Author Archives: Donncha

Linux Today – GNOME Foundation: GU4DEC – June 16th-18th Dublin, Ireland

scriptygoddess – Disable right clicking and protecting your images with php. Good info here, and a couple of techniques I hadn’t thought of too!

As usual, bottomquark has some excellent articles today. I won’t link to specific articles or I’d be linking to everything there!

Blogger was down yesterday so no posting.
John posted a story about a friend of his who had a heart attack. Thankfully he’s recovering, but what shocked me was..

Did I forget to mention my friend’s age?

He turned 27 years old five days ago.

b2 looks like a good weblog server although it’s completely dynamic and on each request posts are read from the database. That’s bad for the server if you have a lots of users. I started work on a Smarty enabled version today. It was pretty simple so far and I may have something ready by the end of the week! Read the link above for more on what Smarty can do for b2.

Senator Byrd – Virtual Newsroom

Senate Remarks: Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences

Irish Times Article – US use of Irish airspace to cost millions

The military build-up by the US in preparation for a possible strike on Iraq means the State faces a sharp increase in the €1.5 million it pays annually for overflights by foreign military aircraft.

Just in case you didn’t know already, PHP 4.3.0 has a serious security vulnerability in the CGI SAPI. If you don’t run cgi scripts you don’t have to worry though.