CDT Urges Cautious Response To Internet Governance Proposals. Putting more power over Internet “governance” in the hands of multi-governmental bureaucracies could undercut the openness and accessibility of the Internet, CDT said in public comments. Responding to several new Internet governance models proposed in a report commissioned by the United Nations, CDT urged the preservation of [...]

Hurricane Security and Airline Security Collide. Here's a story (quote is from the second page) where airline security is actually doing harm: Long lines and chaos snarled evacuees when they tried to catch flights out from two of Houston's airports. After about 100 federal security screeners failed to report to work Thursday, scores of passengers [...]

Massachusetts' Closed Office. Employees may be celebrating 30 years of Microsoft today, but 31 may be the end with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Enterprise Technical Reference 3.5 has passed its period of comment without significant change. Situation now looks like Microsoft Office is on its way out among Commonwealth agencies. Massachusetts has accepted the [...]

Ten commands of sysadmin. Newsforge had a really great series on the Ten Commandments of system administration. They’re fairly basic, but given the thrust, that should be expected. Many of the commandments, though not all, are security-related, and while I might disagree with some of the discussion, overall all the reminders are useful to see [...]

When is something worth doing?. If you're a freelancer and need a little help staying focused on important things instead of trivial details, this little form by David Seah is the thing for you.  [Garrett Dimon]

Another .NET developer goes for Rails. Garret Dimon has a great explanation for why .NET is no longer his preferred tool for web development and why Ruby on Rails is. On Best Practices, he writes: Rails takes all of the things you should be doing, and consolidates it into one very elegant framework. Directory structure, [...]

Top 3 Mistakes when marketing software. marketingsherpa has an article (free access until October 2) where the CEO of MySQL gives the 3 top mistakes made by software marketers. The items listed are good advice for all software marketers and echo a lot of the things we’ve been promoting in the microISV community such as [...]

Does tagging lower costs of classification, but raise costs of finding information?. Gene Smith riffs on Ian Davis' take on why tagging is expensive. In a nutshell, the lower costs of classification are traded for higher costs in finding content. Gene makes much more sense of it than just that, though. At the end of [...]

Why I Love Ruby on Rails.In college, all of my classes revolved around Java and C++, and the first few years of my professional career were with ASP.Net which was a huge evolutionary leap in web development, and a joy to work with. It enabled me to spend less time on the tedious plumbing and [...]

Tutorial: Setting up a server with SuSE 10.0 (19 Sep 2005). This is a very detailed tutorial about how to use the new SuSE 1. to set up a web, mail, and ftp server. It covers every aspect of the installation and demonstrates the setup process with the help of 5 screenshots, allowing even beginners [...]