When it comes to public key cryptography, most systems today are still stuck in
the 1970s. On December 14, 1977, two events occurred that would change the
world: Paramount Pictures released Saturday Night
Fever, and MIT filed the
patent for RSA.
Do you find yourself repeating the same steps whenever you start a new
Drupal project? Do you always download and enable the same modules,
and make the same configuration changes every time? As we start
doing more and more Drupal projects at Nomensa, I noticed that we
were doing exactly this, so I started to look into ways to streamline
our initial project setup process.
One of the great new things about Drupal 7 is that it's now easier
to customize your site content. In Drupal 6, you typically had to use
the CCK (Content Construction Kit) module for fine-grained control in
customizing content, but that has been folded into core for Drupal 7. Drupal
7 is now a true content management framework (CMF).
I'm the sort of person who doesn't like to install Java. I actually don't
like to install Flash either, but it's still tough to survive browsing
the Internet without Flash installed. There is one program that makes
me break my own rules, however, and that's Crashplan.
Besides representing open source organizations like the Linux Foundation and scores of standards organizations, attorney and open source advocate Andy Updegrove is also a novelist.
Poor telnet, it used to be the cool kid on the block. It was the program all
sysadmins turned to when they needed to connect to a remote server. Telnet
just wasn't that good at keeping a secret—all communication went over plain
text—so administrators started switching to SSH for encrypted remote shell
sessions.
