Bruce Schneier once again makes a valid point: SSH, or secure shell, is the standard protocol for remotely accessing UNIX systems. It’s used everywhere: universities, laboratories, and corporations (particularly in data-intensive back office services). Thanks to SSH, administrators can stack hundreds of computers close together into air-conditioned rooms and administer them from the comfort of [...]
Entries from May 10th, 2005
Early Reviews Say New Star Wars Is The Shit
May 10th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Movies
Yes, you read that correctly. THE shit as apposed to just plain shit. CBS has an article that points out the overall vibe of the early reviews of the latest Star Wars flick, Revenge Of The Sith. Apparantly, it doesn’t suck monkey balls like the past two movies: Daily Variety writer Todd McCarthy says the [...]
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FreeBSD 5.4 Released
May 10th, 2005 · No Comments · FreeBSD
A new version of FreeBSD has just been released: The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD Stable development branch. Since FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE in November 2004 we have made many improvements in functionality, stability, performance, and device driver support for some hardware, as well [...]
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Google’s Accelerator Breaks Web Apps
May 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Google, Internet, Privacy, Security
It seems that my hitherto published worries about Google Web Accelerator are being given some grounds by a recent article published in Eweek: Google’s effort to speed the pace of Web browsing quickly aggravated some early users, who say that the software is delivering them Web pages under other users’ logins and breaking Web applications. [...]
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