Florent Clairambault

Sometimes, you just need to redirect a port on Linux. The solution I could find is to add an entry into xinetd. Here is a sample /etc/xinetd.d file I have, it just redirects the 587 (tcp) port to the 993 port of gmail’s servers. I have to do this because Virgin Mobile France blocks the 993 tcp port.
If you’re in the same situation, you can use my server to access you gmail IMAP access. You just have to set the server name to “webingenia.com” and the port to “587″.

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service submission
{
        disable = no
        flags = REUSE
        port = 587
        socket_type = stream
        protocol = tcp
        user = root
        redirect = 74.125.45.109 993
        #server = /usr/bin/nc
        #serer_args = 74.125.45.109 993
        wait = no
}

The browser
I’ve always been on the Bêta version of Google Chrome. And the current bêta (soon to be stable I guess) now supports plugins, the most interesting ones are AdThwart which blocks ads and Gmail Checker which displays the number of received mails.
Making some chrome extensions seems to be really easy, it’s entirely based on javascript.
The other very interesting thing is the developper tools. They are very close to Firebug, it’s now really easy to debug JS and CSS within Chrome.
The browser also bookmarks synchronizing using the google account. But I’m not sure everybody will love this (big brother blah blah blah).

Firebug like developper tools interface :

The OS
It surely starts fast but as, in this beta version, it’s just a browser it’s not really interesting. I hope they will add a lot of stuff around it.