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If pay any attention to the Internet, then I am sure that you have heard of Google's new browser, Chrome.  It is currently only available for Windows right now, but I am sure that it will be available for other platforms very soon.

I loaded it up on my Vista notebook and it seems faster, snapper at rendering web sites, but seems is a subjective measurement.  I do not have any real measurements that tell me if the browser is faster or not.

I recently ran into a customer asking about availability for a solution we were proposing for them.  They were asking all kinds of questions, like mean time before failure(MTBF), availability - especially in a clustered environment, etc.  So, I did a fair bit of research on the subject and came up with the following.

Which text editor do you use?  I have used many over the years and a lot of the decision depended upon the operating system that I was running the editor upon.  These days, I spend most of my time on Vista and have found that I am bouncing back and forth between two different editors; Notepad++ and JEdit.

I use tcpdump a lot in when I am trouble shooting a problem and recently I had to trouble shoot a problem on a vlan trunked interface.  So, I would normally do something like:

tcpdump -i eth1 host 10.1.1.1 and host 10.2.1.1

But, because the interface was trunked, I saw no traffic.  After doing a quick search on the Internet, I found that I needed to add the "vlan <vlan id>" to my filter, which became:

tcpdump -i eth1 vlan 801 and host 10.1.1.1 and host 10.2.1.1

Now, I could see everything.

I have known about Zimbra for several years.  I always thought it was an interesting mail platform, but because I use Exchange at the office, I have not had a reason to use Zimbra.  After Yahoo! bought Zimbra, work started on the Zimbra Desktop client.  Like the Zimbra platform, I thought it was interesting, but did not have a use for Zimbra Desktop.