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(Editor’s note: I’m going to fire up the Delicious autoposter again. Those of you that are long-time subscribers (thank you!) may remember a time when I did this as a type of short-take post. Twitter and the death of del.icio.us ended it for a couple of years, but enough things are fixed up now that I think I’ll bring it back. Plus, I’m hoping that it’ll encourage me to keep up more with my blog reading. Thanks y’all. – Bob) Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young – chicagotribune.com This is the original text that Baz Luhrmann put into his spoken word song “Everybody’s Free (to Wear Sunscreen)”. My favorite quote from it is: “Don’t worry about the …

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Stolen Camera Finder – find your photos, find your camera Hey, this is pretty cool. I installed their Chrome plugin, as I support efforts like this. Of course, if you sell your camera it’ll probably find that, too, but that would also be interesting… Pentagon: Online Cyber Attacks Can Count as Acts of War – WSJ.com Via @acesage, I’m glad we’re finally starting to treat computer criminality as something with actual effects on humans and our well-being. Why Johnnie Walker Blue Is $200 and Other Marketing Tricks to Make You Spend – Asylum.com “In 1983, two marketing researchers at Duke University published some incredible experiments,” says Poundstone. “They showed that when people were given a choice between a cheaper, lower-quality …

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Firewall settings for a VMware View environment (That’s my View – Christoph Harding) I love docs like this — exactly what I need for my new VDI environment. 3 Free E-Books on Java for Beginners Very cool — it’s been a long time since I’ve done any non-Perl, non-PHP programming and I sort of miss it. Never did a lot with Java, I was mainly a Windows C/C++ developer. AWS Developer Forums: Life of our patients is at stake – I am … This is the sort of thing that is considered “gross negligence” and makes people personally liable in lawsuits. It’s got nothing to do with the cloud, and everything to do with terrible architecture. Michigan: Police Search Cell …

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Facebook Open Sources Its Servers and Data Centers: Cloud Computing News « Facebook has basically given away the key to being as green as possible right now, which is a very nice thing of them to do. They obviously believe their competitive advantage is not their infrastructure, whereas Google does think that. The Kermit Project – Columbia University “Unfortunately, Columbia has determined it can no longer continue to support the Kermit Project going forward. As of July 1st, 2011, development of any new Kermit software enhancements at Columbia University will cease, as will any ability of Columbia to provide ongoing maintenance and technical support for Kermit.” I’ve needed Kermit twice in my life: transfers to my HP-48s and to transfer …

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No Privacy on Amazon’s Cloud Drive | ZDNet “Wow. Amazon can do pretty much anything they want with your files Like say let the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) inspect your music files for any signs that you haven’t pay full price for them. You remember the RIAA; they’re the ones who want $75-trillion from LimeWire for allowing 11,000 songs to be illegally shared.” Senators to Apple: Pull iPhone DUI checkpoint alert apps – Computerworld I’m going to ask Apple to pull all the applications I don’t like, too. Easily Enable SNMP – Download Our FREE SNMP Enabler for Windows | SolarWinds “This cool tool gives you the ability to power up SNMP on multiple Windows servers and workstations—all …

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www.usenix.org/event/hotpar10/final_posters/Pereira.pdf “Virtues and Obstacles of Hardware-assisted Multi-processor Execution Replay” — if you want to know why VMware Fault Tolerance doesn’t support vSMP, this fairly complex paper tells you: there’s no good way to do record & replay on multi-threaded software just due to the complexity and non-deterministic nature of how CPUs execute code. jps.anl.gov/Volume4_iss2/Paper3-RGJohnston.pdf “Being Vulnerable to the Threat of Confusing Threats with Vulnerabilities” — good short paper encouraging people to know the difference between a threat and a vulnerability. For instance, one example he gives is that not having antivirus protection on a desktop is a vulnerability, while adversaries wanting to install malware on those desktops is a threat. Smithsonian on the Behance Network These “Historically Hardcore” posters are …

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Securosis Blog | Friday Summary: March 18, 2011—Preparing for the Worst I don’t think enough people are prepared for a disaster. Being able to exist using cached supplies (including water) for 7-10 days is a good idea, whether you’ve evacuated or are entrenched at home. I used to have 3-5 days of freeze-dried food around because of hiking, but now with others to think about that makes it 1-3 days. Easier than Ever: Emulex OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter | Emulex Labs This is the sort of thing I like to see. While I don’t like how agent- & appliance-heavy things are getting it is cool that management software is getting more useful in the face of ESXi’s limited console …

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Comic Sans. Just Say No. – The Posterior of Randal Schwartz “Please don’t use Comic Sans — we are a Fortune 500 company, not a lemonade stand.” Self-Preservation : Glenn Brunette’s Security Weblog I’m sorry to single someone out, but blogs, like theater, shouldn’t break “the fourth wall.” If, as a technology company, you can’t keep the details of a blog migration away from the readers how can I expect you to enable me to do so with services built on your products? AT&T will cap DSL and U-Verse internet, impose overage fees (update) — Engadget “AT&T says it will implement a 150GB monthly cap on landline DSL customers and a 250GB cap on subscribers to U-Verse high speed internet …

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Recent Scenes from Antarctica – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic More UW-Madison in the news — the IceCube project is pretty cool. The Wisdom of Ackoff « Cuddletech “You never learn by doing something right, because you’re already doing it right. You only learn by mistakes.” Been saying that for years — nobody learns anything when it’s all working correctly. Ben Rockwood has distilled some good quotes from Dr. Russell Ackoff. Color-Coded Plastic Ties Tell You Day Your Bread Was Baked – The Consumerist Heh, cool. Via @geardiary & @johnobeto TCP Flags: PSH and URG – Packet Life I guess I never realized it’s PSH that tells TCP that an app is done sending data, and not …

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Debian Is the Most Important Linux – Slashdot “Without Debian we are nothing. Debian is the most influential and important Linux, and is unique for being the largest, oldest, 100% non-commercial community-driven distro. ‘…just under 63% of all distributions now being developed come ultimately from Debian. By comparison, 50 (15%) are based on Fedora or Red Hat, 28 (9%) on Slackware, and 12 (4%) on Gentoo.’” These conclusions are ridiculous. Other possible conclusions are that the Debian community is so f’ed up that it’s seriously fragmented. Also might be the case that Debian is so flawed that people have to fork it and fix it all the time. Hard to tell from these stats. Petition Cisco for Educational IOS License …

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