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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:16:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>others</category><category>domino</category><category>foss</category><category>websphere</category><category>linux</category><category>it architecture</category><category>macos</category><category>rational</category><category>tooling</category><title>Radu's corner</title><description>My corner exceeding 250 chars. Building software, dev and some ops, mostly architecting stuff.</description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>216</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-1243915248420008305</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2023 05:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2023-09-16T08:42:16.322+03:00</atom:updated><title>Cheers Twitter, now your name is Mastodon</title><description><p>I am amazed that Blogspot as a platform still exists in this age of streaming live events, videos of all sorts, medium and substack looking to monetize any decent text written by journalists or other authors.</p><p>This blog remains my digital trace of writing tech stuff and other rants, before my Twitter adoption. I was really forced to write in 140 chars, then I was happy to benefit from 280 chars, but it formed me in my rants, really.</p><p>And I thought I would not resume writing on it, as I'm not a native English writer, obviously, and my many mistakes only allows me to transmit ideas, not correctness.&nbsp;</p><p>But now that APIs are gone as well from Twitter (X, whatever) ... I see the widget on the right hand side faltered, and that's why I replaced it with my Mastodon handle.</p><p>If you want to check out my rants, Mastodon is the place.&nbsp;</p><p>I no longer have time to write blog posts, nor do I have the drive. Quick rants yes, specifically on topics that pick my brain. But one never knows, for the moment Blogspot still functions, whatever Google's plans are with it ...&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2023/09/cheers-twitter-now-your-name-is-mastodon.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-3675917446907990858</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2020 21:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2020-08-07T00:08:25.758+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tooling</category><title>mkcert - crafter's local cert</title><description>If you're a seasoned developer, you must know that local SSL .. err, TLS, configs on your local development environment is some sort of art.&nbsp;<div><br /></div><div>That happens because of the highly technical details of low level tooling like openssl, keytool and other PKI related details that makes the https protocol work.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>Today I discovered that life of a developer got a little bit easier, due to the work of Filippo, here's his article:&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.filippo.io/mkcert-valid-https-certificates-for-localhost/">https://blog.filippo.io/mkcert-valid-https-certificates-for-localhost/</a></div><div><br /></div><div>mkcert repo&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/FiloSottile">https://github.com/FiloSottile</a>&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>An excellent tool that most probably will (if not already) be part of the full-stack developer's toolbox.</div></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2020/08/mkcert-crafters-local-cert.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-1467369780222734359</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2020-07-31T18:55:21.620+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">others</category><title>we need to plan for more highways. Extend, already !</title><description>I was travelling this week, starting from Bucharest to Satu-Mare, then back. As we're in a pandemic and I don't trust border crossing, this year (and most likely the next one, 2021) we'll have loco holidays. Break from work, go visit some of our relatives.<div><br /></div><div>No, we'll not spend money on the seaside, nor at the mountains, and to be honest some of the hosts where we had experiences past many years, I hope they go broke this time, and start fresh to have more consideration for their tourists, and not trying to rip-off at every corner (but that's another topic)</div><div><br /></div><div>To better understand, past 3 or 4 years, from Bucharest, we mostly escaped to the South during holidays (either Bulgaria, or Greece) ... and so I was rather disconnected from any kind of progress with the highways in my country. I know everyone complains, we also had protests and all that, but myself I was not a driver to the north, to experience the ordeal on myown.</div><div><br /></div><div>This week, I did. For the most part, it was an OKish experience. Driving through Europe on several occasions, I was rather surprised that I had so many km on the highway in my country. But then, we stopped. Aiud - Sebes, 45 km, a segment that is the current nightmare for anyone that choose this route. Unless you plan to reach there in the middle of the night, or on week-ends, you'll be holding for at minimum 1 hr. Not acceptable.</div><div><br /></div><div>Which is to say, at the next elections, I will vote with the party that will convince me to these points:</div><div><br /></div><div>1. when this crappy segment Aiud - Sebes is ready (we're rather delayed, so many wasted resources ...)</div><div>2. when the two highways over the mountains are ready: Pitesti - Sibiu, Comarnic - Brasov</div><div>3. are plans already being considered to extend these highways, already constructed, or the unfinished ones ?</div><div><br /></div><div>The last point above is for any long-term planning for any party in this country. I have a clear feeling that what we have now is already not enough, from the infrastructure requirements. And I'm a software engineer, not a transportation one, but I'm pretty sure I'm right.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div></div></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2020/07/we-need-to-plan-for-more-highways.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-2747095979043351459</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2020 21:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2020-07-23T00:22:38.766+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">it architecture</category><title>my 2020 focus area(s)</title><description>Past years with my blogging breakup, I went through some transformations. One is age (uh, he passed 40 ! ... he must be expensive ! ... no he's not).