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Take a Closer Look at OpenBSD 4.3
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 7 hours ago
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IBM Developerworks: "OpenBSD's motto—"free, functional, and secure"—says it all. In its default configuration, OpenBSD has proven one of the most secure operating systems available. Its recent version 4.3 release continues in that tradition." (original story)
Three Firefox Extensions for Gmail
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 7 hours ago
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Linux.com: "A less complicated but more useful add-on is Gmail Manager, which helps you keep multiple Gmail accounts straight. To get started, register your Gmail accounts after installing Gmail Manager by selecting Tools -> Addons -> Gmail Manager from the Firefox menu, then click the Options butto... (original story)
Why 'Cloud Computing' Is For the Birds
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 9 hours ago
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Datamation: "In other words, the "cloud" in "cloud computing" represents ignorance. And this ignorance is touted as one of the benefits of "cloud computing." When companies hawk "cloud computing," they're selling the idea that ignorance is bliss. Don't worry your pretty little head about it. We'll t... (original story)
Four Offbeat Open Source Browsers
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 9 hours ago
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OStatic: "...for niche applications, fast performance, and for other reasons, many free spirits use some of the unusual open source browsers out there. Here, you'll find four of them, and what they're good at." (original story)
OpenVPN Counters Censorship
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 9 hours ago
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Linux Magazine: "Journalists at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing will not have unfettered access to the Internet. However, GPL software OpenVPN can be used to easily circumvent such censorship." (original story)
Troubles in Fedora Land - Don't Update!
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 9 hours ago
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OSDir: "The Fedora Infrastructure team is currently investigating an issue in the infrastructure systems. That process may result in service outages, for which we apologize in advance." (original story)
Departing CIO Blames Microsoft For His Security Troubles
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 9 hours ago
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The Open Road: "Hackers recently compromised 4.2 million payment card details from the Hannaford Supermarket chain. The culprit? If you believe Hannaford's former CIO, Bill Homa, the problem is Windows:" (original story)
Why Would Anyone Choose Windows over Linux?
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 10 hours ago
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TechRepublic: "The machine was in a constant loop. Even attempting to get into Safe Mode was no help. Her machine was protected with AVG and yet the virus managed to get right on by what I have used for years to protect Windows machines." (original story)
QuickStart, The Swiss Army Knife For Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 10 hours ago
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HowtoForge: "QuickStart is like a Swiss army knife, it allows you to do various things on your Ubuntu desktop: creating and restoring backups, running scheduled backups, backing up configuration files, installing some common applications, installing DVD codecs, deleting unnecessary files, etc." (original story)
Sun to Issue Mobile Java Fix
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 11 hours ago
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ZDNet: "Gowdiak had demanded 20,000 euros (US$30,000) from Sun or Nokia for the full details of the vulnerabilities that he said he had found." (original story)
King Penguin Receives Norwegian Knighthood
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 11 hours ago
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Yahoo News: "Nils Olav already has medals for good conduct and long service. He made honorary colonel-in-chief of the elite Norwegian King's Guard in 2005. And on Friday he was knighted. Not bad for a 3-foot tall penguin — actually, three of them." OK so there's no Linux here- just cute penguins--... (original story)
64-bit Application Thread Creation Performance
Posted from KernelTrap - 1 day 11 hours ago
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A recent discussion on the Linux Kernel mailing list noted that threaded 64-bit applications suffer a drastic slowdown in pthread_create performance when stack utilization goes above 4GB. Ingo Molnar offered an explanation of the problem, "unfortunately MAP_32BIT use in 64-bit apps for stacks was a... (original story)
Clipboard Hijack Spreads Panic
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 12 hours ago
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Softpedia: "First reported by IE users on Windows, due to its flexible spreading method, the same behavior was then reported later by Mac and Linux users using Firefox." (original story)
Firefox to Surpass IE? Yes, But Only Among the Geeks
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 12 hours ago
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The Open Road: "Unfortunately, the data is gathered from a sampling of techies, not mainstream users. As such, it's not time to uncork the champagne and dance on Microsoft's corporate grave just yet." (original story)
Strange Skype Network Activity - Even on Linux
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 13 hours ago
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ZDNet: "When I went back upstairs in the evening, I noticed the that the 5GHz LED and the Internet LED on my shiny new Netgear WNDR 3300 Wireless Router were blinking like crazy, and I really mean like crazy." (original story)
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