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fossguyon Why it sucks having your own company

Remember those "offline" weekends? They are gone too... :)

fossguyon Linux System Monitoring Tools

For people that care about security, I would add those monitoring tools:

-OSSEC - log + file system security monitoring (http://ossec.net)

-Snort - Network-based IDS (http://snort.org)

-Sucuri (not free) - web site monitoring (http://sucuri.net)

fossguyon Web Server Log Forensics App Wanted

Try OSSEC: http://www.ossec.net (open source log-based intrusion detection tool).

fossguyon Google top 1000 sites: Interesting stats about them

Nginx with 14% of market share is indeed very interesting, very close to IIS (17%).

fossguyon F-Secure Stopped Facebook Worm With A Phone Call

I think the 15 second was just an expression to "very quickly"

fossguyon Twitter, Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal

It will be way less common, specialy considering that you can't execute anything in there...

fossguyon What happens when two kids sleep only two hours a day?

Just have a kid and you will learn by yourself. If he is colic, you will get even less.

fossguyon Ask HN: What's the most simple way to accept monthly subscription fees?

The best cheapest and easiest one is Paypal.

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No doubt: open source it. It will benefit more people and it is better than shutting down or getting pennies for it.

fossguyon Why most companies don’t develop software for Linux

I wish I could mod you up more. I am a big foss fan boy (can see by my nick), but most people don't care about licensing, if the code is open or not, etc.

They want something that works and fit their needs. That's it.

fossguyon Apache.org defaced - Security archive case study

I agree! I jumped into the article when I saw apache.org defaced....

fossguyon HN Uptime Visualized: Lots of mini-outages lately?

what tool do you use to generate these stats?

fossguyon The Difference Between Package Managers "Apt-Get" and "Aptitude"

Very funny... I wonder what other tools have this kind of funny easter egg.

fossguyon Google changes Buzz to be opt-in and adds easy delete button

Well, quick response because they realized they screwed it up...

fossguyon Steve Jobs giving an in-house speech at Apple, circa 1997

Awesome speech, but world changing? no..

fossguyon Fingerprinting web applications (Wordpress, Joomla and Mediawiki)

Joomla, for example doesn't dump their version in the generator field (nor does mediawiki, I believe). Only wordpress like to do that.

fossguyon Fingerprinting web applications (Wordpress, Joomla and Mediawiki)

Simple but works... In the same way that if you modify your tcp/ip stack, nmap (or p0f) will get all confused and report the wrong os,

fossguyon Google Reader Can Now Track Changes to Any Website - Even Without a Feed

Cool stuff. I have been using Sucuri's Network Integrity monitor for the same thing... I monitor my own sites and some pages that I am interested to be notified when they change.

That can be very useful as an intrusion detection system if your pages are modified without you knowing it.

Link for sucuri: http://sucuri.net

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It seems to be back now...

fossguyon Twitter 'flat lined' with new user base

And they will go downhill from now on...

fossguyon Follow changes to sites without RSS feeds with GReader

Cool stuff. I have been using Sucuri's Network Integrity monitor for the same thing... I monitor my own sites and some pages that I am interested to be notified when they change.

That can be very useful as an intrusion detection system if your pages are modified without you knowing it.

Link for sucuri: http://sucuri.net

fossguyon Ask HN: What websites do you frequent?

Quite a few:

http://slashdot.org

http://serverfault.com

http://securityfocus.com

http://sucuri.net

http://matasano.com/log (well, while it was up and I hope it comes back)..

http://taosecurity.blogspot.com

http://linux.com

fossguyon Milw0rm Shut Down By Owner

It is back up again now...

fossguyon Milw0rm Shut Down By Owner

It is b

fossguyon Ask HN: Review our public beta for DoLeaf.com

Link:http://doleaf.com

fossguyon Yahoo Will Never Recover

I heard the same thing in the past about Nintendo and Apple... They are dying, will never come back, etc.

Not saying that Yahoo will recover, but you never know.

fossguyon Poll: Do you upvote stories on the new submissions page?

Maybe we should have an RSS feed only for the new stories for people to upvote..

fossguyon Will Twitter kill RSS?

In some aspect it might. Most non-tech users never used RSS before, but are now following their favorites sites on twitter. So, instead of pushing them to using RSS, they will just use twitter for that..

At the end, I think that twitter will take some users away from rss, but never kill it.

fossguyon Google Cleans Up Their Logo Design

I like their new logos. As everything google does, it is simple and clean.