The other day William Favorite posted a great description of what a SAN or Storage Area Network is. He posted this to the Albany NY Capital District Linux Users Group (CDLUG) mailing list.
If you get a chance to visit Favorite's web site, be sure to check out his beautiful collection of historical maps shown with their modern Google maps counterparts.
This PDF is a transcript of a podcast "Security Now!" by two security researchers, Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson. I thought it was a good explanation of a new kind of threat. This new threat was first described by Joanna Rutkowska. She has her own paper here.
There has been a lot of talk on ProNet the past few days about the CMS UI. Content Management System User Interface, or the part of the software that the author's of blogs use to post their blog entries. I for one, wish that the interface would work without JavaScript. It is not that I don't like JavaScript, it is just that do like a choice.
I just got Live Writer from Microsoft, and I am writing this post using that program. I downloaded it for free, and I am sure they want me to do the Live Spaces thing, but I am using it to test posting to MT.
So far so good. It gives me a nice WYSIWYG view of the blog post as I edit it. It was a little picky about some things as I set it up, but I tried enough times and eventually it hooked up to my old (Linux) server and in just a minute now, we'll see if it posts.
Well whaddya know?
More links to your blog means more visitors. Bloggers check to see who is linking to them; if they like the blog that links to them, they may link to it. A blogroll is a list of links to other bloggers. (You need not take my word, it says so over at Learning Movable Type.)
That is the basic logic behind a blogroll. A nice young fellow Arvind Satyanarayan has written a full featured commercial plug-in for Movable Type which helps users manage blogrolls, and has nice features, such tracking the last update to the blogs on your blogroll. If you need features, check it out.
But, maybe you don't want to run a program that requires PHP. Maybe you don't feel like paying for a plug-in. Maybe you won't want to give your email address just to download the plug-in to evaluate it.
Maybe, like me, you just appreciate the beauty of a simple hack.
This one really confounded me for a while. In my quest to use more free software, one thing stumped me with the GIMP that I think is more or less trivial with other software. Rounded Corners. Problem solved: [GUG] tomcat's tutorial - rounded corners; plus a user group, GUG centered around my favorite graphics program.