André L. S.

I’ve was analysing blog access chart and, curiously, I see how are the most usable browsers.

The fight between Firefox and Internet Explorer is old and, little time ago, Microsoft’s browser lost first position to Firefox. Now, with Google Chrome more stable and accessible, the three firsts position may be changed again.

In one year of interval, this blog had 35,738 visits, where the Firefox was most usable browser, responsible for 14,705 (41.75%) of access, distantly followed by Internet Explorer (10,542 access, or 29.5%) and Google Chrome (8,679 access, or 24.29%). Opera came in 4th and Safari came in 5th.

Below the chart generated by Google Analytics with complete list of browsers and amount of access:

Chart generated by Google Analytics between 06/07/2010 and 06/07/2011 (click to zoom)

Will be a matter of time to Internet Explorer to leave second position to Google Chrome

Who, that lives in Brazil, thinks owns broadband internet?
Don’t have! We have a high speed modem connection.

While here, in Brazil, the most fast connection is 100Mbps, the japanese are testing 1Gbps connection speed. Realy, 1Gbps!!

I live in São Paulo and in my house there isn’t a quality connection, my 1Mpbs connection rarely reaches 600Kbps.

Youtube provides a comparative chart between your ISP connection, national and world connection average.

The yellow bar is my ISP, blue bar is the city from connection, green bar is state from connection, pink bar is the country and gray bar is world average.

This chart tells how our broadband are deprecated.

If you want to compare you broadband connection too, you can use this link http://www.testesuavelocidade.com.br. Has others tools to meter you speed connection in Internet.

Today I had a trouble in my workplace when a client application, running through a terminal (DOS prompt), not reach the server hosted in the internet, this is because the company where I work use proxy.

After some tries I found two solutions to solve my access problem: first was pass as Java parameters the proxy’s configurations.

$ java -Dhttp.proxyHost=serv -Dhttp.proxyPort=port -Dhttp.proxyUser=user -Dhttp.proxyPassword=pass  ClassJava

-Dhttp.proxyHost = IP or host name of server proxy
-Dhttp.proxyPort = Proxy port
-Dhttp.proxyUser = User
-Dhttp.proxyPassword = Password

This way the class ClassJava will have access to internet through proxy server.

Another way, was insert the settings in own class:

public static void main(String[] args){
...
System.getProperties().put("proxySet", "true");
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyHost", "serv");
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyPort", "port");
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyUser", "user");
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyPassword", "password");
...
}

proxySet = Connect, or not, through proxy server
http.proxyHost = IP or host name of server proxy
http.proxyPortt = Proxy port
http.proxyUse = User
http.proxyPassword = Password

Using this resource you can set your application to access the internet through proxy server.

I hope help you.  Bye!