Making sure that the cable is properly connected at both ends and maybe replace it with another cable just to make sure that the cable is not the cause and go on from there to solve the problem.

Software people start with restarting the application and maybe re-install/update the driver. They may even examine the cable settings from the PC, the bit rate, connection type, device type, etc. and go on from there to solve the problem.

Both might end up solving the problem, it could’ve been a loosely connected cable or improper settings, two different mind sets with the same aim.

I want to be able to create a project within a portal for example, and link everything I have control over in one location. I’d set a project page and name it, link all related emails, documents, tweets, bookmarked search results, youtube videos, etc. Has anyone got the solution or an idea? I just don’t want to alt+tab or ctrl+tab no. all the time.

btw, is twitter still a standalone, has anyone bought it, Google, Microsoft, since everything is bought by either Google or Microsoft nowadays, I remember the last one was Google with youtube and Yahoo with who again ??

Publish Bug Update (link):

Firefox browser has no problem, just Chrome. Preview then Publish clicked from the same window can be done with Firefox but not Chrome!

It so much simpler when you are in charge

How their services take over our daily vocabulary.

Does a day go by without one saying, “Did you google it?”

Now I’m using a new one, “I’ll wave it to you” when I’m using googlewave

I notice now, for Google Translate, you can write an Arabic word using English letter and press the spacebar and it’ll automatically convert to Arabic, without the hassle of (alt+shift) between Arabic-English keyboard settings

If you translate to English, a small speaker icon appears and you can hear the word out and it’s only for the English words so far. I tried French, but the feature is not included.

When typing in the box, the translate is done live on the wire! Isn’t that cool, so you can see the formed words interpreted at each keystroke, it’s kind of fun

The one thing I’m missing is having a spelling checker, I’m not sure why my browser doesn’t do that! I do remember that it’s included within my Chrome or was that Firefox, will check it out laters.

Go Google, keep ‘em good things coming