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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 |
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I look forward to your impending merger tomorrow.
And not to beat a dead horse, but, um… can I have my tabs back now, please?
Anxiously (and perhaps foolishly) awaiting the antidote. Good luck!
Sincerely yours,
VeryVito
(P.S. No Yahoo! Toolbar stuff, either!)
About three years ago, I made the switch to OS X for my personal computing system. I've never regretted it, and I've been looking forward to the new Intel/Apple machines for months now. So why does Apple choose the holiday season — the time I'm actually considering the purchase of a new machine — to flat-out piss me off?
Just in time for holiday traveling, the AC adapter (aka the "plugger inner") for my iBook decided to quit working on me. This shouldn't be
a big deal, but as the adapter is less than three months old, it rather irks me (The fact that it's the second adapter I've purchased in the past year makes it even more irksome). No problem, though: I have an Apple Store in my hometown, and I can simply trade it in there, as it does have a one-year warranty. Right?
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On behalf of your captain and the rest of the flight crew, I'd like to apologize for any incovenience the up-and-down motion of Turdhead.com may have caused today.
After spending a day recovering from a hacking attempt — and updating several Wordpress-based modules along the way — I think we've got Turdhead.com back together again. It's been a while since the blogspam defenses have been down, though, and I was blown away by the sheer volume of spam I received
in the few minutes shields were lowered. More than 200 messages in 30 minutes. There's got to be a way to beat these idiots; I'm leaning toward mallets and sledgehammers, myself.
Regardless, I think I've got the shields back up again; I just hope I haven't barricaded myself too heavily against the onslaught of the spammers. If anybody wants to offer a hand, I'd appreciate you're leaving a comment here — just to make sure you still can.
Thanks!
Update: The site is slowly getting back to normal, but unfortunately, comments are not working at all. They pretend to be, but they're not. I suck. Stay tuned for details.
It's been a while since I've had a server hacked by script kiddies,
but as you can tell by the "plain ol' vanilla" look and feel of the site today, Turdhead.com is in the process of rebuilding. Stay tuned as I try to get the real Turdhead.com back up and running. Meanwhile, enjoy this, um… much prettier version of it. Hmmph.
I finally got around to installing Flash 8, and so far I'm impressed with it. But thanks to an absurd patent and its subsequent enforcement, I can't use it in the way I expect to.
You may have noticed the problem too as soon as you started customizing your work space: What's with this new "Group Transform with…" dropdown? And why can't I just drag panels from one tab group to the other like I could with Flash MX 2004? Or with Photoshop?
Turns out the answer is that Adobe has patented this "drag a tab" process, and Macromedia felt obliged to "turn it off" after Adobe sued them for violating that patent. According to the Macromedia KnowledgeBase concerning FreeHand 10:
On May 2, 2002, a U.S. jury found that Adobe's U.S. patent number 5,546,528 regarding tabbed palettes was valid and that certain Macromedia products infringed that patent. Macromedia has respectfully complied with the court's rulings. In relation to Macromedia FreeHand 10 in the Macromedia Studio MX, we have taken steps to implement the ruling and changed features accordingly.
But… but… Aren't Adobe and Macromedia the same company now? And will they issue a patch to "uncripple" the tab-drag feature now that they love each other?
And will the U.S. Patent Office ever figure out that these kinds of software patents are crippling the industry?
I have no problem with copyrighting source code — in fact, the U.S. copyright laws are more than adequate to protect everything one types into a keyboard in the U.S. But patenting a process — or a "feel" — of a software product is sheer insanity.
And while we're on the subject, did you know the patent office is actually in the business of patenting storylines for unwritten fiction now? Yep. Thanks to crap like this, you can actually patent ideas and things without actually having to do anything. Just make money suing the people who actually do.
To learn more about how you can stifle creativity, eliminate new ideas and make workflow awkward for hundreds of computer users, see the following sites:
US Patent and trademark Office
Knight & Associates - Storyline patents and plot patents
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