seven part story on the cracking of a community network on rootprompt. it boggles the mind when thinking about people who are such assholes, just the sheer thoughtlessness and malice of it all suggests pathological childishness and antipathy.

so basically, the fbi gets to put a packet sniffer on systems when they want. riiight… about those tps reports.

/ puts it this way:

When Congress enacts this sort of program, they always give it a name like “The Freedom of Infants and Children Act” or the “Prevention of Violence to Puppies Act” with a rider that slips in the big-brother grants of power.

The FBI, on the other hand, gives it a name that can’t help but encourage visions of a government run-amok eating its citizens. Which, come to think of it, is not too far from the truth.

interesting, andover.net, the self proclaimed “leading linux destination” runs on solaris.

advogato’s trust metric page is just the kind of documentation i’m looking for. actually, by searching for trust metric instead of web of trust, i’m finding tons more relevant info.

advogato is really interesting. been reading the future of programming comments for a while now. these people seem to know their stuff.

a lot of discussion on tux floating around. man, compare the specweb99 results for dell’s 4 way tux machine to dell’s 4way running iis and to ibm’s rs/6000 8-way running zeus. daym, brother man.

thank you microsoft for making good times a reality. really, thanks.

article on autonomy, just an interesting tangential tie-in to my everday life. oh, and it’s in the vapp. interesting quote: People often just don’t understand the ramifications of that. I don’t think you’re going to be able to sell software in two years’ time that can’t make sense of information, because the amount of unstructured information in business is doubling every three months at the moment.

saltfuck.com – classic, jz

nice flazoom article on fitt’s law (as it applies to flash). funny that there was also a recent msdn article on the same topic.