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i got an unusual hit on my firewall:

experimental tcp option found. hmm… someone is playing around with tcp.

wordpress 2.3 is coming out in a few days (24 sept) and i just upgraded to wp 2.2.2 from 2.02 a couple of weeks ago. sigh. it never ends, does it?
no. i don’t feel compelled to upgrade just yet. i’m a paranoid kind of guy when it comes to these things. would like know if [...]

after reading an article about running only white listed programs on a computer instead of blocking blacklisted ones to improve internet security, i started thinking of doing the same to my e-mail. there are more spam mail coming in each day than legitimate ones so it should be easier (and maybe more efficient?) to filter [...]

things just got a little more interesting in the office applications circle. there’s microsoft office, then the free openoffice suite and then there’s lotus symphony.
ibm resurrected the symphony line with three applications — a word processor, a presentation program and a spreadsheet. according to ibm, these three are based on openoffice. judging by the screenshots [...]

there are plenty of things that you can do with linux. i’ll make this post simple so that it doesn’t sound so overly technical. please remember that you’d still have to do a lot of reading before, during and after setting up these systems. no spoon feeding here.
linux usually comes in two [...]