Sean’s Obsessions

$699 for a uniprocessor licence? No way.
Sean

Even though I live in the socialist haven of Canada, I’m a strong believer in the free market.
If it is true that SCO has a right to charge licencing fees on Linux, then the SCOX market capitalization should include both the value of SCO and the “value” of Linux.
Today, the market cap is almost $160M. […]

Still a work in progress, but I’ve joined the BlogRoll. Took a bit of work to get the BlogRoll plugin going, though. As it turns out the line

$$html .= “<li><a href=’”.$site->{htmlUrl}.”‘>”.$site->{title}.”</a></li>n”;

should really have been

$$html .= “<li><a href=’”.$site->{url}.”‘>”.$site->{title}.”</a></li>n”;

(Note that the url tag changed). Special thanks to the Data::Dumper module for helping me find […]

“Solution” is a strong word, but what can we do to reduce spam? Craig from Securely Speaking asked if using a public list of open relays as input to a firewall ACL was a good idea? I think not, but what is?
One of the problems with reducing spam is determining the identity of […]

Pretty painless… Not so sure how much I like this Bluecurve, but hey, this is Linux, I can change it if I want.

Tony’s latest post has me wondering about that world of online Linux content. My newsletter was cancelled by Cramsession three months ago, and now Tony’s. I’m no longer aware of any Linux newsletters that provide solid information and tutorials. Most of the ones that I’ve seen (and have, for the most part, […]

After deciding not to fill out the surveys to keep my Red Hat Network subscription active, I decided “What the hell?” and did it. Oh well.

Take a peek at this article for more information on how the scheduler works, and the improvements coming in 2.6. Even if you’re not a programmer, it’s an interesting bit of information to know.
Here is an article on encrypted file systems in both NT and Linux. It has actual implementation details, so if […]

Red Hat 9 is out. Am I running it? No. I can’t even download it.
Normally this is to be expected, it’s the first day. But Red Hat has been on a big campaign — “Become a RHN subscriber and get it a week early!” Now, yours truly isn’t an idiot […]

A few people have written asking for copies of old Linux newsletters. They’re all available at http://ertw.com/~sean/news/ I’ve also added links so you can download the whole shebang as one file (1.4M, MBOX format), or as individual .txt or .html pages.
While I’m on the subject of the Linux news archives…
I’m Lazy, in that […]