I just finished reading a truly hilarious (and rather dated) ">interview on LJ with Larry Wall, Benevolent Dictator For Life of the Perl project. I'm not a Perl user, but this guy is one of those chaps who just ooze humour.
Linux Journal incidentally runs on Drupal :)
-K
[quote]After more than a year of development we are ready to release Drupal 4.7.0 to the world. More than five years, 13 major releases, 30+ servicing firms employing 100+ Drupal professionals, 300+ third party modules, and over 55,000+ Drupal powered sites later, Drupal 4.7.0 is finally here and it rocks![/quote]
Woohoo!
More here.
Expect to see some updates here soon!
-K
Jeroen, this one is for you :P
I'm one of those paranoid "empty-trash-every-5_minutes/arrange-icons-by-type-every-5_minutes" freaks and funnily enough, I've never actually noticed the "Show desktop items" option :o Anyways, the Orion Nebula is now viewable in all its glory on my desktop.
-K
Another patch that didn't get into 4.7 was a simple (yet important) one that created an index for the locale database. The locale module can suck you dry in terms of DB calls, so this can provide a huge boost for a site using it. The index is added on a BLOB field named 'source' with a length of 30-40 (AFAIK, this number was just picked at random).
-K
Due to a session fixation patch, a usability bug has been introduced when a user tries to access multiple installations of Drupal on the same box (not necessarily multi-site installations). The user can only stay logged into one site at any point in time as the session ID and the related cookie is regenerated upon login.
The Help Vampire: A Spotter's Guide is a good read for anybody who is involved in online communities.
Related link: ESR's excellent How to ask questions the smart way.
-K
I came across archive.org's feature films section and was truly blown away. It is like the Gutenberg equivalent for motion pictures and offers classics such as Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter 1 (1941) and Battleship Potemkin (1925).
Rock!
Karthik.
... appears to be evangelism. Everybody nowadays is an evangelist evangelising their evangelisms and marketing themselves as such. It used to be that people were labelled as evangelists, but it's now bandied about in the same breath as MCSE, MCP and what not :S It's a bit like the neighbourhood Godman prefixing his name with a few "Shri"s and other honourifics :|
Good evening, I'm Shri Shri Bhagavan Karthik Maharishi Ev. Please leave your footwear at the door.
eek.
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Just had this happen (without any valid reason) in F8 with all files on a network server. The fix, atleast in my case, was to make sure that the network server's date/time settings are not ahead of your box :o Like seriously.. this is one inane error!
It was purely by accident that I noticed that the file timestamps were ahead by a couple of minutes (as was the server) ... *sheesh*
:-/
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