Techdirt: How Patents Have Harmed University Research : the majority of university technology transfer offices have never made money, according to this. mind-boggling
(tags: bayh-dole patents ip universities academia tech-transfer techdirt)VTun – Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks : ‘The easiest way to create Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping, compression and encryption’. looks like it. UDP-based, no Windows support, but in Ubuntu’s “universe” apt repository
(tags: vtun tunneling linux unix networking ip tcp udp security)Perl Best Admin Practices : good advice to those of us running systems built on perl. Every interpreted language needs a document like this
(tags: perl wiki advice sysadmin best-practices guidelines fhs unix)