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what kind of stuff does KRUD give the user over Red Hat?

Evil3d.net: reviews KRUD “So what kind of stuff does KRUD give the user over Red Hat? First and foremost is security. Kevin got tired of having to download so many security updates after a standard Red Hat installation. The next machine over would need the same updates, and so on and so forth. To fix this, Kevin decided to download the updates once and put them into the installation routine. Great amounts of time were saved using this method. So much so, other people liked the idea and KRUD was born. Therefore, if a security patch becomes available for any KRUD package, it will almost certainly be included on the next month’s edition.” I started subscribing this year, and I’m really impressed. Discs arrive around the middle of the month. Everything works. [Zope Newbie News]

Lion Internet Worm Analysis (paper)

not a fan of CMM

Mark Newman: “As you can see, I’m not a fan of CMM. I view it primarily as a means for high-priced consultants to hold seminars and sell books, not as a process to improve software.”

[Joel on Software]

Sun warns of data corruption problem with UltraSPARC III

Sun warns of data corruption problem with UltraSPARC III. Firmware update fix will result in performance hit [The Register]

DukeOfURL: Pogo Linux Velocity – IDE RAID on Linux

XSLies

XSLies is a simple XSLT application for making Web-based presentations. It uses a simple XML input file to generate an HTML slideset. The resulting layout is completely customizable using XSL and CSS.

CA-2001-06: Automatic Execution of Embedded MIME Types

Hardening Windows 2000 (paper)

The NT Local Administrator and Shared Passwords

Mobile security flaw delivers yet another blow to IPv6

InfoWorld: Mobile security flaw delivers yet another blow to IPv6. The discovery of security flaws in the proposed Mobile IPv6 protocol means the Internet Engineering Task Force will have to develop a new method for authenticating roaming devices that use IPv6 addresses. This development means delays of months for Mobile IPv6… [Tomalak’s Realm]