By Gary V. Vaughan under Ramblings
Having skipped a week while in transit across the Atlantic, Sunday Link Love is back this week with more links that caught my eye since the last edition. If you’d like to submit anything for inclusion, feel free to send it to me over plugoo (the IM box in the sidebar). I’ll not only include [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Ramblings
Sunday is usually a quiet day in the blogosphere. Typically I get a little over half of my normal daily traffic on Sundays. But, since I’d like to get into the habit of posting something here every day, a new Sunday feature for azazil will be a post containing interesting links I’ve found throughout the [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Programming, Technology
I recently bemoaned the lack of PKI support in Google Mail, only to be proven wrong when I happened upon the FireGPG project this morning: A firefox extension that uses an external GPG binary to handle ASCII armoured email signatures and encryption. The embedded ASCII armoured signature flavour involves adding a block of text at [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Technology, Writing
If you’re interested on how to push machine lockdown to its absolute limits, including removing bash (and other shells) from a Linux installation among others, then you might enjoy my Industrial-strength Linux Lockdown tutorial, currently the top featured article in IBM developerWorks Linux Zone (registration required, sorry). The second part of the tutorial is where [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Technology
This is the first part of a short series of posts about installing Mac OS X. Today’s topic is nailing down the security. In the next part, I’ll look at setting up the standard applications. Before I get started on this post, I should like to point out that, yes, I did work for the [...]