Archive for the ‘google’ tag
Finally no more IE6
Something all Web developers wish for is the fact that Internet Explorer 6.0 disappears from the face of this planet. And after some good initiatives like IE6 no more It now seems the biggest in the field is phasing out support for older browsers. Sometimes its good to have so much influence i guess? 
Good move!
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/modern-browsers-for-modern-applications.html
Google earth libcrypto crash
I was reading up on some new features the guys at google pushed into google-earth. And i was curious enough to give it a try. So i downloaded the installer for Linux and installed the application without any errors. But when i tried launching it from a command line. I was surprised to see the application crash and burn with the following message:
Warning: Unable to create prefs directory ‘/home/user/.googleearth’. File exists.
./googleearth-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8: symbol BIO_test_flags, version OPENSSL_0.9.8 not defined in file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 with link time reference
Seems the libcrypto.so is linked against some wrong libraries. Thankfully this is pretty easy to fix. Just browse to the google-earth install directory and run the following commands:
$ rm libcrypto.so.0.9.8
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypto.so libcrypto.so.0.9.8
The main reason i installed google-earth was to check out the new ocean view feature. So i selected a piece of coastline near the Netherlands.
Although i was looking for some ocean life. The first thing i found was an airplane
