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    Although incidences of profanity and swearing are rare in the ten million lines of the newly-released OpenSolaris code, the ones that do exist reveal programmers' frustration with their art.

  • Thou shalt telecommute, says Senator Coonan

    The federal government has set up a committee to pave the way for more Australians to live the telecommuter lifestyle. However the move won't go as far as recent legislation in the United States which requires government departments to support teleworkers.

  • Leaving the backdoor open

    Have we been lulled into a false sense of security by some anti-virus firms?

  • Snort up for revamp, says creator

    The creator of Snort, the open-source Network-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), says the software is up for an overhaul.

  • Hackers and vendors brawl over nothing

    The issue of security vulnerability disclosure has been a hot topic for a long time now, however recent efforts to bring in new disclosure guidelines are unlikely to change anything.

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  • Reducing internal security breaches in a SMB

    Methods for preventing internal security breaches that work in a small company environment generally don't scale well as the organisation gets larger. Here's how you develop a scalable strategy for preventing breaches as your company grows.

  • Leaving the backdoor open

    Have we been lulled into a false sense of security by some anti-virus firms?

  • Torvalds: What, me worry?

    In this interview Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds, sounds off on the SCO lawsuit, patents and the future of Linux.

Reviews (1)

  • Why Compaq's iPaq won't dominate new Pocket PCs

    Come Thursday in the US, a slew of new PDAs based on Microsoft's Pocket PC 2002 will be unveiled--and they'll be nipping at the iPaq's heels with zeal as the playing field gets leveled. Here's why I think iPaq's position at the top of the Pocket PC heap is going to be a thing of the past.

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