&nbsp; The second is that I realized that I'll be continuously learning for the rest of my career, and that's a given. The third is that my daughter will be 18 this year, so it's time for daddy to get back to writing some potentially cool stuff. Or not, that remains to be seen.<div><br /></div><div>With a new assignment starting at the beginning of the year (pre-pandemic ... :facepalm:), I am returning to the role of Integration Architect - the formal name&nbsp; is some leadership role part of a leadership team :)</div><div><br /></div><div>I am not ashamed to admit:&nbsp; I don't know everything there is to know. But right now I am focusing on some Microsoft technologies. Yes, that Microsoft :) ... well, time will tell if they're trustworthy of the FOSS community attention (don't think it will ever be love, there's no such thing in open-source). They grabbed github, they appear to have changed their mindset.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>So here's my focus areas for this year: ADO, ADF, Spark, Scala, Python, HDFS, ADLS2. By focus I mean learning, we're ok here, right ? Some I knew, most I did not. And yes, I will attempt to be certified by Microsoft, once that I can get to their learning testing centers (because pandemic restrictions, we're all WFH, and I assume all their testing centers are pretty closed).&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>Ha, fun times ahead.</div><div><br /></div></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2020/07/my-2020-focus-areas.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-3110459086096126333</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2020-07-22T14:05:13.274+03:00</atom:updated><title>Google Blogger ... still on. good.</title><description>I'm seeing ppl ditching medium and embracing git like static generators for their blogs.&nbsp;<div><br /></div><div>While I do appreciate markdown, I do know my way around terminals and am using it all the time, there's the hosting issue that requires extra money, and effort to set up.</div><div><br /></div><div>You might have seen that past years my thoughts are mostly under twitter, @raducadariu, and I have stopped blogging that much (no facebook, thanks, nor other crappy social media)</div><div><br /></div><div>But I also see that blogspot is still active and sound, and in fact I can write this post from my older tablet.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>And so, hopefully I will continue to share my thoughts, at least those longer than a tweet.</div></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2020/07/google-blogger-still-on-good.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-8942982159538947076</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2020-01-22T22:22:46.165+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">macos</category><title>macos - my list of apps for day.to.day work</title><description>Over the years I learned to share things. Switching my OS to the fruity company, back in 2015 (so by now running macos 4 years, daily), I was looking at what tools and utilities could make myself productive (read: to stay in focus and not get annoyed by stuff caused by the operating system)<br /><br />Probably this is a habit I got from the previous 6 years of running Ubuntu on a daily basis, where OSS taught me to look to fix things, or search for solutions (or utilities).<br /><br />Below, you have my list of apps (free or not !) that I find useful to my daily activities (beside other regular business related ones, that's another story). I'm also adding some comments and I won't link sites, you'll have to search for their names on Google v2.0 in order to check them out.<br /><br />If you don't know what the comment is saying ... not my problem :) Some of these are payable, but not excessive (I'm cheap), so in an alphabetical order, here they are:<br /><br /><b>1password</b> - you do use a password manager, right ? I also had <b>LastPass</b>, but for the moment I think this is the best. As alternative (free), you might look at <b>Bitwarden.</b><br /><b>Alfred</b> - better spotlight.<br /><b>AppCleaner</b> - for app remainings after uninstalls.<br /><b>Apple Music</b> - something has to sing when focusing on stuff.<br /><b>BetterSnapTool</b> - window resizing on macos made easier.<br /><b>Boom2 (or Boom 3D)&nbsp;</b>- sound enhancer, nice to boost an already good sound on mac.<br /><b>CudaText</b> - nice editor.<br /><b>DaisyDisk</b> - cruncher for what takes that space.<br /><b>draw.io</b> - diagrams, sharable with teams via SCM (read git, these days).<br /><b>Eclipse</b> - coding, but for me it's mostly looking, these days...<br /><b>Github Desktop</b> - go figure ..., terminal just as good, but hey ...<br /><b>iTerm</b> - life in terminal is fun, sometimes.<br /><b>LightShot Screenshot</b> - consider Retina oversized screenshots, and default Cmd-Shift-Ctrl-4 not enough when you want to send it to other humans using PCs.<br /><b>MacPorts</b> - alternative to <b>Brew</b> ... :)<br /><b>RDM</b> - nifty utility to change resolution on my screen, depends if I have my glasses on ... or not :)<br /><b>Quiver</b> - note taker. And <b>SimpleNote</b>, and <b>Google Keep</b>.<br /><b>SimpleMind</b> - mind mapper.<br /><b>TinkerTool</b> - tweaking more macos settings.<br /><b>VSCode</b> - another coding IDE.<br /><br />If this list will change, I will update this post, but the reason I publish it is my feeling that now I have a system on which I no longer have annoyances (well, after 5 years of mocking apps and crunching the net).<br /><br /><br /></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2020/01/macos-my-list-of-apps-for-daytoday-work.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-7492352512920278279</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2019 06:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2019-05-03T09:22:51.853+03:00</atom:updated><title>new (for me) Eclipse oomph installer</title><description>It's been a long time since my last post, but I'm fine, if you stumbled upon some of my pages, just by looking at the Twitter feed on the right hand side.