Lost!

If you’ve installed WordPress 2.0.7 and have logged into the Admin panel, you’ve probably noticed a funky bug that baffles the mind.

Once you leave the Dashboard and try to come back via the menu, you get an empty page with a footer. If you take out the admin.php?page=index.php and hit enter, the DashBoard shows back up. Easy fix…

Delete the index.php file out of the Plugin directory.

You shouldn’t allow directory browsing on your server in the first place (if you do, you’re setting yourself and your server up for failure - disable it) and this extra index.php file is causing that blank issue.

So, while doing yet more research for work while at home, I ran across an OSS version of SharePoint Portal Server(SPS), or more recently, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS). I compare the two because Alfresco is listed as an Enterprise Content Management system. I even noticed a story on Infoworld from last year that dubbed Alfresco a SharePoint killer.

Without installing it, I saw one major flaw with Alfresco that will keep it away from the Enterprise masses: no Office integration - none. It apparently plays with OpenOffice. I haven’t seen a major business yet that has even admitted to installing OpenOffice (if you know of one, let me know…) Now, after playing with SPS 2003 for a week in a classroom environment that allowed me to hose it, reinstall it, etc, I have a pretty good feel for SharePoint. Continue reading…

Somehow, a blogger decided to complain about the lack of Tagging Standards and made it on Slashdot.

The funny part is, I can sum up his entire article in one sentence: People are not typing the tags the same way, and maybe, it’s the ability to add a space in the tag that’s causing the problem. Continue reading…

What in the heck is up with the Spamming lately? Out of the 466 caught over the weekend, 1 made it through where some idiot actually wrote a comment and had a link to an adsense covered site that violated almost every part of their TOS. But, 466? C’mon. I’ve actually had more email going to my personal email as well (note: Personal email is not the email listed on the site.)

I even had a comment spam get denied with a -1467! My filters are setup for the default, so they’re not as strict as they could be, but geez -1467 is a bit much.

Over the last two weeks, I’ve had StumbleUpon rise to the number one slot on referrers to my blog. After using their nice took to look up who is linking to you (http://www.stumbleupon.com/refer.php), I find it odd that I’m getting this many referrals off of two people.

Regardless of how long they’ve been in operation or that the BBC and PCWorld has talked about them, I’ve personally never heard of ‘em… I even had to look them up.

In other odd news, Mr Amir Saffar has made it to the list of top searches coming in. I’m sure he’s pretty much out of the computer industry for a few years now. Somehow he’ll crawl out from under a rock and may make a comeback. As popular as he currently is and how much publicity as he’s getting, I’m seriously surprised not to have seen a Wiki article on him.

And, the last major referral of the new year: MicroSoft’s Vanishing Point game. I’m a little upset that the nearest location is Berlin - 8 hours away from my current location. Sure, I could take Ryan Air up there, but thats still a bit of a way to fly for one day worth of possibly nothingness… Oddly, I’m really surprised that Amir has taken the top spot on incoming searches over VanishingPoint - the VP community at large has done a great job finding articles (as you can see from getting my butt chewed).

I’m also not just sitting here waisting time with odd stories either, I’ve got a few bigger stories Q’d up, one of which I’m sure the Open Source community will get a little upset over…