It seems that Toast 10 Titanium cd burning application doesn’t support overburning, so if you need to burn cd images that are larger than conventional 700MB, you can either use cdrtools from the command line with -overburn parameter (available in MacPorts), or use a nice cdrtools frontend called Firestarter FX, which is tested for Tiger and Leopard releases.
One way to receive up-to-date reports about vulnerability issues is subscribing to vulnerability RSS feeds: they update on demand, they don’t rely on your mail subsystem and they don’t fill up your mailbox. The only drawback is that you could miss alerts if you don’t sync your feeds for a long time, but if you’re a IT security manager, you don’t have a life, so how could it happen anyways? 
Here’s the top feeds you should be subscribed to (CVE tags are reported in brackets):
The above list is also available as OPML file you can import into your feed reader.
Web streaming services like UStream.tv and Livestream (previously known as Mogulus) use a Flash applet to capture audio and video signals on source computer. Media stream is encoded by Flash and sent over to broadcasting server. Currently this approach has two shortcomings:
One of the best lessons you can learn from Gentoo is you can export most of its juice to other OSes. I’ve been using Gentoo as main Linux distro since 2001. Currently I have a few setups where drawbacks of migrating to Gentoo would exceed benefits, so I decided to increase affinity by adding some Gentoo look’n'feel. This week I will post some tips to setup Gentoo console colors on other operating systems.
Under UNIX-like operating systems, there are several ways to manage long-running processes such as daemons. Process management is a crucial aspect of system maintainance and therefore it’s one of the aspects to take into account when planning a deployment. Since available solutions are getting more and more complex and specialized, I thought of writing a series of articles to recap the state of the art and draw up a comparative analysis.
This post deals with two system-wide alternatives, sysinitv and Mac OS X’s launchd: the first represents the tradition, while the latter represent innovation. Feel free to use comments to share your tips.
