Are you tired of getting multi-thousand line emails from the logcheck package that contain multiple reports of denied queries from named? If so this article will show how you can reject these DDOS attempts via the fail2ban package.

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VMware issued a number of fixes for VMware ESXi 3.5, VMware ESX 3 …(more)…

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Hear a live interview with ZDNet’s TechBroiler blogger Jason Perlow. This is Jason’s second visit to Frugal Friday. Jason was the first guest on the show with the topic of Virtualization. This week he explains how Linux will get you through these tough economic times.

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The next two releases of Silverlight will take Microsoft’s media player in completely new directions, the technical executive in charge has promised. The corporate vice president of Microsoft’s developer division Scott Guthrie told the company’s Channel 9 “whole new areas you can’t do today will start to open up” with Silverlight 3 and 4.

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Sun Solaris ip(7P) Kernel Module Minor Number Allocation Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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BackTrack Blog: CUDA and RFID Support in BackTrack 4 Beta

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Heise Security: Microsoft PR blunder over Internet Explorer security

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When Sun Microsystems announced financial results this week, The VAR Guy had a moment of clarity: Sun is looking more and more like a larger version of Novell. And The VAR Guy means that in a complimentary way. Here’s why.

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A former Unix engineer for Fannie Mae was indicted for planting malicious code on the corporation’s network that was to ‘destroy and alter’ all of the data on the company’s servers this Saturday.

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Proprietary software, we all know it, almost all of us have once used it. Video games are software, and the majority of all games on the market are still proprietary. When a free game uses a popular GNU/Linux distribution logo, therefore, trademark, to describe something; most GNU/Linux distribution vendors let it slide. But the same treatment shouldn’t be given to the proprietary video game software vendors. The free– though closed source– video game ‘Combat Arms’ for the Windows operating system may be committing copyright and/or trademark infringement.

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Simon Phipps is a natural when it comes to speaking. The man has a good turn of phrase, is skilled in the art of repartee, and can engage an audience very well. Sun’s chief open source officer was one of three keynote speakers at the recent Australian national Linux conference. He spoke to iTWire soon after he had given his keynote.

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Limbaugh, Palin, Warren, and more. They’re the worst people in America, and unfortunately they dominated last year’s headlines.

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For starters, Democratic leadership could persuade enough Democrats to vote to pass it without a single Republican, if they chose to.

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"Fetal rights" turn women into little more than baby carriers rather than human beings.

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Many people continue to clutch to their belief in God, even though there’s no evidence of a higher power. Why?

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Barren suburban yards, drunk dads, dowdy moms, strained frivolity, deep depression — let’s hope the ’50s don’t make a comeback.

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Satire: A sympathetic custodian has given AlterNet a detailed and hilarious description of how the disgraced ex-Governor’s hearing went down.

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President Obama’s call for "green jobs" has created both general confusion and competing interpretations of the term.

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Immigration raids are orchestrated to send a political message. But why penalize hard workers who endure very harsh conditions for very little money?

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President Obama’s call for "green jobs" has created both general confusion and competing interpretations of the term.

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While it is still a beta program, and as such not very interesting to report on yet, there is a litt …(more)…

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Maths is a famously lonely discipline – I should know, having spent three years of my life grappling with a single equation (the equation won). Mathematicians meet, and collaborate, it’s true; but what would a truly open source approach to the process of solving mathematical problems look like? Maybe something like this:

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Next weekend, the Fedora community will be at the ninth Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM)–one of the best free and open source events in Europe. And this year again, we expect an amazing attendance. More than 40 Fedora ambassadors are coming from different parts of Europe to represent Fedora and welcome visitors. Incredible, when three years ago, there were only two of us. Another reason to say Fedora is more powerful than 2³ and e³!

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Doesn’t this sound like a perfect package manager? “Nix…allows multiple versions of a package to be installed side-by-side, ensures that dependency specifications are complete, supports atomic upgrades and rollbacks, allows non-root users to install software…” Bruce Byfield takes a look at NixOS and answers the question “Is this the final answer on Linux package management?”

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Politicians in general are not terribly tech-savvy, let alone conscious of the most important intellectual freedom issues, but President Barack Obama does have a reputation of being more aware than most of the new media and new possibilities of the internet. The new US presidential website shows some promise that indeed, we now have a US president who isn’t afraid of the future. Is Obama up for free software? Read Terry Hancock’s article at Freesoftware Magazine and find out.

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