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My sister is trying out Ubuntu and asks "what about my iTunes"? And this is the third time someone asks me about iTunes and Ubuntu. High time for an article on that.

I have bad news, ugly news and good news!

The Bad News

There isn't any iTunes for Linux (and Ubuntu). There is even a iTunes on Linux Petition to Apple Computer, Inc.

There are socalled workaround solutions where you use Wine or Crossover Office. In general, these allow you to run some of the native Windows programs, but even those don't work properly for iTunes:

Posted by IH on Oct. 2

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Just noticed the tipping point in browser stats for visitors to isoHunt. From Google Analytics:

Code:
Firefox
Sep 18, 2007 - Sep 24, 2007 45.84%
Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 46.19%

Internet Explorer
Sep 18, 2007 - Sep 24, 2007 46.42%
Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 46.07%

Opera
Sep 18, 2007 - Sep 24, 2007 3.89%
Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 3.79%

Safari
Sep 18, 2007 - Sep 24, 2007 2.82%
Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 2.91%

We're working on enhancing our firewalls today. This means this site and others on the 'stable' server will be off the air for a few minutes in the next 25 minutes.

If you're interested in details, you can follow progress on http://twitter.com/most_alive

This morning I noticed some oddities, and alert and aware, I woke up for my nine-headed hell hound rounds. When I checked events, I found the following watchdog event:

http://www.yahoo.com/r/m7

We have just upgraded the following drupal modules on the stable server:

• Akismet
• Scheduler
• Admin-menu
• Pathauto
• Postcard
• Glossary
• What would Seth Godin do?
• Adsense
• External link

Please let us know if you run into any trouble, or get any wyrd messages (besides this one).

WW team

I've tried a couple of ways to add a pdf: 

http://www.experienceagile.eu/en/node/116

Eventually I  gave up, and resorted to linking both the image and  pdf from Marc's piecemealgrowht blog (wordpress). Besides getting lost in the menus, when I found ways to upload it (upload module or the 'image' button  in the wysiwig editor), it generated the wrong url (something like http://www.experienceagile.eu/en//var/www/files/blablabla.pdf ). That url does not exist, of course.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Willem 

I focused on whitespace, identity-marketing-orange and red-pill-action colors. What do you think of the look and feel?

Of the menu's unfolding to the left?

I simplified the whole content organisation, made wyrdweb's news more prominent, and improved SEO: Made theme css and site XHTML and CSS compliant, checked important page title tags and added those, when missing -- I still need to check all links.

Also, I am still working on a searchbox for in the header ... the quick and dirty solution box broke the XHTML (of course). And I am going for more fluidity. Oh, and no more "px". All "em" sizes for fonts.

The logo is made by Ushie, and so are the little leaves, and the icons are adopted from Materia (people running linux will recognize them, and people not on linux will perhaps recognize them later <grin>).

All feedback welcome!

the links should read mailman/admin and mailman/listinfo

 

You can configure your mailing list at the following web page:

   http://lists.andering.net/cgi-bin/mailmanadmin/france

The web page for users of your mailing list is:

   http://lists.andering.net/cgi-bin/mailmanlistinfo/france

this is a minor defect: we create less than a handful of new lists each year. 

This has been completed for a while now :) 

We're working to counter a security breach on the stable server (it seams not only web 2.0 software is vulnerable to attacks - the site that was used as an entry point was running old-fashioned web 0.99 forum software ;) ). We'll let you know what we've done after we are finished. The affected sites are back online. We may restart the server once or twice this week, so you might experience some downtime - which we'll try to keep to a minimum.

The last time we restarted this server was 126 days ago, so we are not doing that bad...

We are organizing an exhibition project at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin, sponsored by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, with support from the Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa).

Exhibition's topic is HACK.Fem.EAST - Women and technology in networks in the Eastern countries. We would like to involve women from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Rumenia, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Latvia and the other Baltic countries to present their work. You can find the project's description below: main topics are media, art and hacking.

Central idea is to involve artists to develop independetely their concept in one of the 14 rooms of the Kunstraum Bethanien and be part of the network formed by the all groups and arsists/activists. We have already contacted some people, but we are still looking for interesting projects to add in the exhibition.

Please, let us know if you are interested!

After a succesfull test period on the 'experimental' sites, we have now upgraded the 'stable' sites to drupal5.7. to incorporate imporant security updates, sites were down for only a few seconds. After that, we also performed security upgrades for modules nodewords (meta tags) and archive and a minor update on admin_menu (the pulldown menu for administrators). All should be well, let us know if something inadvertently stopped working on your site.

sites affected:

 

Web 2.0 is causing an explosion stretching the boundaries of what web sites can do. And in the rush to add features, security seems to have become an afterthought, both for participants as well as developers. Web 2.0 as a gestalt is an emmenthaler cheese (more holes than cheese).

At least the following threats for web (2.0) sites can be checked  to see if we require protection from those:

The growing "importance" of so called “Web 2.0 social networks” and other web services in our private and business lives creates a perfect target for predatorial hackers by XSS attacks. December 19, 2007, the Register reports a Portuguese-speaking worm that attacks Google Orkut users.

If you are not clear about answers to these questions, we offer deciding-what-you-need, website project, marketing message and website layout questions for brainstorming more clarity.

If you are determined, and wish us to design a website for you, please continue ... These questions are not set in stone (nearly all are optional). Pick and choose the ones that fit your purpose best, and save yourself some time so you can do what you really love, and we can get going building a proposal for you.

Lynne Azpeitia said ...

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We have disabled trackbacks on all our sites that run on the Drupal CMS, due to a spam attack on satirworkshops.com.

Satirworkshops attracted over 192.000 spams (increasing with several a second), causing the server's log files to fill up. WE have deleted the spams, and denied access to /trackback on all drupal sites. That way we prevent satirworkshops and other sites from being spammed, and our log files don't fill up too much, so all sites and services can continue to run..

We have done a quick investigation for anti-spam measures on drupal trackback, and found none. Hence the drastic measure above, unfortunately.

Affected sites :

 

W3 Consortium link checker (validate your site first for optimal results)

http://validator.w3.org/checklink