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Windows apologists have always said that the only reason Linux doesn’t have viruses (or worms, which are the same for the purpose of this discussion) is because it is not nearly as common as Windows, disregarding the vastly different security model.

You can’t communicate information faster than the speed of light, right?

s3-backup.py uploads Bacula (backup software) file volumes to Amazon S3 for safe, cheap, easy off-site storage. I’m crazy about backups. This is part of my disaster recovery plan. “If it wasn’t backed up it wasn’t important.” - Me

The former Hourglass Field is a block away from my place and served an important role in aviation training in San Diego, hosted drag races, caused a riot involving 3000 people on El Cajon Blvd, and is now almost completely forgotten as strip malls and housing take over the landscape.

An open letter to the peoople wanting free computer tech support.

Learning to fly the seaplane…

I don’t know if this will catch on or not but it is a very interesting project.

Some months ago a fellow KPLUGger won the book “Silence On The Wire” at a raffle. The book publishers are very kind and send us books as long as we provide feedback in the form of a review. My friend wasn’t so into security books so he gave it to me having noticed it was on my Amazon.com wishlist.

I read http://slashdot.org every day because it has a lot of interesting news about the computer business and computer culture.