I set up my co-located web/mail server to support moblogging in a few hours. I was running procmail anyway, so it just involved adding a new recipe for email messages coming from my mobile phone. They get handed to a perl script that extracts any pictures and text using MIME::Parser. It then creates unique file names for any images, the HTML for the blog entry and inserts it into a postgresql table along with the date. My personal home page lists the table entries in reverse date order in order to generate the blog.
but not with my whole home directory. I have the subdirectories docs/, src/, bin/ checked in, and a directory called "cfg" that contains my dotfiles - bashrc, profile, emacs startup files and various lisp files and mozilla config files. When I first set up a Unix/Linux/MacOSX system I create a symlink from the dotfiles in my cfg directory to my home directory. Under Windows, I have a.emacs file that loads the emacs file in the cfg directory.
I also have a bunch of shell scripts that tell me what files haven't been checked into CVS. Forgetting to check files into CVS is quite an issue, as well as not doing a "cvs commit" at the end of the day.
I organise my documents in the usual hierarchy, and then use the rememberance agent and emacs and it shows me a list of documents that most relate to the stuff I'm currently working on.
I work in the area of developing risk management software for financial institutions. This type of software uses a statistical analysis of market data to provide greater insight and will hopefully allow the user to make more rational decisions.
It will be interesting to see if, in the future, the use of software "agents" to help people make rational financial decisions will overcome the whole "gut feel" approach characterising the current decision making process and maybe lead to the so-called "efficient market" that most financial theory is based on.
I am completely against the current war on Iraq. To my mind, by attacking Iraq without there being any hint of aggression against America, and without a shred of evidence to support it's claim that Saddam Hussein is constructing weapons of mass destruction, I think the US has violated any claim they may have had about this being a "just" war. see Jimmy Carter's opinion on what constitutes a just war.
I am not arguing against those who claim that Saddam Hussein is a "bad" man. But there are lots of despotic rulers in the world, and I think the current US policy of pre-emption is morally wrong, and sets a very dangerous precedent. The US is encouraging other despotic regimes to acquire nuclear capabilities in order to fend off a US preemptive strike, and guaranteeing that terrorism will be the only perceived way to fight superior US firepower.
The US has shown clear contempt for other countries in the world, by rejecting the Kyoto protocol accords, by subverting the International Criminal Court, and by acting unilaterally against Iraq. The US has vetoed UN resolutions against Israel 41 times (putting in doubt President Bush's claim that he wants to restore the land to the Iraqi people).
I don't believe this war is legal, although I doubt anyone will be prosecuted. The world is extremely skeptical about this essentially unilateral war.
I've been using my Sony Clie every day for the last 6 months. In the past I've owned 2 palms, a Newton, a cassiopeia, an ipaq, and the clie. The Newton was probably the most useful - except for the size. It's size made it nice to write on, but a pain to carry around (still a beautiful piece of technology though). The Ipaq has a great screen, but runs wince and I can't easily carry it in my pocket. The best organiser I've ever had has been the clie. It's got a nice clear color screen and fits in my pocket. The case is pretty scratched from my keys. It has been a pain getting it to sync with Linux, but it's working now. If you have a device running PalmOS, I'd defintely recommend installing DateBk5.
There are not risks in opening your content (authoritative) DNS servers to everyone. There are risks in opening up your resolvers to everyone.
Sometimes people put internal host names in their externally viewable DNS, which can give out valuable information to attackers. For example, the DNS might say that accounts.company.com is at 10.0.0.59, and then attackers know what computer they need to target.
A better idea is to have an internal name server which your intranet uses, and external name server s (outside your firewall) on different network segments that act as the authoritative servers for your domain.
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I set up my co-located web/mail server to support moblogging in a few hours. I was running procmail anyway, so it just involved adding a new recipe for email messages coming from my mobile phone. They get handed to a perl script that extracts any pictures and text using MIME::Parser. It then creates unique file names for any images, the HTML for the blog entry and inserts it into a postgresql table along with the date. My personal home page lists the table entries in reverse date order in order to generate the blog.
Of course, if he really believes what he says, he should be able to prove it by injecting bad code into (say) the Linux kernel, or apache.
but not with my whole home directory. I have the subdirectories docs/, src/, bin/ checked in, and a directory called "cfg" that contains my dotfiles - bashrc, profile, emacs startup files and various lisp files and mozilla config files. When I first set up a Unix/Linux/MacOSX system I create a symlink from the dotfiles in my cfg directory to my home directory. Under Windows, I have a .emacs file that loads the emacs file in the cfg directory.
I also have a bunch of shell scripts that tell me what files haven't been checked into CVS. Forgetting to check files into CVS is quite an issue, as well as not doing a "cvs commit" at the end of the day.
I organise my documents in the usual hierarchy, and then use the rememberance agent and emacs and it shows me a list of documents that most relate to the stuff I'm currently working on.
I work in the area of developing risk management software for financial institutions. This type of software uses a statistical analysis of market data to provide greater insight and will hopefully allow the user to make more rational decisions.
It will be interesting to see if, in the future, the use of software "agents" to help people make rational financial decisions will overcome the whole "gut feel" approach characterising the current decision making process and maybe lead to the so-called "efficient market" that most financial theory is based on.
I am completely against the current war on Iraq. To my mind, by attacking Iraq without there being any hint of aggression against America, and without a shred of evidence to support it's claim that Saddam Hussein is constructing weapons of mass destruction, I think the US has violated any claim they may have had about this being a "just" war. see Jimmy Carter's opinion on what constitutes a just war.
I am not arguing against those who claim that Saddam Hussein is a "bad" man. But there are lots of despotic rulers in the world, and I think the current US policy of pre-emption is morally wrong, and sets a very dangerous precedent. The US is encouraging other despotic regimes to acquire nuclear capabilities in order to fend off a US preemptive strike, and guaranteeing that terrorism will be the only perceived way to fight superior US firepower.
The US has shown clear contempt for other countries in the world, by rejecting the Kyoto protocol accords, by subverting the International Criminal Court, and by acting unilaterally against Iraq. The US has vetoed UN resolutions against Israel 41 times (putting in doubt President Bush's claim that he wants to restore the land to the Iraqi people).
I don't believe this war is legal, although I doubt anyone will be prosecuted.
The world is extremely skeptical about this essentially unilateral war.
I've been using my Sony Clie every day for the last 6 months. In the past I've owned 2 palms, a Newton, a cassiopeia, an ipaq, and the clie. The Newton was probably the most useful - except for the size. It's size made it nice to write on, but a pain to carry around (still a beautiful piece of technology though). The Ipaq has a great screen, but runs wince and I can't easily carry it in my pocket. The best organiser I've ever had has been the clie. It's got a nice clear color screen and fits in my pocket. The case is pretty scratched from my keys. It has been a pain getting it to sync with Linux, but it's working now. If you have a device running PalmOS, I'd defintely recommend installing DateBk5.
There are not risks in opening your content (authoritative) DNS servers to everyone. There are risks in opening up your resolvers to everyone.
Sometimes people put internal host names in their externally viewable DNS, which can give out valuable information to attackers. For example, the DNS might say that accounts.company.com is at 10.0.0.59, and then attackers know what computer they need to target.
A better idea is to have an internal name server which your intranet uses, and external name server s (outside your firewall) on different network segments that act as the authoritative servers for your domain.