www.debian-administration.org/articles/412
Posted by Steve on Thu 6 Jul 2006 at 22:03

One of the most common Apache2 questions I've seen on Debian mailing lists is from users who wonder how to host multiple websites with a single server. This is very straightforward, especially with the additional tools the Debian package provides.

posted 18th May 2004

• Text for the screen is sized with CSS in terms of pixels, ems or keywords. As most of us know, sizing with pixels is easy: get your selector and give it a font-size – no more thought required. Sizing with keywords is more complicated and requires a few workarounds, but you’re in luck as the techniques are well documented. That leaves ems. At this point people often leg it. ‘Ems are too inconsistent,’ they say, ‘they’re too hard; they never work.’ Well that may be the received wisdom, but if ever the was a case of FUD then this is it. I will now attempt to show you how ems can be as quick and easy to use as pixels.

There are two types of length units: relative and absolute. Relative length units specify a length relative to another length property. Style sheets that use relative units will more easily scale from one medium to another (e.g., from a computer display to a laser printer). - W3C Relative units are:

A hacker picking apart the security model of Microsoft's brand new Windows Server 2008 has found serious design weaknesses that render some of the product's new security protections "useless."

You can read his comments here:
Hacker Pours Cold Water on Windows Server 2008 Security Design

Google Is a Calculator

When you can’t be troubled to reach over and pick up the handheld calculator sitting on your desk, you can use Google as a high-tech web-based calculator. All you have to do is enter your equation or formula into the standard Google search box, and then click the Google Search button. The result of the calculation is displayed on the search results page; it’s that simple.

My wife found this excerpt online - it is a very touching story...
From: http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/sep3/emotions.htm

Animals also feel fear and anguish at facing death, and struggle to preserve their existence. The true story of Emily illustrates the anguish that a three-year-old Holstein cow felt when it was about to be slaughtered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_articl…
I love this article - my view is that the age of the artist is irrelevant - go to the Link to see the 50+ comments - many of which are gloating about the poke in the eye for the "Art Critics" of the world...
Don
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From: http://techdirt.com/articles/20080319/020719583.shtml
from the it's-that-simple dept

The Case of the Hired Hacker

From: http://www.mcafee.com/us/research/criminology_report/default.html

A businessman hired a sixteen-year-old New Jersey hacker to disable the Web sites of his competitors. The hacker launched a program that placed bots on 2,000 unprotected computers that he then used for a distributed denial of service attack.