Well, as it turns out Rasmus Lerdorfs filter made apache segfault, so I've disabled it again. XSS indeed!
On a lighter note, this work of art was created last night during the OSDC dinner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfVL_4uRLSo
Well, as it turns out there is a ready-made fix to some of the horrid inser-input-filtering problems I - and probably any PHP coder - encounter.
This morning was the first time I saw Rasmus Lerdorf speak and, although his views on web security want me to give up coding in general and become a potato farmer more specifically, he did point out some tools to make it a lot harder for a macilious user to abuse any web app you write.
Yay! After four days of madly running around with my hair on fire, the VITTA conference is over. I get (part of) my life back!
Tonight is time for either drinking and passing out or just plain passing out, but first feet must be soaked in something nice.
It's official! As of 17 minutes ago, early bird tickets for linux.conf.au are no longer available. They sold out less than a day before EB would have closed otherwise.
I would say we had estimated it very well, but we all know everyone leaves these things to the last second ;-)
Next milestone, here we come!
In other news, your tax invoice is now available as PDF from your registration status page too.
Once in a while I can be bothered watching (political) news on TV. Yesterday was such a moment and it struck me once again that what with both the libs and labor (but mainly the libs) yammering on about the economy, it looks like you'll be expected to elect an accountant, not a new government.
How boring.
You're attending linux.conf.au, the sessions have finished for the day, the food court is closed and now you and your friends are in desperate need of food, but you don't know where to go.
This should be a problem no more. Melbourne has thousands of restaurants, many of which are only a short walk from our conference venue. The main restaurant strips are marked in purple on the map page, but a purple line isn't helpful in finding out what is available.
With hard disks getting larger by the month, keeping all your data backed up can be tricky. Raid will give you reliability, but no possibility of taking your data off-site, and tape drives are expensive.
I found myself needing to keep backups of an 80GB raid array for a small office server, and recalled an article I had read a few months ago in Linux Journal. The article details how you can keep snapshot backups of thumb drives on your harddisk... and that made me think doing the reverse should be workable too.
I'm not sure why, but it seems pretty tricky to find a v0.7 copy of the lightning extension for thunderbird on amd64. (Ubuntu Gutsy only comes with v0.5)
This is the version that supports remote calendars and is as such much more useful than the versions that don't.
I had a go at changing the targetPlatform tag in the i686 package yesterday, but that resulted in my Thunderbird being broken and not even displaying mail correctly. Not good.
Anyway, to make a long story short, today I compiled one and please find attached lightning 0.7 for x86_64.