logmein and different browsers on the mac

As any other technically inclined convert I've been an avid user of Firefox for some time now. I will say that I have made the switch to Google's Chrome (at least for the most part). For reasons not researched by myself yet, Logmein has a mac client that seems a separate accessing component apart from the browser itself. This little component has proven to be a little more bug prone than the Firefox plugin on my windows machines, it has worked well enough to keep me on the machines I need access to, so I've been happy.

Now back to Chrome: before I converted over to my beloved MacBook Pro, I quite fancied the UI Chrome offered. (In all fairness, when I'm in VMWare on my mac I use Chrome as my primary browser) The big setback Chrome had (from my POV) is a lack of a plugin api. As of today's date, I do not believe Chrome has an extensible api for plugin interfacing. What this translates to me is that I could not completely do away with Firefox because I still needed access to my Logmein machines.

If Logmein were to create a client component with the same cross browser compatibility as they have on the Mac, I would be a happy camper. Better yet, if Google released a Chrome for the Mac. ...oh to dream. (I'm sure it's on its way in fair time)

I'll be doing some research on these topics for an update later I'm sure.

a little automated windows administration

I started looking into some automated Windows administration over the weekend. I've never had to automate the backup of a database, but one of my clients got a little happy with the delete features of a web application I built for them, and I didn't have any automated backups for the database. So I've at least done that.

This whole scenario made me think of a new feature: Undelete. basically its a customized website for holding documents that can be privately/securely accessed by their clients. Undelete for virtually any of the files, categories, or users and their permissions would be a nice feature to have in order to remedy any issues similar to what they're facing now.