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Archive for March, 2007

30 Mar

DLSLUG: April 5th: Todd Underwood: ZFS

Bill McGonigle announces the April meeting of the Dartmouth – Lake Sunapee Linux User Group. The main presentation will be “ZFS: The Last Word in Filesystems, ” presented by Todd Underwood, VP of Operations and Professional Services, Renesys Corporation. Here’s the pitch:
ZFS is the most original work in storage management in years. It offers a [...]

28 Mar

OPML Browser

Dan McTough shows off his Optimal OPML browser at his opml.org site, http://blogs.opml.org/yabfog/. Pretty slick!

28 Mar

InfoWorld to cease print version, complete move to the Web

Steve Fox, Editor-in-Chief of InfoWorld, reports the demise of the print version of the magazine:
“Yes, the rumors are true. As of April 2, 2007, InfoWorld is discontinuing its print component. No more printing on dead trees, no more glossy covers, no more supporting the US Post Office in its rush to get thousands of inky [...]

25 Mar

Django v. Rails

On a more humorous tack than that last link:
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2006/dec/06/comparisons/

25 Mar

PySIG, 22-March-2007: Project Night

An even dozen people showed up for the Python Special Interest Groups March meeting, held as usual at the Amoskeag Business Incubator in Manchester, NH.
Bill Sconce called us to order promptly at 7 PM and we proceeded through the printed agenda. It was duly noted the Ben Scott deserved heckling despite his absence. We ran [...]

25 Mar

CentraLUG, 2 April 2007: Bill Stearns on Logical Volume Management

The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central New Hampshire chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group, occurs on the first Monday of each month on the New Hampshire Institute Campus starting at 7 PM.
This month, we’ll be meeting in our usual location, Room 146 of the Library/Learning Center/Bookstore, http://www.nhti.net/nhtimap.pdf , marked as “I” [...]

21 Mar

More on Javascript – paranoia or precaution?

SANS Internet Storm Center; Cooperative Network Security Community – Internet Security – isc Swa Frantzen blogs, “Frequent readers will know that we often recommend to ease up on allowing scripting as it’s used by the bad guys. XSS bugs are basically so bad…” read the entire article here.

21 Mar

Notes from MerriLUG, 15-March-2007, Matt Brodeur on PGP/GPG Encryption and key-signing

Nineteen attendees participated in the March meeting of the Merrimack Valley Linux User Group, MerriLUG, held as usual on the third Thursday of the month at Martha’s Exchange in Nashua, NH.
Matt Brodeur gave a presentation on GNU Privacy Guard, GPG, the Free/Open Source implementation of the Pretty Good Privacy algorithms and protocols. Matt pushed [...]

21 Mar

FireFox gets a new update; FF 1.5 run nearly over

mozilla.org news reports “Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Firefox 1.5.0.11 Security and Stability Update”

“As part of Mozilla Corporations ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 1.5.0.11 and Firefox 2.0.0.3 are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from http://getfirefox.com… Due to the security fixes, we strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to these [...]

19 Mar

MonadLUG notes, 8-Mar-2007: tac and “Pitch Your Distro”

The second Thursday of the month is the usual meeting of the Monadnock Area Linux User Group, MonadLUG, at the SAU #1 offices on Hancock Road in Peterborough. This month, Ray Côté ran a discussion on “Pitch Your Distro” and Bill Sconce took on the “Man Page of the Month” on the command tac.
You won’t [...]

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