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  1. Re:302 on Millions of Pages Google Hijacked using ODP Feed · · Score: 1

    I'm still not convinced.

    If it was a problem, then a search for camera hacks should return the go.php from my recent blog entry about that site.
    I use 302s all over the place when linking to external sites you see.
    The first link of that search should be http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://camerahac ks.com/ if the 302 redirects really stole content! Even searching for go.php camera hacks only returns one link: a post where I was discussing referer spam.
    I don't think it's a problem.

    What is a real problem, is websites showing googlebot a plain page full of keywords and then when a real visitor visits, redirect them to an ad clicker. I came across that this morning!

  2. Re:what does this cover? on PHP 4.3.8 Released, Fixing Remote Security Hole · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, apache 1.3 sites are vulnerable, but you can protect yourself from the memory limit problem temporarily by disabling it as suggested above.

    As people are going to be recompiling PHP it's probably timely to recommend the "--enable-inline-optimization" switch which should be passed to the configure script. More to be found here Oh, and get yourself an accelerator. I use PHP Accelerator although it's not open sourse unfortunately.

  3. Re:Easy one. on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I really should get some compensation for my mobile phone. My boss has used it for years to contact me when there was a server outage or problem after hours. Getting a phone call on Stephen's Day was not nice.
    Then again, with Irish law the way it is, benefit-in-kind isn't such a sweet incentive as it was. You'll be taxed on the benefits you receive so perhaps it's better this way. *shrug*

  4. Re:One of the most undemocratic decisions here... on EU Ministers Went Off-Brief In Patent Vote · · Score: 1
    It's not surprising really considering Fianna Fail (the party in power in Ireland) seem to consider patents to be a trivial issue.. Hell of a way to convince someone to vote for you!
    "software patents are NOT a NATIONAL issue"
    I hope they get kicked out in the next election, they got a right kicking in the local and European elections!
  5. Re:Why why why on Slashdot Google Bombers? · · Score: 1

    My dad knows about google. Anyone who's been online more than an hour knows about it. Not all of them know what a 'url' is or even remember a non-simple url when they do.
    "What's your email address? Oh! It's W W W dot ..."

    That's alright, because I tell people to go to google and search for my name, donncha and they'll find my blog!

  6. Re:Distance limits on Wireless Freenets · · Score: 1

    A friend lives down the road from me(half a mile, if that), but behind several rows of houses. Even using a directional antenna, is there much chance of communication through brick/cavity block walls? Oh, and throw in plenty of trees and leaves.. Cork City is too hilly!

  7. there is a way to stop this.. on New E-Mail Vulnerability - Trust Your Neighbor? · · Score: 1

    Or at the very least a way to ensure mail you send or receive doesn't have Javascript. Use procmail to "DEFANG" the dangerous content of the email. This is a very good way of sanitizing email.

  8. Re:Licensing issues... on Using GPL/BSD Code In Closed Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    Your assesment is incorrect.

    You can only relicence code you've worked on. Despite the fact that you have contributed to A GPLed project, you still retain copyright ownership of the code you have produced therefore the maintainer of the project has no right to change the licence of the project as a whole. Taking your example. Linus can only relicence the code he has produced. Anything Alan or anyone else has done will have to be removed which is rather difficult and pointless I think you'll agree.

  9. Re:Sounds good to me on Microsoft PDC Journal · · Score: 2

    Session state can be maintained on an alternate machine, allowing server reboots with preserved state,and it can be cookieless via url munging.
    Pretty cool, hey! Especially the maintaing of session state across different machines.

    I've been using PHP3 and PHPlib for over 2 years now. PHPlib allows me to store sessions data *anywhere* I please just so long as I tell it where to look for the data. There's nothing stopping a developer doing the same thing with any language.
    URL munging? been there for ages..

    Besides,I wonder why someone has to mention that data will be safe across server-reboots.. surely servers are only rebooted during a known maintenance period?
    /sarcasm
    Do a search on http://www.php.net for more info.

  10. Linux at Windows World in Ireland! on UK Linux Expo: Growth, Suits And Vodka · · Score: 2

    It's great to see Linux doing well in the UK! Sometimes it seems that MS have a stranglehold here in the UK and Ireland that's unbreakable when I hear about how well Linux is doing in the USA (get it in all the shops, magazines everywhere, or so it seems) but things are taking off in Ireland too, take a look at http://cork.linux.ie/events/windowsworld/ for my report about how we wooed the crowd in Dublin last month!

  11. Re:Small new projects on Burning Money on Open Source · · Score: 1

    That's how all the GUI text editors work and EDIT.COM from dos dose the same thing. It's a small job and $5,000 would probably get it done. As it stands nobody who wants it can write it and nobody who can write it wants it.

    I remember hving dinner with some of the other organisers of LAID and this came up. Someone wanted to actually code this.. I know he could do with some money :)

  12. Re:OpenSource Intranet Solution on Linux Intranet Application and Collaboration Software? · · Score: 1

    Obsidian is under the GPL but they distribute it with a number of limiting clauses which the GPL doesn't allow.
    Nice looking software though.

  13. Re:Been there, done that. on An Odd PHP3/Apache Annoyance... · · Score: 1

    Try my install-webserver script at http://members.xoom.com/xeer/
    It installs apache, php and mysql from source and makes it quite easy too..

    Just follow the software link when you get to the above page.

  14. marketing.. on Is the iToaster a Linux Box? Will there be Source? · · Score: 1

    I would presume their marketing dept. wanted to say something along the lines of:
    "Uses Linux structures" or
    "Linux compatible"
    or some such nonsense..

  15. Re:How to go about a migration on Ask Slashdot: NT to Linux Migration Costs? · · Score: 1

    If you haven't got a clue about Sendmail take a look at my script, install-sendmail at my homepage above. It configures Sendmail using simple questions to guide the user..
    'Course, then look up exactly what the config file my script created does!

    Donncha.

  16. install-sendmail on What are the Differences between Sendmail and QMail? · · Score: 1

    I tried both Qmail and Sendmail and in the end found Sendmail easier to work with and configure. Despite what people have said about configuring Sendmail the excellent documentation at www.sendmail.org helped a lot.
    I've also written install scripts for both Qmail and Sendmail. The latest script for Sendmail supports release 8.9.2 of that program.
    Get them at my homepage above.
    That way you can try both programs!
    Donncha.