var/blog/messages: "Back in the 50's, the psychologist George A. Miller wrote a paper entitled 'The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information'. While quite a dry and involved read, it's findings (and

CIO: "Telecommuting is great. I've been doing it full time for most of 20 years. But it isn't perfect. Working at home has its own set of irritations, some of which aren't well understood—particularly by those who don't telecommute."

LinuxSecurity.com: Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel: Stack-based buffer overflow in the hfs_cat_find_brec function in fs/hfs/catalog.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or system crash)

LinuxSecurity.com: Data breaches continued to make their very public mark on cybersecurity news in 2008. And this time it wasn't TJX making headlines. Despite being PCI compliant, Hannaford Brothers supermarkets announced that 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers were

Tip of the Trade: "Using PuTTY (the best Windows SSH client going) and Xming (a free X Window server for Windows) enables you to log in from a Windows box to your Unix box, and then run an X session

JBCobb.net: "This article will show you an easy way of quickly uncovering a lot of documentation that is sitting right on your system that I will bet you don't even know that you have."

Linux.com: "The Interclue extension is supposed to give you a preview of links in Firefox before you visit them, saving you mouse-clicks and, with a little luck, allowing you to move quickly between multiple links on the same page. Unfortunately,

ZDNet: "The Perl Foundation tried a little PR experiment over the holiday. Good idea, but there's more than one way to do it.Dave Cross blogged about putting out a press release on Perl 5 development moving to a Git repo.

Internetling: "Aside from the removal of some annoying Vista bells and whistles and the new Peek and Snap window-management enhancements, it is difficult not to notice the resemblance between Microsoft's much-touted revamped Aero and the excellent, now 3-years old, KDE

Phoronix: "It has taken longer than expected for AMD to complete and release this information, but it's now available. AMD has released the fundamental Linux code needed to begin fostering the development of an open-source R600 3D driver. Furthermore, this

Thoughts by Ted: "More blood's been spilled by the militant adherents of prophets of change than by any other group of people down through the history of man."

Phoronix: "Among the innovations named this year were KDE 4, NetworkManager 0.7, new hardware companies standing behind open-source support, and the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix."

Help Net Security: "Dear Sirs: I am a client of yours. Given that I cannot disinfect my computer's DVD drive, I have enclosed it for you to clean it and send it back to me."

Linux Journal: "Instead, I'd like to discuss a matter that is related to these larger questions, but which focusses on issues particularly germane to Linux Journal: will 2009 be a year in which openness thrives, or one in which closed

Club Silencio: "In its war to dominate the World GTK+ has just won another battle:"

Linux Loop: "Windows Vista has gadgets, Mac OS X has widgets, KDE users have plasmoids, but what if your an Ubuntu user? Don't worry, you have a number of opinions, you just have to install them yourself."

Linux Magazine: "Dan Kaminsky, front man of the DNS attacks band the middle of 2008, has delivered a retrospective at the 25th annual Chaos Communication Congress (25C3) on the background and process of DNS vulnerability. But he also set his

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, since it's just past Christmas and almost New Year's, I figured this would be a great time to trot out some Linux and/or Unix Easter eggs. Actually, it doesn't make sense at all, but

Softpedia: "Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 operating system for SONY's PlayStation 3, Apple PowerPC G4/G5, IBM Power Systems and YDL PowerStation was officially released by Fixstars on November 19th, 2008. Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 (codename Pyxis) is an operating system for