Interested in securely sharing a secret?
I needed a method for sharing a secret that required multiple agents to coordinate before the secret could be recovered. This is useful for encrypting keys used in critical backups. I decided to…
GPL clarification needed ASAP
The Free Software Foundation urgently needs to explain how software governed by the current General Public License will interact with that governed by a successor now under development, the leader…
How much abuse will you take from Microsoft?
Seriously, how many times must users and businesses be kicked in the face before they buy a clue? Before they realize that they don't have to stay in the abusive Microsoft relationship. The answer…
Why the GPL rocketed Linux to success
Charles M. Hannum (one of the 4 originators of NetBSD) has posted a sad article about serious problems in the NetBSD project, saying "the NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance…
Point, click, root: System exploitation with open tools
T managers face a problem determining what products and policies are best to properly secure their network. The problem with many security products is that it is hard to validate their claims.…
ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version 8.29.6 Released
New ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Drivers for XFREE86 / X. Org Version 8.29.6 have been released. As of driver version 8.29.6 support for the following products is no longer included:
…Kernel Space: on the future of Linux IDE drivers
Back in 2003, Jeff Garzik announced the availability of "a new SCSI driver." That driver was, in fact, the libata subsystem, which was to be the foundation for serial ATA support in Linux. In the…
Novell to launch quick-response Linux
Novell plans an October launch for its Suse Linux Enterprise Real-Time product, an operating system geared for Wall Street traders and others who watch every microsecond of the clock.
Real-…
City of Munich releases version 1.0 of their debian-based client
After almost two years of development and quality assurance, we finally did freeze version 1.0 of our custom debian-based distribution yesterday. The system will be internally deployed to the…
Debian Steering Committee?
David Nusinov pondered about setting up a distribution steering committee. Ingo Jürgensmann considered this a good idea in general. David added that the bottom-up structure instead of top-down is…