Archive for June, 2007
Links Page
I’ve created a links page that contains a set of potentially interesting links. Mostly it’s a collection of my profiles on several sites that I use from time to time. Hopefully, it will be a good way to find me in other places on the internet.
Now, I have seen a lot of similar […]
Posted: June 28th, 2007 under Website News.
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Accountability and Data Breaches
One of the biggest reasons that computer security is so lax across many private industries is that there is a serious lack of accountability. If a business has a massive data breach, currently the only major or direct consequence of that breach to the business is a public relations problem of some degree. […]
Posted: June 25th, 2007 under Computer Security, Politics and Law.
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New York Times on Gold Farming
Last weekend there was an excellent article in the New York Times about Gold Farming. I mean to post about it earlier, but later is definitely better than never in this case. As a former hardcore EverQuest player, I can say that there’s a lot of this article that rings as very well […]
Posted: June 23rd, 2007 under Games, Technology.
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Email Privacy Ruling
Earlier this week the Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals made an important ruling about the privacy of emails. This ruling basically states that a probable cause warrant would have to be issued for investigators to get access to your emails from an ISP. While you might have thought that something like this […]
Posted: June 22nd, 2007 under Computer Security, Politics and Law.
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Apple, ZFS and Laptops
Well, the results are in and everyone predicting ZFS as the file system for the next version of Apple’s Mac OS X was only partially right. Turns out that ZFS won’t be the exclusive file system used in Leopard. Of course, this news has come by way of massive back and forth. […]
Posted: June 13th, 2007 under Computer Security, Technology.
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GnuPG and Gmail
One of my pet peeves with gmail is that it doesn’t have native support for GnuPG. I don’t think email encryption will ever achieve widespread adoption unless it’s built in to a major webmail client. Since Google’s philosophy of doing no evil seems at least somewhat close to doing something good, I was […]
Posted: June 5th, 2007 under Computer Security, Technology.
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Book: Julie and Julia
This is one of the most hilarious books I have read in a long while. It is called Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously. The premise of the book is that a 29 going on 30 secretary named Julie Powell from New York City does something extreme to break the mundane […]
Posted: June 5th, 2007 under Books.
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Gentoo 2007.0 Released
Gentoo Linux recently released it’s latest install live CD called Gentoo Linux 2007.0. Slashdot reported that it had some mixed reviews. The Gentoo Forums have a few reports of a buggy GUI installation process.
Personally, I think the GUI installation is a bit of overkill, but then I have never done it. I […]
Posted: June 1st, 2007 under Linux.
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