There is this great post over at sans.org Teaching people how to to suck at Security, (actually a reprint of this post
Especially the remarks about security tools ..
On how not to implement them or how to neglect configuring, afterall the default values must be secure enough.
However My favorite
Hire somebody just because he or she has a lot of certifications.
I’d write Vendor Certifications however .. as independent certifications might have some use.. but if I`m looking for a security guy and he starts talking to me about his product certificatins, something is wrong..
Wouter blogged about his favourite Laptop filesystem layout , just one filesystem , and some geeks think that’s a bad idea.
Actually I can understand Wouter not wanting to have different /usr/ /var or other partitions on his laptop , the 20Mb left and 300Mb right you loose on different partitions are exactly what you want to use on your laptop, however isolating partitions also has it’s benefits
It took me a while to get the book finished , mostly because of other priorities that kept popping up and being ill for the first week of the year .. but I finally managed
As I don’t really use twitter apart to microblog but rather as an Instatn Messaging tool (why those people don’t use IRC or Jabber remains a mistery to me wheel.reinvent :( )
I figured I could abuse it to announce posts on my blog, lots of people seem to be doing this so there had to be an easy way to auto publish them ..
The wonderful Drupal community seemed to have the same idea and therefore created the Twitter Module
Look at the size of of the devrooms , if at all , a project gets at Fosdem
It’s really interresting to see the Embedded room move to a 500 seat room which it really needed when the first openMoko talk was held there in a previous edition.
The FDO , Drupal, Mozilla, Centos/Fedora and Suse rooms stay in similar size rooms as last year.. But it seems lik the BSD and PostgreSQL room which was pretty crowded moved to a bigger location.
A while ago Dries wondered about Contributing back to Drupal .
Now Inuits is not a Webshop, we are an Open Source shop, so you won’t see a zillion Drupal modules being contributed by us in the near future (albeit there are a couple) , we are company assisting other organisations in their adoption of Open Source, and Drupal is amongst the projects we care for. You’ll notice code from us in the different other Open Source projects, including the Linux Kernel and other core infrastructure. And not all of it was code, there is a lot of published documentation, methodologies, bughunting and also spreading the words, or talking about our experiences around different topics such as MySQL Cluster and Drupal, or different alternatives to Monitor , or to Monitor MySQL etc ..
I had written some code to take wikipedia articles and summarise them. I wanted to offer this for use in various places, now the obvious way to offer it is just a web service (via REST, SOAP, etc), but that’s boring and I had a cunning plan. Why not offer it over DNS - it is basically a huge associative array and DNS is designed for this stuff.\
