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  1. Re:Never used it myself. on Learning Joomla! Extension Development · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe you ought to *REALLY* checkout Drupal. It has nothing to do with the *nukes( and is a very solid and clean content management framework used by many high end companies around the world).

  2. missing out on Internet Connectivity Outside of the United States · · Score: 1

    the downside of the article, it is missing out one of the most competitive broadband markets in the world; the netherlands!

  3. Re:Conversion for Americans on 3.5 Terabyte NAS Reviewed · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And if you dont know how uch a USD is worth (since it is declining faster then the trust in the US goverment), see pound in euros or any other currency

  4. Re:Don't allow it... on Skype Addresses Visibility Concerns · · Score: 1

    The problm with skype is that is is very hard to block. if there is a network connection towards the internet (natted or not 80 or other port), it will find it and get there. BTW: you are confusing port80 which skypes uses locally vs port 80 fo DST address (that is, unless you /are/ the internet :-)

    also, be sure to read the PDF linked on my blog. It address the security issues as well on how to stop skype getting thru. Good read IMHO.

  5. Re:Excuse me? on What Really Happened with Mambo? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no excuse. am i missing a "funny" here? or is a "i have never heard of" posting at best redundant and not 5 points worth at all. btw: i dont mind if you have never heard of "mambo", but dont tell me you have been missing out the best cms!

  6. Re:Drupal still on the old server on Community, OSL and Sun Jump to Drupal's Rescue · · Score: 1

    some snaps i made for the new infrastructure (proposed, i am not in control there)

  7. fixing is half the thing, implementing the other on Community, OSL and Sun Jump to Drupal's Rescue · · Score: 1

    drupal had a patch out very very fast. but you still need to upgrade to take "advantage" of it (as spreadfirefox.org and others didnt!)

  8. Re:Opinions on Drupal on Community, OSL and Sun Jump to Drupal's Rescue · · Score: 1

    mozilla.org isnt run on drupal (YET!), spreadfirefox.org is.

  9. regarding performance on Dan Gillmor Launches Grassroots Journalism · · Score: 1

    see list of site /.ers know. Because the followed a link from /., saw the site, didnt care to read it and posted a comment on slash anyway abut the site.

    At least I have "read" drupal ;-)

  10. Re:What is Drupal? on From Archive.org, Free Multimedia Hosting for Life · · Score: 1

    drupal is more than a php based blog, I have been using it since 4 years and I like to think of it as an application framework than can act as a blogserver as myblog is. Drupal was described as community plumbing but now "simpley" is an
    " ...open source content management platform.

    Out of the box it can do a lot, has clean code, a really cool development and support community and lots of high profile (read: often slashdotted) sites are hosted on drupal such as kerneltrap and spreadfirefox

    Drupal is on the forfront of technology. It was one of the first to use real taxanomy, clean URL's and distributed authentication.
    The name drupal? That is another story

  11. the internet, een parel van smaragd on Censoring The Net With A Hotmail Account · · Score: 1
    Hasnt our freedom suffered enough?


    Hint: Multaltuli was the writersname of Eduard Douwes Dekker. Multatuli means "he who suffered"

  12. Re:Australian Dollar? on Time Warp Computer Pricing Revealed · · Score: 1

    no, i am afraid you are missing the point. reread my posting (economist and the "say we have a perfect market" axiomas are not unknow o me)

  13. Re:Australian Dollar? on Time Warp Computer Pricing Revealed · · Score: 1
    I am an economist... a young one, but one nonetheless!
    In a perfect world, [...]

    Yes, thats how economist sound like alright. In The Real World, we have sysadmins, netmasters and .. God forbids... customers and users.

  14. typo on Microsoft's Marshall Phelps On Patents And Linux · · Score: 1

    Common. I wasnt the only one who read the headline
    Microsoft's Marshall Phelps On Patents And Linux
    as
    Microsoft's Marshall helps On Patents And Linux
    What a difference a typo can make.

  15. Re:Microsoft News...The name you trust. on Microsoft Plans News Aggregator · · Score: 1
    You do realize that they can set a Firefox favourite or homepage just as easily as they can set an IE homepage, right?

    Yes, but do you realise that you could set both in Firefox as you home(s)page(s)?

  16. Re:funding? on Malaysian Government Prefers Open Code · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the Netherlands a big municipality (Amsterdam) is paying for the development of a CMS and releasing modules under teh GPL. See the "web in a box" site of BIA

  17. Decline started earlier on Mozilla Gains on Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    I know, lies damn lies and statistics. and IE has more than 110% of the browsermarket and all that.

    But according to w3schools the decline of IE (hence: the rise of mozilla) started a couple of month ago, in may.

    Moz is gaining between 0.5 - 0.8 per month and IE is losing 0.2 per month. But then again, just wait untill Bill sees this...

