06 May 2002

Mon, 06 May 2002

Jon Udell tries out RCS Proxy

Jon Udell states:



Backlink display in Radio. David Watson has a service that can be used to fetch referral information into Radio pages. "I don't believe it'll work outside my firewall without redirects," writes David. That seems to be true. From outside his firewall, the URL http://www.watsondesign.comsoap/urn:rcsproxy/getReferers?site=0100887&;group=radio1 works in my browser, but not by way of a Frontier tcp.httpClient call. When I use the redirect reported by my browser, though—i.e. scratchpad.s = tcp.httpClient (server: "24.154.119.166:8080", path: "/soap/urn:rcsproxy/getReferers?site=0100887&group=radio1")—it does work. [Jon's Radio]


UPDATE: The ctFollowRedirects parameter is working now. I had the syntax wrong in the original post. My apologies. You can use the fully qualified domain now as it should be. The full story is here.

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Ugo Cei releases CocoBlog

Ugo Cei's blogging tool, CocoBlog, which is based on Cocoon, was released today. Unfortunately, Ugo doesn't mention what version of Cocoon it runs with. I'm sure he was like me and very tired when he finally released the thing. I'm going to send him mail now and ask.

CocoBlog 0.0.1 Released!. Announcing the first public release of CocoBlog. [Be Blogging]

Posted at: 12:43 | permalink

LSU Law student sued by LSU Law School

NY Times: "Welcome to Our Law School, Young Man. We'll See You in Court." [NY Times]


This kid's got an interesting problem. His personal site comes under fire.

Posted at: 12:40 | permalink

The register gets Mandrake 8.2 all wrong

The Register: Mandrake 8.2 first look. Mandrake 8.2 is a ... disaster. [diveintomark]


Unfortunately, Mark elevates this bullshit on the register by reprinting it. Maybe Mark's goal was to make it known to people like me. The fact that a trade rag like the register allows this garbage to be printed suggests to me that they got their editors from the National Enquirer. Thomas Greene obviously has an axe to grind. I've been running Mandrake 8.2 comfortably here since it came out and have had none of the issues that Greene describes. I also believe there's a certain irony in the fact that I thought Mandrake 8.1 sucked and Greene thinks it was terrific. I went from 8.0 to 8.2 since I had so many problems with 8.1. A few points:



  1. Most of the distributions have gotten horribly complex. Complexity leads to bugs. Ask Microsoft.
  2. The software reflects the sociology of the team that built it. What do you think the sociology is like inside mandrake right now when they're begging for money on a daily basis?
  3. Bashing Miguel de Icaza and Gnome because Mandrake includes their product is just ridiculous. Gnome rocks! Consumers want choice, particularly in the Linux business. I want choice, and I don't want Thomas Greene dictating my choice of desktop. The more the merrier. What's the problem with competition?
  4. If he wants to bash StarOffice he should bash Sun. The font problem with Java on Linux is well-documented.

Posted at: 09:57 | permalink