Monthly Archives: October 2005

EFF Legal Guide for Bloggers

Posted on 2005-10-29 by Dan Siemon

EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

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Software analogy

Posted on 2005-10-22 by Dan Siemon

Inside Risks is the last page column in Communications of the ACM. The Inside Risks column in the September 2005 issue, written by Barbara Simons and Jim Horning, discusses how hard it is to get non-technical people to understand why … Continue reading →

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SSH article

Posted on 2005-10-21 by Dan Siemon

The September 2005 issue of Linux Journal has another nice SSH article. This one is called Managing SSH for Scripts and cron Jobs. Note worthy is the discussion of how to securely use passphraseless keys for remote command execution. Also, … Continue reading →

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EBay and voice service

Posted on 2005-10-20 by Dan Siemon

So EBay thinks that voice calls will be free in the future because calls will be subsidized by advertising. This was their justification for paying way too much for Skype. How they came to this conclusion is beyond me. If … Continue reading →

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CASCON 2005

Posted on 2005-10-20 by Dan Siemon

Last Tuesday I attended CASCON 2005. CASCON is hosted by IBM’s Centers for Advanced Studies. I have been to many technology conferences in the past such as Internet World but this was the first academic conference I have attended. As … Continue reading →

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The Collapse of Globalism

Posted on 2005-10-17 by Dan Siemon

A few days ago I finally finished reading The Collapse of Globalism by John Ralston Saul. Unfortunately, I only had time to read it at the rate of about a chapter a day so I didn’t give the book as … Continue reading →

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Pictures

Posted on 2005-10-11 by Dan Siemon

For those of you reading this blog who actually know me personally you may be interested to know that I added a bunch of pictures to the Photo Album today. Most are of Barry and Mylene’s recent wedding.

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Vonage

Posted on 2005-10-10 by Dan Siemon

I have been meaning to experiment with VoIP service for a while now. So when the Vonage sales droids called me the other day offering a free month of service I thought I would give it a go. It only … Continue reading →

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