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Over the past year and some months, I have learned more than I ever wanted to know about Zope and Plone. The problem with those pieces of software is the lack of really good information for filesystem development there is out there. Hence the reason I am posting this here, so I can remember it.

To change the permissions on a filesystem file, in it's associated metadata file, add the following:



That will make it so that only Authenticated users and Managers can view the object. You can set this for any permissions that are available on the object. The 0 is the setting for acquisition. As expected, set this to 1 to turn acquisition on.

Current Music: RZA - The Birth

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So I recently got an Xbox, and have been messing around with it lately. I finally figured out how to put it into HD, and let me tell you, it looks worlds better now. I also have Xbox Media Center running on it, and have gotten the MythTV Frontend working on it to the point where it's actually better than sitting down at my mythbox to watch tv.

There are a bunch of very interesting things I can do with this Xbox, and I'm sure I'll post more about it later on. I'm going to take some screenshots of the XBMC interface for MythTV and throw them up here.

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At work, we use SugarCRM for a wide array of tasks. While we do pay for the "Pro" version of the software, there is also an OS version of it. I recently read a post on a blog that described a lot of the woes I have with Sugar. However, it also detailed a bunch of other less-than-savory dealings by the company itself. Check that out here. The paragraph on upgrading the software is my nomination for Paragraph of the Year 2006. Absolutely spot on about the huge pain in the ass it is to upload, of all things, PHP files. It seems that, as each incremental update is released, Sugar wants to change the database around, drop all your old data, add new php files, when really, it should be as simple as copying over some php scripts to a directory and perhaps running some SQL files on a database.

However, my main issue from a security standpoint is that Sugar requires running PHP with safe mode turned off. PHP code, when written poorly, can be as insecure as anything on the web. I'm not saying Sugar itself is vulnerable, but running PHP without safe mode turned on, as a rule, is poor web server administration.

Not to mention I have to up PHP's memory buffer to like 64MB to do any of the upgrades from their "upgrade" console (which never really work anyways). In any case, read that blog post, it's stating a lot of the things I now don't feel I have to state because they are all laid out there.

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I was checking out the RSS feed of somethingawful.com today, and look what I happened upon! Check out who won Worst Image Makeover of 2006. Funny shit!

linky

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Not going to type out a bunch of thoughts about these albums.

1. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
2. Defiance, OH - The Great Depression
3. J. Dilla - The Shining
4. Oh No - Exodus into Unheard Rhythms
5. Moneen - The Red Tree (very surprised by this album)
6. Murs - Murray's Revenge
7. (tie) Johnny Cash - Personal File & Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
8. The Streets - The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
9. Cursive - Happy Hollow
10. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
11. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
12. Feist - Let it Die
13. J. Dilla - Donuts
14. Kevin Devine - Put Your Ghost to Rest
15. Feist - Open Season

Biggest Letdowns:
1. Less than Jake - In With the Out Crowd
2. Tilly and the Wall - Bottoms of Barrels
3. Heavens - Patent Pending
4. Saves the Day - Sound the Alarm
5. Ice Cube - Laugh Now, Cry Later

Best EPs:
1. Cursive - Dorothy at Forty
2. Okkervil River - Overboard and Down
3. The Mountain Goats - Babylon Springs

Current Music: The Loved Ones - Sickening

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