Apathy Online

The new ver­sion would allow the pres­i­dent to “declare a cyber­se­cu­rity emer­gency” relat­ing to “non–gov­ern­mental” com­puter net­works and do what’s nec­es­sary to respond to the threat. Other sec­tions of the pro­posal include a fed­eral cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram for “cyber­se­cu­rity pro­fes­sion­als,” and a require­ment that cer­tain com­puter sys­tems and net­works in the pri­vate sec­tor be man­aged by peo­ple who have been awarded that license.

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Many iPhone users have not been able to add their blog to the iPhone due to the client not being able to find the xmlrpc.php file. Because there is no way to man­u­ally set the loca­tion of the file, if the client can­not find it, it errors out, telling you to con­tact Word­Press sup­port. Well, I can­not wait for Word­Press sup­port, and found an easy tem­po­rary fix (until a new ver­sion of the client is released). The prob­lem is with the theme.

In every theme, this line should be just before the tag: < ? wp_head(); ?>. If this line is there, but you still get the xml-rpc error, then the client is hav­ing trou­ble see­ing it (well, the ren­dered ver­sion, which has the loca­tion of your xmlrpc.php). Easy solu­tion? Change your theme.

The client only needs to see the loca­tion when you add the blog, but never checks it again. Change your theme to the default Word­Press theme. Then add your blog to your iPhone Word­Press client. Then change your theme back. It works!

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An excel­lent research paper by Steve Gib­son explains bet­ter than I can some very good rea­sons to despise Cleartype, and Microsoft font ren­der­ing tech­niques. This, I believe, is rea­son enough to make every com­puter you own a Mac­in­tosh, or at least attempt to install MacOS on your com­put­ers. Unless you enjoy read­ing at the MS man­dated font size using the MS man­dated fonts under cleartype (which is good, but I don’t pre­fer the MS rec­om­mended settings).

Well, I am cheap, and even though Apple hard­ware is typ­i­cally cheaper than com­pa­ra­ble non-Apple hard­ware, I am not in the mar­ket for that kind of hard­ware. As such, I have used Win­dows, and the Safari browser for read­ing on Win­dows (Safari uses the MacOS font tech­nol­ogy). That is, until about a month ago, when I read this post about gdi++. I use gdi++++ under Win­dows now, and am not forced to use Safari at all any­more. Now I am back to using Opera on my $300 Acer lap­top, and the text is much more read­able. The japan­ese devel­op­ers of this soft­ware have my grat­i­tude.

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