ZFS page updated

The ZFS page has been updated with references to the Evil Tuning Guide and some of the tuning parameters that are discussed there.

Search engines Yahoo and Google learn to crawl Flash sites

Statistics show that Adobe's Flash is installed in a whooping 98% of computers connected to the internet. Using Flash, a web developer is able to give his imagination a free reign and build gorgeous multimedia intensive albeit equally functional sites.

But till date, building Flash based sites had a singular drawback. That being, the search engines had no way of indexing them unless the web developer also included text in his Flash site explaining what the site or rather the content on the site was all about.

Some time back, Adobe released the Flash file format SWF as an open specification which encouraged third party developers to create applications which could display Flash files. Now Adobe has gone one step further and is working closely with Internet search engine companies namely Yahoo and Google to help them in indexing Flash files. This is a clear green light for all web developers to start creating sites which are heavy in Flash content. This also means web developers can reduce the size of their Flash sites by doing away with ordinary text.

You should know that the latest version of Adobe Flash player is available for Linux platform as well which makes Flash a universal format to share and showcase content across the web.

Read the official news from Adobe and also the announcement from Google.