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Netscape Turns 30 by Adam Shand

Bootcamp, Svelte and a New Website by Adam Shand

Automatically create SSHFP records on Cloudflare DNS by Adam Shand

Howto to Encrypt Selected Files in a Git Repository by Adam Shand

Escaping the Big Apple? by Adam Shand

Simple Email Encryption on the Mac by Adam Shand

Managing Wrist Pain by Adam Shand

Introduction to Distributed Version Control Systems by Adam Shand

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow by Adam Shand

Processing CSVs on the Command Line by Adam Shand

Baa Camp 2009 by Adam Shand

Selecting Java Version on Mac OSX Leopard by Adam Shand

Getting SpamAssassin to Trust Authenticated SMTP Clients by Adam Shand

How to Repair the Cisco VPN Client by Adam Shand

SSH Tricks by Adam Shand

Baa Camp 2008 by Adam Shand

iPhoto Now Supports IPTC Metadata by Adam Shand

The Easy Way To Generate OpenSSL CSRs with subjectAltNames by Adam Shand

Introduction to SQLite by Adam Shand

Accelerando by Charles Stross by Adam Shand

Wireless Networking in the Developing World by Adam Shand

Glenn Fleishman on Community Wireless by Adam Shand

Lightning Talk at Linux Conference Australia by Adam Shand

Apache Tips and Tricks by Adam Shand

Integrating Apple OSX Clients with an OpenLDAP Directory by Adam Shand

Le Parkour by Adam Shand

Wiki to Blog and Back Again by Adam Shand

Integrating Active Directory With Apache by Adam Shand

Time Travel Spam by Robby Todino Jr.

Lobsters by Charlie Stross

Talking to TCP Services by Adam Shand

Frontpage suEXEC Hack by Adam Shand

Frontpage Server Extensions by Adam Shand

Secrets of the Little Blue Box by Ron Rosenbaum

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I will tell you the absolute secret of magic, at the most honest level. The secret of magic is you would not be willing to work as hard as we are, and that’s the whole secret.

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

Magic is the quickest, most fraudulent route to impressing people.

The open source spirit: To let a billion lemons go unsqueezed. To capture vanishingly less than you create.

People return to places that send them away.

Truly, there’s no more epic introduction than riding in on a man horse.

The easier it is for you to access your data, the easier it is for someone else to access your data.

Data doesn't really exist unless you have at least two copies of it.

Never put data into a program unless you can see exactly how to get it out.

Ship feature; Tweet; Send newsletter. Do this 50 times, and I’m pretty sure you’ll have a viable indie business. Doesn’t need to be more complicated…

First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.

Optimization is the process of taking something that works and replacing it with something that almost works, but costs less.

I have this strongly held opinion that "details matter". If you get the details right, the rest will follow.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

The plural of anecdote is data.

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.

If you think geeks are so sexy or cool, bang one. Go to any university and find a computer or physics lab at 2AM and take your pick. Until then, go commit cultural fraud someplace else, and take your phony “I fucking love science” group with you.

Stan runs his network like a fascist police state that crushes the spirit of TCP/IP packets. Stan often finds himself locked out of or inside of his network during one of many revolts of the oppressed packets. Stan uses OpenBSD PF.

Noah's network is run like a Hippie commune of free-love, drum circles and consciousness raising drugs. On occasion some packets wander out and reach their destination. Sometimes they send back postcards with poems written on the back. Sometimes gangs of biker packets roar up and steal all the good drugs. But there is no hate in Noah's network because all packets are created equal and sometimes bad packets are just ones we haven't made love to yet. Noah uses Linux iptables.

In pragmatic terms Google will probably do a damn site better job of looking after their privacy and security then they can themselves. Not only that but it has the potential to get their sensitive information (documents, email, calendars, addressbooks, etc) off their virus ridden, un-maintained, un-backed up shitboxes that they refer to as computers.

We can't create a culture of freedom and innovation, but we can build a network which fosters its growth.