<br /><br />This post is just to let you know that recently I got re-activated with mocking around with plain Eclipse for a project I'm driving for a customer, using ... he he, open-source ... we (all) won afterall, huh ? :)<br /><br />My surprise to re-discover something I saw back in 2015, oomph project, which made it now as the default installer for eclipse(s) on a local machine (<a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Installer">https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Installer</a>), when you point your browser towards&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/">https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/</a><br /><br />Give it a try, it did fine on my station (a fruity company macbook pro) with several plugins, git, sonarlint and the likes ... no fuss, just enlightment<br /><br />More to come, hopefully soon, as I look for more info.</description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2019/05/new-for-me-eclipse-oomph-installer.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-4243744246445743489</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2016 18:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-04-27T21:25:23.102+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rational</category><title>Latest Rational Team Concert - 6.0.2 now, keep agile delivery going :). Playgrounds</title><description>Recently I've (re)started to get things going with RTC, to the level of getting up-to-date with the latest developments and tweaks one can do in RTC.<br /><br />As I'm not good at writing long posts to sell you how good RTC is (<a href="https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Deployment/DeploymentLicensingCLM#Options_for_purchasing_CLM_licen" target="_blank">and free for up to 10 devs</a>) , I'll limit myself to the purpose of this post: to raise awarness of where to play with it (no costs, DIY the quickest)<br /><br />Currently I have two options (if more, let me know in comments please):<br /><br /><b>1. free sandbox avail for 6 months ! (yah, not 30 days)</b><br /><br />On&nbsp;<a href="https://jazz.net/products/sandbox/?tag=clm">https://jazz.net/products/sandbox/?tag=clm</a><br />Here you need to login / create an account with some mail address. Use a free one, I do.<br /><br />The thingies you do here have chances to get deleted later (than sooner), but I use this sanbox to do most of my studies before I apply changes to the actual project areas I use internally or for customers.<br /><br />As the RTC concepts are the same as they were when RTC 1.0 started (I was playing that too :), this is mostly sparring me time of install/setup/configure. Ha, talk cloud advantage.<br /><br />In the sanbox you can also access Quality Management and Requirements Management apps, which are part of the same platform, but yes, do different things :)<br /><br />You can also invite others ! to your Project Area, so grab your team mates, have them play. Fair warning: stick them up for a while until they start grasping the concepts ! You'll be rewarded afterwards. And you'll thank me.<br /><br /><b>2. second option is called <a href="http://bluemix.net/">bluemix.net</a></b>. And I stop here, as Ralph's <a href="https://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/using-rtc-to-work-with-devops-services-and-with-bluemix/" target="_blank">entry</a> is much more detailed.</description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2016/04/latest-rational-team-concert-602-now.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-8106717720728988009</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-04-26T00:49:11.811+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">others</category><title>my POV on "smart" watches</title><description>Remember these, around 80' ?&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=casio+electronic+watches+1980&amp;newwindow=1&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X">https://www.google.com/search?q=casio+electronic+watches+1980&amp;newwindow=1&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X</a><br /><br />At some point, as a boy, I actually remember having one of these. My Casio was outstanding: plastic, but it had buttons, that crystal screen, wasted time to learn each function, date, time, alarm. A real joy :)<br /><br />The thing which triggered the idea for this entry is reading an article about someone complaining on the utility of Apple Watch, combined with different quirks in usage. You can read the article <a href="http://gizmodo.com/my-god-awful-year-with-the-apple-watch-1772724490" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />Nowadays, I work all day long on a laptop. If I raise the eye, I can tell the hour. If I do anything, I can pop-up the thingie we call smartphone. Heck, even my daughter had one watch (simple one), she begged for it for three months. Now it's thrown away. Simple reaction of a 10 to 13 years old.... she does not need it, she has ... her devices displaying time. She's connected, she sees time .... all the time.<br /><br />But, what I <b>can't</b> do nowadays, is to wear something on my wrist. Something which gets in the way of me typing on the keyboard.<br /><br />So here's my point of view, where I also kind of envision some requirements for these things to make them more appealing for my taste:<br /><br />- Smart watches are useless. The only use case for a watch is to tell the hour. Nothing else. Since we see the hour pretty much everywhere, synced with atomic clocks [think NTP].... ok, the world moved on. &nbsp;More or less, a watch is a fashion accessory [or military/spy tool, that's a different story].<br />- Struggling to do things on watches is silly. App updates, texts, calls, bridging with phone .... humans don't need that. Usability for a watch is: raise hand, spot hour, day, day of week. Not even the alerting function, not assuming any interaction, since this would be a distraction.<br />- This fancy trend for "smart" watches from different vendors will vane in two to three years.<br /><br />Instead, when we talk about health bands/monitoring which accidentally displays time .... this is something else, and serves a different use case in itself: you start with some other function, like check pulse, or check vital signs, or anything else. NOT displaying time. With me so far, right ?<br /><br />So here would be my requirements:<br /><br />- A watch I would wear is one I could not feel. It should be so light ..... Think a latex band displaying the date/hour. Or skin implant of some leds - suddenly thinking of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">In Time</a>, without the creepy story :) ..... Or maybe glued somehow only on my top left hand, so the bottom side of my hand would be free to rub on the laptop as I work/type.