In working with websites, the only major browser I’ve not been able to test under was Safari. I’ve got IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera and Mozilla installed and even Konqueror on dual boot on my desktop. But I never could test for Safari. That’s now changed!
You can download Safari for Windows XP & Vista here: http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
Microsoft scrambles quickly backwards away from a GPLv3 and checks its loafers to see exactly what it just put its $500 loafers into… Still “As always, Microsoft remains committed to working with the open source software community”.
Microsoft Statement About GPLv3
A Microsoft statement about GPLv3.
Published: July 5, 2007
Microsoft is not a party to the GPLv3 license and none of its actions are to be misinterpreted as accepting status as a contracting party of GPLv3 or assuming any legal obligations under such license.
While there have been some claims that Microsoft’s distribution of certificates for Novell support services, under our interoperability collaboration with Novell, constitutes acceptance of the GPLv3 license, we do not believe that such claims have a valid legal basis under contract, intellectual property, or any other law. In fact, we do not believe that Microsoft needs a license under GPL to carry out any aspect of its collaboration with Novell, including its distribution of support certificates, even if Novell chooses to distribute GPLv3 code in the future. Furthermore, Microsoft does not grant any implied or express patent rights under or as a result of GPLv3, and GPLv3 licensors have no authority to represent or bind Microsoft in any way.
At this point in time, in order to avoid any doubt or legal debate on this issue, Microsoft has decided that the Novell support certificates that we distribute to customers will not entitle the recipient to receive from Novell, or any other party, any subscription for support and updates relating to any code licensed under GPLv3. We will closely study the situation and decide whether to expand the scope of the certificates in the future.
As always, Microsoft remains committed to working with the open source software community to help improve interoperability for customers working in mixed source environments and deliver IP assurance. Our partnerships with Novell and other Linux platform and desktop providers remain strong and the IP bridge we built with them, embodied in our collaboration agreements, remains intact. In particular, our technical and business collaboration with Novell continues to move full steam ahead, including our joint development work on virtualization, standards-based systems management, identity interoperability and document format translators. In addition, the patent covenants offered by Microsoft and Novell to each other’s customers are unchanged, and will continue to apply in the same way they did previously.
Hey – look what hit the news wires today:
TORONTO, June 13 /PRNewswire/ — After only 18 months in business, b5media Inc. has surpassed the 200-blog mark – a development that cements its status as one of the world’s leading blog networks. “This is a huge accomplishment for b5, and it reflects all the hard work by our employees, channel editors and bloggers,” said Jeremy Wright, b5media’s CEO. “It’s pretty amazing to think b5 has grown so quickly from
five blogs in late-2005 to where we are today. While it’s been a great ride so far, I’m really excited about the future as we aggressively ramp-up strategically.”
Wright, who co-founded the company, said b5media has taken a different strategic approach than other networks by focusing on giving readers a wide variety of blogs that cater to their specific interests. “Rather than forcing people to drink from the fire hose — blogs that
produce 10 to 15 posts a day — we believe it’s better and easier for readers if they can go to blogs to quickly get the information they want.
It’s an approach that has clearly resonated with many people given our network attracts more than three million unique visitors a month.”
b5media’s network is divided into 13 channels, ranging from business, technology and sports to entertainment, celebrities and science &
technology. The company is powered by a team of nine editors and 125 passionate writers, who produce 150 to 200 posts a day.About b5media: b5media is a global new media network that features a wide variety of subjects ranging from entertainment and news to technology and sports. With content written by passionate people and more than three million unique visitors a month, the Toronto-based company is among the world’s largest blogging/ new media networks. b5media received venture capital financing in late-2006 from JLA
Ventures and Brightspark Venture Partners.
What makes this 200 different from other networks is that these blogs are all targeted a creating targetted high calorie content posts. These are a bit different from the normal blogs with post like “I did the wash today and another sock when missing.” Each targeted blog has a specific topic on which the writers are paid to produce a certain amount of quality content each week. That means our advertisers are guaranteed that we will pull the visitors in.
I mananged to get a working post-new.php to come up in new post wysiwyg editor field by just going to the new post page.
Weeeeeeirrrd.
Here’s a screen shot:
Oooo looks like my download speed has gone up by 1000. Cool. My upload speed though is what I care about though and it is STILL stuck at 240.
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:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 5986 Kbps about 5.99 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB)
Download Speed is:: 731 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 240 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 29 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2007/06/11 – 2:10pm
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-5G9D4KEZQ
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-WUGBICT5K
User Agent:: Opera/9.21 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) [!]
</blockquote>
Every Sunday the kids are woken up by blasted music as I prepare for my class. It’s always gonna be music that wakes them up, be it Barren Cross, Petra or… well I was looking at trip back to the 80’s and visiting Stryper this morning then the hairstyles were just too much for me this morning….
Today it was, Baby’s Got Book
I like big books and I cannot lie,
you Christian brothers can’t deny…
This is pretty impressive… This person must have had sooo much time on their hands…
Well, I hope towel day finds you all well!
Can you believe it has been a year already? wow… life certainly has some exciting twists. Humanist or not, DNA an I shared a lot in our outlooks on life. You find something that catches your eye and follow it and you will end up EXACTLY where you are supposed to be. I’d only add a heart felt God is good.
Well since I can’t carry my Towel around for this Towel Day, I thought I would create a video entry to commemorate the day.
So, how about some pics of you and YOUR towel?
OK It’s been a couple days now and this news is only spreading. If you haven’t heard already, there is an attack out there that allows the Admin PW to be compromised for any WordPress 2.1 and 2.0 blog. Only 2.2 and the yet unreleased version of 2.0 are safe and it will stay that way. The 2.1 is not a maintained version. So far, I’ve heard nothing about the plans to release a new 2.1. So at this point, for most people running 2.1, your only choice is to upgrade to 2.2.
I’ve stolen the admin PW of several 2.1 sites under my control and tested the sites of some of my friends to make sure they were safe even though they hadn’t upgraded.
There are two things that may make your 2.1 DB safe:
1. Your user named Admin is NOT user number 1.
2. Your database prefix is NOT wp_
If you want to upgrade safely and quickly, try my script. The latest post about it is always at: http://www.thecodecave.com/EasyWPUpdate
If you want to see how we handled this at b5media, read here:
Guide to Disaster: How The Tech Team Handled WordPress Security Flaw