September 2009 Entries
Personally, If one day I have a chance to talk to someone in Microsoft, I prefer to have a chat with Ray Ozzie or Scott Gu but I cannot hide how impressed I am after reading part three of Techcrunch interview with Steve Ballmer. Just interested in how beautifully he managed to describe competitive market of OS, Mobile, and of course browsers. The golden quotations are: Chrome is a rounding error to date. Safari is a rounding error to date. But Firefox is not. In the OS...
Today for the first time I configured the box to use GSA authentication for serving the secured data. Previously our customer used NTLM for authentication. While I was configuring the section under Administration->LDAP setup I encountered a weird exception. It raised a “javax.naming.authenticationexception” with the error code of 49. After some Googling I finally found out that instead of a loooong Distinguished Name (DN) like uid=username,ou=op1,dc=ld,dc=corp,dc=com we should use it in a email address format as follow: username@ld.corp.com where ld.corp.com is the LDAP server address. Enjoy. del.icio.us Tags: GSA,LDAP,Google...
Bing has just released a new service that is based on Silverlight called Visual Search. In this way, you can search based on predefined pictorial categories such as celebrities, politicians, animals, etc. Previously I saw a similar application in Google IO videos called Google Squared but as far as I feel Bing VS is more slicker. Btw, the predefined categories will be expanded in near future. Try it out and Enjoy. del.icio.us Tags: Bing,Visual Search,Google Squared