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2007
29
May
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 things [...]
2007
25
May
Earlier today, I found Ankesh Kothari’s Buy Me a Beer plugin, and reasoning that a man can never have too much beer, installed it right away. It turns out that something in the plugin doesn’t agree with WP-2.1, so I had to hand code a work-a-like into my sidebar. Ankesh, I’ll certainly buy [...]
2007
24
May
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 [...]
2007
18
May
George W. Bush thinks a good use for $456 billion is to wage war on Iraq. The Boston Globe thinks that money could have been put to better use, and so do I… Yesterday, I was tagged by Ian Hedges to take part in the $456 Billion meme, who was in turn instigated [...]
2007
13
May
Last week I was tagged by Charity of Design Adaptations to take part in Ben Yoskovitz’ Ultimate Guide to Productivity meme. The idea is to reveal my greatest personal secret to maintaining my productivity, before passing on the baton. The contributions may even be collected into an e-book, especially if you express an [...]
2007
11
May
September 1988 is etched in my memory as a bad month: the A-level results had been released, and I was all set to leave for University, except that I had got really bad grades and wasn’t elligible for any of the institutions I’d applied for. Faced with a choice between redoing the whole year [...]
