linux

Nokia: How to Do Opensource Right

Friday, May 27th, 2005

The [Nokia 770](http://www.nokia.com/770) has gotten a lot of press in the last couple of days, but it deserves a little more. Nokia has always been hacker and homebrew friendly. Most of their consumer devices use [Symbian](http://www.symbian.com/), which provides good docs and runs a fairly useful developer site, and this attitute of openess is […]

Mixed Networks Admin.: A Little tlp

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

To get back a little more into tech content:
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time with a lot of xterms open: local session, ssh sessions, database connections, you name it. Keeping track of all those windows can get confusing, especially if you aren’t always at the same physical console. Different […]

Hyper-Threading Only Mostly Harmless

Friday, May 13th, 2005

[BSDCan2005](http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/) isn’t even in full swing yet–it kicks off in earnest in about 15 minutes–but the big news has already started to roll in: [Colin Percival](http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/colin.percival/) has detected a potentially serious flaw in Intel’s Hyper-Threading, and his public announcement will be one of the first panels.
> Percival, a FreeBSD committer and security […]

[Announce-NY]: Final Perlsemny meeting

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

[Perl Seminar New York](http://groups.yahoo.com/group/perlsemny/) sends the following:
> Our final official meeting for the 2004-05 season will take place on the third Tuesday of May at the usual location:
> Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 6:15-8:15 pm
> NYPC User Group
> 481 8 Avenue (Ramada New Yorker hotel)
> Suite 1560
> between 34th & 35th Sts, Manhattan, right near Penn […]

SSH vulnerability?

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

There has been a lot of discussion in the OpenBSD community (and probably elsewhere, but OpenBSD has a special relationship to OpenSSH) over a paper published by some MIT students regarding a supposed SSH exploit. OpenBSD being the system of choice for the Practical Paranoid (as well at the pratically paranoid and plain old […]

Libretto

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

I’m not sure why this didn’t make a bigger splash when it was announced. Maybe it did, and I just had my head under a rock. Either way, in case you missed it like I did, here’s the news: [Toshiba](http://www.toshiba.com) reintroduced an updated Libretto on April 20th. Actually, they introduced two: the […]

Open Source for Academics (Part I)

Friday, April 29th, 2005

*Or Why You Should Stop Using Word.*
Don’t get me wrong, Microsoft makes a decent word processor, in fact a decent office suite. Office has unsurpassed functionality, isn’t really as bloated as a lot of open source types would have you believe, and crashes far less than it used to. If you’re like me, […]