OAuth 1.0 Public Draft – Another brick in the wall

Others have made such great explanations as to what OAuth is and what it does like Eran Hammer-Lahav’s post so I won’t repeat it.
I will say that OAuth should make the Internet a little bit safer by giving the technical means to remove the need of a certain service asking the user to give his/her [...]

posted in OAuth by Eran Sandler

VmWare Server 1.0.4 on Ubuntu Server 7.04 (a.k.a Feisty Fawn)

2 days after my previous post about installing VmWare Server 1.0.3 from Canonical’s repository, VmWare released version 1.0.4.
I tried using its built-in install script on a vanilla Ubuntu Server 7.04 (a.k.a Feisty Fawn) and it worked flawlessly.
Aside from certain libraries which it needs to compile the vmmon and vmnet kernel modules (the installation script will [...]

posted in Tips n' Tricks by Eran Sandler

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04), VmWare Server and Authentication problems

If you are going to install VmWare server (a great and free server virtualization product from VmWare) on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) and you’ve followed this post showing how to do it using Canonical’s commercial repository, make sure to read this post at the Ubuntu Community Docs.
Basically, if you encounter authentication problems at the Server’s [...]

posted in Tips n' Tricks by Eran Sandler

Google Reader Search is here!

I fired up Google Reader this morning and to my surprise I found a search box:

This is one of the last missing features I wanted Google Reader to have.
I actually have a friend that didn’t want to switch from a desktop feed reader until Google Reader added search. Now he can safely move to it [...]

posted in Google by Eran Sandler

Israeli Shortage in High End Laptops

At Yedda (my day job) we recently ordered 3 new laptops.
Our spec was very specific (that’s how we are ):

Core Duo 2 running on at least 2Ghz
2Gb of RAM
100Gb or more hard drive
WXGA+ screen (1440×960 resolution)
14.1″ screen
Non shared memory video card
DVD burner

The reason we want 14.1″ screens is due to size and weight [...]

posted in Rant, Yedda by Eran Sandler