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  • Google Chrome Bypasses OpenDNS (and How To Fix It)

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    I started using OpenDNS again for the first time since Google released Chrome.

    When I ran Chrome, I noticed a curious little quirk, Chrome was ignoring OpenDNS’ shortcuts and auto typo correction. I whipped out wireshark and took at what was going on.

    By default, every time you enter a character into Chrome’s toolbar it fetches results from google.com/complete/search. Since google knows about every single website, Chrome is able to decide if you’re typing a valid domain without querying DNS. That is, it’s actually redirecting you to a google search results page at the HTTP layer, before your request queries any DNS info.
    While it’s not neccessarily a bad way of doing things, it is somewhat annoying. 

    Luckily, google actually built a great product!
    This feature is totally customizable. 

    To turn it off; pull up “options” under the wrench menu, click the “under the hood tab and uncheck “show suggestions for navigation errors.”

  • Dear Steve Jobs,

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    All I want for Christmas is an officially sanctioned iPhone tethering app.

    I’ll put out some vegan cookies and soy milk on the hearth.

  • My Favorite Nerd Memory

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    … has got to be sneaking into a computer lab at the University of Manitoba in highschool (around ’95 or ’96) with a couple of friends to play Warcraft II:Tides of Darkness over their IPX network.

    The worst part was, because the machines were ghosted (or some archiac version of ghost) on boot up, we had to do a fresh install of the game everytime. Though this did do a great job of covering our tracks when we left.