Chkrootkit Portsentry Howto. 17 Mar 2004: Falko Timme has written a detailed tutorial on how to install chkrootkit and portsentry/logcheck on Unix systems in order to check a system for rootkits and be alerted in case of system attacks. [RootPrompt — Nothing but Unix] —– handy

Atom@IETF.org. Sam Ruby is charging ahead with the idea of taking Atom to the IETF, and I generally approve. Sun thinks it would be a good idea for me to put some cycles into syndication technology, so I told Sam that and he came back in about fifteen seconds saying ‰¥þWanna co-chair?‰¥?… [ongoing] —– this […]

if you are going to interview for a job as an assistant professor, have at least two things with you: a. your dissertation, if its not with you, don't agree to an interview b. at least three papers that define your work that is my suggestion:) I've run into both issues in the last few […]

time to drive to dc, wee…. i hope i've not forgotten anything. i don't think that i have. though i certainly probably have. 5.5 hours from around 9:00am is when i should be there, but it is rainy and there are bad drivers in this world.

This Saturday, March 20. Global day of action Bring the troops home now!End colonial occupation from Iraq to Palestine and everywhere!Money for jobs, education, healthcare and housing – Not war!Stop the attacks on civil rights and civil liberties A quick scan of the national ANSWER website shows demonstrations will be taking place this Saturday in over […]

tonight has been hectic, between packing, cleaning, writing, thinking, and all that, one server is acting up, i had to drive into the office twice to fix it, once because i thought i had a brilliant fix, that broke it worse, and second once i realized i'd broke it worse. well, when i come back […]

Deans can count. Erik Duval, on measuring the quality of academic communications: What we really ought to try and measure includes more subtle things, like how useful was this publication for others? how much effect did it actually have on the field? etc. Of course, this is much harder to measure – though the answers […]

This is how PowerPoint was born. Background on Microsoft PowerPoint: “Although now a Microsoft product, PowerPoint was originally developed by Bob Gaskins, a former Berkeley Ph.D. student who envisioned an easy-to-use presentation program that would manipulate a string of single pages, or “slides”. […] PowerPoint 1.0 was released in 1987 and was originally only available […]

Regulators Meet on Proposal to Brand Microsoft a Monopolist: “On Monday, top antitrust regulators from the 15 nations in the European Union will gather here in the Centre Borschette, a bunkerlike building a stone's throw from the headquarters of the European Commission, to discuss a draft ruling that finds Microsoft guilty of abusing its dominance […]

Move Over Doctor Draft, Meet the Geek Draft. Well, there’s no danger of this before the election… ‘Special skills draft’ on drawing board / Computer experts, foreign language specialists lead list of military’s needs The government is taking the first steps toward a targeted military draft of Americans with special skills in computers and foreign […]