Current Status on PyDS: I won't be writing much more here about it, there's a dedicated weblog for that, or rather two: Hackers Guide to the Galaxy is my new programming-related blog, where of course PyDS and PyCS will be discussed primarily, but also other hacks. And the Python Desktop Server Weblog is the actual PyDS homepage, in English. News about PyDS will appear there (though generally less frequently than in the German blog, I can't be bothered to write myself to death). This blog here will probably — at least in this category — dry up in the long run, or be integrated into the Hackers Guide. We'll see.
Steve Case finally 'gecased' - in the news he was called one of the pioneers of the Internet. Nonsense. When Jon Postel died, there was barely any news coverage - and that was a real pioneer of the Internet. Case is just one of the big rip-off artists, and not even the first one at that. AOL refused for a long time to offer users even halfway direct Internet access. Everything was nicely filtered and prepared through the silly colorful happy-world interface. Dumb software for dumb customers (who, according to their own advertising, are too stupid to even program a video recorder). And to this day, AOL's access software and access structure is one of the most absurd things you can have in the field of access providers. Just look at their DSL access technology: PPP over AOL over PPP over Ethernet ...
Found at Dotcomtod.
The case against crawler918.com - what on earth? A web spider that searches for trademark violations to enable lawsuits and also violates the robots.txt convention? Could easily be something the Freiherr came up with, but unfortunately it's not a joke. Recommendation to admins: block the specified IP range. After all, they're violating web spider conventions, a clear breach of access restrictions.
Found at Advogato.
The case against crawler918.com. I saw some hits on my web site the other day from machines in crawler918.com. Always curious about new developments in web searching, I thought I'd find out about it. It's not a happy story. [ Advogato]
Nuke them from orbit ...
Found at Advogato.