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#### [Kohei Yoshida: Key binding compatibility options](//kohei.us/2010/10/12/key-binding-compatibility-options/)
"As I posted on the libreoffice development list, I’m currently working on adding a new option page in the Options dialog, to provide a quick way to switch key bindings between LibreOffice’s default and OpenOffice.org’s for Calc. For the most part, the default key bindings are identical between LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org as far as Calc’s concerned, but there are some differences, which are enough to annoy those users who are accustomed to the old key bindings from OOo Calc."
#### [Rémy Marquis: Getting Plymouth on openSUSE](//lizards.opensuse.org/2010/10/12/getting-plymouth-on-opensuse/)
"**What is Plymouth?**
After many years of service, it seems that the good old bootsplash is slowly going on retirement. Although there were a few attempts to replace the aging bootsplash (Splashy, usplash, ..), it is Plymouth that positions itself the best as the standard bootsplash of modern distributions. Developped by Fedora, Plymouth supports is a logger and a splash system that supports advanced animations when booting and brings a non flickering, professional looking boot similar to what we can observe under other operating systems.
Plymouth was first included in Fedora 10 “Cambridge” shipped on November 2008, Mandriva switched from splashy to plymouth with in Automn 2009, and Ubuntu includes it since the 10.04 release shipped on April of this year. However, despite being the actual second most voted feature on openFATE, Plymouth hasn’t been integrated in openSUSE yet, mainly because nobody took time to “make it happens“."
#### [Andrew Wafaa: Hyenas and Beagles snapping at the heels of Smeegol](//www.wafaa.eu/entry/hyenas-and-beagles-snapping-at-the-heels-of-smeegol-1-43.html)
"I unfortunately received an e-mail just now from the Linux Foundation with regards to our precious Smeegol, and it appears on the face of it that they're not that impressed with our efforts. Somewhat bizarrely as they have had plenty of opportunity to respond.
Now I'm not going to start ranting and raving about injustice etc, what I will say is this and it is a bit of a rant ;-):
Since Moblin morphed into MeeGo, things appear from the outside to have taken a bit of a dip for the worse :-( MeeGo is now pushing the fact that it is a distro in it's own right which is perfectly acceptable and fair (although I think the world has enough distros). There are several people within the paid community who look on our efforts and those of Fedora's as wasteful, and not for the greater good. Sorry but bollocks to you!!
I wholly understand now why Canonical & Ubuntu dropped it and went down their own road with UNR & Unity. They don't mind if someone else packages it and uses it - they and everyone else knows where it came from - for that I doff my cap to the Ubuntu crowd.
If the Linux Foundation really want to make MeeGo work and be prevalent everywhere they need to look to the wider community to help it. Having a niche distro is all good and well, but without the wider eco-system that goes along with a distro you're buggered. One of the reasons I started working on Smeegol is openSUSE has a fantastic ecosystem, we've got pretty good tools and have a shit load of applications available. The same goes for Fedora. We both also have a pretty vibrant community with lots of friendly and knowledgable people willing to help."
#### [Matthew Ehle: Blocking Bad Crawlers with Apache mod_evasive](//www.matthewehle.info/blog/?p=130)
"Back in March, I wrote an article on a great little Apache module for blocking automated scans and attacks on your system. Since that article was written, the module has blocked and notified me of a couple vulnerability scans being run against my web server. Basically, it has been doing exactly what I expected of it. However, what I didn’t expect was a very pleasant side effect that the module would bring.
A few weeks ago, I received an email from my web server that it had blacklisted an IP address. I logged onto the machine and checked the logs to see when and where the attack was ran. As it turns out, the “attack” was actually coming from an aggressive crawler from a company called Brandwatch. A quick search on Google revealed dozens of complaints from webmasters about the overly aggressive crawling rate of the brandwatch crawler (identified in user-agent strings as ‘magpie’). The 4 or 5 entries in the access log (before mod_evasive was activated) indicated a crawling rate of over 3 pages per second!
The good news is that mod_evasive blocks all high rate scans of the system, whether they are malicious or just plain annoying. If you’re having a problem with aggressive crawlers, check out the above article on mod_evasive and give it a shot. I didn’t have bad crawlers in mind when I first implemented it, but it seems to work very well for them."
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/17/opensuse-weekly-news-issue-145-is-out/