<br />- I should not care looking for the watch around bed / house / office, because I would forgot I have it on me.<br /><br />On a final note, know that if you wear one of these and meet me, you'll not get a good first impression. If it's a smart watch, for me you're looking dumb. Move on.</description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2016/04/my-pov-on-smart-watches.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-8640078248838772262</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2016 08:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-04-16T11:11:59.775+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">foss</category><title>SSL3 - workings for legacy crapware</title><description>I got it, and if you're involved with technology, you got it by now. SSL3 is bad, we get to be intercepted, poodle, whadawhada.<br /><br />However, geeks, developers, admins, coders, whatever we are and work for and in our larger or smaller enterprises, need to check web apps over https://my-host-or-ip/my-other-url and be in after authentication. For one reason or another, to check functionality or simply curious or "whatever you need". Routers, devices, even old .wars/.ears deployed on older web containers, again, WHATEVER.<br /><br />This intro is somehow a rant because I just wasted about one hr of my time trying to get into a whatever old app. And could NOT, because in the virtual where trying (smaller disk size) I only had Firefox latest version (45.0.1 at this time) which I want to update and keep it updated.<br /><br />But then, what to do with my legacy crapware ?<br /><br /><b>Turns out there's a simpler solution.</b> Grab an old Firefox. version 31.8.0esr downloaded from<br /><br /><a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/">http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/</a><br /><br />As an archive in Downloads, uncompress, run from there, be done with that.<br /><br />Why did I spend one hr to find this ? because yes, I wasted time with about:config<br /><br />security.tls.version.min;0<br />security.tls.version.fallback-limit;0<br /><br />in latest Firefox 45.x and most likely above.<br /><br />For browser developers: keep your old versions available, as years pass by us and technical debt accumulates, you'll be sparring yourself some curses from people like me just wanting to use a freaking browser to get into a web app..... no matter how insecure....</description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2016/04/ssl3-workings-for-legacy-crapware.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-1636899976497929017</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2016 07:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-04-16T10:52:28.144+03:00</atom:updated><title>re-activated on my blog</title><description>Just having a new thing to publish and noticed I managed the performance to have only one article posted on my blog for 2015. That's being caused by multiple factors:<br /><br />a) I consider 2015 to be a crap year, mostly because of issues happening to people close to me.<br /><br />b) I became involved in a project where I'm mostly learning (new tech skills) and teaching others what I know about Eclipse / RTC / linux ... and everything else.<br /><br />c) On social front I'm mostly active on Twitter, sharing / re-sharing snippets that interests me. For longer posts (like this one), I think I considered G+ and medium.com as alternatives to this blog. That is no longer true: G+ no longer interests me, and medium.com reached a point of growth where they're looking to start monetize.<br /><br />So, longer posts than 140 chars will keep flowing on this blog, for as long as blogger.com will be available with ads free, clean theme where I can write stuff that represents me.</description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2016/04/re-activated-on-my-blog.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-587166068851730640</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-08-28T18:41:32.216+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">it architecture</category><title>Application development and deployment target.</title><description>Here's an exercise starting while laying on the beach totally disconnected. Yes WiFi does not work, data in roaming too expensive.<br /><br />Funcky idea popped up:<br /><br />I want to find examples of apps which cover the following basic set of deployment targets:<br /><br /><ol><li>mobile: Android / iOS, both mobile/tablets. Won't look for web/hybrid/native variants, just for functionality to work unde mobile umbrella, be it smartphone/tablets.</li><li>web. Browsers, plain and simple (FF and Chrome, cross compatibility etc, frameworks these days make it easier)</li><li>desktop. Here I see coverage of Linux, Mac and Windows.</li></ol><div><b>edit: </b>One could argue that web and desktop are pretty much the same. The contra-argument I'm making is the sync apps for clouds, for instance Box and Gdrive. These do not run in browsers, but on desktop. So keeping the two separate, with maybe countless of other examples. Browsers are not always desktop similar.</div><div><br /></div><div>The three targets would then translate into the following list of sub-targets:</div><div><ol><li>Android - smartphone</li><li>Android - tablet</li><li>iOS - smartphone</li><li>iOS - tablet</li><li>web (let's assume Firefox and Chrome as one, who cares ;)&nbsp;</li><li>Linux - Ubuntu / Fedora ... here I'm missing technology to suggest one that works across distributions...except Java ... ha</li><li>Mac OS X Yosemite ... again newbie, not sure what to pick</li><li>Windows .... 10 ? not quite, let's just say 7 / 8.</li></ol></div><br />And so I'm challenging my readers to give me examples of applications running on the 8 targets above.<br /><br />What on earth is doing a startup coming with a brand new idea for a wonderful application (either commercial or open-source) if they cannot accomodate this list. You'd answer: they do what they can. Ok, good enough, however, myself as a consumer, I already use all those targets, in one way or another. And I'm starting to feel the need when looking to a new app and ask: ok, this app fails which bullet ? Then ... do I need it ?<br /><br />And guess what, while writing this, it suddenly popped to me one example. Just one, for now: IBM Notes. Yes, good old Notes, is answering to the three "domains" above, here:<br /><br />- mobile. Android/iOS, checked.<br />- web. checked, both Traveler / Verse.<br />- desktop. Mac checked, Linux checked, Windows checked.