Why Yahoo is where it is today?!
Posted by as blog, network, web
What does the title of the post want to say? Am I trying to praise Yahoo for being the largest visited online portal on the internet or am I trying to put up some light on the conditions leading to the recent Microsoft fiasco? Well, your own answer to this question, before you read this, […]
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OpenID Attribute Exchange demo site
Posted by as Personal, blog, linux, network, news, php, soc
I have put up an demonstration site for my Google Summer of Code project evaluation purposes @
http://soc2008.hotdrupal.com/~anshu_p/op/
You may please post your comments/reviews at
http://drupal.org/project/openid_ax
or at
http://groups.drupal.org/node/10902
cheers
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OSS camps!
Posted by as linux, network, news, php, web
Am planning to attend the phpcamp to be held in pune on 20th September 2008 (saturday). http://phpcamp.org/
But of course if there are no dates clash with our respected placements!
“PHPCamp is a ‘ad-hoc gathering‘ for PHP community. It similar to barcamp , but more focused towards PHP based web application development. This means that anyone can […]
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Sulphur experience, and some more..
Posted by as NITT, Personal, linux, network
Sulphur, for the uninitiated, is the code name for the latest Fedora release, Fedora 9.
The nomenclature of the fedora releases is pretty intresting.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Names
“Name n and n+1 must share an is-a (not a has-a) relationship, but n and n+2 must not share the same is-a relationship as n and n+1.”
“Sulphur is an element that causes an […]
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Debian SSH keys insecure! Ubuntu also affected!
Posted by Anshu Prateek as linux, network, news, security bug
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html
A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledge of the system. […]
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wordpress.com block in Brazil
Posted by as network, news, web
http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/04/30/wordpresscom-in-brazil/
A Brazilian judge ordered that one blog hosted at WordPress.com should be blocked in Brazil. A local ISP association mentioned it would do so via IP address blocking, something that would compromise access to WordPress.com in Brazil and would not block the blog.
WordPress filed a motion on Monday, explaining, in essence: a) how wordpress service […]
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Yahoo to test Google AdSense; Microsoft objects
Posted by Anshu Prateek as network, news, web, web2.0
Wed Apr 9, 5:45 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Yahoo, after years of battling Internet rival Google for online advertising, said Wednesday it would launch a limited test of Google’s AdSense for Search service.
The announcement drew a sharp response from Microsoft, which warned that a Yahoo-Google partnership would cover some 90 percent […]
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my tryst with OpenID
Posted by Anshu Prateek as NITT, network, php, web2.0
The first time I had heard of OpenID was sometime in last sem when Taggy had told me about it. That was the time when we were hacking wordpress-mu to only allow authentication using ADS server. Later on we also managed to implement LDAP and use it for system login and mail and svn and […]
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Drupal and OpenID
Posted by Anshu Prateek as mysql, network, news, php, web
Drupal now supports OpenID in their core with the release of their version 6.0.
From Drupal.org
“OpenID support is built in, making it even easier for your visitors to become a member of your site. OpenID is a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the internet. With OpenID, login to all your […]
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Google SoC
Posted by Anshu Prateek as NITT, network, web
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
some here from my previous post
I have put in my first draft application in there. Its about integrating OpenID support with geeklog2. Well, this is the first time am participating in gsoc process, so I was pretty excited and unfortunately my usual impatient. So, a tip for people searching around on how to proceed with […]
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