You look at the front cover in the current ct and what do you see? A woman at a computer, an email with a nice Trojan horse on it. And she wants to open the gift right away by double-clicking. And with what? With good reason - because the graphic designer conveniently gave the woman a Claris Emailer Outlook Express on Mac OS Classic instead of Windows. Tsetsetse, the professional trade press, they simply did poor research
(With which I join the ranks of spiteful and unnecessary "It wouldn't have happened with Mac OS X" commentators)
NPD refuses minute of silence for NS and war victims - how much longer do we have to put up with this right-wing filth in the Saxon state parliament? Can't this farce please be ended as soon as possible? Given such absurd behavior, I find it incomprehensible how the other parties can accept this and apparently even partially support it. I'm thinking of occasions where NPD representatives have actually received votes from other parties).
Microsoft lays off Windows testers and switches to automated tests instead. Tool worship has struck again. A rarely stupid idea, because automated tests only find what is automated. They lack the intuition that people (at least if they are good testers) have. But Microsoft software has never given me the impression of particularly good testing anyway...
Shockwave Rider doesn't particularly like rel="nofollow" and it's come up in various other blogs too. The open letter from the S9Y developers to Google on the subject is also interesting.
I'm not particularly enthusiastic about it either - simply because it's the wrong approach. You can't repair a broken system by telling curious people to look away. Comment spammers won't be deterred one bit by the whole thing.
I can only agree with Phil Ringnalda that rel="nofollow" is something like the monster disclaimer of people on the web. Ultimately just as strange as the link distancing that many have on their websites - if you're distancing yourself, why link at all? If you're generally distancing yourself from your commenters, why have a comment function in the first place?
In any case, I won't be using rel="nofollow" - at least not by means of a large bucket that pours over everything just because it's a comment or trackback. Comment spam is addressed differently. If necessary, by putting everything in a moderation queue that then has to be cleared of spam using appropriate means - the same techniques used for email spam apply here. That's a far more worthwhile field of activity.
The Red Alt - WordPress Index Builder is a practical tool for generating a WordPress 1.5 theme online with just a few clicks. It doesn't generate the entire theme, but rather the templates and CSS. Of course, you still have to create the actual design yourself, but the basic code is already generated for you.
Struck wants to spend billions on arms projects - but local public transport is supposed to have a billion shifted to long-distance transport because there's not enough money for both. What a bunch of nonsense.
Virtualization for desktop processors - particularly interesting for server farms. Of course, this can be done today with various VMWare versions, with User-Mode Linux and a few other projects, but support in the CPU naturally makes such solutions more efficient.
Deutsche Welle asks in light of the new GVL fee schedules: Goodbye, web radio? I certainly see the need for compensating artists. But what service is the GVL doing for artists when it destroys part of their market by raising fees? Especially the small web radios are known for often playing rarely heard artists.
What also bothers me about this: the fee increase comes without any form of improvement or expansion - quite the opposite, conditions are being restricted, the price raised. Paying more for less service.
So the GVL shouldn't be surprised at negative criticism, because that's normally what you call cartel abuse, price gouging, or rip-off.
WordPress : Tackling Comment Spam is a fairly comprehensive compilation of various approaches to combat comment spam and trackback spam in WordPress.
