Speaking to freedom and creativity

We're working on enhancing our firewalls today. This means this site and others on the 'stable' server will be off the air for a few minutes in the next 25 minutes.

If you're interested in details, you can follow progress on http://twitter.com/most_alive

We have just upgraded the following drupal modules on the stable server:

• Akismet
• Scheduler
• Admin-menu
• Pathauto
• Postcard
• Glossary
• What would Seth Godin do?
• Adsense
• External link

Please let us know if you run into any trouble, or get any wyrd messages (besides this one).

WW team

We are organizing an exhibition project at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin, sponsored by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, with support from the Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa).

Exhibition's topic is HACK.Fem.EAST - Women and technology in networks in the Eastern countries. We would like to involve women from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Rumenia, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Latvia and the other Baltic countries to present their work. You can find the project's description below: main topics are media, art and hacking.

Central idea is to involve artists to develop independetely their concept in one of the 14 rooms of the Kunstraum Bethanien and be part of the network formed by the all groups and arsists/activists. We have already contacted some people, but we are still looking for interesting projects to add in the exhibition.

Please, let us know if you are interested!

My sister is trying out Ubuntu and asks "what about my iTunes"? And this is the third time someone asks me about iTunes and Ubuntu. High time for an article on that.

I have bad news, ugly news and good news!

The Bad News

There isn't any iTunes for Linux (and Ubuntu). There is even a iTunes on Linux Petition to Apple Computer, Inc.

There are socalled workaround solutions where you use Wine or Crossover Office. In general, these allow you to run some of the native Windows programs, but even those don't work properly for iTunes:

After a succesfull test period on the 'experimental' sites, we have now upgraded the 'stable' sites to drupal5.7. to incorporate imporant security updates, sites were down for only a few seconds. After that, we also performed security upgrades for modules nodewords (meta tags) and archive and a minor update on admin_menu (the pulldown menu for administrators). All should be well, let us know if something inadvertently stopped working on your site.

sites affected:

Web 2.0 is causing an explosion stretching the boundaries of what web sites can do. And in the rush to add features, security seems to have become an afterthought, both for participants as well as developers. Web 2.0 as a gestalt is an emmenthaler cheese (more holes than cheese).

At least the following threats for web (2.0) sites can be checked  to see if we require protection from those: