Trusted Computer Solutions (TCS) has launched what it calls the first Linux hardening tool that is designed to be easy to use and to help system administrators out with compliance issues.
Read more »Why would I care about Microsoft?
Whenever I mention in a crowd that I use free software, someone always seems to comment that I must hate Microsoft. When I add that I write about free software for a living, someone is apt to call me a Microsoft-basher. In either case, the implication seems to be that my identity is defined by Microsoft, and, perhaps, is composed of an unhealthy amount of envy.
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At least one person hates Firefox
The Firefox browser might be the darling of anti-Microsoft Internet users, but that hasn’t stopped it making an enemy of a previously unknown campaigner who wants websites to block it.
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Adventures in Ubuntu: Installation and Connecting to Stuff
My project this weekend was to install Ubuntu on my laptop. Ubuntu is a Linux based OS, it comes bundled with a lot of cool stuff (more on this later) and it is of course free. It is also, from what I’ve read, a less scary Linux, so perfect for non techy peeps like me.
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Windows Tech Writers Wrong About Linux
At least we are making some progress in the field of Windows using tech writers speaking with any level of clarity about Linux as a viable alternative. Yet as good as the article linked above is, its writer is wrong with one seriously flawed statement.
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Windows has 'fewer flaws' than Linux
Data collected by a Microsoft security researcher suggests that the company had to patch far fewer software vulnerabilities than competing vendors in 2007.
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Judge Kimball Sets the Rules of the Road for SCO v. Novell
Here's Judge Dale Kimball's Memorandum Decision and Order, in which he sets deadlines for what's left to accomplish prior to the date the trial is set to start. You can feel as you read it just how close we are now. It's getting very real to me.
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Securing SSH Using Denyhosts
SSH is a great way to remotely administer a server. However, it still has a number of issues when you open it up to the world. The server and client communications are secure but that doesn’t mean the hosts involved are. Opening an SSH service to the world allows for brute force attacks and means that the carbon interface is still the weakest link.
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Mobile Linux: The Desktop Developer Killer
Unless you have been living under a tree, you are aware of the fact that money in the Linux market by and large appears to be coming from the mobile market. Despite efforts from developers and various companies alike, the fact remains that it is the mobile development world that is gaining the bulk of the Linux developers out there.
Read more »Thoughts on the Social Graph
Fantastic project, but it should be focusing on freedom... Free software community should launch the same project, with agpl...
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FullerScreen 2.2
"I am glad to release today v 2.2 of FullerScreen. Available directly from Disruptive Innovations or through the add-ons manager if you got a previous version from us. Please stay tuned if you got it from addons.mozilla.org..."
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Prognostication
"Tim Bray’s guesses on the next big thing(s): Green computing; Atom and REST; Ruby and Python; AJAX; Jabber as transport protocol; functional programming (but not Erlang). Aren’t at least 3 of these already the current big thing?" " (via sediment.semifat.net)
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SlideAware: From Python to Ruby to Erlang
"...They started using Python, then they switched to Rails, and finally settled on pure Erlang. Using Erlang, they replaced a combination of Lighttpd + RoR + SQLlite + XMLRpc + Jython + Lucene with the much simpler and highly scalable stack of Yaws + Mnesia + Erlang..."
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The end of ERP?
"As the founder and leader of PeopleSoft, Dave Duffield played a seminal role in establishing enterprise resource planning, or ERP, systems as the IT engines of big business. But then, in a hostile takeover, the enterprise software giant Oracle yanked PeopleSoft out of Duffield's hands. Now, Duffield's back in town, and he wants to kill ERP..."
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Collecting and organizing “stuff” with ScrapBook and BasKet
Collecting and organizing disparate pieces of data on the hard disk and from the web can be a real challenge. Fortunately, there are two utilities that help to collect and organize “stuff” in a structured fashion.
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