Others have done it, so why shouldn’t I do it, too? Well, usually that’s not my line of thought, but when today I read David Linsin's blog post about his stats I thought I might follow along.
Overall stats
The overall visits to my blog – and countless others with no doubt – display the workday/weekend jagged line one would expect. The summer months seem to be a little lower on average, but that’s ok, people deserve their vacations. Blue line is 2009, green line is 2008 for comparison.
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As of revision 236, Kontrollbase has officially ended support for all versions of Internet Explorer. It supports Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Camino, Konqueror, and others. This official detection and alert process is a result of IE not displaying various items that work perfectly fine in every other browser. Given that there are much more important [...]
Eben Moglen says EC case against Oracle-Sun is flawed. The value of open source. And more.
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[Read more]Intuit launches open source project. SFLC on Microsoft GPL violation accusations.
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[Read more]We’re please to announce that the latest version of Kontrollbase is available. The most important part of this release is that the IE7 bugs have been fixed. There are a several other good changes too, which you can see in the change log. As per usual you can grab the download from our download page.
Introduction
Clickjacking is a malicious technique of tricking web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous web pages. A vulnerability across a variety of browsers and platforms, a clickjacking takes the form of embedded code or script that can execute without the user's knowledge, such as clicking on a button that appears to perform another function (credit: Wikipedia).
Clickjacking is hard to combat. From a technical standpoint, the attack is executed using a combination of CSS and iFrames, which are both harmless web technologies, and relies mostly on tricking users by means of social engineering. Additionally, the only server side technique against …
[Read more]Reaction to Marten Mickos’s departure from Sun. On open letter to President Obama. Lots of announcements from Sun, the LIMO Foundation and WS02. Mozilla offers to help EC investigation of Microsoft. Black Duck raises funding and gets a new CEO. The state of Red Hat. And more.
Mickos fallout
Kaj Arno maintained that “MySQL’s culture and business
philosophy will live on in Sun.” He added: “In fact, you could
say MySQL now becomes mainstream at Sun. Former MySQLers continue
in key positions, in some cases with a mandate to generalise and
apply MySQL related learnings on other open source products.”
For example, Charles Babcock …
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