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New version of my Ubuntu Web Server VM out
UbuntuWebServer
REVISION LOG:
1.2 - added JDK+Tomcat5.5 and PostegreSQL
1.1 - added OpenSSL and demo apache configuration (commented)
1.0 - initial release

Warner Brothers dropped HD-DVD and went Blue-Ray only.  This is how things look now:

(Source: Wikipedia)

Almost one year ago I blogged Deconstructing Xbox Security, this year there’s Deconstructing Xbox 360 Security (24c3-2279-en-deconstructing_xbox_360_security.mkv) presented at 24C3. Link to 24C3 video recordings.

In case you haven’t heard, Google Reader went Social.
Summary: Add people to your gmail chat/gtalk and you’ll be able to see their Reader’s shared items and they’ll be able to see yours. It’s a great way to not miss interesting blog posts (specially “niche posts” that don’t hit the digg frontpage) and to make [...]

Sadly, the most important addon I use, Google Browser Sync is still not compatible with Firefox 3b2. Google needs to stop slacking… or would need to if it had competition :/
Anyway a few other addons I use are also not compatible yet: Google Gears, DownThemAll, Adblock Plus and the Growl addon.
Oh well, guess I’ll have [...]

Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price
Chris Anderson, editor of Wired and author of The Long Tail speaking at Nokia World 2007.
(via Guy Kawasaki)

Robert Full: Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches
UC Berkeley biologist Robert Full shares his fascination with spiny cockroach legs that allow them to scuttle at full speed across loose mesh and gecko feet that have billions of nano-bristles to run straight up walls. His talk, complete with wonderful slow-mo video of cockroach, crab and [...]

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When editing your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, keep in mind that order might matter. Example
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout0″
Screen 0 “Screen0″ 1600 0
Screen 1 “Screen1″ 3280 0
Screen 2 “Screen2″ 0 0
InputDevice “Keyboard0″ “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice [...]

Just uploaded the Ubuntu Web Server Virtual Appliance v1.1.
Added SSL support (OpenSSL, loaded the Apache module and added demo certificate and commented out configuration).

If you’re like me and don’t like having to install all that stuff in every PC you use than this virtual appliance is for you.
Or
If you want to start learning PHP/Ruby on Rails/Django _now_ instead of having to install/configure stuff.
Or
If you’re going to something like Sapo Codebits and want to take the server with you [...]

Top 15 free SQL Injection Scanners
svn-time-lapse-view
Twitter Guide Part #5 - Twitter Tools | Web Applications
JanusVM - Internet Privacy Appliance

Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
Scientific visualization (wikipedia)
visualcomplexity - A visual exploration on mapping complex networks
information aesthetics - data visualization & visual design
PingMag - Infosthetics: the beauty of data visualization
Science Magazine - 2007 Visualization Challenge Winner

The Ars Technica review of Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard is probably not the best out there but I still like it (despite the annoying, unnecessary and presumptuous history lessons) - feel free to leave a link to your favorite review in the comments and I’ll link to it in this post.
Despite that it does contain [...]

There is no easy way to create application shortcuts (a shortcut to an application that may or may not have arguments). It’s extremely easy to do in Windows and Ubuntu (<your-favorite-nix/linux-distro&gt but not in OSX.
I’m sure that as usual, some idiot apple zealot (sorry for the pleonasm) is going to try (yeah try, comments [...]