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Mrs. Allan's teary face immediately transformed into a smile and she gave me a big motherly hug. She proceeded to introduce me to the rest of the family as a member of Greg's PostNuke community. Natasha, Greg's good friend, announced, "You are going to be the celebrity in here today." And indeed, in my own way I was. I was privileged and honored to be representing such a large number of PostNuke users and developers who were unable to attend the funeral of the man who was one of the founders of PostNuke.

The funeral service began with a reading from the Bible, followed by prayer and two speaches and a sermon interspersed with choral arrangements. Throughout the funeral service, I was not alone with my inability to hold back the tears. The sanctuary was filled with grieving friends and family. The priest read a part of the message posted by Steve MacGregor as well as a number of comments that had been made on postnuke.com.

Known for his humility, Greg had kept his passion for and efforts toward the development of PostNuke very quiet and was unwilling to let his achievements be know to the majority of his family and friends. His passing and the subsequent revelation to his loved ones brought a measure of surprise to the local community with their introduction to a 13,000+ member community that he had been instrumental in building.

Following the service, I was thanked for attending and told that it meant a great deal to the family and loved ones to have a representative of the PostNuke community there for Greg's funeral. However I had one more mission to complete: Meaford.

Meaford is only about a 20 minute drive, so I decided to go and investigate the places where adam_baum lived, worked, and found inspiration through his family and friends.

I didn't much feel like a tourist on my first visit to Meaford. The welcoming sign, the streets, the buildings somehow had a different meaning than they would have at any other time and under different circumstances. The town has a nice harbor and a beautiful view of the Georgian Bay. It was a friendly and peaceful village, much like Greg who lived there. Passing by a gas station I remembered that Greg used to work at one and often code at work as well. I walked in the gas station and asked if they knew of Greg Allan. They knew him and of his tragic death. They told me that the place he worked was on the other side of town. I proceeded to drive to what looked like the other side of town and found another gas station which may in fact turn out to be the filling station where he worked.

As I left Meaford and headed home I kept thinking of all the things that were said, and I wish that I had met Greg before this happened. I knew him very little, but his impact was awesome. You can view the pictures of Greg's home town <a href = http://www.fidog.com/romboy/flo/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=Photo_Gallery&file=index&do=showgall&gid=81>here, and read some of the comments that were quoted throughout the service below.

-"An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general." (Jonjo)
-"The internet would only be a sticky bunch of wires without the open-minded passion from personalities like Greg Allan." (Tomster)
-"Though only speaking with him through a computerized medium, I know he was one of the "good guys" that the world needs more of." (paradoxic)
-"It is good to have a goal to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end - Ursula LeGuin" (vworld)
-"It's nice to know that Greg was loved in the cyber world as much as he was at home. He spoke highly and often about all of you. The "project" was his passion." (Eva Destruckshun)
-"Greg was one of the true gems that you find in people that seem to never have a bad day, nor seem to ever let things bring them down. His outlook and demeanor is my inspiration. If I could be half of what Greg was, I would be a very good man, father, son, and friend." (John Cox)


Florin Racolta
florinel@gto.net

Sorry it's taken an extraordinarily long time, but this server needed lots of work.

Welcome AIRsnort.INFO <a href="http://www.airsnort.info" target=_blank>(www.airsnort.info) wireless web portal project site. Our goal is to provide you with useful information about our project that we hope makes it easier for you to do your work/projects/business with your clients and other related discovery in wireless security environment.

AIRsnort.INFO is the right place to collaborate about the wireless project. This is where you post your work and discovery to expand our network and reach other folks out there.

Objectives:

Raise wireless security awareness
Open Community to discuss wireless technology and beyond
Maintain Wireless Knowledgebase
Thank you.
AIRsnort.INFO Wireless Web Portal Project.

Join us and share this information to all security folks out there....

Footnote: 1

The main changes are:
1. Translated all resources in the database. All the blocks have 2 copies: One is for eng and the other is for zho.
2. Add _YQQ for persion info. _YQQ indicate the Tencent QQ (<a href=http://www.tencent.com/>http://www.tencent.com/). It's an Instance Messager that is very popular in China.
3. Full install scripts translate. There're some language resources in gui.php that not include in global.php. I've added it.
3. Some other fixes.

If someone is interested in working with me on getting the other 400 in, drop me a note.

Anyhow, here's the info. I hope you all find it useful!

Semi-demo

Download

Fortune 500 list

Thanks,

Bill Royle
Techfocus.org

This is a paying job and we are looking to get it done ASAP. If we are happy with the work and the price there could be more work to follow. Please Email me if you are interested.
jeremy@netlivemusic.com

Footnote: 1

Although I am new to PostNuke, I have over eight years of professional experience in the field of information security. I hope to share my skills and experiences in information security management, intrusion detection, incident response, system auditing, threat and risk assessments, and security design.

PostNuke Project information has value and is an asset that should be protected.

Specifically, I will assist the PostNuke Project in maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the project's information and assets.

Some of the information I have identified so far:
* Personal information provided by users when registering on postnuke.com websites.
* Userids and passwords used by PostNuke management for supporting and maintaining postnuke.com systems.
* Userids and passwords of postnuke.com users.
* Open source software developed by the PostNuke community and distributed by postnuke.com.
* Project documentation developed by the PostNuke community and distributed by postnuke.com.
* Moderated and unmoderated discussion forums, news announcements, mailing lists, and other content hosted on postnuke.com.

Objectives:

1. Effectively manage the risk of security exposure or compromise within the Postnuke Project;
2. Communicate the responsibilities for the protection of information;
3. Establish a secure infrastructure and a stable processing environment;
4. Establish accountability for acceptable and unacceptable use of the Postnuke Project owned and managed information and assets, supporting systems and processes;
5. Protect and preserve Postnuke Project management’s options in the event of an information asset misuse, loss or unauthorized disclosure;
6. Protect the Postnuke Project reputation, image, and brand identity.

With feedback from the PostNuke Project and community, I would like to draft an information security policy that respects the privacy of users and highlights the requirements for information that is freely shared and used by all.

I would love to hear all comments or suggestions. If you're interested in contributing in the areas of security please let me know, only a passion to learn and explore required.

Regards,
Brian Erdelyi, CISSP
PostNuke, Information Security Manager

The description of my talk reads:


There is a place for special purpose application servers alongside the more general-purpose application servers. While traditional application servers focus on transaction support and other advanced concepts, specialized application servers focus on quick development as well as allowing less technically inclined people the ability to easily develop websites.

PostNuke is such a software, having grown from a Content Management System written in PHP to an environment to write web applications in a community that is rapidly growing in popularity.

Core Architecture
What core architecture choices were made to balance power with ease of use for both developers and end users? What lessons were drawn from projects that focused only on technical excellence, and neglected the needs of entry-level programmers?

Usage scenarios
We look at usage scenarios from education, content management and community building from the perspective of a non-programmer, focusing on doing more in less time as well as full scale commercial usage potential.

A look into the crystal ball
Where is this software category going? What trends influence its future?


If you happen to have inputs for any of these topics, or want to share a PostNuke success story, please post here or contact me directly.

The slides will of course be made available both on this site and on the Oreilly site for your reading pleasure, or as marketing materials for you or your customers.