Blogger comments are off

During my weekly read through bugtraq looking for apps I use that might need updating I came across one for blogger.

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/394523/2005-03-29/2005-04-04/0
"...an attacker may inject executable code into
the archive page by posting a comment to the weblog because, while
Blogger automatically strips most HTML from comments, they do not strip
processing instructions."

I guess it doesn't matter if you use blogspot to host your blog, but I don't. So I have disabled comments for now.

Well -- it looks like the gaim plugin uses fonts that are way to large. There is also no title. I guess the blogger plugin could use a little work.

I am posting this from the gaim plugin for blogger. It uses the api from www.blogger.com/api to make it work. I think I will look at the source code and make a blogger app using QT.

QT in Gentoo

I had to manually set the path to QT libs in Gentoo to get QT designer and qmake working.

Add this to the bottom of your ~/.bashrc file:

QTDIR=/usr/qt/3
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
MANPATH=$QTDIR/doc/man:$MAN
PATHLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH