Tag: Opinion
DNS Exploit News
After reading all the details about the “new” DNS exploit I feel quite annoyed. These types of attacks have always been possible. This isn’t new. Cache Poisoning has always been on every DNS server administrator’s check list of things to carefully plan to prevent. I compare it to Firewalls: Every [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2008.
Tags: Linux/BSD, Opinion, sysadmin
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I’m a wannabe iPhone switcher
After reading through CrackBerry’s Top 10 Reasons Why the iPhone is NO BlackBerry I thought I should compare it to my situation.
I really like my AT&T BlackBerry 8820 a whole lot. I really hate Windows Mobile devices, and dislike the Treo line. But I still want an iPhone really badly. This article [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2008.
Tags: Opinion, review
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Marriage is a Civil Right
A recent New York Times article very clearly and rationally explained my stance on marriage. As long as the government recognizes and assigns rights/privileges to those with a marriage licenses, it is an infringement of the civil rights of those denied licenses.
Those opposed to granting marriage licenses to others based on the choice of [...]
Posted: November 27th, 2007.
Tags: Opinion
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Fedora, No Longer Detestable, But Still not for Me
I decided to give [tag]Fedora[/tag] another try after a very long time of using and loving FreeBSD, Ubuntu, and Debian. I thought to myself that it’s continued popularity has to be a testament to it’s greatness. Perhaps it has improved over time.
I was initially turned off RPM based distributions long [...]
Posted: November 24th, 2006.
Tags: Linux/BSD, Opinion
Comments: 1
Forbes resorts to sensationalist FUD
Slashdot linked to an article from Forbes that speculated the GPLv3 could "tear it apart". It, referring to the Linux industry. The summary on Slashdot sounded interesting, and RMS is always interesting.
Very early in the article I was upset by a huge lie.
But while Torvalds has been enshrined as [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2006.
Tags: Linux/BSD, Opinion
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