I’ll Tell You What…

This is supposedly a letter from the NSA to industry partners.
Would you give your address to a stranger on the street? Of course not! What if the stranger were a burglar? They’d know you’re not at home and would be free to ransack your house. So why would you post […]

So I’m sitting there at work minding my own business when a co-worker walks up and tells me that the “powers-that-be” are testing the security of the UNIX/Linux systems by intentionally doing things that trigger events in our audit logs. I just roll my eyes and think happy thoughts for a minute or two […]

Some of the things Bruce Schneier says reminds me of me. In his latest commentary in Wired.com, Bruce points out that it takes a different kind of person to see through security-tinted glasses.

So I’ve been wondering lately about programming languages.  I’d like to thoroughly learn one but I’m stuck as to which one.  Over the years I’ve used many different languages from a variety of BASICs to Pascal to Perl to Java and so on but I’ve never really sat down to dive in head first and […]

Very interesting Blizzard and World of Warcraft data.

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IBM DeveloperWorks has put together a list of 10 good UNIX usage habits. From the article:
Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX® command line efficiency — and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations. […]

A chinese company has claimed that they have cracked the Skype protocol enabling them to create compatible applications and, more importantly, enable the Chinese government to tighten its grip on free speech in China by blocking voice-over-IP connections from certain parts of the world.

From CIO Tech Informer:

By cracking the Skype protocol, the company claims it […]

I’m not sure what I expected from their get together. Hu Jintao and Bill Gates pat each other on the back.

And in other news. Yahoo! may have helped China jail another journalist. This will be Yahoo!’s third assist in the capture of a journalist. Way to go, Yahoo!

The 10.4.6 update for Mac OS X has been released. This is a big update (~140 MB for PPC and ~192 MB for Intel) and fixes many problems. A smaller (~65 MB for PPC or ~163 MB for Intel) 10.4.5 to 10.4.6 update file is also available on the Downloads page. Just […]

Here comes yet another patent infringement headline. AT&T has started threatening companies in order to license it’s MPEG-4 technology. AT&T is targeting companies such as Apple, CyberLink, DivX, InterVideo, and Sonic Solutions as having unlicensed products that use their technology.
Just what the world needs: more software patent lawsuits.

The more I read about China the more I’m convinced that companies are only concerned with making a buck and could care less what China does to its own people.
It looks as if China is becoming the Big Brother of George Orwell’s 1984.