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Toorcon:

Toorcon is a comprehensive, three-day information security extravaganza, featuring lectures from some of the top experts in the field and hands-on demonstrations of the newest approaches to information security and security management.

Here are two "impressionistic transcript[s] by Cory Doctorow": security super guru
Bruce Schneier's keynote, as well as that of the always amusing and insightful Robert Cringely.
- jim 9-28-2003 11:01 pm [link] [add a comment]

Cingular is having some sort of GSM cellular melt down. Details are sparse. I know at least one person having trouble with AT&T wireless GSM too (but those networks shouldn't have anything to do with each other, should they? Or could roaming agreements set up some sort of cascading service failure situation?)

How are your cell phones working today?
- jim 9-28-2003 9:46 pm [link] [1 comment]

It was 20 years ago today...

And he pretty much did it. Well, except for the kernal part where there is still, alas, some work to do. Luckily this other guy named Linus had a project of his own that took care of that. And thus we ended up with GNU/Linux, a completely free and open computer operating system.

Thanks!
- jim 9-27-2003 4:16 pm [link] [3 comments]

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