Organisations as people, clusters, networks. Ton Zijlstra neatly summarises in words and diagrams How We Might View Organisations as individuals and networks… not just people slotted into structures. “Organisations are clusters of relationships between people. | The individual and the network are the relevant economic… [Designing for Civil Society]

bugger…. i was just using this sort of argument today.

Chkrootkit Portsentry Howto. 17 Mar 2004: Falko Timme has written a detailed tutorial on how to install chkrootkit and portsentry/logcheck on Unix systems in order to check a system for rootkits and be alerted in case of system attacks. [RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix]

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handy

Atom@IETF.org. Sam Ruby is charging ahead with the idea of taking Atom to the IETF, and I generally approve. Sun thinks it would be a good idea for me to put some cycles into syndication technology, so I told Sam that and he came back in about fifteen seconds saying ‰¥þWanna co-chair?‰¥?… [ongoing]

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this is a good direction to go with this….

if you are going to interview for a job as an assistant professor, have at least two things with you:

a. your dissertation, if its not with you, don't agree to an interview
b. at least three papers that define your work

that is my suggestion:) I've run into both issues in the last few weeks, and the way you feel if you don't have such things ready and available is that your colleagues don't seem to trust you as to your view of the future, and well a feeling of distrust is not pleasant. so…. who knows.