Web hosts: Boycott Trend Micro

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If you are a web host, you probably know what ClamAV is, yes? In case you don’t, its one of the most popular free virus scanners on the market. Its extremely well written, does its job well and protects your clients from helping script kiddies grow their bot nets. Trend Micro wants to wield its [...]

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Gridnix Resurrected!

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A while back, I was working on my own GNU/Linux distro named “Gridnix”, a cluster friendly distro that was not married to any specific kernel, focusing on the ease of virtualization, grids ‘as a service’ and simple scalability. You should be able to ‘spill’ a cluster or utility grid just like you would a glass [...]

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New ext3cow tools released

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For any of you who use my extended ext3cow tools, there is a new version available (finally, version 1!). I’ve done a major overhaul of the code, brought in autoconf and greatly improved documentation. Yes, I know, some of you might say that autoconf is psychotic, however I needed something easy to ensure that the [...]

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Add an –inpath option to your programs.

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If your writing a program that is designed to run on any modern computer, please consider adding an –inpath option to your program, or -Z as a short option, just to signal that your program ran. Here’s why: Many other programs need to know if your program exists in the system path. Save a lot [...]

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SRCE Gets its own home

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I have moved the SRCE repositories to their own home and created a web site for the project. I’m sure there are plenty of typos to be found, but most of it is done. Check out http://srce.echoreply.us and let me know what you think. I’m in the process of creating a mailing list for SRCE [...]

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