LinTraining and German Linux Training Centers - There must have been an article about LinTraining in some German magazine or web site, because I've approved probably 6 or 7 new Linux training centers in Germany in the past week or so. That was the majority of recent submissions, which is just unusual. Whenever there is a grouping like that, it makes one think there must have been a mention of it somewhere. I just don't think that a bunch of people in Germany suddenly found LinTraining!
--refresh-keys - 687 new sigs across 208 keys in my keyring... guess I hadn't updated it for a while.
'script' for Windows - Was trying to find something as simple as 'script' in the Windows environment. I just want to log a series of commands and their results without having to have a high buffer on the command window and copy/paste the commands/results into another window. I did find a great repository of UNIX utilities for Win32, but alas, no 'script'. There is, however, 'wc' and a number of other good commands! Another good repository of Win32 tools over at Interop Systems (but again no 'script'!).
The list of tools that Interop Systems has for Microsoft's Services For UNIX 3.5 is quite nice, too. (But again, no 'script')
identd - Needed some background on identd today and so wound up reading RFC 1413. Was mildly amused to see an acknowledgement at the bottom thanking Dan Bernstein. I have known of him for qmail and djbdns, but didn't realize he had a historical connection to identd.
The 3050 ICP Rides Again - For a period of time, we had a product in Mitel's portfolio called the 3050 ICP that was a small SIP-based PBX targeted at small and medium-size businesses. It was actually developed by a separate company, Mitel Knowledge Corporation, that is, like Mitel Networks, owned by Terry Matthews. The 3050 ICP was, to me, a very cool idea. I will admit that part of my bias was certainly that it was Linux-based and sat on top of our 6000 Managed Application Server product. But another part of the attraction was just that it was SIP-based and was entirely done in software.
In any event, for a number of reasons the relationship changed and we stopped carrying the 3050 ICP. The folks at Mitel Knowledge then formed MKC Networks and the product became the MKC Networks 7000 Communication Server. They also moved away from basing it on our commercial "6000 MAS" product and instead based it on our open source developer release called the "SME Server" and now supported through the community site of contribs.org.
The whole reason this came back to my attention was the news posting to the contribs.org developer site where MKC Networks is offering the software to developers who are interested. I hope some folks take them up on it. We need more stuff like this. I wish them all the best and do so hope the product evolves well.
Cisco INFOSEC Certification - Was passed along the link for the Cisco INFOSEC Professional which has some backing from the NSA. Interesting stuff.
The Chloe Journals: Tea Parties at 6am - So after listening to her talking in her room since about 5:30am or so, I finally roused myself out of bed a bit before 6am to go over and do the morning diaper change, etc. Before I could do that, though, I had to of course sit on the floor and accept the plate and fork from her, along with the mug and spoon (all small plastic toy ones, of course) and then participate in her little tea party. It was quite cute.