Archive for 'Computers and Technology' Category
Small-to-medium business uptake of linux?
17 April 2006http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39187298,00.htm brings up an interesting issue. Part of the topic really is a lack of management at such places. The types of tasks which need to be done in the enterprise haven’t been analyzed, and thus employees are allowed to do basically anything they want with their machines. They consequently are encouraged to rely on [...]
SCP Hints
17 April 2005Just a few quick speed hints for using SCP, which came my way:
The -C flag will tell SSH/SCP to compress stuff. In general I use it
all the time. CPUs are so much faster than networks still so
compression is your friend.
Depending on your platform, using the blowfish cipher should be a little
faster than using [...]
Open source in the police department
17 April 2005What I appreciate about this article over at RedHat (as I read):
1. This guy clearly will bounce between operating systems. He mentions “MSYS” (http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml) which also should be in one’s bag of tricks with cygwin.
2. He is willing to consider some old 8086 machines and dot-matrix printers as potential time-saving tools.
3. He mentions the [...]
Lighter-weight linux distributions
19 October 2004The linux world, in its fight to act like a point-for-point rebuttal to the Windows and Mac worlds, are busily adding features and bloat to desktop offerings. However, in the process, a regular mainstream Linux distribution like Mandrake or Red Hat take as much, and at times more, memory and processor speed as a Windows [...]
Open Source Security
19 April 2004Open Source Is Fertile Ground for Foul Play contains important security concerns. One part of the Total-Cost-of-Ownership will be, basically, open source code auditing, for those companies who go that route. No way to gloss over that. It is most certainly possible to inject malicious code into distributions, but you will certainly have to make [...]
Bootable Linux
2 March 2004One of the most enjoyable and potentially useful bits of linux paraphernalia has been the explosion of “bootable linux” distributions. For quite a while, the main ones which were well known were tomsrtbt and Knoppix. Since a couple years ago there has been a truly wonderful proliferation of bootable distributions, with more created all the [...]
spamku!
19 January 2004Habeas apparently makes their money by giving folks tools to receive email which is ‘wanted’. Hilariously enough, however, one of the main ways they accomplish this is by: inserting a haiku into the headers of an email! A recent spam to my account showed the poetic verve of the company:
X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring
X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated
X-Habeas-SWE-3: [...]