Another bunch of links broadly capturing the state of the tech (nerd) industry for the last week or so.
1. Getting down and dirty with SSH.
http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=security&seqNum=336
2. The good old days? Apparently, Windows 7 will support software acceleration for DirectX 10.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081202-windows-7-will-sport-a-dx10-software-gpu.html
3. Free (as in beer) controls for Winforms and ASP.NET! Have a Merry Christmas! (I know I will!) 
http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Free/WebRegistration60/
4. Moon(silver) lighting on Linux.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081202-moonlight-1-0-beta-1-shines-on-linux.html
5. Design patterns – Security Engineering Cheat Sheet. You are interested, aren’t you?
6. What C# geeks need to know about VB.NET. C# isn’t perfect after all? 
http://visualstudiomagazine.com/columns/article.aspx?editorialsid=2894
7. Great e-book pocket guides on everything from Agile Architecture to RIA and Mobile.
http://www.codeplex.com/AppArch/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Pocket%20Guides
8. Cleaner Code with the PMD Eclipse Plug-In. Most developers love clean code… right?
http://www.developer.com/java/ent/article.php/3788796
9. Why the economic downturn has increased the use of virtualization.
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3789931
10. JavaFX makes its debut. (Finally)
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3788836
11. Apple Recommends Antivirus for Mac Users. The party is finally over…
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3788241
12. Why Agile Projects Fail
http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/3784576
13. Who crashed? A nifty application that allows you to analyse (and understand?) driver/application crash logs.
http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed
14. Most popular Windows app downloads of 2008 : Get your download manager ready. (Not in office though… 
)
http://lifehacker.com/5110552/most-popular-free-windows-downloads-of-2008
15. Implementing a Custom X86 Encoder.
http://www.uninformed.org/?v=5&a=3&t=sumry
16. Java Performance: Ubuntu Linux vs. Windows Vista
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=java_vm_performance&num=1
17. Get Methods and Practices for Writing Secure Code
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc448177.aspx
Contributed links
Mahindra Gupta
1. Java 1.5 under .NET : Horror of horrors! Seriously though, what would you choose – C# or Java?
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/12/Ja-NET
2. Koobface Virus Turns Up on Facebook – Facebook might not be as innocent as it seems
http://www.eweek.com/index2.php?option=content&task=view&id=50722&pop=1&hide_ads=1&page=0&hide_js=1
3. Top 10 Microsoft Research Projects : Making big bucks isn’t the only thing Microsoft’s good at…
Sunny Shah
1. Let Me Google that for U : Sunny Shah wants U to read this…
http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/
2. Alchemy… Converts C++ code to Action Script. Rahul, you might probably get a kick out of this!
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/
3. Image Gallery in Windows 7 : WIndows 7 does look interesting; but will it deliver?
Tejinder Singh Hanspal
1. IFrame attacks add to web user woes…
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080318-ongoing-iframe-attack-proving-difficult-to-kill.html
2. 3G funda – As India prepares to adopt 3G, the least we can do is learn what it is…
http://www.actnowcornwall.co.uk/3Gmobiletechnology.asp
3. Don’t get cheated online… here’s how
http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/nov/04fraud.htm
4. The business case for security frameworks
http://www.webappsec.org/projects/articles/042307.shtml
5. Sys admin discovers 13-million-digit prime number
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/092908-sys-admin-discovers-13-million-digit-prime.html
6. The Seven Deadliest Social Networking Hacks
http://www.darkreading.com/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=211201065
7. Tracking user Activity
http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/Tracking-User-Activity.aspx