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Dear Drupal developers :)

Over at planet.grep.be we had some fuzz
about comments, trackbacks and mostly the spam related with having trackbacks enabled.

So the message is clear .. we need to do something about the trackback module so it fits in better with all the great antispam tools are around.
I`m currently not using any captchas on my blog but my spam is down to 1 or to messages a week. My Trackbacks however are still pretty problematic , but they are the only place I need to focus on periodically.

Fairly well hidden in a comment on Luc 's blog someone points out the idea of having a list of people you trust that are allowed to send trackbacks, which sounds to me like a pretty good idea.

So if you are out there , feeling bored not knowing what code to work on .. :)

If the sales people from Asus are smart .. they should setup a mobile store walking distance from the Fosdem venue this weekend.

Dear Lazyweb, or Hoosgot for that matters.

I used to like the old beta.plazes.com .. a small python script .. gave me good pointers on a map where I was and I could draw nice maps of where I used to be.

The new plazes just hides all that functionality for me .. it wants me to fill in way to much data in their website .. and I can't find their Traces functionality anymore, which is exactly what I liked. ... now it's just like a bad version of dopplr.

Raph is so right.

It's sad when the crowd thinks these kind of people actually are knowlegeable on the topic they write about.

It's not the first time ZDNet drops the ball. The idea alone that these people are actually even being paid to write such nonsens makes it even more sad

Virtualization.com just launched their freshly revamped site.

Virtualization.com is your central place to read everything about Virtualization that's happening on our little planet, news, rumours, events, interviews, howto's and many more.

Go check it out !

Disclaimer: I`m writing for Virtualization.com

Dear Dag

I`m with Bart on this topic.

It's hard enough to keep up with blogs let alone with comments on the comments you made on those blogs. And as people in your comments noted .. Trackbacks should solve this problem
I actually send a trackback to Leo which made my comment show up in his comments.

Commenting to it on my own blog and trackbacking to the original post actually gives you the benefit of not having to authenticate / register on a gazillion blogs. it gives you better visibility on the comments people make on your comment (If they are nice they include 2 trackbacks), since you don't need to track it on other blogs.

Lots of blogging tools have features to detect trackback urls from original posts that you point to , Drupal can even do that from a cronjob if you want to.
It's however the other side that also needs to have trackbacking allowed.

If the trackback system doesn't work , or if you prefer not to enable it due to the shitload of spam you get on it there's always Technorati telling you that people have been pointing back to you.

Might I suggest you take a look at the Drupal Trackback module , if you enable it this post on my blog should show up a s a comment to your blog entry and we'll all be happy :) And Technorati will update your Authority

Dear Leo

Back in the days I wrote a paper on how to automate Xen virtual machine deployment, one of the side advantages of abusing systemimager in this way is that you can also rebootstrap your physical machines on a virtual machine with no effort.
The only disadvantage is that you have to make a golden image of the server.

Basically the whole P2V concept is just showing how little of a typical infrastructure can be reproduced automatically (10th floor test anyone ?)
A machine should be able to be reinstalled to the last known point with no effort, physical or virtual shouldn't matter.

Apart from abusing systemimager to do the job, you really need to peak at openQRM. Matt should probably put some videos on youtube , but with openQRM you can migrate boxen from Physical to Xen, from Xen to VMWare, frmo VMWare back to Xen and so on ..

As for non unix operating systems .. frankly ..

So while upgrading python from a limited local repository I broke yum

[root@NTC-BASE-2 ~]# yum -y install foo
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 28, in ?
    import yummain
ImportError: No module named yummain
<code>
 
However apt was still working
<code>
[root@NTC-BASE-2 ~]# rpm -e yum
[root@NTC-BASE-2 sources.list.d]# apt-get update
STUFF CUT
Fetched 3980kB in 8s (478kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
[root@NTC-BASE-2 sources.list.d]# apt-get install yum
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  yum-metadata-parser
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  yum yum-metadata-parser
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 removed and 234 not upgraded.
Need to get 419kB of archives.
After unpacking 1412kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 <a href="http://mirror.centos.org" title="http://mirror.centos.org">http://mirror.centos.org</a> centos/4/apt/i386/os yum-metadata-parser 1.0-8.el4.centos [24.0kB]
Get:2 <a href="http://mirror.centos.org" title="http://mirror.centos.org">http://mirror.centos.org</a> centos/4/apt/i386/os yum 2.4.3-4.el4.centos [395kB]
Fetched 419kB in 1s (417kB/s)
Committing changes...
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:yum-metadata-parser    ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:yum                    ########################################### [100%]
Done.
[root@NTC-BASE-2 sources.list.d]# y
[root@NTC-BASE-2 sources.list.d]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories

Back in business :)

Good idea Raskas :)

Scriptum Libre is calling out toe boycott Trend Micro because of their ridiculous patent attack, well.. basically on ClamAV.

I've never liked any of the AntiVirus software companies... deep down I think this is a business that is mostly supporting itselve. I`m pretty sure that some of the commercial Antivirus solution providers them selve are responsible for sending out virii to the poor Windows users.

So I`m supporting the boycot !