In history, it has never been good when a government knowns too much about you.

The information will be abused – although they make promises otherwise. And the government has always the potential to opress you. As it goes for the 3rd Reich or stats like DDR they used that informations in these ways.

So i don’t think it is a good idea to give your most personal data to Google. It looks they integrated the whole DSM and ICD-10 index!

Well, what is Google’s motivation behind that? Or why does Google invest in DNA Sequencing Projects? Where does Google make money here? Why is Google interested when I’m gonna die? Are they now making pharmacy ads? Wanna get more pills?

The german GoogleWatchBlog thinks Google could provide customer with HealthCare – Cards, so a doctor knows whats up with you in a car accident. And yeah, and doctors can use the system to import their patient’s data. Isn’t it nice what Google does for you?

So, i guess Google does the new studies for Obama’s new health care system?!

A script probably would have done it easier. I hate Spreadsheets. I do SQL. So don’t ask… I’m no accountant, and probably hava lot of notion of the several topics, but just not spreadsheet calculation. The topic is above – i searched about one hour for that!

=MOD(ROW(),2)=0
=AND(A1=”red”;B1=”blue”)
=”Whole cell matching is “&IF(COUNTIF(A3;”<>e”); “enabled”; “disabled”)

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Conditional_Counting_and_Summation

=Sheet2!$A$1 when on sheet one and copied to another sheet will refer to the first cell of the next sheet.

http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/03/13/want-to-be-an-excel-conditional-formatting-rock-star-read-this/

Corporate Wars. No, i don’t wanna give you access to my website (even if that means denying all iPhone users). Only problem on this .htaccess: it still throws HTTP 403 but and noaccess.html tells him about maintainence work on the website. Anyway, Noobs won’t recognize that.

# No access for this wannbe elitist
Order allow,deny
Deny from 217.7.144.10 # Business Static IP
Deny from 80.154.24.18 # Home Static IP
Allow from all

<Files ~ "(js|jpg|css|jpg|png)$">
    Allow from all
</Files&gt:

# Catch iPhone-users
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} .*Mobile.*Safari
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(js|jpg|css|jpg|png)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ noaccess.html [L]

Coworkers. A horror! They demand everything to be easy. And then they array with questions about XAMPP (especially WAMP), and why windows has path problems or why sendmail doesn’t work on Windows and so forth. But I don’t do bloody support on Windows!

Nothing is better than a real linux or unix. Windows just can’t do the job! So we’re here to provide two alternative solutions: andLinux or a real Linux inside a VM as WAMP replacement.

andLinux runs smoothly here, but everything I hear around is, that it doesn’t run smooth elsewhere. So, it’s probably better to check out some VMs…

So, open the curtain for…

VAMP – Virtual Apache MySQL, PHP (and Perl)

I had another good time today trying Sun’s VirtualBox with install of Ubuntu-install with KDE 4.1 (oh gawdamnit –  or bloated than Windows Vista!), than with XFCE (still no file shares in the filemanger?) and then again with good old GNOME But still i had a hard time explaining the Admin-GUIs of Apache, BIND and so forth to my collegues. WAMP was still easier too use – a yeah

So my goal so far is to set up a VirtualBox installation with an easy to use LAMP enivronment, based on some features of Sun’s VirtualBox (which indeed is faster than VMware):

• You setup a transient folder within VirtualBox (a folder that is used on and  by your host OS as well as the VM the same time – no SAMBA fileserver!)
• This transient folder is mounted into Linux by using the Virtual Box FS (vboxfs)
• From there project homepages will be delivered.
• So, we need a DNS server to provide the host a valid domain name.
• And will use Apache dynamic virtual hosts to route the domain names to associated document root.
• The VAMP-VM shows it’s IP address after boot, to insert for you as DNS server.
• The user uses MySQL or SSH to administer the server and still can add other software just as needed.

