Get a “Copy-too”; a New Way to Protest Intellectual Property

Posted by: Rea Maor In: Blogosphere News

It’s getting almost tiresome to refer to George Orwell over and over again. We need a new guy. One who can look at some of the new methods of intellectual property control and appreciate their truly gruesome horror.

Brace yourself for one scary story: Ars Technica is reporting on the new actions taken by an obscure [...]


Eight Quick Ways To Make Your Network More Secure Than It Was Before

Posted by: Rea Maor In: Security and Prevention

Whether you have a home server setup or run a small business, anywhere where you have two or more computers connected together, there you have a network. And any point at which that network connects to the outside Internet, there you have a potential security compromise point. While network security is a deep subject, there [...]


Linux PCs: The State of the Market

Posted by: Rea Maor In: Linux and Unix

Microsoft (and perhaps even Apple and Sun) may not like it. A hundred A-list bloggers may harrumph their discontent with the idea. But Linux, like a kudzu vine, is slowly insinuating itself into the desktop PC market anyway.

First there was the much-blogged “$100 laptop”. The OLPC project keeps plugging along, with a new country every [...]