A geek's diary

“Harald Bluetooth was king of Denmark in the late 900s. He managed to unite Denmark and part of Norway into a single kingdom then introduced Christianity into Denmark. He left a large monument, the Jelling rune stone, in memory of his parents. He was killed in 986 during a battle with his son, Svend Forkbeard. Choosing this name for the standard indicates how important companies from the Nordic region (nations including Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) are to the communications industry, even if it says little about the way the technology works.”

da http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/bluetooth.htm

Un nodo TOR localizzato in Cina effettua un attacco MITM qualora venga utilizzato come nodo d’uscita in connessioni https: genera certificati SSL falsi.

Qua il post di chi l’ha scoperto e qua una discussione su sikurezza.org.

Le cento pagine più visitate di wikipedia inglese: una classifica che riserva molte sorprese

upstart, un’alternativa al datato init, compare in Ubuntu Universe. Non solo:
“From the start of development of edgy+2, no new packages will be accepted unless they provide upstart jobs instead of init scripts and init scripts will be considered deprecated.”

Ecco un articolo che ne delinea le caratteristiche, confrontandolo con gli altri sistemi.

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