Facebook gets linked account support.

Now you can logon to your Facebook account through several providers such as Google, Myspace and OpenId which IMO is great (I'm lazy). Just go to Settings, Account Settings and Linked Accounts. You can even pick multiple providers. One cool part is my openID provider VeriSign can be setup to use two factor authentication to help provide a little more security amongst all of the chaos. See https://pip.verisignlabs.com

Update 1 - As of now Google as a Linked Account is not logging me in though pip.verisignlabs.com is still working well.

Update 2 - My Google account will log me into FaceBook once I have authenticated via Gmail.

Installing Sun Java on Debian Lenny

The Sun Java JDK is available in the Debian Lenny non-free repository, therefore you must modify /etc/apt/sources.list...

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

and add non-free to the Debian Lenny repositories:

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny main non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny main non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main non-free

Run

apt-get update

Install the Java JDK as follows:

apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Make it available system wide:

update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun
echo 'JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun"' | tee -a /etc/environment

MySpace lite view

I was recently on MySpace (it's rare) and I noticed a nice new feature called lite view. One of my main annoyances with MySpace is that most of the profiles that are "spruced up" with various decorations, modified text elements, various photo galleries, and etc actually break basic site functionality with many browsers. Numerous times have I wanted to comment on a friends MySpace wall just to find that the comment link is unavailable because the code didn't play nicely with the browser I was using. MySpace lite view disables all of the special modifications users have made to their profiles so you get to the point from a communications stand point. The other benefit is that pages load a heck of a lot faster then traditionally since there are not 5K photo galleries loading with music and everything else. I know, kind of a rant but it's finally a feature that I can say MySpace got right.