Slow Work…
Posted on: 5th October 2011I've now started proper work on my MSc dissertation which is an "Automatic Error Reporting System" aimed at edn devices i.e. Printers.
Also I thought this was interesting
Today, unfortunately, the very pillars on which Wikipedia has been built - neutrality, freedom, and verifiability of its contents - are likely to be heavily compromised by paragraph 29 of a law proposal, also known as "DDL intercettazioni" (Wiretapping Act).
This proposal, which the Italian Parliament is currently debating, provides, among other things, a requirement to all websites to publish, within 48 hours of the request and without any comment, a correction of any content that the applicant deems detrimental to his/her image.
Unfortunately, the law does not require an evaluation of the claim by an impartial third judge - the opinion of the person allegedly injured is all that is required, in order to impose such correction to any website.
Hence, anyone who feels offended by any content published on a blog, an online newspaper and, most likely, even on Wikipedia can directly request the removal of such contents and its permanent replacement with a "corrected" version, aimed to contradict and disprove the allegedly harmful contents, regardless of the truthfulness of the information deemed as offensive, and its sources
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Comunicato_4_ottobre_2011/en
which probably ends up being nothing but a bit worrying.
There hasn't been any ldir developments either.
Thats all, I'll attempt topost on here developments with my MSc Project/Dissertation
I’m still alive!
Posted on: 27th August 2011Sorry I haven't posted in a while.
I've mainly been working on gg-sim.co.uk making the layout closer in looks to giffgaffs (and be XHTML1.1 Valid). We also ran a competition because we've reached 100 users! The competition was pretty successful too bringing in another 18 users ontop of what we had and we're still growing!
I've not done much work on ldir recently apart from editing some code in a modified version for gg-sim but that version isn't available for public use. don't forget you can happily modify ldir to suit your needs as it's licensed under the GPL.
Enjoy the rest of the summer!
ldir roadmap – Update
Posted on: 19th July 2011Here's a quick update on where ldir is headed in the near future.
1.7.0- Allow _GET parameters to be passed to the links generated.- 1.8.0 - Pass-Thru download action, to allow access to non web dirs.
Current version: 1.7.6
So the next major update will include a download pass-thru.
I also have a couple of optimisations to write in.
I've had fun writing ldir and hope to continue to support it after version 1.8.0 but I do not personally see anything past this version.
In other news, I have
- Updated gg-sim.co.uk's download system.
- progressed with whelp v2
- and finally, kept up my average of 75% on my MSc with just my final project left.
All Change…
Posted on: 6th July 2011I have updated to the new WordPress 3.2 system, nothing too big different just removed support for IE6 and some better backend code.
I have also re-coded the current website theme (lightword) to be xhtml 1.1 compliant instead of xhtml 1.0 trans. I am looking at migrating to a different theme but not until I have properly tested it and made it compliant with W3C.
Why can't these theme developers create the themes as W3C Valid in the first place? ARGH!
IPv6 Day!
Posted on: 8th June 2011Today is IPv6 day; to try and raise and raise awareness of the impending doom that is the IPv4 exhustion.
There are no more available IP's in the IPv4 spec which means everything needs to slowly migrate to IPv6.
but this post was just to say, this site is IPv6 ready!