    See also rant about Moz on my blog

  18. BGP on Court Says Customers May Take IPs Away From ISP · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is absurd. It undermines the basic principles that led the internet grow up to the currect scale. Those who understand BGP and AS-es as well as Provider Independent and Provider Aggregatable Ip space, know this is the end. And the BGP tables are growing faster than most routers can hold anyway. No more soft inbound I quess... ;-) So whats next? I would like to have the .com domain structure... or what the heck, give me the root (.)

  19. Impact on Undocumented commands? (project DOTU) on Possible Cisco Source Code Theft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Cisco's IOS is full of uncdomented commands. An old list is available on my site
    http://boerland.com/dotu.

    So opening the code might reveal more undocumented commands.

    (btw: I will migrated this data towards a real CMS as hosted at home; http://willy.boerland.com/myblog.)

  20. jeremy said it best on Gmail Commentary and Responses · · Score: 2, Interesting
    For god's sake, it's web mail with a really big quota!

    he then continous:

    1. Giving users a lot of space. Okay, this isn't rocket surgery. Disks have been getting cheaper for a long time now. Do you honestly expect to see other large (and even mid-tier) web mail providers not increasing their offerings to match or surpass those of Gmail? It seems like a no-brainer to me.
    2. Proving virtual folders, conversations, search-based message lists, or whatever you want to call them. So we've got threading (not new) plus virtual folders (not new) in a single mail interface. Well, stop the presses! It's amazing to think that no mail clients have offered this functionality in the last 5-7 years! Oh, wait. They have.
    3. Adding context-sensitive ads to your mail. Yippie! I'm gonna switch right away so I can start seeing SPAM that I cannot filter even in my previously non-spam mail. Sign me up!

    see http://jeremy.zawodny.com/

  21. The Only Microsoft Way ... on The Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide · · Score: 1
    is the One MicroSoft Way! :-)

    it's more than a streetname

  22. Re:What gets me... on SCO Changes Tune, Again: Linux Now Just a Riff on Unix · · Score: 1

    like software isnt free. it's just a question og who pays the costs, and how...

    Where is RMS when you need him.

  23. Re:Peering into my crystal ball... on Microsoft To Be Fined E500M By European Union? · · Score: 1

    Oooh, this all started way before

    2002, The US shows how the believe in world justice by taking on an act that allows the US to invade the netherlands.

    see hrw

  24. Res publica non dominetur. on Rome Moving to Linux · · Score: 1
    "Res publica non dominetur."

    see the commercial]

    meaning something like esr could have said:

    "The republic will not be dominated"

  25. [long] dont @buse the @ sign on Microsoft To Remove Support For http(s) auth URLs · · Score: 1

    It's not hip anymore, unless you work for a company that is still in the pre-dot-com-hype-cycle, but there used to be a time when putting an @ (at) sign in a name or a brand would create this e-internet feeling. corry even started the //dont abuse the at sign compaign somewhere in 2000.

    During the rise of this @buse (atbuse?), a Dutch TV show for kids called z@ppelin started out. It's primary a TV show, but like any multi-channel-format thingy, they ought to have a website as well.

    When they first aired their commercials with the URL in it, i felt sorry for all the kids. They url was z@ppelin.nl and I know most RFC's by heart so I //knew at-signs are not allowed in hostnames or domainnames. So typing in this URL would lead the kid towards a friendly IE page cannot be found. And even dad -who works as an IT consultant- couldnt solve it because they never teached him anything about open standards during his elite MCSE training of 4 days.

    Or so I thought...

    And then the commercial aired again. And again. And I started wondering, they are not that stupid at our national broadcast organisation. And then it hit me, the use the user:password@fullyqualifieddomainname trick; where the user is z, the password is empty which leads to user z @ host ppelin.nl.

    So all usering logged in are the user Z and the domainname is ppelin.nl! Neat I thought, cool trick! (See for your self by going to //ppelin.nl)

    Years passed... And then... Microsoft f*cked up again, a huge //hole -big enough to drive a truck through- showed up in Internet Exploiter. One can misuse the user:password@fqdn in a bad way. Microso~1 promissed there won't be any hotfixes during the month December 2003. So they ignored this bug. And they ignored... up to the point that banks took down their online service because of the risk of URL spoofing

    So micoshaft //wrote an entry in their kbase, asking endusers ... to stop clicking on the blue underline things (we like to call them links) in the browser and type the full URL -including javascript!- in the browser. Well, that didnt do the trick Redmond!

    Once their usability is a mousepointer department heared about this -days later- they decided there must be another way. Stop support of putting userid, password in a URL;

    Microsoft will soon release a software update for IE that will end that browser's ability to accept Web URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) that hide the address of the Web page being displayed using the @ symbol. The update will remove a feature that is being exploited in scams that use spoof Web sites to harvest personal information from unsuspecting Internet users, Microsoft said in a note posted on its Web page Tuesday.

    (source: //infoworld)

    This will not only break the //HTTP standard (now that would be a primer) but also the hearts of thousends of young childeren trying to access http://www.z@ppelin.nl. And not seeing a cute site but a friendly IE page cannot be found error on a saterday morning. I can feel the pain..