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Hello, Linux newsletter readers. You know what this is, so here's the
news in free and open source software, as seen on the O'Reilly Network.

It's easy to set up a working Unix firewall (if you followed Dru Lavigne's
recent advice). A firewall by itself isn't all that interesting; it's
likely that you have multiple computers somewhere that should access the
Internet through a protected connection. In the latest FreeBSD Basics
installment, Dru Lavigne walks through NAT configuration, which allows
your internet-connected firewall to share that connection with multiple
other computers. Safety and community are a nice combination.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/10/05/FreeBSD_Basics.html

Python's upcoming WSGI standard allows all of the frameworks in Python to
interoperate. It also encourages the development of middleware--small
pieces of code that add features to frameworks, such as debugging,
authentication, and caching. James Gardner explains further how this all
works together:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/10/04/introducing-wsgi-pythons-secret-web-weapon-part-two.html

In weblogs this week, Jonathan Wellons reported a colleague as saying that
web development is "trivial":

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/web_development_is_trivial_rig.html

Jeremy Jones found an interesting rant about how learning Python and
Haskell can make day-job programming frustrating:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/python_and_haskell_make_you_a.html

... then reported another opinion that design patterns expose weaknesses
in programming languages:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/design_patterns_are_signs_of_w.html

Your editor postulated the most important reason why bugs clump together:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/why_do_bugs_clump_together.html

... and asked challenge-response mail-system users to filter his junk mail
by telephone:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/dear_psychopathic_challengeres_1.html

Andy Oram characterized new media emerging in the Internet age:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/characteristics_of_new_media_i.html

Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_5.html

pat elyer posted one fascinating interview question with Robert Glass:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/10/interviewing_the_audience.html

Tom Adelstein recommended that Linux administrators earn their MCSE
certifications:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/10/linux_mac_andor_windows_and_wh.html

Tim O'Reilly remarked that visualizations of Wikipedia change logs and
genetic variations among individuals showed interesting similarities:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/wikipedia_and_genomics_visuali.html

Brady Forrest offered thoughts on running an unconference:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/thoughts_on_unconferences.html

Nat Torkington geeked out over O'Reilly appearances in a Weird Al video
and The IT Crowd television show:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/you_cant_buy_publicity_like_th.html

Marc Hedlund called for more VCs with low expectations:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/vcs_with_low_expectations.html

At least he can get VCs to call,
- c

chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network

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