I've got to find some time to write my "The Problems with Software Patents - Lack of Unambiguous Verifiable Result" article .. I've just been too busy of late.

There's an article on Slashdot.org about  various very popular open source projects that are in serious danger as a result of software patents. This is very bad news.

 http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/04/07/2027223.shtml?tid=155&tid=219

Continuing my trend of using YML.COM as a test bed, MOBIE 0.8.0.22 has been installed. This /should/ fix the persistent login problems we were noticing.

I've changed the caching headers that formVista sends out which should speed things up noticeably. (4 years of development and neglected to check the default headers PHP sends out.)

You will notice that you can now use the BACK button on forms. However, you will still not be able to double-submit a form due to formVista validation.

Please keep an eye out for weird caching bugs, especially images. I expect that I'm going to have to do some more tweaking to the caching code.

I've also included a number of bugfixes. I keep trying to get time to work on the Xinha HTMLEditor and I keep getting thwarted.

In other news, Personal Stock Streamer is out there. The site is holding up well. Not bad for a dual PIII 600 ...

From the "why it's important to have good passwords" department, we're seeing more and more dictionary style ssh2 attacks on our servers.

Apr  4 17:28:19 dns1 sshd[3815]: Illegal user cvsadmin from 218.145.54.195
Apr  4 17:28:19 dns1 sshd[3815]: Failed password for illegal user cvsadmin from
218.145.54.195 port 44675 ssh2
Apr  4 17:28:22 dns1 sshd[3824]: Illegal user learn from 218.145.54.195
Apr  4 17:28:22 dns1 sshd[3824]: Failed password for illegal user learn from 218.145.54.195 port 44772 ssh2
Apr  4 17:28:26 dns1 sshd[3826]: Illegal user learn from 218.145.54.195
Apr  4 17:28:26 dns1 sshd[3826]: Failed password for illegal user learn from 218.145.54.195 port 44857 ssh2
Apr  4 17:28:29 dns1 sshd[3829]: Illegal user webalizer from 218.145.54.195
Apr  4 17:28:29 dns1 sshd[3829]: Failed password for illegal user webalizer from

Make sure your passwords do not use full words. Intersperse letters, numbers and special characters. Do not use anything as a password that can be looked up in a dictionary.

Many of you have heard me talk about this absolutely monstrous charts development project that's consumed us for the last 1.5 years. Well, as of today, the beast has been released.

So if you care to, go check out our new site and app, Personal Stock Streamer 7.0.

And of course, the site is running MOBIE so things should look familiar. :)

In related news, Anatoly tells me that PSM 1.0 was released 9 years ago on Tuesday. Crazy to think it's been that long. I've only been involved with it for the last 7 ...