A guy who runs SETI@home on a bunch of his computers used it to locate and recover his wife’s stolen laptop! The SETI client application sends its results to the main database every few days, and then downloads new work to do. Well, when this connection happens, the SETI database logs the client’s IP address. [...]
Ars Technica did an in-depth review of the newly released Lightroom application for digital photography. I’ve been using the beta version for a while, and it’s pretty much taken over my work flow from Photoshop CS. It’s available at a big discount through the end of April, so I’m sure to pick it up before [...]
A research paper released today by Watchfire talks about a possible vulnerability in Google Desktop [pdf]. They were able to exploit flaws in the application and its integration with the web to obtain “remote and persistent access” to data on the target system. This was just announced, so we’ll have to see if it stands [...]
Visreport is a tool, written in Ruby, for visualizing the output of SELinux logging (as well as AppArmor and Netfilter). It generates some pretty charts and graphs in an HTML format, with some nice AJAX features to spice it up. This would be useful to get a quick visual representation of where you might want [...]
Here’s an interesting, and probably controversial, article on the most sought after IT skills of the near future. It’s really nothing new - they are assuming that the most technical jobs will all be outsourced or automated. That leaves you with a need for versatile, big picture people who can design and manage IT projects. [...]
