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And a new month begins, and it's the start of hurricane season for us.
In what was a very unfortunate cracking incident, both Apache.org and Sourceforge were cracked. Apache has a brief overview of what happened, but basically it stems from a user using a compromised ISP to login to Sourceforge, and then someone logging into Apache from Sourceforge; and the cracker just sniffed the passwords. Luckily, as the Apache note pointed out, due to the open source nature of the web-server, it's possible to fairly easily check the integrity of the sources to make sure that the cracker didn't put any trojan horses into the code.
I found an awesome new web cartoon yesterday. It's called The Joy of Tech and it's sorta like User Friendly in that it deals with the geek and tech cultures. One of my favorite is this one on trolling.
Succedaneum was the winning word in the 2001 spelling bee held yesterday. I was watching the last few rounds on ESPN, so I got to see the guy win too. I myself could never win one of those competitions because I'm such a horrible speller.
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