copy content from Wikipedia and paste it in Google’s Knol?
Thursday, July 24th, 2008So can I take someone else’s hard work from Wikipedia - though it’s probably lots of peoples light work - and paste it into Google’s Knol, add some adwords and make a huge steaming pile of cash? Not likely.
From Wikipedia, GFDL (Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)):
“You may copy and distribute the Document [wikipedia article] in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided that this [GFDL] License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this [GFDL] License.”
Asprox virus active on UK government websites
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008The Times [of London] are reporting, 23 July 2008. that a new trojan is now making waves in the UK having already hit US sites:
Eastern European hackers are suspected of placing the Asprox virus on more than a thousand British websites, including those run by the NHS and a local council, in the past two weeks. [...] Last week, Asprox infected the Norfolk NHS website, used by thousands of people a day. Hackney Council’s website was one of 12 local council websites also compromised, meaning that anyone logging on to pay a parking ticket or council tax was at risk over a three day period. [...] In the US, the virus has successfully penetrated mainstream sites belonging to Sony’s Playstation, the city of San Francisco and Snapple.
Asprox is an automated SQL injection attack that (more…)
root domain redirection: example.com to www.example.com
Monday, July 14th, 2008I hate that .. when organisations (the biggest offenders I see appear to be the .gov.uk sites) don’t do their redirects properly.
I always just type the root domain, example.com. But for sites that I manage I choose “www.example.com” to be canonical - mainly because in print it’s best to use the www. address as it’s easy to pick out as a web address. For .com’s this isn’t as important as for .org or .net, IMO, as nowadays most people recognise that “.com” refers to a website.
Under Apache this is easy, add this to your .htaccess file in the document root: