Walter Soldierer’s Blog

One of my favorite podcasts is Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte. I am a long term subscriber, actually I didn’t miss a single episode so far. Finally, after 2 years of enjoying Security Now and applying the lessons learned both at home and at work, I was able to give something back. Steve:

One of our listeners, actually very courteous, a Walter Soldierer I think is how I pronounce his name, he provided me with the name of the guy at VeriSign, and email address, who’s in charge of the whole PIP technology program. His name is Gary Krall at VeriSign. I sent Gary a piece of email saying, hey, I was really glad to get your name and email.

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I just saw a new privacy checkbox in my Facebook account settings:

[ ] Allow my public search listing to be indexed by external search engines (ex. Google, Yahoo, MSN)

In about 2 weeks, public profile information (only image and name) will be spiderable. A good idea. Most social networking sites already allow search engines to list their user’s public profile pages. This is a logical next step now that anyone can seach people on Facebook without having to sign up first . More info is available on the Facebook blog.

Zum ersten mal überhaupt hat sich in unserem Garten eine Schwalbenschwanz-Raupe eingefunden. Wir haben gleich ein Foto gemacht und sie in ein Einmachglas mit Möhrenkraut verfrachtet. Mal sehen was draus wird. Ich nehme an ein schöner bunter Schmetterling

Mehr Infos zum Schwalbenschwanz…

Nachtrag 12 Sep 07 :  Die Raupe hat gestern mit der Verpuppung begonnen. Leider wird es aber dieses Jahr wohl nichts mehr mit dem schönen bunten Schmetterling. Offenbar schlüpft diese Generation erst im nächsten April oder Mai. Na dann aber Geduld…

The soldierer.com web site is hosted on a hostmonster.com web server. I decided to try Hostmonster because I read a couple positive experiences on the web. Three weeks after opening the account I have to agree to everything I read and give them a positive review, too.

Hostmonster provides a powerful LAMP hosting environment with high quality services at a very competitive price.

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Die Ertragsdaten unserer Photovoltaikanlage werden ab heute zum Soldierer.com web server übertragen. Neben den in 10-Minuten-Abständen aktualisierten Anlagedaten wird auch eine tagesaktuelle Ertragskurve angezeigt:

Für Techik-Interessierte: Die Anlagedaten werden über das Hausnetz an SunnyBoy Control übertragen und von dort über die serielle Schnittstelle an einen Win98 Laptop. Ein Perl Programm erzeugt daraus eine Graphik (GD::Graph::linespoints), erstellt mit den Daten eine einfache Webseite, und aktualisiert diese alle 10 Minuten per Net::FTP auf dem Server.

In today’s Clickz article “Tackling Adblock Plus“, Ian Schafer expresses his deep concerns about Adblock Plus, a Firefox filtering add-on that removes all advertising from web pages:

Blocking ads en masse is a critical threat to the stability of the unwritten contract between publisher/service provider, and the consumer — especially when the content delivered or services rendered aren’t premium or paid. It’s not only publishers who would be affected by mass adoption of something like Adblock Plus, but ironically, the consumers themselves by cutting off the life support to content-developing and -sustaining businesses.

The author also mentions the “Why Firefox is Blocked” initiative, which publishers can join in response to the ad removal tool to block all Firefox users from their web sites, including the vast majority of Firefox users that do not have the extension installed.

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