Geek Pit

Some humor from WTF-d00d.com
- Bourne shell server
pages. Classic:

The basic idea behind all server page technologies is this: rather
than writing code that generates an HTML document on-the-fly by
writing it out as a series of print statements, you start with a
“skeleton” HTML document and embed the code right inside it. Voila!
Instead of having a tangled, […]

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This Code Goes to Eleven asks
if adding
namespaces to PHP can save it. That question presupposes that PHP
is in need of saving - for better or worse, I think PHP is far too
widely used at this point to be in danger of extinction. But yes, the
lack of proper namespaces in PHP is a royal pain for […]

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I’m not sure why the fact that Hushmail is giving user’s data to the Feds is surprising to anyone. First of all, they are complying with a court order. Secondly, if you’re using HushMail’s servers and trusting their java applets, don’t expect too much. If you really want security, send mails through MixMaster only after […]

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OK, I have no sympathy for these people. I mean, seriously, why are you using Hotmail for mailing lists?

It’s about time the US patent system had an injection of sanity, especially given the recent visit from the patent trolls.

Mark Shuttleworth talks about Ubuntu 7.10, set to be released tomorrow.

John Wiegley brings us neat tricks […]

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Wired talks
to Rob Malda, the creator
of Slashdot on its 10th
anniversary.

There’s a good series of articles at OFB.biz
on desktop
FreeBSD.

Those of us still content using mutt to read email will enjoy Daniel
Webb’s article on The
Ultimate Email Setup.

Rudd-o.com brings
us how
to speed up your Linux desktop.

If you’re looking for a more secure alternative to FTP, head over to
HowtoForge and
read […]

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From HowtoForge, Speeding Up Perl Scripts With SpeedyCGI On Debian Etch (a great site, BTW). Simpler and with fewer features than mod_perl, but good for running legacy Perl CGI scripts faster.

Here is a presentation on the new regex engine in coming in Perl 5.10.

From C. Titus Brown, a blog post on writing Python code […]

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Dan Meissler has
written a good tutorial
on tcpdump.

Linux.com gives
us Pain-free disk space
management with LVM.

Red Hat Magazine has a couple of good tips
on getting
a progress report from ‘dd’
and changing
lots of passwords at once.

Five
Ubuntu community servers were compromised.

Anyone stuck on Windows can now have the option of
using a tabbed terminal
emulator.

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A bit of nostalgia, and a cool community of
*nix hackers
in the truest sense - The SDF
public access Unix system
celebrated it’s 20th
anniversary last month. SDF runs on a cluster of NetBSD/Alpha
machines, maintains a text-mode BBS and one of the few remaining
gopher servers (users have access to their own gopher-space). Basic
shell accounts are free, but you can […]

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Dan Martin brings us Things I can do in Linux that I can’t do on Windows.

I agree with this one - Greylisting is Bad. I’ve used greylisting on production servers, the loss of “instant” communication is the biggest pain, especially when it comes to business email.

Why I haven’t bought a commercial PC in years. I […]

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Dale Dougherty from O’reilly wonders if we
are winning
the war on spam.

The state of
California introduces
legislation to require open document formats.

Coding Horror gives us tips
on reducing
your website’s bandwidth usage.

Red Hat Magazine gives
us some
handy sysadmin tips
and Understanding
Red Hat Daemons.

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