Patrick’s Blog(2)

Over at CNET Dennis O’Reilly reports that the Windows Search Service on his Vista PC tried to change the default search setting from Google to Bing. Fortunately Google Toolbar noticed the change and alerted Dennis of the attempted change.

Changing a setting chosen by the user and without so much as asking the user if changing that setting is ok just to draw more traffic to a competing search engine is highly questionable. I hope the European Commission takes notice.

Seems Drivel finally bit the dust with its removal from the Fedora repos. I did like Drivel when it worked. Alas, parting is such sweet sorrow. So Lekhonee to the rescue. I read about it before but thought it was a KDE app which is no good to me. Fortunately I was wrong as there is a Gnome version. So I installed it with a simple “yum install lekhonee-gnome” and it seems to work as advertised. Nice one Kushal!