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Archive for February, 2008

RailsConf 2008

Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Rails, Ruby | No Comments »

Everyone that knows me knows that I love ruby and ruby on rails. I have just registered for RailsConf 2008... Anyone else going? Did you sign up for the tutorial days?

Mark & Jeran Diagram: Our relationship

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted in comic, off topic, xkcd | No Comments »

This has nothing to do with Unix/Linux but I actually laughed out loud when I saw this, so I had to post it. Thanks to xkcd for the GREAT venn diagram.

VirtualBox Purchased by Sun

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted in Sun, Virtualization | No Comments »

It seems that Sun is on an OSS buying rampage. They have purchased Innotek (office space anyone .... lol), the developers of VirtualBox. You can read the press release here: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-02/sunflash.20080212.1.xml I wonder who else may be on their plate ...

Kernel 2.6.23 - 2.6.24 Local Root Exploit

Sunday, February 10th, 2008 Posted in Exploit, Linux, Security | No Comments »

For those of you out there running 2.6.23..... http://milw0rm.com/exploits/5093

Open Source Business

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in Enterprise, IT, SysAdmin | No Comments »

I feel like writing a series of posts talking about various pieces of software that are great replacements for many of the classical closed/costly software packages that companies tend to purchase. Over the past year I have been able ...