Enterprise Networking Planet: "Its strength lies in the fact that it can be used to exchange encrypted information between two parties that have never communicated together before and have therefore never agreed on a secure way of exchanging messages."

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "One question that I get asked a lot (and used to ask a lot ;) has to do with the TCP protocol. More specifically, with how an established connection goes about graciously ending. And, if you haven't guessed, the reason the question gets asked so often is that, with all the different states a graceful TCP disconnect goes through, lots of folks (involved in troubleshooting) are curious as to whether the output they're pouring over is "good" or "bad.""

Physorg.com: "Zipf's law is a testament to the order in our world, showing that the same patterns emerge in a wide variety of situations. The linguist George Kingsley Zipf first proposed the law in 1949, when he noticed that the distribution of words in a newspaper, book, or other literary article always followed the same pattern."

New York Times: "That in itself isn't unique. More unusual is that Mr. Curtis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft, the world's largest software company, believes deeply that open source is the future of software."

LinuxHaxor: "There are many reasons why you would want to generate bogus data for your database. Perhaps you'd like to know how well your databases will perform when filled with data, or maybe you just need some data so that you can start creating a front end for the database."

DesktopLinux: "Clearwire Corp. announced that it has completed a $14.5 billion transaction with Sprint Nextel to combine their Mobile WiMAX broadband services. The merger of the two largest WiMAX services may accelerate deployments crucial to the success of Linux MIDs, netbooks, and other devices."

MakeTechEasier: "Gnome, KDE and XFCE users will have no problem changing the wallpaper on their desktop. However, if you are using a lightweight desktop manager such Openbox or Fluxbox, you will find that there is no way that you can set the wallpaper for your desktop. In this case, Nitrogen will come in handy."

Standards Blog: "Barack Obama promises to be the most technologically attuned U.S. president ever. More than a year ago, he released a policy statement on technology and innovation that detailed his plans to employ state of the art technology to pursue a broad spectrum of goals...In pursuit of these goals, he also promised to appoint the nation's first Chief Technology Officer."

ZDNet: ""At times like this, cheaper generally wins," Whitehurst said as he spoke to journalists on Monday about his thoughts on the Linux market and the immediate future for Red Hat."

New York Times: "Why should cable companies have anything to say about what I watch that is not on their system?"

Help Net Security: "F-Secure's detection count tripled in one year, which means that the total amount of malware accumulated over the previous 21 years increased by 200% in the course of just one year."

Tech Source From Bohol: "At the moment, there are probably hundreds of add-ons, so as a guide to new Songbird users, let me share to you a few of my favorites:"

IT Security: "But although Ubuntu is billed as the ultra-secure solution, you should know that even though Ubuntu's default install has its flaws, like every other operating system. To combat these weaknesses, IT Security has prepared a guide to help you close your system's backdoors and protect you from some of the common Ubuntu exploits."

The Open Sourcerer: "Our former parent company was running a character based ERP system called MAX on Unix and a Windows file serving network. So day 1 (ish!) we set up two RH servers and installed samba, sendmail, apache etc on one for file print intranet and email and the Linux port of MAX on the other."

Groklaw: "I found a treasure on YouTube. Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society has a channel on YouTube now. And they held a conference in September on the US antitrust trial against Microsoft, collecting many of the players in that famous litigation, including David Boies. So it's your opportunity to see him in action. As usual, he's impressive."