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Good Debian Server Setup HOWTO

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier this year OSNews published my article titled "Installing Debian Linux For The Faint Of Heart." Today I came across another article dealing with the same subject. Now, I know people have hammered these types of articles to death in the net but this one sounded worth the risk of mentioning. For one thing, it covers hardening your bare-bones Debian server which, IMHO should be worth looking at no matter what.

Of Whidbey, Orcas, and Hawaii

Wed, 25 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000

With the upcoming release of Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005) scheduled for some time this Summer, Microsoft has already been busy working on the next 2 versions: Orca and Hawaii. "Microsoft officials said that while Whidbey will help developers target the upcoming Longhorn operating system, Orcas will be the version of the tool set that will enable developers to ride what the company calls the Longhorn wave and tap the new features of the operating system. Hawaii will come shortly after Orcas to provide even more Longhorn-specific functionality and more." (eWeek.com)

15 things you can do with RSS

Sun, 08 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000

I didn’t know you could do all of these with rss!!! Wow!!! Read the original post here.

Get the news as it happens from multiple news sources: An RSS feed reader is an aggregator of numerous feeds from news sources (and nearly every major paper and TV news network has RSS feeds today). But now there are even feeds that aggregate other feeds. The new RSSmix.com lets you combine all the news source RSS feeds into one single feed so you get news as it happens.

A (Not) Hacker's Tale

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0000

This is just too funny!!! Not sure if it really happened or not but my professional experience has proven me wrong many times before! Hehehe… Read on…

Something nice I read on www.stophiphop.de (got pointed there by a comment on www.macguardians.de) is this nice story of a hacker: `http://www.beast.mos-worlds.de/modules/new…php?storyid=184 <http://www.beast.mos-worlds.de/modules/new...php?storyid=184>`__`www.stophiphop.de <http://www.stophiphop.de>`__ (got pointed there by a comment on `www.macguardians.de <http://www.macguardians.de>`__) is this nice story of a hacker: http://www.beast.mos-worlds.de/modules/new...php?storyid=184 (site might be down, quite a lot of people are reading this).

El Robot

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000

My sister had told me about this when she called to wish us a happy Easter. She was very excited about it and thought I’d feel the same. For those of you who don’t read any “geek news” or avoid any conversations that don’t relate to music videos or movies: Wired magazine published an article in this month’s issue about “How four underdogs from the mean streets of Phoenix took on the best from M.I.T. in the national underwater bot championship." The nature of the contest is obscured and relegated to white-noise background and the real meat of the article is to describe how these 4 illegal high school immigrants were able to compete against and beat teams from some of the best colleges in the nation. M.I.T.’s team must have been the most famous participant for their name appears at least a dozen times in the article. The contest itself comprised of maneauvering an aquatic robot through an underwater (duhh) obstacle course as well as perform certain tasks. Having managed only $800 of cash for support, these 4 kids had to improvise and choose very carefully the building blocks for their bot: ::wikipedia("pvc","PVC"):: pipes and tampons were some of the items in their arsenal. The whole story reminds me of when I went to high school and had to take one of those standardized tests (was it the ::wikipedia("psat","PSAT")::?) required to graduate. While following the oral instructions to fill out the first page of the test, one teacher walking around the "immigrant section" of the library (we, immigrants, had been segregated to this section of the library, away from the "Americans") noticed that we all had finished filling out the tests and were waaaay ahead of everybody else. He was so astonished that he said to a guy sitting next to me: “I don’t care what they say about you… I think you’re all very smart!” To this day I still wonder what “they" thought of "us”!!!

Olé, Olé

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000

An interesting read (sorry… free registration required) about Brazil’s involvement with the Open Source movement. It seems that Linux has joined Soccer as this country’s passion. The New York Times says “Brazil: Free Software’s Biggest and Best Friend”.

Looking to save millions of dollars in royalties and licensing fees, Mr. da Silva has instructed government ministries and state-run companies to gradually switch from costly operating systems made by Microsoft and others to free operating systems, like Linux. On Mr. da Silva’s watch, Brazil has also become the first country to require any company or research institute that receives government financing to develop software to license it as open-source, meaning the underlying software code must be free to all.