Vendors, I have a simple request for you: give me an RSS feed foryour security fixes and system updates . No, please don't suggest thatI subscribe to your email announcement list, because these days emailis just too much of a hassle. Accept it; RSS is the new lightweightnotification format, and notification of new updates is just what Iwant.

And don't just give us one global RSS feed of everything. Be modern; letpeople get narrow feeds as well as broad ones

I spent part of Monday poking through a Fedora Core system that hadbeen partially compromised, and I was reminded yet again how one of myfavorite RPM features isn't as widely known as it could be. Namely, thatRPM keeps a handy database of the MD5 checksums about every file it'sinstalled (as well as a pile of other information). The rpm command's -V option taps this database to verify the actual files on the systemagainst what the database says they should be and

Every so often I read a genuinely electrifying article, one that makesme sit bolt upright in an 'ah-ha!' moment as it crystallizes things I'vebeen stumbling towards.

Peter Drucker's The Five Deadly Business Sins is one such article. Go read it now; I'll wait. (It nailed me to thefloor so much that I have a copy saved in case the Wall Street Journalever removes it or moves it behind their pay-wall.)

Looking back over my entries