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The Internet is a great place to find information security resources, but getting a well-rounded selection of sources can be a bit hard as you work to filter out the information about the latest Anonymous hack or virus.
What I've tried to collect here are some of the best educational resources on InfoSec. Notice these aren't tools or news sites, but rather sources by which you can ground yourself in the basics. Also note that there is no particular ordering that occurred as I wrote the list, just the order that I thought of them.

Google recently announced its new privacy policy and terms of service. This new privacy policy is intended to unify the privacy policies of each of their services into a single policy, and to increase the exchange of data between these services.
This new policy, set to take effect March 1, sums up the privacy nightmare that Google has become.

If you make a change to a configuration file that needs to be reflected in your Linux boot process (such as mdadm.conf), you'll need to add it to your initramfs image.
This process varies by distribution (although most that I have used share the method I describe for Debian).

To update initramfs for Debian, run the command:
update-initramfs -u

In Fedora, run the command
dracut -f /boot/initramfs-currentimage
where initramfs-currentimage is replaced with the name of the image you are currently using.

Today finally saw me move off the little server in my room onto a DreamHost hosting plan.
This was motivated by a number of factors, not the least of which was the fact I had a total of several weeks of downtime last year between the April tornadoes and various hardware failures.
Add that to the fact that I'm getting increases in readership and I decided it would be best to stop gambling that my hardware doesn't just give out.

Apparently the Image module I've got installed is breaking the current install of Drupal (at least with my server configuration).
I don't have enough time to try and get everything working with that module again, so if any images are suddenly missing, that would be why.

UPDATE: The bill has been passed by the Senate.
Yesterday, November 30 2011, I read about the bill currently in the Senate, the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, S1867. This bill came to my attention because of Section 1031 within it, which states

Having recently moved my desktop to Fedora 15 I am now using Gnome Shell (more on this later). However, as with many of the configuration settings for Gnome, having focus follow mouse is no longer something you can set using installed graphical programs.
Fortunately, a one line command can rectify this for those of us who have become accustomed to using focus follows mouse (if you've never tried out focus follows, you should give it a shot for a week or so - you might be suprised out how nice it is).

You read that right. Today I had a partition with over 150 gigabytes of space left on it and a drive error reporting that said partition was full. Not only that, but this was an important partition for me, the one that I keep in a mirrored RAID because it stores the main copy of all my school work, programming and more, so I was very concerned about disk errors.

For some time I've considered social netwoking, having up to this point avoided joining any social networking sites. That's right - I'm not a Luddite, yet I don't use Facebook. However, today I was invited to join Google Plus. And so, I decided to take the plunge, and jack into the Matrix.

Sometimes when you are working in your Bash terminal, something goes wrong.
It might have been a program that output strange symbols, or maybe you ran the cat command on a binary file. But, no matter how it happened, it can make your terminal essentially useless until you restart it.
Fortunately, these problems were anticipated by the creators of Bash, and a command exists to set the terminal right.
Simply run reset and all should be well once more, returning you to the joy of the command line interface.