<br /><br />Well, opened to more suggestions, hit me please.</description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2015/08/application-development-and-deployment.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-5201976494273506148</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-10-26T20:27:06.248+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">foss</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">linux</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">others</category><title>eclipse luna 4.4 - things I've done for Ubuntu 12.04 64bit</title><description>As I've reinstalled on 64bit, starting over with Eclipse, this time 4.4 Luna, here's a handler article with things I did so far, so I won't forget them:<br /><br />1. .desktop file<br /><br /><div>gedit /usr/share/applications/eclipse-luna.desktop with the following content:</div><div><br /></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">[Desktop Entry]</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Encoding=UTF-8</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Name=Eclipse</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Type=Application</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Comment=Eclipse Luna 4.4 64bit IDE</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 SWT_GTK3=0 /<eclipse_path>/eclipse -vm /<jre_path>/java&nbsp;</jre_path></eclipse_path></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Icon=/<eclipse_path>/icon.xpm</eclipse_path></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Categories=Application;Development;Java;IDE</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Name[en]=Eclipse</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Terminal=false</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">NoDisplay=false</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div>2. eclipse.ini - supplementary than default provided</div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-Xms128m</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-Xmx2048m</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-Xss2m</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-Xverify:none</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">-Duser.name=Radu Cadariu</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div>3. ugly and non-readable tooltips</div><div><br /></div><div>source: http://www.devsniper.com/black-tooltip-in-eclipse-on-ubuntu-12-04/</div><div><br /></div><div>which is saying this:</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Specific tab, you can setup background/foreground colors for tooltips. I am (also) using for foreground black(#000000), background blue(#C2DFFD)</div><div><br /></div><div>4. ugly big tabs for Luna UI.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1465712</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">gedit ~/.gtkrc-2.0</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">style "gtkcompact" {</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkButton::default_border={0,0,0,0}</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkButton::default_outside_border={0,0,0,0}</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkButtonBox::child_min_width=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkButtonBox::child_min_heigth=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkButtonBox::child_internal_pad_x=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkButtonBox::child_internal_pad_y=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkMenu::vertical-padding=1</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkMenuBar::internal_padding=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkMenuItem::horizontal_padding=4</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkToolbar::internal-padding=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkToolbar::space-size=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkOptionMenu::indicator_size=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkOptionMenu::indicator_spacing=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkPaned::handle_size=4</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkRange::trough_border=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkRange::stepper_spacing=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkScale::value_spacing=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkScrolledWindow::scrollbar_spacing=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkTreeView::vertical-separator=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkTreeView::horizontal-separator=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkTreeView::fixed-height-mode=TRUE</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">GtkWidget::focus_padding=0</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">}</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">class "GtkWidget" style "gtkcompact"</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The 3 and 4 affects the GTK on the system, so I'll take them with a grain of salt related to changes in the overall Ubuntu UI.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now that I have my handler, if I find more things to change, I'll get back to this entry.</span></div></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2014/10/eclipse-luna-44-things-ive-done-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-5055786923063454231</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-09-17T15:32:34.341+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">linux</category><title>quick note for my dual displays - xrandr command worth booking</title><description>so I have a laptop and another monitor, whose position was to the left, and then I positioned it to my laptop's right.<br /><br />The problem was the mouse translation from laptop to the monitor, annoyance !<br /><br />So I changed settings, and I got an error when trying to apply the new position.<br /><br />Solution is given here:<br /><br /><a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/174195/gdbus-error-when-trying-to-enable-second-screen">http://askubuntu.com/questions/174195/gdbus-error-when-trying-to-enable-second-screen</a><br /><br />Which led me to issue locally:<br /><br />&gt; xrandr --current<br /><br />and then the proper command for my case:<br /><br />&gt; xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --left-of HDMI1<br /><br />and bingo, things are back to normal.<br /><br />More info for fun:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2">http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2</a></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2014/09/quick-note-for-my-dual-displays-xrandr.