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Archive for August, 2008

Several people have asked me to describe how I would go about building a sensible home network that would be highly functional, inexpensive, and teach them a bunch about networking technologies while they did it.  Since this is a very do-able project and has several real benefits, I’ve decided to take it on.  So I’ll [...]

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I’ve written a series on Internet malware (see the tags), during which I’ve gotten progressively more pessimistic about the state of the Internet as regards increasingly aggressive malware infections. I’m concluding that people aren’t worried enough about what their computer is up to behind their back. But now I want to spend a [...]

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The Russian bear comes roaring back, 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, with an unprovoked attack on the Republic of Georgia to ostensibly look after the interests of the ethnic Russian population of the province of South Ossetia.  This is a conflict that has been brewing since the demise of the USSR, [...]

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