ScribeFire

ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser that integrates with your browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.

ScribeFire currently supports the following services:

• WordPress.com (http://www.wordpress.com)
• LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com)
• Windows Live Spaces (http://spaces.msn.com)
• Performancing (http://www.performancing.com)
• Jeeran (http://www.jeeran.com)
• Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com/)
• MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/)

In addition to the hosted services mentioned above, ScribeFire also supports custom blogging platforms which are usually blogging software hosted on your own server.

The currently supported blogging platforms are:

• WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org/)
• Movable Type (http://www.movabletype.org/)
• Drupal (http://www.drupal.org)
• Textpattern (http://www.textpattern.com/)
• Roller (http://www.rollerweblogger.org)
• Blogger (http://www.blogger.com)
• MetaWeblog API (Any blogging software that implements this API)

As mentioned above, any blogging software or blogging platform that implements the MetaWeblog API is implicitly supported by ScribeFire.

Install ScribeFire or see its page on Firefox Add-ons website.

Ubuntu 8.04 Released

The Hardy Heron has taken flight: it’s the second LTS (Long Term Support) release of the world’s most popular distro. New features include the Wubi Windows installer and Firefox 3 beta 5. Grab a copy here, and check out Linux Format’s overview of the release.

[Start page for Ubuntu 8.04] [Download]

Patch the Linux Kernel Without Rebooting

ZDNet is reporting on ksplice, a system for applying patches to the Linux kernel without rebooting. ksplice requires no kernel modifications, just the source, the config files, and a patch. Author Jeff Arnold discusses the system in a technical overview paper (PDF). Ted Ts’o comments, ‘Users in the carrier grade linux space have been clamoring for this for a while. If you are a carrier in telephony and don’t want downtime, this stuff is pure gold.

Office 2007 Fails OOXML Test With 122,000 Errors

Groklaw is reporting that some people have decided to compare the OOXML schema to actual Microsoft Office 2007 documents. It won’t surprise you to know that Office 2007 failed miserably. If you go by the strict OOXML schema, you get a 17 MiB file containing approximately 122,000 errors, and ’somewhat less’ with the transitional OOXML schema. Most of the problems reportedly relate to the serialization/deserialization code. How many other fast-tracked ISO standards have no conforming implementations?

PayPal denies it will block Safari

Despite reports that PayPal may drop support for Apple’s Safari browser because it lacks anti-phishing features, PayPal now says it ain’t so. Though PayPal telegraphed displeasure with Safari last January, they’re now unambiguous about their position:

We have absolutely no intention of blocking current versions of any browsers, including Apple’s Safari, from our website”

Justify MySpace Blog Links

Paste this code in the About Me section:

<style>
.latestBlogEntry .btext {padding:2px; margin:-3px; margin-bottom:2px;}
.latestBlogEntry br {display:none;}
.latestBlogEntry td {height:0px;}
.latestBlogEntry span.text {display:block; float:left; width:330px;}
</style>

Fix Details Gap

This code shrinks the distance between details’ section of your MySpace profile.

Code:

<style type=”text/css”>
.userProfileDetail table {margin-top:-11px;}
.userprofiledetail td.text {position:relative;}
</style>

ISO Calls For OOXML Ceasefire

In response to the continued attacks on Microsoft’s OOXML standard, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has called for a ceasefire.

Last week the ISO committee in charge of document standards, SC 34, met in Oslo to discuss the way forward for OOXML and ODF. The plenary session was marked by protests outside, largely carried out by delegates from a nearby open-source conference. The protesters were calling for OOXML to be withdrawn from ISO standardization — something that could theoretically happen if a national standards body were to protest against its own vote within the next month or two.

Siteman Website hacked

The official site of Siteman Website has been hacked. I just visited the site in order to download their application so I can use it for one of my customers who’s a complete noob but he wants to manage the content of his website. And look here, screenshot taken at 10:05 GMT, Sunday, April 06, 2008.

http://home.no.net/siteman/

H4CK3D 8Y L4N5C4P3X. What the hell is wrong with you people? Those guys are offering a web application for free. A Content Management System very easy to use for those who have no idea about web design and PHP programming. I hate you so much, I hate this hackers that have nothing else to do than destroying people’s work.

Wouldn’t it have been more easily to let them know about breaches in the security system than simply destroy a website that harms no one, implies no political issues, it’s not even in the big competition for something.

Go to hell and burn there! f**king idiots, a hacker should have more self-respect and constructive attitude, no matter how evil his personality is, you should protect others by telling them the mistakes, the 80’s are over a**holes! we’re in the 2000’s and now we’re supposed to focus on developing and construction, new ideas in the IT domain, evolve. Yes, and so should you… EVOLVE FREAKS!

People are trying to build something and offer it for free, as Open Source software and same guys who pretend to be on the side of Open Source and of knowledge, you guys who keep cursing the proprietary software, you hack a website offering an Open Source software. What the hell is wrong with you?! What the hell do you want to prove.

Do you need to test your skills? I recommend you to try hacking the bloody child pornography websites, hack the websites that teach our children how to steal and create a home-made gun, destroy websites containing harmful content for society.

Or perhaps you should create a new virus, at least that will be more “proper”, I can live with that, but don’t destroy the work of people. Find websites encouraging terrorism, violence, animal killing and such awful things, but perhaps you guys are protecting those in exchange of a few thousands dollars so you can buy new tools and such s**t in order to destroy more.

I don’t know what to say anymore, this is totally wrong.

Flush your DNS

This will flush your DNS and will solve a lot of issues with your computer caching the wrong information.

XP And Below:
1.) Go to start->run.
2.) Type in “cmd” without the quotes.
3.) At the command prompt type “ipconfig /flushdns” again without quotes.

Vista:
1.) Click on start->All Programs->Accessories
2.) Right click on the command prompt and pick run as administrator.
3.) At the command prompt type “ipconfig /flushdns” no quotes.

Linux:
1.) Open a root terminal or use sudo (in ubuntu or similar systems) with the following command:
- “/etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart” (without quotes)

Mac OSX Leopard:
1.) Use the following command in a terminal window:
- “dnscacheutil -flushcache” (without quotes)

Mac OSX 10.5.1 and before:
1.) Use the following command in a terminal window:
- “lookupd -flushcache” (without quotes)

Comparative Study of Internet Censorship

Using data from the Global Integrity Index, we put a US court’s recent order to block access to anti-corruption site Wikileaks.org into context. In summary: This is unheard of in the West, and has only been seen in a handful of the most repressive regimes. Good thing it doesn’t work very well… The whole event seems to encapsulate the constant criticism of governance in the United States: that the government has been captured by corporate interests, and that the world-leading rule of law and technocratic mechanisms in place can be hijacked to serve as tools for narrow, wealthy interests.

The future of news

Wire points us to a story discussing the future of news reporting. For over a year, CNN has been accepting user-generated news stories and posting the best of them for all to see. Earlier this week, CNN handed over the reins of iReport.com, allowing unfiltered and unedited content from anyone who cares to participate, provided it adheres to “established community guidelines”. Analysts point to the amateur footage from the Virginia Tech shootings and the Minnesota bridge collapse as an example of the capabilities of distributed reporting. Will this form of user-driven reporting (with which we are well acquainted) come to challenge or supplant traditional new broadcasting?