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Comment on Vista Hacks: Making My Wacom Serial Tablet Work by Christian

Christian — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:13:34 +0000

My Art Pad II is working properly, thanks to this gorgeous hack! )
Only one question is cracking my mind:

How would I be able, to get access to the Wacom.cpl?! All of response I’m getting is, that I should reinstall the driver, wich I did one time, with no luck either. (
I wish to change the Pen-Buttons config, to my usual one, back at XP.
Anyone had this problem, too? Any Fix for that?

Kind regards. :O)

Comment on WordPress, the GPL, and Thesis by Aaron Jorbin

Aaron Jorbin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:18:27 +0000

The interpretation by James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center is pretty straigtforward. The PHP of themes is required to be GPL, while the css, images and javascript does not. Thus Thesis is clearly in violation and needs to either get in compliance or risk a lawsuit that will be a lot more damagin to there revenue model than gpl compliance.

@justinS Plugins, even more clearly than themes are derivative works and thus need to be licensed under the gpl in my not a lawyer opinion. I’ll leave the question of if it is just the php or also css, javascript, etc. that needs to be gpl up to the actual lawyers.

Comment on WordPress, the GPL, and Thesis by JustinS

JustinS — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:16:09 +0000

Ok, I went and read the article. Seems to me that the same logic they use to justify requiring GPL for themes would also apply to plugins, perhaps even more so.

Comment on WordPress, the GPL, and Thesis by JustinS

JustinS — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:17:06 +0000

Too lazy to read Matt’s piece… are they trying to dictate that plugins also be GPL?

Comment on Steps in Launching a New Blog by BrianEnigma

BrianEnigma — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:02:10 +0000

Thanks for sharing such a great checklist! I do not plan on starting up any new blogs soon, but am definitely bookmarking this. Some of those plugins look to be pretty useful (and new to me!) I wonder if your exclusion of a caching plugin was intentional or accidental? Wordpress blogs tend to have a reputation within Digg comment threads for dying under the strain of being dugg. I understand something like the WP-Cache plugin helps out significantly.

Also, I’d like to know a bit more about how you do OpenID integration. From some of your previous tweets (re: Vidoop), it sounds like you use a 3rd party server for this instead of hosting it yourself within Wordpress?

Comment on Steps in Launching a New Blog by morganpdx

morganpdx — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:17:53 +0000

Wow great list Aaron! Good as an initial reference. I agree there could be a little more clarity on some items – “affiliate/ads” is one I’m interested in looking a bit more at.

This is going in my ‘official reference’ virtual file.

Comment on Steps in Launching a New Blog by Mike Rohrig

Mike Rohrig — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:05:33 +0000

Great list. Reminded me of some plug-ins I forgot and exposed me to some new useful oness.

Comment on Steps in Launching a New Blog by Aaron B. Hockley

Aaron B. Hockley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:13:19 +0000

Depends how much separation you want. My user accounts are also admin accounts. Expert sysadmins would probably tell me I’m #doingitwrong

Comment on Steps in Launching a New Blog by Kathleen McDade

Kathleen McDade — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:09:28 +0000

Oh. But it’s not an admin account? I set up an account with my username, but it IS an admin account.

Comment on Steps in Launching a New Blog by Aaron B. Hockley

Aaron B. Hockley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:07:20 +0000

I like to setup a second account using my standard username both out of habit from when I did system administration as well as to have a second account “just in case” something goes wonky with one of them.