Is this possibly the latest Java community buzz? SpringSource Announces Enterprise Maintenance Policy. Mats Henricson asks What is SpringSource doing with its license? and while the SpringSource Enterprise Maintenance Policy FAQ states that there is no license change, the SpringSource Enterprise Maintenance Policy sure is a change. They summarize it quite consise themselves: After a… Continue reading SpringSource to stop providing maintenance releases for free
Download Civilization IV: Colonization torrent
This is a link to a file called Download Civilization IV: Colonization torrent that contains the full press release and this is the most relevant part: In Colonization, players lead one of four European nations on a quest to conquer and rule the New World. Players will be challenged to guide their people from the… Continue reading Download Civilization IV: Colonization torrent
New Windows PC and monitor ordered
I usually pride myself with not falling for "special offers" but when I found this €450 computer and monitor package I could not resist. The new hardware is an HP Compaq dx2450 Microtower PC and an HP L2208w 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor. It’s not high-end stuff, but I think it should work nicely for iTunes,… Continue reading New Windows PC and monitor ordered
The WordPress Pharmacy Hack
A number of WordPress blogs around the world have been hacked (or cracked, whichever word you prefer) and a "pharmacy" subdirectory have been injected below the WordPress root. I know of these victims at the moment: azin.se benniboedker.dk www.blog-celeo.com www.digitalrights.gr www.toscaninelmondo.org www.vdomck.org www.yerbastory.pl The injected web pages are advertised by fooling Yahoo! search to make… Continue reading The WordPress Pharmacy Hack
The power of greylisting is aided by whitelisting
I’ve been running gld for more than two months now and it is truly efficient. The current statistics say: # of entries in the database : 16077 # of one hit entries in the database : 15100 Oldest entry in database : 65 days ago This means that almost 94% of the attempts to send… Continue reading The power of greylisting is aided by whitelisting
Entity bean bloat
I’m currently getting acquainted with JBoss, SpringSource Application Platform, JBoss Seam and Spring Framework. One thing that amazes me is the amount of code required for some simple O/R mapping, or I am missing something? I hope to be wrong about this, but it seems like an EJB3 "entity bean" requires, for each column in… Continue reading Entity bean bloat
Now running Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” on this server too
I had to mess around a lot with the upgrade, and when the upgrade was finished at last, the reboot failed so I had to get physical access to the machine. Strangely enough, when I rebooted it once more it worked fine! The main issue with the upgrade was problems with verifying the hash of… Continue reading Now running Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” on this server too
My new mail server got listed in Spamhaus XBL
The network owner where I have my current server is not very good at maintaining proper DNS and reverse-DNS records (!), and I consider it to be really important for mail servers to have those properly configured. In order to workaround this issue I’m now renting a Virtual Private Server (VPS) that allows me to… Continue reading My new mail server got listed in Spamhaus XBL
Highway to Dell, part six
(Continued from Highway to Dell, part five.) Yesterday I noticed a problem with ssh on the Dell Inspiron 1525: I could ssh in any direction between the laptop and other computers on the same wireless network, but not to a computer outside of the wireless network. The issue was already reported as Bug #237894: I… Continue reading Highway to Dell, part six
Øresund Agile 2008 Conference Day
(Continued from Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008.) After two days of workshops, Wednesday was the conference day. Two sessions specifically addressed distributed Scrum: having teams, or part of teams, in different geographic locations. The presentation by Scrum co-creator Jeff Sutherland was great but also a bit utopian while the other, by Arto Vihavainen and… Continue reading Øresund Agile 2008 Conference Day