Month: September 2006

Peter Saint-Andre: Be Open. Linux.com talked with Linus Torvalds about GPLv3, resulting in the following reflections: At any rate, Torvalds says that he would probably decline to participate because of his dislike of committees. “I don't think committees ever make any sense at all, and I hate meetings. I have a belief that committees tend… Continue reading Peter Saint-Andre: Be Open

Personal KM in the Organization. I've puttered around the edges of knowledge management over the years. I must admit that my interest has always been in personal knowledge management more so than capital-K, capital-M knowledge management. Dave Pollard has a tremendous post today called “The PK-enabled Organization,” that pulls together a personal knowledge management (PKM)… Continue reading Personal KM in the Organization

Campfire: Flare joins Pyro. Aside from my email app, Pyro is the only other app I have open all day. Pyro is the specialized Mac OS X web browser for Campfire. Windows people haven’t had an equivalent. Until now. Today Matt Brindley offers up Flare. Among other specializations, Flare changes the tray icon color to… Continue reading Campfire: Flare joins Pyro

Server hardening Guide. For those of you at TechEd – here's a copy of the SBS Server Hardening guide — 1.   Kill off Windows 98s, seriously, get rid of them in your network.2.   Use Passphrases, don't stick them on sticky notes, hide them!3.   Ensure you keep up to date on Patching – get that green… Continue reading Server hardening Guide

Seventeen things every freelancer should know. Veteran freelance illustrator Megan Jeffrey lists 17 things she's learned over the 17 years she's been self-employed. Lifehackers will love this bit: Keep Records. It doesn't take that long to jot down your beginning mileage and your ending mileage if you keep a little notebook in your car. And… Continue reading Seventeen things every freelancer should know

WHAT'S NEXT IN IRAQ. US forces are now in a precarious and untenable position in Iraq. The window of opportunity for an easy exit has passed. Three years of fighting an open source insurgency has destroyed Iraq's economy (through systemsdisruption starting in 2004), worn down US commitment/curtailed operational flexibility (the IED marketplace during 2004/05/06), and… Continue reading WHAT'S NEXT IN IRAQ

Smart Dolphins. Allow me to quote the first three paragraphs of that story to provide some background for this unusual comparison. First off, we learn that some dolphins have been trained to keep their pool clean by removing litter in exchange for fish: At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin… Continue reading Smart Dolphins

Virtually There. There's no question that one of the emerging business types is the virtual organization. Joyent is one of them. Of the twenty people that work for Joyent, only four of us regularly see each other at an office. The remainder are working around the clock around the world from Australia to Prague. It… Continue reading Virtually There

Jorge Castro: On Active Directory….  Ted Haeger shows off some of the kickass active directory integration that Novell has been putting into SLED/SLES. Kudos for doing all the work upstream. I am typically a Linux guy, but a migration this summer forced me to learn Windows Active Directory, and Windows Server. I've learned alot, so… Continue reading Jorge Castro: On Active Directory…

Partying with a mobile phone on a Friday night. In the State of Calfornia we're seeing that CPA firms are being mandated by their Insurance companies to have a confidentiality clause in their managed services contracts. When it comes to allowing remote access by support personnel there's a couple of cardinal rules to live by… Continue reading Partying with a mobile phone on a Friday night