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Articles

Each spring as the foliage and blossoms return, we have a visual indicator
that reminds us that summer is just around the corner. But who or what reminds you
about what you might have forgotten to administer with your computers?

In our first article, Tom Adelstein discusses a few things that
System Administrators seem to forget. Tom puts together a list of what
he and his colleagues have decided are the "Top 7 Things System
Administrators Forget to Do." Check out what you may be forgetting:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/05/03/the-top-7-things-sysadmins-forget-to-do.html

Our second article takes the form of an interview with several
developers in "OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again" by Federico Biancuzzi.
You probably know that OpenBSD 4.1 has just been released. But do
you know about all the new features for networking, active porting
efforts (landisk and UltraSPARC III), work on SMP, and the improvements
in spam fighting? Check it out here:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html

New Feature

In keeping with our "reminders" theme, you should set one to visit our
OnLamp Watering Hole, as our new comic strip will change weekly at:

http://www.oreillynet.com/wateringhole/blog/

Blogs

The blog with the most traffic this week is "Ruby and Women," by Gregory
Brown in Opinion. I think it is pretty self-explanatory. You can find
it here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/05/ruby_and_women.html?ref=most_discussed

Another one not to miss is "The World of Junk Patents Implodes," by Rick
Jelliffe in Opinion. Rick is on to something here, and you should find
out what it is. Check it out here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/05/the_world_of_junk_patents_impl.html?ref=most_discussed

In case you haven't heard of anther RIA scripting language/extension,
check out the blog on Java FX. You can find it here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/05/java_fx.html

Stats

The first of a three-part (plus an additional post) on the State of the
Computer Book market was posted on Monday. You can find it on our Radar
site at:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/state_of_the_co_6.html

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