Date: 11/12/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: java, web, google

AdBlock Plus is a controversial Firefox plugin to prevent ads from displaying on web pages. There is a simple procedure to detect (and take appropriate action) AdBlock Plus. The idea is to dupe itself in thinking that a Javascript is from a well known advertising site like Google AdSense or falkag.net. Here is a code snippet [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-detect-adblock-plus/

Date: 11/12/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft, google

I would say there are three firms -- Google, Microsoft, and IBM -- which presently have the size, scope and ambition to control open source keiretsu, despite the efforts of keiretsu wannabes like Sun.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/183616746/

Date: 11/12/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: google

If Google allows its effort to be defined by the present proprietary industry, it will fail. It will accomplish nothing.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/183695311/

Date: 11/13/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: google

Is Google starting to play proprietary games with open source?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/184129089/

Date: 11/13/07 (Security)    Keywords: google

European Commission's decision to take a deeper look at the proposed merger potentially puts the $3.1 billion deal at risk. European antitrust regulators will conduct a more extensive, second-phase review of Google's pending merger with DoubleClick, the EU announced Tuesday. As part of the investigation,...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6218300.html

Date: 11/16/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft, google

What history tells me is to bet on Google. In many ways it is replicating the strategy Microsoft used over 20 years ago to take the PC market from Apple's Macintosh.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/185855145/

Date: 11/18/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: google

By default in Firefox you can type one or more keywords in the location bar. Firefox recognizes that it is not an URL and uses I’m Lucky search with Google search engine for version < 2; it uses Google search by name for Firefox version 2 and above. Here is how you can change it. 1. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-change-firefox-location-bar-searching/

Date: 11/18/07 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: google

I'm trying to make an onClick pass a value to a hidden input field.

(Basically, you click image01, it passes image01 to the input field id="item01"

What I'd like to do is automate this process, so it can be written as:

var itemNum = src.substring(src.lastIndexOf('.'),src.length - 14);
document.getElementById('theForm').itemNum.value=itemNum;

My google-fu is failing me, and my JS isn't the best.

Any ideas?

BTW:

itemNum = the image name, so the image is 'whatever/image01_on.jpg' and returns 'image01_on'

That part works, but automating the process doesn't, so that each image will pass its own value to its own hidden value field.

Thanks as always, x-posted.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/145766.html

Date: 11/19/07 (Security)    Keywords: google

In letter to the FTC, two senators on antitrust subcommittee raise questions about competition and consumer privacy. Two U.S. senators on the antitrust subcommittee urged the Federal Trade Commission's chairman to submit Google's purchase of advertising company DoubleClick to "serious scrutiny." In a letter to the FTC...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6219414.html

Date: 11/20/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: google

Previously available only in the U.S., Google's customizable hosted service is now available to companies in the U.K. and beyond. Google's hosted search service for business users has been extended worldwide for the first time. Previously available only in the U.S., the Google Custom Search Engine platform...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6219531.html

Date: 11/21/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: asp, web, google

This is a very desperate cry for help. I seem to have broken my company's website.

How do I set index.asp in the directory public as the default page?

Nothing is working and I'm not sure what it is that I deleted accidentally :(
I'm kind of new to ASP, and I can't seem to find anything helpful with a Google search.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1333611.html

Date: 11/22/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: google

Text-Link-Ads upped the ante in their fight against Google (in their effort to help people buy page rank) with the following “tips” for bloggers: Our advertisers don’t like ad blocks that are titled “Sponsored Links” “Advertisements” “TLA” “Text Link Ads” etc. They prefer no heading but if you do use a heading please consider using an [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/text-link-ads-new-tips-for-beating-google-pagerank-penalty-asks-bloggers-to-sell-their-integrity/

Date: 11/24/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, google

It has been a while since we've talked about JotSpot -- the wiki service Google acquired on October 31st last year. The last time it came up was when Tony discovered it would be part of Google Apps after playing around with specially crafted website addresses. That turned...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=818

Date: 11/25/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft, google

It will take serious institutional support to navigate all this on behalf of edge control and economic growth, support we can only get from tech companies such as Google, Intel, IBM, Apple, Sun and Microsoft, which stand to gain most from an open Internet. Will we get it?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/190305811/

Date: 11/27/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: microsoft, google

Google has announced that it plans to spend "tens of millions" of dollars in R&D to help discover new renewable energy sources -- based on wind, solar-thermal, geothermal and other "potential breakthrough technologies." Will Microsoft follow suit? I hope not. I'm not anti-environment; far...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=980

Date: 11/27/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: google

This thing is not about Google, or open source at all. It's about Apple and the iPhone. Verizon is making its network as open as the iPhone is. Which is not very open at all.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/191453159/

Date: 12/01/07 (Computer Help)    Keywords: web, google

Recently, I've been posting on my journal about my problematic hard drive, which seems to have had troubles getting itself read. I found out that the hard drive was dying, and so Im looking to buy a new one.

So one question I want to ask is how a hard drive dies, exactly. In my case, I have two drives, one with the OS, and another without. When I boot up the computer, I get a message saying Disk Boot Failure (and something about inserting my boot disk). The technician was telling me it was dying already because the thing doesn't seem to want to be read, but then... I don't know, I guess I just want to know why my hard drive died after only a year and 11 months. :(

Second, Can you guys suggest a hard drive brand for me, or better yet, help me weigh the pros and cons between a Seagate type and a Western Digital type? The shop near my house basically sells those two brands, and I'm not sure what the differences are, besides price. Expect both to have a year-long warranty, if that makes any difference to you guys.

Note: I live in the Philippines, so prices are a little different here. For the sake of weighing the pros and cons, assume I can afford a 320 GB hard drive of any brand.

On the video card side, I was hoping someone could direct me to the website for the Device Drivers for my ATI Radeon X550. I'm not sure what I'm looking at when I check google, and I heard something about a Catalyst driver, whatever that means.

Hopefully it'll make my gaming experience with NWN2 a lot smoother.

(xposted to the computersupport community)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/845321.html

Date: 12/04/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: google

Hopefully Vodafone, and Verizon, will get a clue and offer more cooperation to Google's Android, further opening their networks. They might also deliver a true Internet experience, rather than the walled garden of data services Verizon is noted for.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/194981968/

Date: 12/04/07 (Security)    Keywords: software, google

The search giant is asking people to fill in an online form reporting malicious sites that are not already flagged. Google is hoping users of its search engine will report "bad sites" to help the company fight criminals exploiting its infrastructure in order to distribute malicious software. ...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6221301.html

Date: 12/05/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology, web, google

List also includes Webkinz, TMZ, Transformers, YouTube, Club Penguin, MySpace, Heroes, Facebook, and Anna Nicole Smith. Technology and entertainment topped Google's searches in 2007, with the iPhone grabbing the No. 1 slot on a list of the fastest-rising search terms in the United States, the company said Tuesday....

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6221532.html