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“If you can read this, thank your sysadmin“

Byte has a great article on Six Ways To Protect Your Wireless Network. “It doesn't take a whole lot of work — or any extra money — to make your network secure. Follow these steps, and you'll go a long way to keeping your network, PCs, and data safe.”

Computerworld Breaking News reports Apple cuts the cord on the Mighty Mouse. “Just days after online reports pointed to a new Bluetooth-enabled wireless mouse from Apple Computer, the company today unveiled the device. It sells for $69.”
Nice looking mouse.

Jeremy Zawodny blogs about “The Ajaxifiation Of Yahoo” and points to the YUI Library, a promising AJAX library, licensed under the BSD library, free in cost and licensing. I've been looking forward to testing out an AJAX library, and this looks like a well-documented one to try out.

On the Python-Talk mailing list, Bill Sconce of the GNHLUG PySIG announces the July meeting:
“The next meeting of the New Hampshire PySIG will be one week from
tonight — the 27th of July, 7:00 PM at the usual fine place, the
Amoskeag Business Incubator.”
“Our topics will be everything that's fair game to Python, including
a report by Bill [...]

Ars Technica reports SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Released. “Utah software vendor Novell has officially released much-anticipated SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. By segphault@sbcglobal.net (Ryan Paul).”
SuSE is one distribution I have yet to get around to testing. I've got a number of machines running in the office and at client sites using RedHat and related Fedora or [...]

The Nashua Linux User Group meets this Tursday, and will feature a great presentation on SELinux. Hope to see you there!
MerriLUG announcement follows:

Who : Daniel J Walsh, Lead SELinux Engineer, Redhat
What : SELinux for Dummies
Where: Martha's Exchange
Day : Thur 20 July
Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for workshop
:: Overview
Dan starts with [...]

InfoWorld: Application development relays a delightful tale of classic bungling in replacing an app in no need of replacement: Web site disasters made easy. “In 1997, I was working in the IT department at a midsize consumer products company in the San Francisco Bay Area. My job was mainly to keep the network up; the [...]

Macintalk is running an interesting story comparing the four popular browsers on the Mac: Safari, FireFox, OmniWeb and Camino. The results surprised me.

Slashdot post PowerPoint ZeroDay Vulnerability Exploited. “whitehatlurker writes to mention a WashingtonPost.com article about another unpatched flaw with Microsoft Office. The bug, part of the PowerPoint software, has already been used in the wild, and may be connected to an industrial espionage case.”
1. Never EVER open an untrusted document, whether it is Word or PowerPoint [...]