Boeing Acquisitions 2008-2010
My twitter feed once again signals a Boeing acquisition. Cutting lots of fat internally while buying more companies doesn’t compute, but oh well. I decided t...
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Updated Stable
Since a lot of my fellow nerds have mentioned they are looking at the stables page, I updated the computers as well as providing some insight into why each m...
Multi-core Security
A question from a distinguished colleague of mine:
5 Years Since Katrina
Contents 1 Katrina 1.1 The Move 1.2 The Storm 1.3 Th...
“Netcraft confirms PGP Email Encryption is Dead!”
Rakkhi posted a great Lessons Learned on implementing email encryption:
Log File Size
I struggle with ROM for log file storage. It is one of those things that no one EVER looks at, but everyone covers their asses. As an example DHS requires 90...
Happy 17th Birthday Debian!
I love Debian (looks over lovingly @ the fileserver) and look forward to many more years of stable releases. Debian was my first distro when I ran 1.3 at th...
Going Agile
Agile Software Development using SCRUM is one of best force multipliers a team can utilize to speed-up cycles.
Fix for “sha1sum mismatch! Rename” winetricks on Mac
Winetricks is a WONDERFUL tool for those of us relegated to a few windows programs on alternate platforms. I have never had issues on Linux, but on Mac the t...
Private Browser Cleaner
There is so much hoopla about Private Mode browsing not actually keeping you private. Most of it is due to your addons for Flash and Java. Here are the exten...