Great article at ArsTechnica about the Upcoming game consoles from Sony, Microsoft & Nintendo. Interesting that they're all using IBM PPC variants.

Fascinating - Ten very surprising things about Iran.

Geek Eye Candy - Screenshots of various Open Source applications and Operating Systems.

A nice review of the new iMac over at Geek.com.

How to make your own OpenBSD bootable CD.

Just finished Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds. Great book and much faster paced than his previous Revalation Space. Some slightly odd discontinuities in terms of the way things jump around particularly towards the end of the book but still pretty worthwhile. In a mammoth book buying splurge I also picked up the final in the series Absolution Gap as well as Runes of the Earth by Stephen Donaldson and Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Should keep me in reading matter until Christmas at the very least.

Secure LDAP - Paranoid Penguin. Nice rant in the comments about how 'backwards' it is in this day and age to have to mess around with all these config files just to update user details - actually the rant seems to have disappeared since I last read it. I guess in a company using LDAP you'd whack a web front end on the admin interface...

A nice article Linux Virtual Memory - Is Swap Space Obsolete - "No" appears to be the answer.

This is too cool - ChipPC fits into a wall. If I had an office full of admin types that didn't need any kind of serious horsepower this would be cool - boot them all via Citrix/Linux and move the load from the desktop onto the server and inset the desktop into the desk or wall.

Useful - PowerPrompt looks really handy - opens a cmd prompt which allows you to run tasks with SYSTEM rights on a Windows machine. Handy when you need to kill a task (say via services.msc) and Task Manager gives you 'Access Denied'.