Eran makes a great point regarding multiple OpenID support as a necessity to avoid vendor lock-in. Sites accepting OpenID should find it in their best interest to allow users to associate multiple OpenIDs with their accounts. After all, as a site owner, you want to make it as convenient as possible for a user [...]

Finally fixed the bug at http://ipv6links.net where entering an invalid OpenID such as the example iname =example.name or http://example in the login box would result in the login process hanging and eventually failing with the error
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 14592 bytes) in /home/www/ipv6links.net/login.php on line 76
I [...]

I logged into my email today to 50+ emails from eBay. My initial reaction was:
Great! Google’s email SPAM filter has finally broken down.
Unfortunately, it was not a simple case of spoofed eBay emails making it through the trusty SPAM filter. My eBay account had been hacked. Some one had gained access to my [...]

I posted earlier today about the bug in Ubuntu Feisty that causes Java apps that use GUI to fail. It turns out it is an upstream bug in Java 6 itself that is brought out by new xcb code in X11. As of now, it is unclear if Ubuntu will choose to downgrade X11 [...]

Upgraded packages in Ubuntu Feisty in the past 24 hours have broken Java 6 (package sun-java6). Netbeans and other Java GUI applications no longer work. The error is as follows:
$ /opt/netbeans-5.5/bin/netbeans
java: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock’ failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

Bug #86103 has been filed at launchpad.net
It seems to be an issue with recently pushed out [...]