— Jürgen Kreileder / Software Engineer and Consultant Sat, 29 Oct 2016 01:51:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 5303222Jürgen Kreileder/jk-rss.jpg/144114Software Engineer and Consultant Apple Rant /articles/apple-rant/ /articles/apple-rant/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:12:20 +0000 http://blog.blackdown.de/2007/06/08/apple-rant/ [→ Read the rest of this entry]]]> I want one of those new MacBook Pros.

I want one with a US keyboard!

Unfortunately Apple seems to be unable to provide US keyboards to European customers : (

The German webstore offers an International-English keyboard but that is different from US style keyboards: narrow Return key, additional key between left Shift and Z.

Several phone calls and emails didn’t help: No US keyboards for German users!

I never had this problem with other notebook manufacturers like Dell, Toshiba, and IBM. It can’t be that hard to put a different keyboard on that thingie when assembling it.

June 14th, 2007: Also read the follow-up to this post: Apple Praise : )

]]> /articles/apple-rant/feed/ 4 54 wordpress.org Cracked, Exploit in 2.1.1 Release /articles/wordpress-org-cracked-exploit-in-2-1-1-release/ /articles/wordpress-org-cracked-exploit-in-2-1-1-release/#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:08:33 +0000 http://blog.blackdown.de/2007/03/03/wordpressorg-cracked-exploit-in-211-release/ [→ Read the rest of this entry]]]> As pointed out on the WordPress development blog, a cracker gained access to the wordpress.org servers and replaced the 2.1.1 download with a modified exploitable version. The exploitable download may have been on the site for three or four days!

It may be a good idea for the developers to sign their releases with a well known and trusted PGP key. This would allow people to verify that downloaded files are really what they should be!
This is a well-established practice used by other projects, for example by the Linux kernel.

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