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Development

For those who are interested in learning a new programming language, this article mentions some of the less obvious choices.

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DBMS

This is an interesting tool for those who like to have a web interface for database administration and need something simple yet quite complete: phpMinAdmin.

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Development

Free software project management axioms. Some points can be questioned, but overall I agree.

Security

Security Idiocy Story. Anything familiar?

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Graphic and art

Another surrealist artist: Wojtek Siudmak

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Networking

For those interested in DNS, here's another toy to play with: Unbound.

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Fun

Spam can be funny: a spam a day

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Music

An article that describes why the RIAA really hates downloads. A point of view I agree with.

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System administration

A nice kick start article from Debian Administration for those who like to experiment with LDAP: OpenLDAP installation on Debian

If you need an auto responder of any kind, this howto is really useful: Auto Responder with Procmail Howto

DBMS

A couple of useful resources if you'd like to get rid of MSSQL:

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Security

This is an interesting advisory from Cisco Systems:

CiscoWorks Internetwork Performance Monitor Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

My question is: why binding a privileged shell to a random TCP port?

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Funny art

A nice way to recycle old telephones: phone sheeps

Some news

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Some interesting news

OpenOffice.org goes to LGPLv3

Music

If the Latins are right - you know, "Nomen omen" (your name is your destiny) - this band, Black Merda, should not have lasted long. But they're still around after forty years! The name - in Italian merda means shit - is really really funny :) Thanks to Enrico for the link.

Security

Some always interesting thoughts from Bruce Schneier:

Security Products: Suites vs. Best-of-Breed

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