Outblogged? Blogout?

..not yet, but almost ;) I need to find another anti-spam solution as by now, way too many comment spam postings pass MTB. And even those that don’t pass seem to confuse MT and leave my latest comments/pings list in a mess.

Promising candidate: SCode

Or should I write my own anti-spam plugin for MT? :)

Get Firefox!

I use Mozilla Firefox for quite a while now and I am very happy with it. It’s high time to spread the word:

Get Firefox!

It’s probably the last chance for you to claim you were already using Firefox before its official release (1.0) ;)

Secure MTB’s e-mail notification de-spamming feature

A blog-spam notification e-mail sent by MT-Blacklist conveniently contains a link to de-spam the according comment. Unfortunately, all URLs start with “http://”, meaning that the request (and hence your credentials) are sent as plain-text. To force using HTTPS (encrypted HTTP) for anything related to MT-Blacklist, you can add the following line to your Apache configuration (this is an example, adjust it to match your server layout):

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.6:80>
  # other redirects here
  Redirect permanent /cgi-bin/mt/plugins/Blacklist https://news.numlock.ch/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/Blacklist
</VirtualHost>

and restart Apache (for Apache2 on Gentoo: “/etc/init.d/apache2 restart”)

Last but not least: GMail and GMailFS

Addendum: Opened a GMail account a couple of weeks ago (thanks to Moritz for the invite – pretty clever marketing on behalf of Google, BTW :) My add is mettlerd@.

Note: Please do not send any mails to that account yet as first I’ll have to define what I will use it for.. actually, I have an account with much more free space already (read: my private own mail server ;)

[*LOL*. Addendum to the addendum: Forgot to mention – The reason for posting this entry was actually the fact that Moritz made Gentoo ebuilds for GMailFS . Unfortunately, the Gentoo policy regarding libgmail/GMailFS ebuilds is very strict.]

goScreen rocks :)

Praise to Andrei Gourianov, the creator of goScreen, the only really usable virtual desktop manager for Windows. He recently managed to send me my license key within a couple of hours.

The not-so-good precursor: On that said day, my trial version of goScreen (or rather, a very central part of it, the desktop maps) stopped working without prior warning (very unusual for shareware) – unfortunately in a very bad moment for me! There was no way to make it temporarily work again (e.g. by prolonging the trial period), so I had to wait for my license to arrive to continue using goScreen. The good outcome: Andrei was very understanding, responsive and co-operative and sent me my key within exceptionally short time. That saved my day and work, Andrei! Thanks again!

Kudos also to Attila who told me about goScreen the first time. I always missed something like this on Windows.

New blogs added to blogroll

BTW I’ve just added the blogs of Jo, Stef and Huebi :)

If any other friend of mine is having a blog without me noticing it, just tell me :)

[Addendum: Note that a blogroll is only about blogs, not good old homepages.. so better get yourself a blog if you don’t have one already ;)]