Creating Passionate Users

I started off posting some links from this blog to my shared items.
Then the more I read, the more I wanted to share it with you ... so finally let me just recommend this blog to you all.
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/

In their own words, Kathy Sierra and Dan Russell -- "The Creating Passionate Users bloggers are all fascinated by brains, minds and what science can tell us about the practice of making users passionate about their lives and tools " !

Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I do.

Google Reader and sharing blogs

I recently started using Google Reader. From what I am seeing its a nice piece of software which collects updates from all across the web -- particularly places like blogs and web sites which get updated at a sporadic rate.

I have defined a few sites which I like to check for updates and it alerts me when there is a new post (thanks to RSS of course -- what RSS is I truly am blissfully unaware of -- I never had the heart to go check what made it tick really). But anyways, it works.

So what? Well more beautiful is a small feature they have provided which ties up what I read and like with what I can update on my blog -- "Share"!
So now if I find things interesting I can just share a link through this place.
I am not 'copying' anything so not a threat to anyone's IP and at the same time I can redirect people to more worthwhile readings than my ramblings :-) That's the good thing.

Happy reading ...
Bye for now

Still Alive

I thought that I will post some apologies and some explanations putting it down to laziness etc etc as to why there is nothing new on this blog.

But the objective of this space is not to spend time on regrets, gloom and repentance (that can be done in private) rather to try to make amends and move on in our quest to add some value.

So for all the lost time, here is a set of links to browse through before I come back with something better.
Related to Unix systems security controls or audit:
http://security.berkeley.edu/MinStds/Disabling-Unix.html
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0365/6mg5vpmfh?a=view
http://www.niiconsulting.com/tuaph1.html
http://www.softpanorama.org/Articles/notes_on_solaris_hardening.shtml
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0365/6mg5vpmjd?a=view

Unix Shell programming:(old bookmarks, may be slightly outdated -- but very good for beginners)
http://www.esscc.uq.edu.au/~ksteube/Bshell/
http://www.ucs.fsu.edu/docs/unix_commands.html

Hope this is of use ...