Standard Practices

• Example disclaimer to be included on a FAX cover page
• All computers should have a login banner
  • Short example
  • Revised CIAC Bulletin J-043: Creating/Installing Warning Banners: very long examples
  • CERT advisory CA-92.19: Topic: Keystroke Logging Banner
  • Banner from the Titan paper/system
  • Background: legality of keystroke logging: see Federal Wiretap Act, Title 18 U.S.C. chapter 119 sections 2510-2522, as amended by Title I of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 Sec. 2511. Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications prohibited
• Copyright statements for Programs: Examples
• Demo Planning
  Configuring a Demo Sun: very obsolete, but may be useful as a template
• Guidelines for giving at talk
• The Second Derivative - Home of The Great Demo! Method and the DemoGurus Community Website

Cautionary Tales

• Software Engineering
  • Case study: SGI's OS 5.1 Software Bloat Disaster, 1993
  • Information Flow in the Software Industry (humorous)
• User Documentation
  • Cautionary story illustrating the misuse of analogies: "Bear Repellant" vs. "Bug Repellant"
• System Administration
  • A cautionary tale [long] John DeTreville in Risks Digest Volume 11: Issue 30: 1991-03-18: interaction of atypical dependencies with updates that affected those dependencies, creating "ringing" in configuration
• User interfaces
  • Re: Alarm and alarm-silencing risks in medical equipment in Risks Digest Volume 17: Issue 51: 1995-12-04
• Network Solutions, Inc: "a study in persistent incompetence"
  • The InterNIC: a case study in bad database management
    From Risks Digest, Volume 18, Issue 67, 1996-Dec-13

Office Layout

• The design, layout, and look of an open-plan office can greatly affect the privacy and comfort of the occupants

Miscellaneous

• RFC 1208: A Glossary of Networking Terms, March 1991
• RFC 2007: Catalogue of Network Training Materials, October 1996
• Acronyms
• Every disclaimer in the book, I guess.
  A few more disclaimers
• Hype: words and phrases
• Quotes
  • Computer-related
  • Management-related
  • Security-related
  • Misc
  • World of Quotes - Equality Quotes
  • The Quotations Page - Your Source for Famous Quotes