Data Security in the workplace

It’s time to write a policy on removeable storage at my office. As with most companies, data can leave the confines of the network perimeter any number of ways.

Blackberry phones sync to Microsoft Outlook, and travel with employees EVERYWHERE.
USB Key drives are crazy cheap, and allow a huge amount of data to travel outside the [...]

SPAM Fighting, Redux

It looks like this post worked. I went from 40-50 mis-labeled SPAMs per night to 1 last night. I’m catching a few HAM emails as SPAM, but sort through the SPAM folder now a little more religiously.
Dreamhost auto-kills any automated job that takes up too much CPU in a short period of time; I think [...]

Top 30 free Windows applications

From bOING bOING:
Financial blog The Simple Dollar has come up with an excellent list of the top 30 free Windows software, from Firefox to GnuCash:
Recently, I received a fresh new laptop from Dell. Upon receiving it, I did the traditional “installation of Windows from scratch” on it to remove a lot [...]

Permalinks and Wordpress

I’ve spent the morning trying to figure out how to get my Wordpress Blog, which is mounted in my home directory, to work with pretty permalinks (I.E. http://www.kataan.org/postname.html instead of http://www.kataan.org/?p=222). The Wordpress mod_rewrite rules work, but since Wordpress is installed in the root directory, the mod_rewrite rule breaks images in the gallery as well [...]