All Things Gibbs

Opinion
Sep 11, 20072 mins

* Gearhead: I just need PHP 4.3.2 or higher! * Backspin: Safety by disclosure * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days

Gearhead: I just need PHP 4.3.2 or higher!

Let me start by asking if any of you have experience with Plesk? Plesk from SWsoft is a Web-based control panel for Windows and Linux servers that has been adopted by a number of hosting providers.

To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.

Backspin: Safety by disclosure

Last week I was philosophizin’ about security failures in complex systems — a topic triggered by a reader asking whether full, i.e. public, disclosure of security vulnerabilities was a better strategy than trying to keep the security holes secret.

To read this week’s Backspin, click here.

Gibbsblog: The past 7 days

Time for Mashapps?

I wonder if there’s too much emphasis and effort being placed on Web applications that exist totally “in” Web browsers? The reason I wonder this is recently I’ve found a number of Web-based user interfaces that are painfully slow.

Hiding the Goods From The Man

If, for some reason, you wanted to encrypt and hide the contents of your disk drive, what would you use? I just stumbled across an open source data encryption system that looks amazing!

Rate This Idea!

I’m testing out Cambrian House, a very interesting “crowdsourcing” system for developing ideas.