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NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has released
a guide
to increasing security in Windows 20000 Professional. The site
also provides a link to the previously-released guidelines
released by the National Security Agency.
Veritas has announced
the release of their Foundation Suite
product (consisting of Veritas File System and Veritas Volume
Manager) for RedHat Linux.
From the O'Reilly Mac DevCenter,
Movies and Menus. The Quicktime stuff is interesting, but
the real gold in this article is the stuff about contextual and dock
menus.
Another
article about the tech side of making "Lord of the Rings:
Fellowship of the Ring." Wowzers, 45TB of data just for the
first movie.
A bunch of versions of the original UNIX (AT&T and BSD both)
are now open-source and available from the
The Unix Heritage Society. An HTTP link directly to the
archive is here.
Continuing in the "don't steal from geeks" vein,
here is a story from the Chicago Tribune about a group of
Ebay buyers that banded together using the Internet to track
down and (some would say) harass a seller that allegedly
cheated them out of as much as $125,000. It's just plain scary
sometimes how much information is available on someone if
you really go looking.
Here's an amazing story about how a stolen iMac was retrieved using AppleScript and Timbuktu. That'll teach them to steal from geeks.
It's The History of Video Games, all the way back to 1889!
This month's Sun Blueprints articles online, and there are a
couple of really good ones. The
first is a guide on implementing Sun Cluster software from
a hardware installation perspective. The
second is an excerpt from the new Sun Blueprints book
"Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology", which is
definitely going on my to-buy list.
Chapter 3, "Design Types," of Kevin Dooley's new book from
O'Reilly, "Designing Large-Scale LANs" is
available online at the O'Reilly site.
Found an article
entitled "MacOS X: Backup and Restore Entire Volume" which
discusses some of the issues involved with backing up files
and filesystems on MacOS X.
Wonderful article from the O'Reilly Network about
Brewster Kahle and the
Internet Wayback Machine, which is attempting to archive
the entire Internet into a massive database. The really cool part?
The database runs on open-source software and a big cluster
of FreeBSD machines.
Albatross
is a Python toolkit for building web applications. Seems to be
very well designed with lots of useful features like server-side
session support (although it uses a separate "session server"
which I'm not wild about) and model-view-controller support.
A great geeky
article on how to use a surplus Primestar (ie.. satellite TV)
dish as a high-gain directional antenna for 802.11 wireless. The
guy was able to get full bandwidth at 10 miles!
From the Los Angeles Times comes a great
history of the Electronic Frontiers Foundation.
Interesting article
from Linux Journal, entitled "Penguin Angle on the Ox: Day One at Macworld."
It covers the MacWorld trade show from the perspective of a
Linux/UNIX user.
Data Refactoring takes the concepts of Refactoring,
from Extreme Programming, and applies it to database design.
Several good
articles on developing for MacOS X using Java can be found
over on O'Reilly's OnJava.com
site.
More geeky goodness from IBM:
Highly Available/Scalable Sendmail Using Sendmail Clusters
on Linux.
Interesting article on a somewhat confusing subject: the difference between Solaris releases (i.e. Solaris 8 vs. Solaris 8 10/00 vs. Solaris 8 Maintenance Update 4).
The CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) certification is an expensive ($450) and grueling (6 hours, 250 questions) exam, and is one of the most sought-after certifications today. Namit Merchant is a 17-year-old Indian high school student and the first teen-aged CISSP. Cool!
The full text of Steven Bellovin and Bill Cheswick's book "Firewalls and Internet Security" is now available online. It's an easy read and a great book from two experts on the subject.
Two new MacOS articles from the
O'Reilly Mac DevCenter:
Turning on PHP4 under Apache, for sysadmins, and
Animating Graphics in Cocoa, for programmers.
Nice little
introduction to two of the new language features in Python 2.2, iterators and simple
generators. More stuff to learn. See also IBM's
three part
series on functional
programming in Python.
New DNS-management tool to checkout:
mkrdns automatically generates PTR records for multiple zones.
A long
article from Salon on Ion Storm, one of the most infamous
computer game companies in recent memory, run by the well-known
"personality" John Romero of "Doom" fame.