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vmwarewolf.com has posted ESX PSODs

If you happen to search Google for one of the following phrases you might expect Google to return a list of official VMware Knowledgebase articles on the topic.

• crash debug screen
• machine crash screen
• ESX Server PSOD
• Purple screen crash report
• Decode purple screen error

I know this is a direct copy of some of that article, but it's an attempt to help out getting ESX Server PSOD ranked in Google. I'm sure I'll be forgiven for the verbatim copy/paste job.

The Google Summer of Code Blog has highlighted this years Gallery students, Gazing at Gallery. Again, thanks to the students and to Google for continuing to support open source development directly through the Summer of Code program.

Bharat Mediratta, of Gallery fame, has recently had two articles about him and a couple of his projects published. "The SourceForge Story" and "The Google Way: Give Engineers Room".

Drop by Bharats site and leave him a comment!

It's great to see great people get recognized as the great resources they are! Personally I owe Bharat (and the rest of the Gallery team) a lot, especially when it comes to understanding how a great developer community works and how to write quality code (I certainly don't do that though).

I would like to take this opportunity to express how grateful I am to have been able to meet such talented people both in the online world, but especially in person when I met up with the whole Gallery team in New York back in 2005. Hopefully I'll be able to repeat that this summer, perhaps even in Europe this time.

This years Summer of Code is over, and the Gallery team has posted a wrap up of this years experience and results. Check out the full story

I was signed up as a Project Mentor this year, as a backup for Michael Schultheiss but as expected my work load was zero. Good job students and mentors!

As mentioned before I decided to drop Text Link Ads when they told me that my nofollow modification to their Wordpress plugin was in violation of their ToS and that my account would be suspended if I didn't comply.

Yesteday I got a new email from them, again explaining that my ads wasn't showing at they would have to suspend my account unless I re-instated them. Clearly communications internally in Text Link Ads hasn't gone the full circle and the second representative that contacted me was unaware of the earlier conversations.

I took this opportunity to, yet again, ask for the ToS that I'm in violation of and got a Word document in return. After asking yet again, I did get a link from them to the ToS. The document is only linked to on the signup page and it's not possible to find a link to it after you have registered. Why they make it so hard to review after you sign up is beyond me, but I guess we can all speculate.

Either way, the Text Link Ads Terms of Service document does have an URL, it's just not well linked to anywhere, but here it is Text Link Ads Client / Publisher / Affiliate Agreement

And yes, I was clearly in violation of it after I did my changes to the plugin, I just had no way of finding out before I decided to "hack" the code.

9. EXCLUSIVITY PROVISIONS. A. The publisher is not permitted to alter the ad script provided by the Company in any way without written consent from Text Link Ads while delivering the advertisements. ...

So there it is. No modifications are allowed.