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Have any of them– has one single vendor, whether it’s Symantec or Trend or McAfee or F-Secure or anyone– ever said “Quit throwing your money down a rathole– stop using Windows, or at least don’t put it on the Internet”? Wouldn’t that little tidbit of honesty be refreshing? But no, they’ll never do that. If the same conditions existed in, say, the small home appliances industry people would be getting electrocuted by their toasters and hair dryers every day, and the manufacturers would advise them to learn correct handling of live wires, and a thriving industry of insulated safety garments would prey on the survivors.
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Our recent netbook post got a huge response. They are almost unanimously loved. A few dissenting opinions were present though. A few people mentioned that until this generation arrived, they were buying used subnotebooks for exactly the same reasons.
If you’re in the market for a new machine, Obsessable’s netbook comparator has all of the current [...]
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2008-239 – Ilja van Sprundel found that ClamAV contained a denial of service vulnerability in how it handled processing JPEG files, due to it not limiting the recursion depth when processing JPEG thumbnails. Other bugs have also been corrected in 0.94.2 which is being provided with this update.
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-08 – Mgetty uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for symlink attacks. Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the spooldir directory in fax/faxspool.in is created in an insecure manner. Versions less than 1.1.36-r2 are affected.
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A poem about the impact of the process of software compilation over Freedom. Who can affirm that the meal you eat is in correlation with the recipe we said it was made of ? Provocative thought.
[This is the first time we have received an open source poem as a submission. - Scott]
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[Garrett] from macetech has been prototyping shields for the Arduino development platform. Arduino’s have an inexplicable nonstandard spacing between two of the banks of output pins. This means that you can’t use regular perfboard with them. To make the design process quicker, [Garrett] has put together an Eagle file that just includes the male header [...]
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Om Malik calls this “dave winer’s best post of the year”. I can’t recall a better one, but ranking isn’t what matters here. What matters is perspective and experience, and Dave has plenty of both. What he says is, “We’re now reaching the end of a cycle, we’re seeing feature wars. That’s what’s going on between Facebook and Google, both perfectly timing the rollouts of their developer proposition to coincide with the others’ — on the very same day! I don’t even have to look at them and I am sure that they’re too complicated. Because I’ve been around this loop so many times. The solution to the problem these guys are supposedly working on won’t come in this generation, it can only come when people start over. They are too mired in the complexities of the past to solve this one. Both companies are getting ready to shrink. It’s the last gasp of this generation of technology.”
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[ MDVSA-2008:239 ] clamav
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Re: SecurityReason : PHP 5.2.6 dba_replace() destroying file
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Re: SecurityReason : PHP 5.2.6 dba_replace() destroying file
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Re: SecurityReason : PHP 5.2.6 dba_replace() destroying file
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Q. How do I install KDE version 4.2 under Ubuntu Linux using binary method?
Answer to “Ubuntu Linux: Install KDE 4.2“
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Have a room in your house that really could benefit from some sunlight? Build a Suntrack to reflect light in as long as possible. The two axis motor set up is built from a couple of satellite dish positioning motors with the control electronics removed. The whole thing is controlled with a PIC 18f2520. Once [...]
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Awesome! Here are few more Linux customization resources for you.
8 Great Alternative Desktop Managers For Linux
Various UNIX / Linux desktop managers (personally I’m big fan of both Gnome and Fluxbox), from the post:
Most of the Linux users should be familiar with Gnome and KDE since both of them are the most commonly used desktop managers in the various Linux distros. Now, if you are using an old PC with low hardware specs, you might find that the above two desktop environments are too heavy for your computer to handle.
In this case, you will have to consider using an alternative lightweight desktop manager for your Linux. Here are 8 of the best lightweight desktop managers that I personally use and recommend.
Read more: Linux Desktop Enhancements
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Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is groping his way in the dark; here are some requirements for a successful program.
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In our nation, presidential pooches are front-page stories. Local democracy is, at best, filler surrounding classified ads and comic strips.
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Posted in December 6th, 2008
In our nation, presidential pooches are front-page stories. Local democracy is, at best, filler surrounding classified ads and comic strips.
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Red Hat may not be spending much when it comes to the company holiday party this year, but it certainly is no Scrooge. Rather than splurge on a swanky party for its employees, the Linux distributor will give money and food to charity.
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[PuffMag1cDrag0n] shows us how to make a fairly simple projected LED display. The projector is made from a 13×7 LED matrix and a couple fresnel lenses. The layout and construction is similar to the Lumenlab projector setup, only replacing all the lighting and LCD with an LED array. It communicates via serial port and is [...]
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Becoming an accomplished sailor isn’t easy, but a group of European sailing enthusiasts have just made the sport a little more accessible for beginners. The ASV Roboat is a solar-powered, Linux-brained sailboat that can sail anywhere and navigate pre-set race courses with no human intervention.
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Your online abode is so difficult to keep secured. It can get hacked, you may install something wrong, a wrong configuration can wreak havoc, the server hard disk might crash, natural calamities, and what not. Your best option to secure yourself against all this is summarized in just one word “BACKUP”.
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While I’ve experimented with FreeBSD (and offshoots DesktopBSD and PC-BSD), NetBSD and OpenBSD (the latter of which I run the most; including right now), I never really paid much attention to DragonFlyBSD. A quick perusal of the DragonFlyBSD Web site offers a lot of information on things like its new HAMMER filesystem as well as the operating system’s goal of bringing “native clustering support” into the kernel. It’s all a bit over my desktop-using head.
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