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Software patent directive REJECTED (en)
by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
A great victory in a huge war. Thanks to all you anti-sorftware-patent-activists! [Read full post…]
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eZ Systems against software patents (en)
by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
Quoting Aleksander Farstad, CEO of eZ Systems: [Read full post…]
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Reading recommendation (en)
by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
Zak Greant (collegue here at eZ and well known in the community) just sent me a great collection of book recommendations related to open source, management and marketing, which I'd like to share here: [Read full post…]
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PEAR::XML_RPC - Security vulnerability! (en)
by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
As already mentioned, a huge bunch of PHP based applications have a security issue in their XML-RPC implementations. This also applied to PEAR::XML_RPC. If you are using this package, it's more than recommended to upgrade to the new version 1.3.1, which fixes the named issue. If you have your own or are using another ones XML-RPC implementation, please check immediatly if the issue exists there, too! There are several example exploits around the web, so take this issue seriously! [Read full post…]
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Linuxtag roundup -2- (en)
by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100
This is a sequel to my series "Linuxtag roundup". [Read full post…]
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Linuxtag roundup -1- (en)
by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
This article shall become a series on Linuxtag 2005. I'll try to sum up the most interesting parts of it and possible I miss out important facts. But please forgive me, but the flood of information was in some cases to much. Sorry for that, if you feel missing in the list of interesting contacts/projects/ideas/..., please leave a comment at one of the blog entries! [Read full post…]
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How to make Linux out of your Windows (en)
by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
It's been a long long time since I last posted in this category, but this link I received from Aaron is really funny: [Read full post…]
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Services_Trackback - Thoughts on trackback spam (en)
by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100
A few weeks ago I announced the release of Services_Trackback 0.5.0, which has a new module system for integrating spam protections into your trackback mechanisms. While the most easy filter (the bad word list) worked quite well for the first time frame, but as usual it did not take long for the spammers to work around that with using entitie encoding. Of course to get around that from the anti spam point of view is very simple, too, with simply reconverting that stuff before running the bad word check. But that's not really the sense, because the spam fraction will not need long to come around this, too. [Read full post…]
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Linuxtag slides online (en)
by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100
I recently uploaded my slides from my presentation on Linuxtag 2005 yesterday. The talk was named "News from PEAR" and gives an overview on how PEAR evolved in the last couple of month. Beside the talk slides I also included the written 10 pages elaboration which is required for applying for a Linuxtag talk and some more examples I was not able to show during the talk. [Read full post…]
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Nvidia driver works - Thx Matthias Hopf!!! (en)
by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
I had much problems getting my X.org running with the native Nvidia driver in all distributions I tested... Now, that I got serious problems with the beamers at Linuxtag I went to the X.org booth here and asks the guys for help. Mathias Hopf directly offered to take a look at my xorg.conf and fixed all of my problems within minutes. I will put my experiences and the xorg.conf online, when I'm back from Karlsruhe. And to mention it explicitly again: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MATTHIAS! [Read full post…]