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-5665413615975917242</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 10:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-08-19T21:27:01.578+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">others</category><title>my knowledge centers - was, portal, connections, worklight</title><description>I thought these URLs looked cool, so I'm publishing here.<br /><br />WAS KC:<br /><a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAW57/mapfiles/product_welcome_wasnd.html" target="_blank">http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAW57/mapfiles/product_welcome_wasnd.html</a><br /><br />Portal KC:<br /><a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSHRKX/welcome" target="_blank">http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSHRKX/welcome</a><br /><br />Connections KC:<br /><a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYGQH/welcome" target="_blank">http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYGQH/welcome</a><br /><br />Worklight KC:<br /><u><a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSNJXP/welcome.html">http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSNJXP/welcome.html</a></u><br /><br />Time to review some of my bookmarks ...<br /><br /></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2014/07/my-knowledge-centers-was-portal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-302770007586558473</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 05:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-07-15T08:56:43.158+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">others</category><title>Start menu thought </title><description><p dir="ltr">Ever since Windows got rid of it's Start button, the world was starting to get confused. Or so I've read.&#160; </p><p dir="ltr">But then, a friend of mine asked me to solve something on her Win 8 laptop, knowing that I'm a guru... ha. </p><p dir="ltr">And so, I couldn't but to realize that the world was right. It was confusing! </p><p dir="ltr">And now I'm reading that Microsoft is returning it's.... let's call it launcher? </p><p dir="ltr">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/15/win8_start_menu_leaked_screenshot/</p><p dir="ltr">Linux desktop world has launchers with these minimum requirements:<br>- launch button.<br>- move it wherever on your side screen, horizontally or vertically. <br>- resize it, allow for larger icons etc. <br>- show the running apps, but also allow me to move them freely on the launcher. <br>- add the systray, clock time whatever else. </p><p dir="ltr">When looking at the mobile world (yes, for now Android), we also have launchers. Bit different than desktop, but I see two common points:<br>- Start somewhere on the screen! <br>- Allow user to change things, allow flexibility.</p><p dir="ltr">So, Linux Desktop moved on, mobile world moved on, maybe it's time for Windows to move on? </p></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2014/07/start-menu-thought.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-2352502375393806549</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2014 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-07-02T21:20:26.818+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">linux</category><title>4 years on Ubuntu ... thoughts crossing my mind</title><description>I was checking stats on my blog when I spotted that on 6/8/10 I wrote <a href="http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2010/06/ubuntu-conversion-first-impressions.html" target="_blank">my first impressions after I've switched to Ubuntu</a><br /><br />4 years later, here are some thoughts:<br /><br />~ I've performed one upgrade, from 10.04 to 12.04 LTS (I don't remember the details ... ha)<br /><br />~ as much as all my apps (including some internal ones) are working fine on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the same is not true for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. At this moment, I'm NOT ready to move upwards.<br /><div><br /></div>~ I've NEVER looked back not only to Win XP, but not even to Win 7. In fact, one friend of mine asked me to help with a Win 8 notebook, I was looking strange for 3 minutes, then I gave up. Win 7 is still manageable, Win 8 is alien. To Excel credit, there is still a need for it, which is where virtualization comes to rescue. For everything else, there's <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">OpenOffice</a>.<br /><br />~ I'm also looking strange to Ubuntu future: Desktop / Tablets / Mobile. meh ...<br /><br />~ Both Microsoft and Ubuntu should reconsider: there's no such thing as one size fits all. Give us the base OS, come up with visualization / features / usability on top, for each device. I know it's tough, but that should be the strategy. So far, on my account, both failed. But again, I might be biased, haven't bought a Win 8 mobile device, they look alien :) As for Ubuntu mobile, Mark, would you please give us back the desktop ?<br /><br />Above list leads me to the current status quo: I'm stuck :) I cannot move upwards for Ubuntu 14.04, I cannot switch to Fedora (another meh ...), I won't go back to Windows. 7, of course :)<br /><br />Adding another item to make things worse: the wonderful Cinnamon desktop (which I currently use under Ubuntu 12.04) lost it's apt repo, which means no more updates for me.<br /><br />I'll probably reconsider Ubuntu 14.04 when I'll get my hand on another TP, so that I will not break everything .... careful with that axe Eugene ...<br /><br /><b>Edit</b>: time to celebrate my 200th post to the blog ! let's get a beer ...</description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2014/07/4-years-on-ubuntu-thoughts-crossing-my.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-4644236012366718927</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 06:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-06-27T09:36:23.567+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">others</category><title>interesting healthcare.gov story</title><description>This is an article which I first spotted on Twitter, via <a href="https://twitter.com/notessensei" target="_blank">Stephan</a>&nbsp; who retweeted this article:&nbsp;<a href="http://newrelic.com/healthcare-team">http://newrelic.com/healthcare-team</a><br /><br />I'm refraining from making too much comments, I'm drafting several points coupled with my own experiences working in governmental engagements.