It seems that Mikal is whinging about his anti-spam problem – perhaps that’s because his system is labelling real comments as spam too ?
Why do I say this ? Well maybe because it has already done it to a comment of mine in response to his post about his Breezy->Dapper upgrade crash.. 🙁
Apparently the ALP now wants to censor your internet according to these stories.
It won’t even be an opt-in system, you’ll get it because it’s good for you, and you’ll need to contact your ISP to opt-out. Of course, there’s a big disincentive there if you object to censorship on principle because you’ll fear that they will make assumptions about why you want to opt out..
Via Alec Muffett – Google Mars – lots of info there, spacecraft, craters, other features..
Want to alert those visitors to your WordPress blog who use Internet Explorer about upgrading to Firefox ?
This ‘Spread Firefox‘ plugin may be just what you want. As you can see from the screenshot below you can easily configure it to put a nice IE style warning bar at the top to tell them that they’re not getting the best from their current browser (the message is completely configurable), or you can pick banner ad’s, pop-ups (which I wouldn’t recommend) and other promotional methods.
Here’s a nice find courtesy of The Register, the UK Royal Air Force’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s Avro Lancaster “The City of Lincoln” caught on Google Earth flying over Huntingdon.
Now that Google Talk is live and is a Jabber service the next question is – how do I connect to it using the KDE Instant Messaging client Kopete ?
It’s dead easy – it’s just another Jabber server with the only restriction that you *must* connect to it via SSL.
So, what you need to do is:
Settings -> Configure Kopete menu option;New button there;Next at the welcome screen to start creating a new account;Next;Jabber ID;Connection tab at the top;Use Protocol Encryption (SSL) option;Override the default server information option;talk.google.com as your server;At that point you should be ready to hit Next to create the Google Talk Jabber account in Kopete!
OK, well not quite, but this is fun.. Google has launched a beta version of Google Suggest which analyses what you type and gives suggestions for what you want as you type.
It only gives you a list of 10 suggestions for each word combination you’ve typed, but if it does offer something you are after then you can just select it, and then it’ll give you 10 more (if it thinks there are any).