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Archive for March, 2005

WordPress.org manipulates search engines

31 Mar

I honestly laughed so hard when I read that wordpress.org (I won’t link it) made use of search engine manipulation, how lame is that — honestly.. hah!

They scream about how comment spam is wrong because its primary purpose is to manipulate Google’s page rank, hell they even implemented ‘nofollow’, and then they do it themselves, haha… Talk about double standards, psh…
Apparently their excuse is that running an open source project is expensive, well I can understand that, but thats why we have SourceForge, you don’t have to host everything on your own server, and pay for bandwidth, and I’ve never received a single dime for my work on Serendipity, so WordGate anyone?

Did I mention Serendipity has a nice WordPress importer?

 
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Installing trac

23 Mar

trac has to have one of the hardest OpenSource installations I’ve ever come across. I mean all those Python modules, dependencies with SQLite, SubVersion etc. etc.

Tried to get pysqlite to compile with SQLite, lots of errors everywhere. I then finally got it working (apparently you need pysqlite from CVS), but now trac-admin is complaining about not being able to find libsqlite.so.0

Still trying to get the thing to work, it’s so painful (but should be worth it)

Why can’t it just be simple, and PHP?

 
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Flame for IDN comments

02 Mar

I think people somehow misunderstood my previous entry about disabling IDN support in FireFox. It was written right after Mozilla announced they would disable default support for IDN, and before they changed that to just display IDN domains as punycode.

I have even been contacted by “Security Professionals”, saying my comments are idiotic and dumb. They even told me to delete my entry, I told them to stop visiting my blog, but for some unknown reason, they simply won’t give up — they keep sending me mails, sounding more and more fascistic for each mail.

What they apparently do not understand, or take the time to comprehend, is that I was right. There is nothing more to it. I was 100% correct in saying that disabling IDN support was a mistake, and Mozilla came to the same conclusion and implemented a much better way of handling the spoofing problem (by displaying links as punycode). It doesn’t really matter if the solution is not that pretty, because it solves the problem and leaves IDN support working like it did before. You don’t have to remove features, that people depend on, in order to solve a problem.

So please stop sending me idiotic mails about how wrong you think I was, how I don’t give a damn about security and how I made a bet with the devil for the souls of all mankind.

 
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