Backups
It was once common for newspapers to reprint an important article from time to time. Of course, this was before Google and in those days it wasn’t all that easy… Read more »
Category: Security
In the news
Brian Krebs, writing in his Security Fix column for the Washington Post, had this to say this morning: Unknown hackers broke into George Mason University’s e-mail system and sent students… Read more »
Briefly
IdP Have spent quite a bit of time trying to get a Shibboleth 2.0 IdP server up and running under Ubuntu 8.0.5 Server LTS. Not there yet but I think… Read more »
Moving Forward with Backing Up
If you have sysadmin duties in a library like Mason’s (where our core technologies actually reside in the library and not the computer center), backing up is one big part… Read more »
All your files are belong to 502
Microsoft’s latest iteration of Office for Macintosh (Office 2008) does one really odd thing during installation—it makes user 502 the owner of many important directories and files: /Library/Automator/ (unless it… Read more »
New Year’s Grabbag
A number of small items to help break the 2008 writer’s block… Annoying Leopard Print Spooler If you’ve upgraded from Tiger to Leopard you may be seeing this problem: you… Read more »
Eight Reasons to Hurry that Leopard Upgrade
I’ve been using Leopard this week and despite a couple of small gotchas, it’s been so much smoother than the jump from 10.3 to 10.4 (Panther to Tiger). Better too… Read more »
Completely Automated Public Turing Test…
You’ve seen those little authentication tests on web-based forms, probably more this year than last. They’re called CAPTCHAs which is an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell… Read more »
Another seven percent solution
I’m sure we’ve all seen estimates of the ratio of “good” email to spam. What I offer today is a set of data points from George Mason University. In December… Read more »
For want of a nail
Wonder what these locations might have in common? Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Nuernberg, Germany Department of Mathematics, Tehran University, Iran Yerevan, Armenia Madrid, Spain Mannesmann, Germany Bievres, France Sandanski, Bulgaria Kuwait City,… Read more »