<br /><br /><ul><li>when stakeholders say everything is ok, it usually is not.</li><li>when stakeholders saw things crumbling down, they wanted to get things back on track within one week (sigh....). It took 5 months. With the team working 24/7 or something, having synergies in place and pumping adrenaline within the team.&nbsp;</li><li>having a cache added to drop response time from 8 to 2 seconds looks familiar. This point alone really shows lack of architectural decisions in the first place.</li></ul><div>I'm missing some other technical details for adding more comments, but nevertheless that was a nice read. The only conclusion you can take is that in any project, it's not the technology that matters, but people making it work.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh and yes, the industry should add another role in projects: <b>troubleshooter</b>.&nbsp;</div><br /><br /></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2014/06/interesting-healthcaregov-story.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-2512506781680071453</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2014 20:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-06-03T19:50:56.061+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">others</category><title>added twitter timeline to this blog</title><description><p dir="ltr">I added a Twitter widget to this blog, from my timeline. I find myself ranting on Twitter faster.</p><p dir="ltr">Also, interesting enough for me, this is the first post on the blog written from the mobile app Blogger (by Google), which I discovered a while back. So possibly my blog entries will get shorter.&nbsp; Or not... </p></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2014/06/added-twitter-timeline-to-this-blog.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-1433915806912098722</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-04-09T10:01:40.194+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">domino</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">others</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">websphere</category><title>so long InfoCenters, welcome KnowledgeCenter</title><description>I was stoked 5 minutes ago when I spotted in an article that the well known IBM Infocenters will probably fade away. How come such big news for IBM techies did NOT get noticed ? Almost everyone I know in IBM's world complained about the Infocenter, not necessary it's looks, but mostly it's content (and I might add Chrome browser compatibility)<br /><br />No matter what IBM's product you were faced to learn/master, you'd have to know what Infocenter means. It's almost a brand, they should keep it :)<br /><br />The good news is that the new Knowledge Center seems faster:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/">http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter</a><br /><br />About the content quality and breadth ... we'll have to see, I maintain my confidence in the power of community contributing to <a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en" target="_blank">DevWorks</a> and <a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf" target="_blank">Portal wikis</a><br /><br /><br /><br /></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2014/04/so-long-infocenters-welcome.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-8815884819788840296</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2014 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-02-08T10:39:57.785+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">linux</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">websphere</category><title>Worklight 6.1 Studio - linux drill</title><description>With my recent downfall into Worklight and understanding the mobile landscape, I installed Worklight 6.1 Studio on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32bit.<br /><br />After the install ( Eclipse Juno and WL 6.1 plugins ) I started to look around and here's the picture I've got:<br /><br />a) Eclipse Juno, WL 6.1, WAS LP 8.5.x, IBM's JDK 1.6 forms the local environment which allows one developer to do the work.<br /><br />Then the developer discovers Google's ADT, ADB and wonders how the heck can he build the Android .apk for the Worklight application<br /><br />b) Enter ADT plugin for Eclipse, which brings in Adroid SDKs and Android Virtual Devices, with it's tooling. <b>But these require (Sun) Oracle JDK.</b><br /><b><br /></b>So <b>the dilemma</b> here is: how can one developer keep Eclipse Juno with IBM's JDK, while building the Android app with Oracle JDK.<br /><br />One solution might be creating two Eclipse Juno environments, one with WL 6.1 Studio, another with ADT plugin, both loading the same project. I am yet to test this.<br /><br />The frustrating thing for Linux Eclipse Juno users (where I discovered the solution in a <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/905611/how-do-i-set-eclipse-ini-vm-option/10520853?sgp=2#10520853" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">forum</a>) is that eclipse.ini has to specify Oracle's JDK this form, and this form only [notice the lack of java binary]<br /><br />-vm<br />/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_51/bin<br /><br /><br /></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2014/02/worklight-61-studio-linux-drill.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-6072929006467797988</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 06:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-07-22T09:23:46.952+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">others</category><title>a look on the Google's two-factor auth</title><description>Now that I've been burned and had to enforce two-factor authentication for a private mail account (which obviously I thought it wasn't worth it), I get to look at the implementation options they've included. And I have to say I'm really impressed.<br /><br />First factor - something you know - your password<br />Second factor - something you have - the phone or a dongle or a piece of paper. Or an application, as we'll see.<br /><br />Right ? That we know.<br /><br />A carefully crafted two-factor authentication which I've only started to use yesterday, being forced to do so ( ha ... ) gives you these options:<br /><br />1. the mobile phone - receive SMS with the codes.