Hey, sysadmins! Are you logging stuff you don't need? If you are, The Man might bust down your door and take those logs from you and use them to screw over your gentle, goodhearted and trusting users.

EFF's got the answer: my cow-orker Seth Schoen has written an app that digs through your drive and tells you what you're logging and where so that you can decide what you need to keep and what gets catted into /dev/null. — Read the rest

CodeCon is the wicked-nerdy technology conference held each year in San Francisco, at which all presentations must include running code, preferably code that is available for download by the con-goers. They've just posted their call for proposals.

All presentations must include working demonstrations, ideally accompanied
by source code.