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The big excitement for me this week was receiving notice of an SCO bankruptcy restructuring meeting occurring next month, which tells you how exciting this week has been. I get these notices because I bought 10 shares of SCOX when it hit 40 cents a share. Given it's now trading, such as it is, at 18 cents a share, it wasn't a great investment from a ROI perspective. However, I bought it as art, and paid the $20 to have a paper certificate issued. It now hangs proudly next to my toilet, a location I felt properly reflected the status that SCO has recently attained.

Step by Step: Configuring SSL Under Apache
Of much higher status is Juliet Kemp, one of our SysAdmin wonk bloggers. This week, she's produced a dandy of a guide to configuring SSL under Apache. This is part of a new series called "Step by Step," which will take you through common but less than straightforward tasks one step at a time. Next up will be a guide to joining a Samba-enabled Linux system to a Windows domain, look for it in the coming weeks!

Conspiracy Theory
Recent news on the SCO front has Cecelia and Philip abuzz over at the "Watering Hole."

Black Hat Briefings 2008 Washington D.C.
Nitesh Dhanjani presented a paper at Black Hat Briefing on phishing, he talks about it in the blogs.

Clean Code is Easier to Debug
Ever try to debug a piece of code that looks like a rats nest? chromatic argues that ease of debugging is a strong argument to write clean code.

Dojo Goodness, Part 1
Matthew Russell has some free time on his hands, and is using it to start letting us in on the basics of using Dojo.

Openness Checks In, But It Doesn't Check Out
Steve Balmer says he wants openness in Windows. chromatic says he's off to a poor start.

Cobra: Python + Objective C Inspired Language
Watch out, a Cobra! Noah Gift has some slides on this mating of Python and Objective C. And no, I don't mean CORBA.

PyMOTW: EasyDialogs
Doug Hellmann is easy. OK, maybe he isn't, but his Python Module of the Week is EasyDialogs, Mac OS-native dialogs for Python.

I'd Love to Quit My Job (Sort of)
Gregory Brown would like to go freelance, and wants you to pay for it.

Beast acts_as_sphinx
Beast acts_as_sphinx. But what does Beauty think about it? TDD, search engines, Ruby, unit tests, Philip C. Plumlee.

Bitten by the New Mac Bug
Chris Josephes bought a new Mac laptop... one week before the new models came out. Doh!

Next week we'll take a look at using Zend Studio for PHP development, and some big news about an old O'Reilly haunt. Until then, keep warm/cool/dry (choose one), and remember that if you're good and eat all your vegetables, a Saudi Arabian prince may pay you $100 million for something worthless too.

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