Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has some interesting comments on the repercussions of Apple's iPad.  What seems ironic to me is that when Palm stopped innovating (shortly after their announcement that they were switching to Linux), the PDA market virtually died - smartphones virtually chewed up the market overnight.  Now, as a spinoff of Apple's entry into the smartphone market, the PDA market looks set to revive.

I've just been asked to deploy some HP ProCurve 1810G-8 switches (J9449A) into a network environment containing a large number of managed and unmanaged ProCurve switches. This network has an existing ProCurve Manager installation which controls all policies for existing managed ProCurve switches. Whilst on paper the switch looks pretty good, it is not really an appropriate product for medium-sized business networks....

Novell's SMT (Subscription Management Tool) is a software update tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE.  I've had the dubious honour of working with it over the last few months on a client site.  These notes were compiled as a result of installing SMT on three different servers, and interacting with various people in the Novell forums, especially the novell.support.sles.updates forum.

What's wrong with SMT?

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For a long time, i've told my clients and friends that the best way to make a password is to write a short sentence or phrase. A recent study linked from Slashdot IT reinforces this....

Richard Bliss recently blogged at Novell and on his personal blog with some great advice: don't click on e-cards from your friends, and think about asking them not to send them at all, since the risks of clicking on e-cards vastly outweigh the benefits....

Linux Journal has an interesting article about how to set up Linux for your grannie. There are some great ideas to consider there.

Michael Reed has a good piece on his experiences in moving his mother from a Windows-based PC to Ubuntu Linux. The result? Amazingly successful, although it did take some tweaking on his part.

From http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/info/everest.aspx:

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio’s electronic voting systems have “critical security failures” which could impact the integrity of elections in the Buckeye State, according to a review of the systems commissioned by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.

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Now this is just plain bizarre:
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"Totally bogus dude" gets my points for insight on why the GPLv3 is not going down well in some circles. My take: it's a very deliberate effort by the FSF to tip the balance of copyright law from the copyright holder towards the user. (Obviously this balance can only be affected to the extent that the GPLv3 applies to a work.)

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