schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :Author: Tobias Schlitt :Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200 :Copyright: CC by-nc-sa ================================= Blog - Open Source - schlitt.info ================================= - Jesus loves me... and VIM too! ;) Found via my referrer stats: http://www.jesus.com.au/html/page/vim. - Vote for PEAR::Image_3D! I'd like to beg every PEAR developer to vote on Image_3D, the new 3D rendering package for PEAR. Since the first proposal Kore Nordmann (the lead maintainer) highly refactored Image_3D and added some fantastic new features like: - A clash of asociality Open sources are great things, annoying things too. For example, take the PEAR project. There is a huge croud of developers in the project (more than 800 registered users on PEARWeb, more than 200 maintainers), which every day try to improve the project, try to work together and try to learn from what they code and from the code they read. They feel the spirit of open source, they invest much time and train their hard skills in coding and their soft skills in the cooperation with a team. - Software patent directive REJECTED A great victory in a huge war. Thanks to all you anti-sorftware-patent-activists! - eZ Systems against software patents Quoting Aleksander Farstad, CEO of eZ Systems: - Reading recommendation 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: - PEAR::XML_RPC - Security vulnerability! 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! - Linuxtag roundup -2- This is a sequel to my series "Linuxtag roundup". - Linuxtag roundup -1- 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! - How to make Linux out of your Windows It's been a long long time since I last posted in this category, but this link I received from Aaron is really funny: