'Security theatre' is the term I've seen Bruce Schneier use for pointless things that aredone mostly to make it look like you're doing something about security.Websites are especially prone to this disease, because everyone knowsthat the Internet and the web are insecure and overrun by hackers, right?

Today's shining example is the US Air Force Cheyenne Mountainpublic website , whichseems to be pretty much a PR site (complete with cheesy photos ). Despite thisun-sensitive usage, Cheyenne Mountain

I've recently gotten an Xinerama-based dual monitor setup working on mynew office workstation, and the experience has left me with a bunch ofreactions.

• it was pleasingly easy to get going in Fedora Core 5, and by that Imean that X automatically comes up with both monitors active ifthey're both connected.
• the default clone mode (both monitors displaying the same thing) issurprisingly disorienting.

• starting up dual monitors with an unmodified X setup is an interestingway to see which windows you've

This week, we:

• got 15,623 messages from 253 different IP addresses.
• handled 19,363 sessions from 969 different IP addresses.
• received 166,319 connections from at least 46,095 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 8 connections being checked at once.

This makes volume a bit up from last week .Volume fluctuates a bit during the week:

There are two general approaches to coping with the various environmentsof Unix accounts that I've seen people adopt. The first is taking thedefault environment that each system comes with (perhaps with minimaland easy customization for stuff that really bugs you); the second isbuilding a completely customized personal environment that you then drageverywhere.

(To stereotype, people who follow the first sort feel that life is tooshort to spend futzing with your environment when the one that someoneelse worries about works well enough, while the