Why does a Landscape-managed deployment of Ubuntu cost US$250 per seat per year? For my 7-seat deployment in our new China-based subsidiary, that would cost us US$1,750/year. Compare to the Microsoft Partner Program’s Actionpack Subscription at HK$2,792 (~US$350) per year. The Actionpack Subscription even provides 10 seats worth of internal-use software. That means [...]

I am a huge fan of OpenID. My initial interest was piqued by the promise of no longer having to remember login credentials for dozens if not hundreds of websites. The security benefits of only having to protect one set of login credentials instead of many became quickly obvious thanks to an ebay [...]

I logged into my email today to 50+ emails from eBay. My initial reaction was:
Great! Google’s email SPAM filter has finally broken down.
Unfortunately, it was not a simple case of spoofed eBay emails making it through the trusty SPAM filter. My eBay account had been hacked. Some one had gained access to my [...]