Movable Type 3.0 has been released under a new licence scheme , with some commentary and explanation from Mena about the move to charging for their software. A lot of people are up in arms about it, but personally I think it's A Good Thing™, and wish them all the best. Brad Choate sums up […]
According to a Russian security site [ babelfish translation ], SCO are behind a new worm ( Mydoom ) which is designed to target www.sco.com with a DDoS attack this Sunday, while propogating itself in the usual win32 email fashion ... seemingly the FBI has raided SCO, detained employees and seized equipment. Truth? Who knows […]
" Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and the world's wealthiest man, is to receive an honorary knighthood for "services to global enterprise". " Yeah, I know, I had to do a double-take on that one too. The Telegraph article also states that "commercial success has led to hatred of him among his competitors." This in […]
For those who think Debian is "hard" to install, let the Chicken Install method dispel a few myths :) I personally have always found Debian fast and easy to install, the new installer should help that become even simpler. The tendency these days is more towards eye candy than actual ease of process. If it's […]
saturday > figuring out how to install debian woody over network using pxe netboot / tftp > successfully installed > grab old write-to-serial-lcd perl script to do cool stuff on newly built deb box > remember how to do rc.local equivalent in debian > pack > drive to town > drive past town to PC […]
SmoothWall GPL went onepointoh last week ... I totally forgot to mention. It's basically SmoothWall 0.9.9 patched to the gunnels with all the updates and security fixes we've applied since we released it on September 15th 2001, and we decided "this is mature enough to be called one point oh." So we did! Now the […]
I'm still alive ... <promise towhom="self"> I will update this more often </promise> ... cisco have told me that they can't think about taking me on until August - random hiring freeze time ... oh Cisco are posting a few million less dollars profit this year, even though it's still more than the GNP of […]