It was fixed earlier this week with the help of the drupal team. The biggest problem with drupal is that it requires so little babysitting to keep running it can get easy to ignore it when you are busy. Note that I am a KDE developer and not a web monkey, so I have bigger fish to fry than dorking with a server. The install that was present there was over 1 year old, and was missing a security patch that was issued the day before (the xmlrpc bug).
Knowing this the drupal guys are working on a more automated way to push out updates so busy people like me who just want something to "just work" can do so safely.
That said, I am pleased to note that the ISP has provided us with the names of the people who cracked the site. The kiddy who got in was nice enough to leave all of the logs unmodified, and left a few other tracks so it was pretty easy to confirm the source. Personally I think the liberal use some 10 penny nails on their joy department would be more amusing if only I had the time to get to Moscow.;)
The same with mono, and KDE/win32. Ask Netscape how easy it is to compete with Microsoft on their platform, hell they (AOL now) even sell IE so they can have their own browser. Hell ask IBM how easy it is. Can anyone seriously tell me that people pass up cracked versions of Photoshop and Paintshop pro for Gimp? There is already a base of OSS on win32, and its pretty much ignored, not to mention share-ware.
The way I see it as from a purely business point of view though. On the off chance we can convince someone who is using windows that our OSS version of the software is somehow better than the stuff that MS pre-bundles with the machine already, will they still use it?
If I get MS Word and WinXP with my shiny new Dell for why do I want to rip that off and put on Linux?, or even OpenOffice?* Even if mono can do 100% windows forms, why bother? At least if I stay on Windows I can use that ActiveX control we bought 2 years ago and rely on. Heck the day MS's lawyers get bored Mono is a footnote in the CS history books**. The fact of the mater is MS has you by the balls when you play on their field. MS can't compete on Linux. If you want to play on Windows you gotta play by MS's rules.
*Note this is PURELY a business person, remember the guy who pays for things so he can be with his wife at night, not some techie who doesn't care if hes at work until 3am tweaking his kernel.
**Call it FUD or whatever, but this isn't Samba where there are not patents on the implementation.
One awesome thing about netbsd is that it runs on some of my old hardware that never would otherwise be useful. DECstation 5000 with a sexy 21" monitor would be a paper weight without NetBSD. I can run it as an X terminal just fine. It even is nice for small stuff like my Macintosh SE/30. System 6 can only do so much, barely even run an old version of nutscrape. I have an old copy of MacX but it sucked. NetBSD, got a nice little Xterm, ssh client, etc. Fits in the server room, and bang. I have a xterm smaller than most of our VT510s;)
NetBSD fills a need no-one else will, and because of that its relevant.
Yeah this worked so well for Apple when Adobe ported to win32. Honestly anyone who believes that there is a migration "path" is out of touch with reality. The fact of the matter is if they get half way and thats all they really need to do, they wont do any more. Porting linux apps to win32 is basicly saying we suck so bad that we need to go back to windows just to make our application usable.
If novel wanted to do something good for OSS they would push to get Linux where windows is now.
Qt has one of the most powerful layout engines, and their GUI designer makes building actually resizable GUIs that support i18n out of the box quite trivial. Once you get past the mantra of "C++ is so hard" its actually very easy.
I actually dont write GUI code any more, I just use the implementation from their autogenerated code. Its quite impressive, you should try it sometime.
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It was fixed earlier this week with the help of the drupal team. The biggest problem with drupal is that it requires so little babysitting to keep running it can get easy to ignore it when you are busy. Note that I am a KDE developer and not a web monkey, so I have bigger fish to fry than dorking with a server. The install that was present there was over 1 year old, and was missing a security patch that was issued the day before (the xmlrpc bug).
;)
Knowing this the drupal guys are working on a more automated way to push out updates so busy people like me who just want something to "just work" can do so safely.
That said, I am pleased to note that the ISP has provided us with the names of the people who cracked the site. The kiddy who got in was nice enough to leave all of the logs unmodified, and left a few other tracks so it was pretty easy to confirm the source. Personally I think the liberal use some 10 penny nails on their joy department would be more amusing if only I had the time to get to Moscow.
The same with mono, and KDE/win32. Ask Netscape how easy it is to compete with Microsoft on their platform, hell they (AOL now) even sell IE so they can have their own browser. Hell ask IBM how easy it is. Can anyone seriously tell me that people pass up cracked versions of Photoshop and Paintshop pro for Gimp? There is already a base of OSS on win32, and its pretty much ignored, not to mention share-ware.
The way I see it as from a purely business point of view though. On the off chance we can convince someone who is using windows that our OSS version of the software is somehow better than the stuff that MS pre-bundles with the machine already, will they still use it?
If I get MS Word and WinXP with my shiny new Dell for why do I want to rip that off and put on Linux?, or even OpenOffice?* Even if mono can do 100% windows forms, why bother? At least if I stay on Windows I can use that ActiveX control we bought 2 years ago and rely on. Heck the day MS's lawyers get bored Mono is a footnote in the CS history books**. The fact of the mater is MS has you by the balls when you play on their field. MS can't compete on Linux. If you want to play on Windows you gotta play by MS's rules.
*Note this is PURELY a business person, remember the guy who pays for things so he can be with his wife at night, not some techie who doesn't care if hes at work until 3am tweaking his kernel.
**Call it FUD or whatever, but this isn't Samba where there are not patents on the implementation.
One awesome thing about netbsd is that it runs on some of my old hardware that never would otherwise be useful. DECstation 5000 with a sexy 21" monitor would be a paper weight without NetBSD. I can run it as an X terminal just fine. It even is nice for small stuff like my Macintosh SE/30. System 6 can only do so much, barely even run an old version of nutscrape. I have an old copy of MacX but it sucked. NetBSD, got a nice little Xterm, ssh client, etc. Fits in the server room, and bang. I have a xterm smaller than most of our VT510s ;)
NetBSD fills a need no-one else will, and because of that its relevant.
Yeah this worked so well for Apple when Adobe ported to win32. Honestly anyone who believes that there is a migration "path" is out of touch with reality. The fact of the matter is if they get half way and thats all they really need to do, they wont do any more. Porting linux apps to win32 is basicly saying we suck so bad that we need to go back to windows just to make our application usable.
If novel wanted to do something good for OSS they would push to get Linux where windows is now.
ummmm Qt anyone?
Qt has one of the most powerful layout engines, and their GUI designer makes building actually resizable GUIs that support i18n out of the box quite trivial. Once you get past the mantra of "C++ is so hard" its actually very easy.
I actually dont write GUI code any more, I just use the implementation from their autogenerated code. Its quite impressive, you should try it sometime.