Well, i started again with Debian, which suddenly grew from a 70MB HD image to over 900MB – just by installing PEAR, PHP5, MySQL, Perl, BIND9 and Apache2!  I don’t like the idea to install Linux XAMPP tarballs on the server either, but i expect the final HD image will have finaly  less than 100MB in compressed format…  well this is a good start for the VAMP-project

It’s actually called mod_rewrite and not .htaccess! If you want to do rewrite rules have, do yopurself a favor and have first a look at the Apache documentation:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond

Look inside varaible/what apache gets:

…or …

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !SEE
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(.+)
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /SEE:%1/ [R,QSA]

Replace THE_REQUEST with one of the variables presented here.

user1234.mystuff.de -› www.mystuff.de/account.php?user=user1234

RewriteCond %{http_host} !^www\.example\.com
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^(www\.)?(.+)\.example\.com
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+}/$ /account.php?user=%2&message=$1 [L]

Rewriting the fragment part of an URI or anker

Anyway, there is no way that you can user the fragmet part of the URI to rewrite your URL. It is internally stripped away by Apache. It’s not in REQUEST_URI nor in THE_REQUEST. You cannot use PHP nor Perl for that!

See also: http://www.tedpavlic.com/post_apache_rewriting_examples.php

UPDATE: Ah.. yeah… better look into the documentation again ;9 This could save you much time:

RewriteLog "/var/log/apache/rewrite.log"

Let’s have a look at what Microsoft promises us with MSIE8 – the revelation for all web developers! Nah, as developer you might have enough reasons to complain about that piece of broken software, or as i call it “the browser from hell”:

MSIE8 doesn’t have JavaScript. It has JScript and it isn’t as good as JavaScript. While others implement ECMAScript 4 or partly already have, Microsoft makes idiotic proposals for ECMAScript 3.2. And they even wonder why there’s so much heavy critics on it!

In native JavaScript i can extend all my objects. I can’t do that with XMLHTTPRequest because it’s not a native object, but links to an ActiveX-control instead.

Bullshiting the customer is one thing Microsoft can really do well. MSIE still has about 50% visits on our web sites. And about 40% of all MSIE users still use MSIE 6.0. It’s also great downloading a new VirtualPC test image all 3 months [as of summer 2007].

JScript in MSIE ist still pain in the ass. Probably it supports now some part of DOM – but it does not correctly.

Debugging JavaScript in MSIE ist still pain in the ass. I got enough enough errors in „line 0?, or the line of in the middle of nowhere where MSIE shows the line number in generated code. I even got an „Unexpected error in line -237322? once!

Debug tools do not always work correctly in MSIE because the browser doesn’t work correctly.

Then, on ACID3 most stabil browser do 50-60 points at the moment, Firefox 3 does 68 and Webkit does now 100 points! And what the fuck does MSIE8? Correct. 17 points out of 100. That’s 3 points more than MSIE7 but far below what other browser do at the moment.

MSIE8 does not pass ACID2! That’s because Microsoft has to load some ActiveX-Controls to pass. For the official ACID2-test site they deactivated the checks, on other sites you may encounter a warning that the site is not safe.  ACID2 has to be passed on whatever URL the test is!

Even PNG isn’t working correctly in MSIE and not to speak about SVG support…

Wheew, and then we have now 6 downloads per host. Great increasement over the 4 pipes in the older version.

Wikipedia lists some nice tables about comparison of layout engines, including HTML, XML, XHTML, Graphics, CSS, DOM, HTML5, ECMAScript and SVG-capabilities.

Well, at least they made one thing correct: MSIE8 still outputs Mozilla/4.0 in his UserAgent string. So i can say without any doubt, that it ia still not a modern web browser!

P.S.: Hey Microsoft, get Gecko or Webkit and just shut the fucking MSIE-Thing down! You will probably be faster in implementing the bugs of the former MSIEs than making your MSIE/Trident do run correctly. And if you haven’t realised there’s also a Gecko ActiveX-Control!

I wrote this article because i had an MSIE8 testdrive and now have three stylesheets for MSIE browsers. Ah yeah, the website runs without pages and even faster in really standard-compliant browser such as Opera, Safari, Firefox, Konquerer…

Just as needed…