Monday, June 04, 2007
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Greetings all. We had our first official presidential primary debate of the
2008 season tonight here in the Granite State, a full seven months before the
New Hampshire Primary is currently scheduled (assuming another state doesn't
move theirs up, in which case we could be voting at Halloween the way things
are going...). While you can argue who won the debate, there's no debating
that it was another good week here on the OFOW*
Federico Biancuzzi had an informative and somewhat scary interview with
Joseph Kong, a BSD rootkit savant. If you weren't looking at your hard
drive with suspicion by the end of the article, you should be...
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/31/defending-against-rootkits-under-bsd.html
On a less dangerous note, Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp told us about CAS+, a
toolkit for developing Single Sign-On solutions under the Jifty web
framework. SSO is a must-have in enterprise applications, so it's worth a
read.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/31/cas-single-sign-on-with-jifty.html
Over at the Watering Hole, Pearl learned that sometimes it's better to let a
case of mistaken identity stand.
http://www.oreillynet.com/wateringhole/blog/2007/05/out_of_the_frying_pan_1.html
Of course, there were blogs as well. chromatic, always a busy beaver,
started the week with another tool salute, this time to Vim. He continued
on with another blog, expressing his worry at what he sees as a lack of
automated tests in the base Ruby package.
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/thank_you_vim.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/trust_but_verify.html
Chris Tyler dropped a line about the demise of the "Core" part of Fedora Core
under the new Fedora 7 release.
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/fedora_7_core_no_more_1.html
If you've ever wondered why we call hashes hashes, Adriano Ferreira pointed
out a recent discussion of the same topic on the Perl mailing list.
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/tasty_hashes.html
Nitesh Dhanjani took a look at the security implications of Google Gears,
the new toolkit designed to let browser applications run offline.
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/google_gears_initial_thoughts.html
You may remember that a few weeks ago, Dave Cross let us know about an
upcoming Perl teach-in at the BBC. Well, it happened, and he has a report
right here.
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/perl_teachin.html
Over on the DevCenter blog, chromatic took a look at some Parrot code with
Callgrind, and didn't like what he saw.
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/05/gnome_218_for_vector_linux_58.html
Caitlyn Martin reported the addition of GNOME 2.18 support to the Vector
Linux 5.8 package.
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/05/cant_libc_do_it.html
How do the Microsoft Permissive License and the Apache 2.0 license compare
when looking at patents? Well, chromatic took a look...
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/05/patents_mspl_and_the_apache_20.html
Looking for a good backup solution? Juliet Kemp likes Bacula, and tells us why.
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/05/backups_again_bacula.html
There are two blogs of note over on the Database side of the force, both by Roland
Bouman, and both about offline database support. First he looked at Google
Gears, and then he wondered about offline support under MySQL.
http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/06/post_1.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/06/what_mysql_can_do_to_enter_the.html
Suppose you had to track down the sender of an email? Where would you look?
Probably at the logfiles, and Anton Chuvakin takes a look at one way to use
them.
http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/05/antons_security_tip_of_the_wee_2.html
It was a quiet week on the Ruby blog (come on folks, let's make some noise out
there). Gregory Brown is looking for innovative Ruby projects to highlight in a
new "Ruby Project Spotlight" series he wants to start. Read the details and drop
him a line.
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/05/starting_a_new_ruby_project_sp.html
I have no idea who the 2008 candidates will be, but I do know what's coming
up next week. Swayam Prakasha will take a look at how to optimize Linux
system performance, and Gregory Brown will tell us why Rails testing isn't
just for the paranoid. A new and dire threat confronts the inhabitants of
The Watering Hole, and Blogs Will Be Written.
* Yes, it STILL stands for the ONLamp Family of Websites
James Turner
Site Editor, ONLamp.com
turner@oreilly.com
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