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It seems MT default install acts as an open relay. Every spammer's dream: kasia in a nutshell: MT an open relay

Nice document explaining how Session Fixation mechanisms can be used to gain control of user sessions in Web based applications.

Just came across Nokia's Digital Pen. It works just as a normal pen but allows you to send any sketch you make to your mobile phone via bluetooth.

AskIgor - Automated Debugging Service: This looks cool. A web based Linux debugging service. Send it your binary, two example invocations (one working and one failing) and AskIgor will try to show the differences between the two runs.

There are some things you can't just say, you have to show them ...

From PostgreSQL 7.4 release post at Slashdot: MySQL Gotchas.

By the way, PG new features include:

• IN/NOT IN subqueries are now much more efficient
• Improved GROUP BY processing by using hash buckets
• New multikey hash join capability
• Queries using the explicit JOIN syntax are now better optimized
• Faster and more powerful regular expression code
• Function-inlining for simple SQL functions
• Full support for IPv6 connections and IPv6 address data types
• Major improvements in SSL performance and reliability
• Make free space map efficiently reuse empty index pages, and other
• SQL-standard information schema
• Cursors conform more closely to the SQL standard
• Cursors can exist outside transactions
• New client-to-server protocol
• libpq and ECPG applications are now fully thread-safe
• New version of full-text indexing
• New autovacuum tool
• Array handling has been improved and moved into the server core

Just returned from seeing Kill Bill (yes, only now, I'm a busy man you know ...). I positively feel like this:

Can't wait for Vol.2 ...

Just returned from F.C. Porto's new stadium inauguration party and game. Check out the fresh photos.

A thought: I hear all the time non-tech computer users complaining about how installing program A ruined program B installation. It happens all the time, it happened to me this morning when a Gentoo emerge made me lose my USB mouse, the difference is tech users know how to get over these problems while non-tech users panic.

I was thinking about this and how we can't get rid of this problem by removing the possibility of users installing new software (something like oeone). That's when I realized that this problem has been solved long ago: game consoles using cartridges.

Cartridges are the perfect (well not really perfect) solution for non-tech users. You need to use Office? Just pop in the Office cartridge (or a CD) and use it, when you're finished just save your files on your hard disk and pop it out.

This might also explain why MS is so eager to enter the console market. Sony, with their new PSX might have a word to say in the personal computing world.

Well, just a thought ...

I took some time to change this site's design. Some feedback wouldbe nice ...

Just to show how powerfull CSS's are just take a look at what this site looked like just one hour ago. And the only thing I changed was a small CSS file.

Now I have to find some time to make ZOQ blogs validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict or else I'll have my students all over me in no time.