Last week Securityfocus, home of a number of reasonably active mailinglists that our users like getting, changed their nameservers from theSymantec corporate nameservers to UltraDNS. And then the Symanteccorporate nameservers promptly stopped giving useful answers to queriesabout the securityfocus.com domain (instead returning the standard 'Ihave nothing to do with them' results of a referral to the root zone).

Since the mailing lists are reasonably active and we do check to makesure that the MAIL FROM domain actually exists (much like most of the

This is the complete source code for a little X program I call tkmsg .It puts up a window with a text message (given as the command linearguments, ala echo ), sized to fit the message, and when you click inthe window it goes away.

set myname "tkmsg"wm title . $mynamewm iconname . $mynameframe .framebutton .text -text $argv -command {exit}pack .text

(And this also automatically handles standard X things like the -geometry command

'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