Heh. I just spotted Aslak Hellesoy's blog entry at his blog (the Codehaus server seems to be down again -- what a surprise...) and decided to take a look at what these awards where.
Here's a screenshot of the page as seen by me. Pretty impressive, don't you think?
In addition to being possibly the first XP training in 2005, the one I did last week was also quite possibly the first XP training in a while where the "coach" was drunk.
Ok. Next up, Joe Walnes posted a nice tip for testing timezone dependent code.
In the blogosphere, Mike Spille is still keeping a firm grip on his title as MVB (Most Verbose Blogger).
Finally, Bruce Schneier comes down on Windows in his blog entry on Linux security:
[The Honeynet Project] just released a report about the security of Linux:
Recent data from our honeynet sensor grid reveals that the average life expectancy to compromise for an unpatched Linux system has increased from 72 hours to 3 months. This means that a unpatched Linux system with commonly used configurations (such as server builds of RedHat 9.0 or Suse 6.2 ) have an online mean life expectancy of 3 months before being successfully compromised.
This is much greater than that of Windows systems, which have average life expectancies on the order of a few minutes.
That's it for now. I'll hopefully be back in writing about some more serious things later this week. For example, I've started reading Getting To Yes and it's raising some interesting thoughts.