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Today is the 7th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day, so, to my fellow sysadmins…Happy Day! :)
Pile up the gifts on your sysadmin, gadgets, CDs, books, or even a nomination for Sysadmin of the Year, don’t forget to show your appreciation for your Sysadmin :)
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Ok, I admit I’m a sucker for a well-written essay, specially one that has not only style but good content…and Bruce is good at providing both.
For those that don’t know, Bruce Schneier is one of the best regarded experts on security and cryptology, and he’s also a very good writer…reading his blog is very interesting…even [...]

There’s an article in Security Fix about a Password-Stealing Trojan Disguised as Firefox Extension that everybody who uses Firefox on Windows should read. The Trojan comes in as an email that appears to be sent from Wal-Mart’s billing support department and includes a Firefox extension that is, in truth, a password stealing program that also [...]

I found this article very interesting. Microsoft has held annual meetings with the top antivirus companies during the last ten years, and it’s usually thought of as a productive meeting (at least for the antivirus companies :) but this year’s meeting has created different feelings.
Now that MS has decided to go into the security business, [...]

Ok, Linux Extremist tends to be lots of fun…and this article isn’t the exception :) He compares the Microsoft vs FLOSS “war” to the Star Wars universe, which is something that has been done a lot, to the point that if you mention “The Empire” in most FLOSS forums, everybody’ll know you are talking about [...]

James Doohan, who played Scotty in the original Star Trek, died a year ago, on July 20th 2005, at age 85. In December of this year or January of next year, his ashes will be sent to space in a rocket, together with about 100 other people, including astronaut Gordon Cooper. This after last year’s [...]

After weeks and weeks of rumours, it has happened at last…AMD bought ATI.
You may guess I’m not very enthusiastic about it…and you’d be right. I have a problem with this, a serious one.
I *am* an AMD fanboy…all computers in my house are, at this point, powered by AMD processors, from a 386/40 doing DNS to [...]

Ok, it seems like Andy is back at it, and he has a new report about all things ODF called ODF Notes and Reports from All Over (Installment VI).
As usual, an interesting and comprehensive report, with interesting bits, noticeable among the items is that Google has joined the ODF Alliance, the appearence of the ODF [...]

Ok, this is strange and worth following on.
Through Boing Boing I found this article on Security Fix’s Brian Krebs’ blog talking about the arrest of Steven Rambam, owner and CEO of Pallorium Inc., a company that does online investigations.
Rambam was about to start a panel discussion on privacy at the HOPE hacker conference, when [...]

Ok, I just caught this article on BBC News from a post in Linux Extremist, and I have to say a couple of things.
Unfortunately, neither the original article on BBC nor the post on LE list the 12 tenets that Microsoft’s senior VP Brad Smith announced on Wednesday. But the BBC article does list three [...]