Disqus - Latest Comments for inode

Re: Unix time ... before 1970

inode — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:59:27 -0000

And it's just saved me already :-) An accident with copy/paste saw a whole load of crap pasted into a root shell, with associated damage. "hg revert -r 3 --all" brought the system back to state again!

Re: Wednesday Communications pt 1

inode — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:19:55 -0000

After I posted that, the Vodem never worked on that laptop again. Fantastic quality, eh. I've switched to a PCMCIA card instead, which works.

Re: Getting photos from the iPhone

inode — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:57:57 -0000

That's one part of the picture ... :-) the rest?

Re: iPhone kiwi-ise.co.nz moved ...

inode — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:42:38 -0000

Argh, I knew the parser would break on that, but hit submit too early. I'll fix it later. In the meantime,point AppTapp to http://get.kiwi-ise.co.nz/

Re: 80x15 icons

inode — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:37:15 -0000

Actually, my icon was more to act as a site-level generic link back to the disqus home page, not to act as a thread-specific marker :-)

Re: Integrating Disqus with Nanoblogger

inode — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:39:31 -0000

I guess if I knew nanoblogger slightly better I wouldn't have to hard-code the site URL into disqus_url :-) I'd still have to specify the location of embed.js and the noscript link, but they could be carried elsewhere ...

Re: A thread per-article from a blog?

inode — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:55:38 -0000

Thanks for your help -- all working now!
http://nb.inode.co.nz/archi...

Re: November 09, 2007 Archives | iNode: Nota Bene

inode — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:40:46 -0000

Meh. Once again I'm bitten by a bug in my markup parser -- I can't put !! at the end of a [link].

Re: A thread per-article from a blog?

inode — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:29:53 -0000

Yeah, some of the linking is odd -- it basically puts all blog entries from the same day on the same page, hence the anchoring to identify which one you want.

At this stage I think I'll have to 'ignore' this, certainly it isn't disqus' fault :-)

Thanks for that code snippet, now I know what to look for in embed.js I see the whole "if undefined" set of code :-) Some more stuff to play with!

Re: A thread per-article from a blog?

inode — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:22:48 -0000

The clue is a start, but a slightly targetted example would be better!

This is the blog template code at the moment :-

< div class="posted">
< br />$template_postedby < span class="item-creator">$NB_EntryAuthor< /span>
$([ "$PERMALINKS" = "1" ] && echo '| < a class="link" href="'${ARCHIVES_PATH}$NB_EntryPermalink'">'$template_permlink'< /a>')
$([ ! -z "$NB_EntryCategories" ] && echo "| $template_catlinks $NB_EntryCategories" |sed -e '{$ s/\,$//; }')
< div id="disqus_thread">< /div>< script type="text/javascript" src="http://disqus.com/forums/no...">< /script>< noscript>< a href="http://notabene.disqus.com/...">View the forum thread.< /a>< /noscript>
< /div>

So you can see that the URL of the article itself will be '${ARCHIVES_PATH}$NB_EntryPermalink'

However the Disqus code is purely generated by <script type="text/javascript" src="http://disqus.com/forums/no..."></script> and I don't know how to pass parameters into that (I'm not much of a javascript person)

I've grabbed that script, and it seems as if the implied link is coming via :-
var disqus_href = window.location.href;
This gets built up into disqus_url, which is passed into thread.js ...
disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/no...
+ '?url=' + encodeURI(disqus_url)

Do you think I should grab a local copy of embed.js and modify that, instead of using the one hosted on disqus? I don't think that's a good strategy as I'm sure to miss any development work that will go into that script over time ...

Or is there something else I've missed?

Re: November 05, 2007 Archives | iNode: Nota Bene

inode — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:48:55 -0000

Thanks for that :-)
In practice I'm happy at the moment for the comment blocks to match the width of the articles, and they are well constrained by the containing div.

I'm sure to get into the css later on, to play with coloring and borders :-)

Re: November 05, 2007 Archives | iNode: Nota Bene

inode — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:22:25 -0000

Comment from permalinked page (therefore different referrer)

Re: Password Security | rawiriblundell.com

inode — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:25:46 -0000

A decent enough set of recommendations. However your example of taking a long phrase and doing character substitution on it (Th3R4inIn$p41nF4llSM41nly0nTh3Pl41n ) doesn't add much entripy for random attack protection. It does help with over-the-shoulder or from-the-postit attacks.

Also have a look at Diceware http://world.std.com/~reinh... as they explain some of the maths, as well as present a system that I have used successfully (in different combinations) for years.