"Why did they even put this press release out?"

I thought the reason to put it out was obvious. I know, who on Slashdot would RTFA, but I thought it was obvious from the money shot at the end of the article:

"Companies are waking up to the fact that they've under-invested in the area of security around surveillance and monitoring and forensics to get to the bottom of what happened."

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Or maybe I'm just being cynical...

I've used Keepassx for a few years now. It's cross platform (Windows / Linux) and stores the files encrypted. I tried one of Bruce Schneier's public domain solutions previously, but the Linux install (Password Gorilla ???) was rather painful on some systems if I recall correctly.

Just be sure to use a substantial password for the database...

For those of you that need wireless, and need to access Access Points with hidden ESSIDs (like I do for work), you should stay away from the KDE version of 9.10 (Kubuntu) for the time being, unless you're still comfortable with installing/running wicd. The latest release candidate of 9.10 I ran last week still had issues out of the box. If you need this capability, stick with the plain vanilla version (Gnome). I'm told that nm-applet works O.K. with wireless, although I've not had the chance to confirm it yet.

As always, YMMV...

So, let us all know how that "Security through Obscurity" thing works out for you. This incident looks like it'll could be case study in another year or so...

I've got to agree. After the bad experience I had with 8.10 (broken menus, monitor powerdown lost, that friggin' cashew) I found 9.04 was a pleasant surprise. It's up & running with no additional tweaks needed only a few hours after the upgrade. It took over a month after the 8.10 install before I decided I wouldn't revert back to 8.04 or Fedora. Of course, by then, Fedora 10 had also adopted that damn cashew...

I saw much faster boot times when I moved to 8.10, and I believe it's improved slightly with 9.04.

All in all, a MUCH improved experience out of the box!

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I can't believe no one has referenced Google yet... I read a paper a year or two back on how they were making their data centers more efficient. Now, lo and behold, they have a website dedicated to how to run an efficient data center - surprise!

Check out

Instead, we're rehashing the old arguments between Tesla and Edison??? George Westinghouse backed the winning idea AT THE TIME. Get over it, people...