Archive for August, 2009
Google Gears, Prism, and Linux 64-bit
Posted by Jorge Fernandez in Gears, Gmail, Google, Google Apps, Linux, Ubuntu on August 6th, 2009
I recently started using Prism and I really like having my Google Apps as Desktop apps and not in the browser. The only thing that was missing was offline support for Gmail and Google calendar. Google doesn’t officially support Gears on 64 Bit Linux but Niels Peen compiled a working version for Firefox. I downloaded that version and then I un-zipped the “.xpi” (.xpi files are just renamed 
zip files) and edited the “install.rdf” as per Douglas Meyer’s Blog post and it worked perfectly. Here is a link to my compiled version. google-gears-x86_64. I tested it on Ubuntu 9.04 64 Bit with Prisim 0.8
Updated: I have recently stopped using this since it became unstable with Prisim 1.0 . Google has also dropped development for Gears. They have opted to go with Standards Compliant HTML5 Storage in the future. You can see what google has to say here. I wouldn’t recommend using this anymore.
Net Neutrality
Posted by Jorge Fernandez in Business, Law on August 3rd, 2009
Net neutrality has been an issue which has been underplayed over the past few years. Net neutrality, a network design principle, aspires that all content and data is treated equally (Wu). Ever since its creation, the Internet has been neutral, but with the advent of new technologies this neutrality has been threatened (Anderson). Today, the Internet is one of the most important means of communication. It’s neutrality is crucial to all aspects of society. No corporation, government, or individual should be allowed to censor public networks. Read the rest of this entry »
