Laptop. History. Workstation. Ipmiutil - IPMI Management Utilities. Axiom Computer Algebra System. In my life as an artchitect, I find that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.
If I ask a student whether her design is as good as Chartres, she often smiles tolerantly at me as if to say, "Of course not, that isn't what I am trying to do...I could never do that. "Then, I express my disagreement, and tell her: "That standard must be our standard. If you are going to be a builder, no other standard is worthwhile. " Computerworld - Bruce Almighty: Schneier preaches security to Linux faithful. Internationally renowned security guru, Bruce Schneier, will be encouraging technologists at linux.conf.au to take a lesson from Luke Skywalker, and "feel the force" a little more when it comes to security.
Schneier, who is CTO of BT Counterpane, is one of the three keynote speakers at the 2008 Linux.conf.au. He joins Python release manager, Anthony Baxter and founding member of HP's Linux division, Stormy Peters. Dahna McConnachie speaks with Schneier about his talk, "Reconceptualising Security" and how technologists need to remember the importance of the human element. He also discusses cyber-war, what Linux has done for security, and the likelihood of another edition of Applied Cryptography. What do you spend most of your spare time working on these days?