MozillaZine Folding@Home Team Completes 10 Million Points - [mozillaZine]
We only have 7.7 million points... and the number of users keeps decreasing. But congrats to MozillaZine!

Drupal/CivicSpace, which powers this site, needs cron to execute some scheduled tasks. Since we don't have cron on the server, I made a script that looped with a sleep and executed the tasks regularly. Problem: this script got killed regularly, which resulted in no cron for weeks (until I remembered to restart the script, that is). I've now put crontask on another dedicated server with real cron, so it should always run now, which'll mean notifications are in time again.

PS.: Yes, I'm still active :). And I can give anyone admin rights if he or she wants (just so you can promote posts to the frontpage, etc.).

Today I created a testcase on an IE bug I discovered this weekend (see the attachment). Fortunately there is also a fix available, which works OK and isn't really messy to other browsers when putting it in an IE conditional comment (it involves adding a form element).

Installation-Free Mozilla Firefox CD - [mozillaZine]

Haven't tried it yet but it seems promising. I might actually get it for using at school, where there's no Firefox. There are some cons about this though, for example that your bookmarks aren't saved. And you need a CD Player, and at our school 90% of them don't work (people took out the elastic bands around the wheels that are used to open the tray).

Anyway, here are some Dijjer links to the LiveCD:

• Firefox Live ZIP
• Firefox Live ISO

Today I've checked out the Dijjer project. It's another P2P application, but different from all others: it is easy to use for sharers as there are no torrent-like files you need to create (a prefix to a link is enough), and no 24/7 seeders needed - your website is used as the first source. It's also and easy to use for clients: clicking a Dijjerized link will automatically redirect you to a page containing instructions, and no ports need to be opened because of the NAT2NAT technology.

I found this quite shocking news - an open source application with such sneaking techniques. To summarize: Wordpress has been hosting 168.000 (168 thousand) articles on their website specifically designed to game the Google Adwords program, using high-cost advertising keywords like asbestos, mesothelioma, insurance, debt consolidation, diabetes and mortgages.

Wordpress Banned by Google for Spamming - The Real Nick W writes "Wordpress, an incredibly popular Open Source Blogging system was found to be spamming google by inserting hidden links to junk content on high paying Adsense keywords such as mesothelioma and debt consolidation. Following Threadwatch picking up the story an anonymous Google rep appeared in the original thread admonishing bloggers not to use sneaky tactics to rank highly for "duplicate content" such as the 100,000 hidden articles on the Wordpress site. The articles have now dissapeared from Google and it remains to be seen whether Google will ban Wordpress outright as they tend to do when SEO's and web dev's pull these kinds of stunts." [Slashdot]