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Interesting analysis of the cost of software, applying the pricing model for financial instruments such as options and calls to support contracts: ONLamp.com: Calculating the True Price of Software.

Found a great little how-to for using Rsync to create multiple snapshot backups, with full explanations: Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync.

The New York Times has a story about people throwing away their PCs because the cost of cleaning out the viruses and spyware costs more than a new computer.Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the D

The New York Times has an interesting editorial running today by Joseph Nocera, about solving the identity theft problem.

Today, there's a review in the New York Times about Hot Property, a new book by Pat Choate that essentially claims the US is in technology decline because of "piracy."

From the article:

We're looking to set up an office phone line using Asterisk at Home. The latest version has added a custom SugarCRM package, allowing you to have Sugar dial out for you. Very cool feature.

For those who need to keep an archive of every sent or received in an organization, here's a brief story about how to create one securely and automatically.

"Freedom is the oxygen of innovation, not its enemy." - Eric S. Raymond, the person who coined the term Open Source.

He's interviewed here: ONLamp.com: ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore".

OpenOffice.org is a full-featured office suite, with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, and drawing software. It's been available at OpenOffice.org for years, for Windows, Linux, Mac, and other operating systems.

Good Morning Silicon Valley has an interview with Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel. He talks about where the technology industry is going, comparing Microsoft to IBM.

I spent several years of my childhood in a remote corner of bush Alaska. When thinking about those times, I remember one village in particular: Point Lay, mid-way between Point Hope and Barrow. In Point Lay, in the late 1970s, we got our news twice a week from people and mail arriving on our regular mail planes. Every Tuesday and Friday, depending on the weather, news from the outside world would arrive, filtered by the people who happened to be on the airplane or the magazines we were subscribed to. We didn't have television, or good radio reception. Aside from the delivery vehicle, the news we received was much like living in rural America a hundred years ago--second or third hand, heavily filtered.

Flavio's TechnoTalk has some good tips for securing a Linux server.