Apple ‘Switch’ Star Flies High. Ellen Feiss, the young star of one of Apple’s new switch ads, is gaining a large following online. She’s the subject of fan sites, icons, desktops and Photoshop parodies. Can Mahir-like fame be far behind? By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

Time for Open-Source to Grow Up
The OpenSSH backdoor demonstrates that the community must get pragmatic about package verification, and fast. [Security Focus]

SSL defeated in IE and Konqueror. You have no security; get over it [The Register]

Sun revives Solaris for Intel. 8.0 next month, 9.0 next year [The Register]

Open source’s new weapon: The law?. Open-source advocates will unfurl a legislative proposal next week to prohibit the state of California from buying software from companies that don’t open their source code. [CNET News.com]

Dangers of the Google tool bar exposed. From annoyances to threats [The Register]

Gnutella bandwidth bandits. The file-trading network’s developers are discovering that even their wide-open, free-for-all technology might need a little policing. [Salon.com]

But from the beginning, Gnutella exhibited a frustrating reluctance to “scale” — to perform adequately for large numbers of users — and when Napster did eventually shut down, in 2001, Gnutella wasn’t ready for influx of refugees.

How to create an admin explorer and How to create an admin Cmd were added today to my tips on how to not run as administrator on windows.

Roylsopp – Remind Me This video is loaded with the most funky visualizations.

Jon Udell: “I’ve been meaning to try ActiveWords, so when its inventor and evangelizer Buzz Bruggeman wrote to me about it recently, I took the plunge.”

Here’s my nirvana. Every app that manages one or more namespaces — and it’s hard to think of an app that doesn’t — would offer namespace completion as a service. Let’s make it a web service, while we’re at it, so it’s available locally or remotely in the same way. Now when I type ‘g’ and hit F8, ActiveWords (having associated ‘g’ with Google) can reach into the browser’s Google search history and enable me to complete directly on that namespace. Or when I type ‘e’ and hit F8, ActiveWords — having associated ‘e’ with Outlook — can reach into the Outlook contacts and enable me to complete directly on that namespace. Which, if you have allowed me the privilege, might in some cases be your address book not mine.[Scripting News]

This would be a awesome thing.