This is a small checklist of how to secure the Apache webserver. I wrote this mostly for my own personal use, but I hope it proves useful for others, too. For any suggestions or comments, please feel free to contact me. Note: This is work in progress. More content will be adde...

A few weeks ago I published a small HOWTO for using loop-aes to encrypt your hard drive, usb thumb drive etc. As I have bought a new 300 GB external USB disk drive on Friday, I have tried something new this time: disk encryption using dm-crypt / LUKS. It has been suggested to...

eweek.com’s article on ten programming languages you should learn right now is the most ill-informed pieces I’ve read in a while. Here’s my (hopefully better) attempt. Five Programming Languages Scheme. If you come from a “curly braces” background you should learn a functional...

After an incredible 22 hours trip from St. Gallen to Squaw Valley I finally made it to the Gruter Institute’s 2006 conference on Law, Behavior & the Brain. A fantastic group of roughly 40 leading researchers, scholars, and practitioners working in different fields – includ...

I just returned from the Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Global Council of Ethic’s Workshop on Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations, where I was participating in a session entitled: “In Search of Criteria for Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violation: Respo...

Oryginal title: "Rational Choice Theory vs. Heuristics Approach: What are the Consequences for Disclosure Laws?" I just finished reading Heuristics and the Law (2006) edited by Gerd Gigerenzer and Christoph Engel. It’s an interesting collection of essays by legal scholars, psy...

Earlier today, I attended a conference organized by Oliver Arter and Florian S. Joerg on Internet and e-Commerce Law in Zurich. I was invited to speak about e-Compliance in general and the implications of e-Business on compliance and corporate organization in particular. E-Com...

This morning, I had the pleasure and honour to speak - “as the European voice” - at the FTC hearing on “Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade” (check out the official weblog for more information and summaries of the discussion.) I was asked to report about the legal and re...

What are Google Sitelinks? Last year Google started experimenting with an enhanced listing in their natural search results that can increase a site's visibility and reputation, and provide more traffic. For a long time we didn't know what to call these delux listings, but now...

Flash gets a bad rap, undeserved in my opinion, for harming search engine visibility. Why are search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners concerned about Flash, and how can we SEO Flash content? The main problem with Flash is that search engines don't yet understand it, and...

If you are developing a web-based system whereby a user, or users, are logging in and staying logged in (sessions, cookies), the following ideas are written with you in mind.

REST tutorial in dialogue form.

W związku z licznymi pytaniami, postanowiliśmy opublikować podstawowe informacje na temat klarowania 470 - tki. Kombinacji otaklowania większości elementów takielunku jest wiele, jednak nie odbiegają one dużo od podanych poniżej. Materiał opublikowany został także na stronie P...

Kłopoty młodzieży, ale i ludzi dorosłych, ze sprawnym posługiwaniem się językiem polskim w mowie i piśmie są zjawiskiem coraz powszechniejszym. Wiedzą o tym najlepiej nauczyciele akademiccy, którzy natrafiają na mur milczenia w czasie zajęć, na nieporadne dukanie w czasie egza...

Niedawno prasa doniosła, że w Krakowie powstała specjalna szkoła dla spowiedników. Rozmawiałem na ten temat ze znajomym zakonnikiem, który powiedział mi sporo ciekawych rzeczy. Na przykład - że jezuici mają prawo udzielać rozgrzeszenia w sprawach bardziej skomplikowanych, ale...

Fast food to cichy zabójca. Sprawdź, jakie substancje znajdują się w popularnym jedzeniu. Z pewnością nie są to witaminy...

Prawo autorskie dotyczy także Internetu. Wiedza odnośnie tego, na co zezwala to prawo, a czego zakazuje, jest jednym z podstawowych elementów nauki o współczesnym świecie.

We all know the importance of a powerful headline. However, writing a great headline isn't as easy as it sounds. An effective headline will literally force your potential customers to learn more. It will instantly ignite a certain emotion and intrigue them to read on. In order...

If you're selling a product or service on the Internet, your words are the most important factor in determining your success.

Since starting my home based Internet business back in 1997, I have learned many lessons along the way. These lessons have played a major role in my success, and I'd like to share them with you. Lesson #1 Collecting your visitors' email addresses should be one of your top prio...

According to a recent study conducted by Ferris Research, a market and technology research firm specializing in messaging and collaboration, Spam will cost U.S. businesses over $10 billion in 2003. Spam not only clogs our servers and in-boxes, but it also costs us hours and ho...

Last week we reviewed the three basic elements to apply in order to become a successful screenwriter. The first was discipline which revolved mainly around sitting down everyday for an hour or less and write anything. Research has shown that a habit is picked up or broken afte...

To start on the road to authorship you have to understand a key element in the making of a successful writer and this may be a novelist, a screenwriter or a playwright. There is no such thing as writing badly and whatever you may write, you have to write it with pride. The sec...

If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman. Next month, the European Parliament will vote on the vital question of whether to al...

The GNU Manifesto (which appears below) was written by Richard Stallman at the beginning of the GNU Project, to ask for participation and support. For the first few years, it was updated in minor ways to account for developments, but now it seems best to leave it unchanged as...

I grew up in a community whose other members committed crimes as serious as murder. The city of New York, with its 8 million inhabitants, had hundreds of murders each year, mostly committed by people who lived in the city. Violent assaults and robberies were even more common....

There are general reasons why all computer users should insist on free software. It gives users the freedom to control their own computers--with proprietary software, the computer does what the software owner wants it to do, not what you want it to do. Free software also gives...

Just consider: the GNU Project starts developing an operating system, and years later Linus Torvalds adds one important piece. The GNU Project says, "Please give our project equal mention", but Linus says, "Don't give them a share of the credit; call the whole thing after my n...

While free software by any other name would give you the same freedom, it makes a big difference which name we use: different words convey different ideas. In 1998, some of the people in the free software community began using the term ``open source software'' instead of ``fre...

Apologists for proprietary software like to say, ``free software is a nice dream, but we all know that only the proprietary system can produce reliable products. A bunch of hackers just can't do this.'' Empirical evidence disagrees, however; scientific tests, described below,...