The things I want to look at in more detail later:
Online resources related to viruses, worms and other threats .
IT Workers = unhappy campers? (via ServerGeek)
Google Personalized search results.
Ultimate Boot CD (via Chris, and Andy..)
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Interesting Keynote on Internet Privacy. Good discussion about Spitzer, RealID, The wiretap bill, cloud computing, warrantless laptop searches at the border, etc. I was especially interested in Marc Rotenberg’s take on Google Apps. He’s not a fan. Rightly, he’s concerned about the amount of information Google has about you by having access to your email…
Speaking of VMWare player, I also decided this weekend to see if there was a virtual machine for the new version of Ubuntu. There is, actually there are a couple of options, Ubuntu, Kbuntu and Xubuntu, all available by torrent. But while I was waiting for the torrent to download, I decided on a better…
Although, truthfully I did get paid in Guinness and made from scratch cookies, but all the work I did on that laptop paid off in an unexpected way today. I was sitting at the helpdesk early this morning, when our network admin came by with a laptop. It had been one of our pool laptops…
The recent news that the RIAA wants ISP’s to start paying a tax for their customers file sharing raises a number of interesting questions. To me, this has always been the “tipping point” of sorts for the whole file-sharing question. It was inevitable that the RIAA and MPAA would go after ISP’s. There’s no cost-effective…
Some more discussion of the RSS “problem”, and the real answer to the problem, quit pulling feeds once an hour! Trust me, I update once, maybe twice a day, during the week and hardly at all on weekends. I’d be willing to bet most of the feeds you are subscribed to are similar. For more…
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