Google Desktop Search on Ubuntu

I’m a little late to the game, once again, but here is my quick Good, Bad, Ugly review on the recently released Google Desktop Search for Linux.
Good

Easy installation in Ubuntu using the provided .deb package
Starts automatically at boot
Integrates Local Search into normal Google results in your browser
Quick Search access by hitting Control Control
Respects my GNOME [...]

What in the world am I doing

I’ve really slacked off with my postings here, not that it really matters to anyone but myself. I suppose it is the summer time, which is generally a very slow time in the Internets world. It’s not that I haven’t kept myself busy, far from it, and in actuality - there just hasn’t been enough [...]

Quick and dirty linux software RAID5

I recently migrated my network storage server, running Ubuntu Linux incidently, to a software RAID 5 configuration. RAID level 5 requires atleast 3 harddrives; giving you in total N-1 storage, where N is the number of disks in the array. For my deployment, I used 3 120GB drives (mixing IDE and SATA, Linux is indifferent [...]

Goo-Goobuntu

Potentially big news today, The Register reports that Google is working on a version of Ubuntu, known as, get this, Goobuntu. It seems every day there is a new rumor making rounds of what Google is up to next, but this one is different, in that Google has confirmed it is true.
So, what can Google [...]