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  • Addiction to Familiar Systems

    Addiction to Familiar Systems: The fear of making the “wrong” choice actually makes the familiar, mastered PHP more attractive. I guess that also depends if you’re more a stable or volatile type.

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  • Tor: An Anonymous, And Controversial, Way to Web-Surf

    Tor: An Anonymous, And Controversial, Way to Web-Surf: For more than four years, William Weber has helped run a free service called Tor that makes Web surfing anonymous for anyone. Then on Nov. 28, the police showed up at the 20-year-old’s home in Graz, Austria, and accused him of distributing child pornography. Some good recommendations:…

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  • Comparing the CISSP and GISP Exams

    Comparing the CISSP and GISP Exams: Lately, I have been spending my time preparing and finally taking the GIAC Information Security Professional (GISP) and the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification exams. I passed both. The exams are very different, though they cover the same material. Still considering what’s right for me… suggestions, anyone?

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  • How 4 Microsoft engineers proved that the “darknet” would defeat DRM

    How 4 Microsoft engineers proved that the “darknet” would defeat DRM: Can digital rights management technology stop the unauthorized spread of copyrighted content? Ten years ago this month, four engineers argued that it can’t, forever changing how the world thinks about piracy. Their paper, “The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution” (available as a…

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  • Disks from the Perspective of a File System

    Disks from the Perspective of a File System: Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime. Marshall Kirk McKusick Most applications do not deal with disks directly, instead storing their data in files in a file system, which protects us from those scoundrel disks. Added via Pocket.

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  • The cult of innovation

    The cult of innovation: IT is currently gripped by a Cult of Innovation: novelty is king; development/improvement a headlong rush into the future; only the bleeding edge survives. We ought to know better. Innovation can be change for change’s sake, especially when staff are tasked with “Be innovative”. Added via Pocket.

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  • If all these new DBMS technologies are so scalable, why are Oracle and DB2 still on top of TPC-C? A roadmap to end their dominance

    If all these new DBMS technologies are so scalable, why are Oracle and DB2 still on top of TPC-C? A roadmap to end their dominance: In the last decade, database technology has arguably progressed furthest along the scalability dimension. Also: Calvin: A fast, cheap database that isn’t a database at all.

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  • Automatically Add Pocket Favorites to WordPress Blog

    I finally got around to creating an IFTTT recipe to automatically push my Pocket favorites to this blog. My queue was overflowing… so much read, so little time to go back and write about it! Let me know if you’re interested in the recipe. I’m holding off publishing it for now, until I know it…

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  • Open Source Software: Compliance Basics And Best Practices

    It’s been a while I read something about Open Source in the enterprise, so here you go: As the saying goes, free software is not free, and using open source software requires that organizations understand the legal framework of open source. via Open Source Software: Compliance Basics And Best Practices.

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