<br />2. an app on the mobile phone. <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.authenticator2" target="_blank">Google Authenticator</a>. This generates the codes on your mobile, and it's the missing link between the site and you, because it won't involve your mobile operator delivering the SMS messages in due time. They tend to delay SMS messages, specifically when they're overloaded (on Christmas, for example)<br />3. backup codes. This is the piece of paper on which you write the access keys.<br />4. backup mobile phone ! You can add your wife's, or your second mobile, should you lose the main device. This looks like you can have the backup dongle receiving the SMS codes.<br /><br />As a user, I now have:<br /><br />- the dongle: my first mobile device<br />- at least one second dongle: my wife's device<br />- the application running on the first mobile device<br />- the piece of paper<br /><br />So yes, they've implemented this geeky method in a smart way.<br /><br /></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-look-on-googles-two-factor-auth.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-8544171971916380131</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-07-21T23:36:46.210+03:00</atom:updated><title>being cracked on gmail</title><description>it's not pretty. I experienced this today, and the frustration is exactly the same as I discovered my car has been broken into, several years ago.&nbsp;<div><br /></div><div>It was a matter of minutes. Actually, when I received the SMS [we "prevented" a suspicious login], I actually had a browser tab opened to the emails ! When I refreshed, ups ! enter your password ! I think it only took 4 minutes to regain total control of the account, however: imagine my embarrassment when a friend SMSed me: hey you have a virus, you've mailed the entire gmail list of emails !</div><div><br /></div><div>Whaaaaat ? no mail in the send folder, instead I started to receive tons of OOF and several "Mail Delivery Subsystem" informing that those addresses no longer exist. Doh .... the damage was done, the bot that cracked my account scanned the entire list and send a crap mail with a link to a phishing site, probably. I hope you've not opened it !</div><div><br /></div><div>No other damage done and information loss on my side. Except for my reputation :)</div><div><br /></div><div>So, more 30 minutes of frustration later [and some curses, we Romanians excel at that, English is really poor ... ] I thought I had to drop keeping contacts with Google and syncing with Android, pretty much the only commodity really useful on the smartphone for me.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then I remember I have to check the Google's two factor authentication. This is not a new concept for me. We used it in at least two projects, I use it all the time working online with the bank, I'm rather familiar with it. But, I would have never thought I might need to get into it for private mails ! C'mon ! Two factor authentication is way too geeky ! I use gmail to register on sites and to exchange mails occasionally !</div><div><br /></div><div>So here you have it, even if you think it doesn't matter, being cracked can be embarrassing, so get on the two-factor authentication. Times are truly changing.</div></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2013/07/being-cracked-on-gmail.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-2899732746268371119</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-06-22T12:57:43.917+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">domino</category><title>Notes 9 finally search "All Mails and Archives"</title><description>I'm stunned, I must have missed this somehow since I upgraded to Notes 9, probably because I gave up on hoping it would ever work ?<br /><br />However, someone else have to be joking me, they're suggesting how to actually <b>disable</b>&nbsp;the search "All Mails and Archives", they even did a video on it !<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI_u4jz0UTQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI_u4jz0UTQ</a><br /><br />Really, you're kidding ! Why would I want to do to that ? Recall 2009, when Radu's started to get frustrated on the exact same issue, being an early adopter and mocking upfront with this beautiful platform<br /><br /><a href="http://cadariu.blogspot.ro/2009/01/notes-85-first-impressions.html">http://cadariu.blogspot.ro/2009/01/notes-85-first-impressions.html</a><br /><br />So ... no no no, I'll not disable it, on contrary, I'll use it more often now !<br /><br />Process for new kids on the block, I keep seeing bad usage, here's how to correct:<br /><br />1. Have your local mail replicas -- NEVER use the server one, NEVER ! -- if you don't know what a Notes local replica is .... saint Google's here to help, search for "Lotus Notes local mail replicas" :)<br />2. Setup your archival process. Usually nowadays one archive will be enough. I still see people making one archive per year ... neah, those days are gone now !<br />3. Use the menu's top right hand side "All Mails and Archives" as you see in above video, just make sure you DON'T disable it ... ha</description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2013/06/notes-9-finally-search-all-mails-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-2099717475628956485</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-20T22:36:49.408+03:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">foss</category><title>cross browser bookmarks sync on the same box ? not yet possible</title><description>I'm waiting for Mozilla and Google to come to an agreement, so I can easily import each other's bookmarks.<br /><br />This is a longer history for me, I want them cross-synced, because I use one or the other depending on the split second decision when I need to get into a browser :)<br /><br />I pretty much know the alternatives, cloud sync, mobile sync, I don't care. I'd consider myself a somewhat power user which needs to get his bookmarks in these two browsers, exactly the same. Without a third party, without plugins and other crapware.<br /><br />Currently the master is FF, I used to export to a .html file, then import to Chrome. Somehow this has started to fail lately, not sure if this is a bug or not.<br /><br />But how about Firefox Sync and Google Bookmarks interoperability ? Their clouds talk to each other, sync my bookmarks and spare me the extra step.<br /><br /><br /></description><link>http://cadariu.blogspot.com/2013/04/cross-browser-bookmarks-sync-on-same.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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