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David Gerard writes
"Wikimedia, the organization that runs Wikipedia and associated sites, has moved its server infrastructure entirely to Ubuntu 8.04 from a hodge-podge of Ubuntu, Red Hat, and various Fedora versions. 400 servers were involved and the project has been going on for 2 years. (There's also a small amount of OpenSolaris on the backend. All open source!)"
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self assembled struc writes:
So I'm trying to help a friend out. The browsing policy at his workplace means he can't access anything that isn't HTTPS, but he routinely needs to access resources online to do his job (that are not available via https).
I'm trying to find some software I can run on my server to allow to connect to that via HTTPS and then browse the web from there, but I'm coming up short when I Google it — I just see info about other anonymizing proxies he can use or other sites that you can't connect to via HTTPS. Privacy is NOT of a concern — I just need some sort of transparent proxy that he can surf the web from.
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zerojoker writes:
From today on a new regulation that requires all telecommunication companies to retain information about all landline and mobile calls made by members of the public for one year comes into force in the UK. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/01/nphones101.xml] All members of the European Union decided that it's in the best intereset to spy on their own citizens [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention]. Now this is turned into british law.
Unlike — for example in Germany — Internet-connections are not monitored so far. But the European Commission is not happy with that [http://www.out-law.com/page-8472].
The fun thing is that only Irland and Slovakia voted against that European directive. Now politicians are claiming that "they can't do anything against that because Europe forces us to do so".
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self assembled struc writes:
The NY Times says Novell definitely owns Unix [Free reg, get over it].
In a decision that may finally settle one of the most bitter legal battles surrounding software widely used in corporate data centers, a federal district court judge in Utah ruled Friday afternoon that Novell, not the SCO Group, is the rightful owner of the copyrights covering the Unix operating system.
Better sell the rest of your SCOX stock boys...