Good introductory article on monitoring disk usage, with a nice little script to send a mail as filesystems approach their limit:
System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring disk space and usage
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Archive for June, 2006
Monitoring disk space and usage
Sunday, June 18th, 2006Nice article on BackupPC
Monday, June 12th, 2006Carla Schroder covers a great network backup utility in her current series. Here’s where the rubber meets the road:
Do Automated Cross-Platform Network Backups The Easy Way (Part 2)
Tricks that could be used to steal your data
Friday, June 9th, 2006Not to make you paranoid or anything, but here’s a fascinating story of a new social engineering tactic: a new way somebody might trick you into giving away your passwords and any other sensitive stuff on your computer.
Dark Reading – Host security – Social Engineering, the USB Way – Security
Skipping commercials is theft
Sunday, June 4th, 2006… according to Jamie Kellner, former CEO of Turner Broadcasting, in an argument that ultimately caused the demise of the ReplayTV 4000. In case you don’t remember, the ReplayTV unit was essentially a Tivo that, among other things, automatically skipped commercials.
The IEEE Spectrum this month has a good article outlining the problems with Digital Rights Management and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). From the article:
“Copyright is being turned from a limited-term incentive designed to encourage creative artists to a broadly scoped transfer of wealth from the public to the private realm.”
Open source politics are ‘American as apple pie’
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006Eben Moglen on Free Software:
“The politics of open source are not anti-business or anything to be ashamed of, but a return to America’s inventive roots after a period dominated by innovation-stifling monopolies.”
Open source politics are ‘American as apple pie’ – ZDNet UK News
More Linux developers than Windows developers?
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006We could be there soon. By the end of this year, if an independent survey of developers across North America is accurate.