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Category: Kororaa Size: 441.83 MB Status: 1082 seeders and 315 leechers Added: 2006-03-08 09:27:02

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Category: Helix Size: 695.61 MB Status: 5 seeders and 7 leechers Added: 2006-03-08 03:22:07

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The latest version of Yellow Dog Linux, a specialist distribution for the PowerPC processors, has been released to public mirrors. Version 4.1 was originally announced on 5 January 2006 and was made available to members of YDL.net Enhanced and later also for online purchase (from US$59.95). After the .

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The Kororaa project has released a live CD demonstrating the new Xgl technology for 3D window manipulation and other unusual effects: "Today I am happy to release a Kororaa live CD showcasing Xgl technology. If you would like to find out what it's all about, then download the .

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A press release from Terra Soft Solutions:

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A press release from Open-Xchange, Inc.:

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GLib 2.10.1 is now available for download

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The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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Software in Review published a review on Gentoo Linux 2006.0

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Phoronix takes a look at the new ATI v8.23.7 Display Drivers

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Debianhelp published a PostgreSQL Database Server configuration guide for Debian GNU/Linux

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A press release from Emu Software:

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0132

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0132

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0052

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0129

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0044

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0204

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0052

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0129

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0044

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0204

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0052

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0129

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0204

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Fedora Legacy Update Advisory

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Fedora Legacy Update Advisory

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0044

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Fedora Legacy Update Advisory

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0204

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0204

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0204

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0204

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gtk-doc 1.5 has been released

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A new update is available for Fedora Core - Fedora Core 4 Update: dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.22. Here the announcement:

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A new update is available for Fedora Core - Fedora Core 4 Update: cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.23. Here the announcement:

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A new update is available for Fedora Core - Fedora Core 4 Update: gnbd-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.58. Here the announcement:

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A new update is available for Fedora Core - Fedora Core 4 Update: GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.8. Here the announcement:

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The Mandriva Security Team published a new security update for Mandriva Linux. Here the announcement:

Source: Linux Today

The Debian-based distribution has won its latest accolade from a Linux community site

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[T]he British charity Oxfam switched three thousand users from using its proprietary collaboration platform to one which is closer to their mission: volunteer-created Free/Libre and Open Source Software

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KOffice often gets overlooked in favor of rival office suite OpenOffice.org (OOo), which has a wider set of features, corporate backing, and cross-platform compatibility

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MapQuest announced Tuesday that it plans to offer Web developers an open-source beta version of its mapping and routing technology

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In what is believed to be the first open source government contract in Australia of its kind, Novell has signed a deal with the NSW Department of Commerce to become an approved supplier of Open Source software

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Today, interested Massachusetts legislators are being offered a pre-release demonstration of the accessibility features of Microsoft's Office 2007

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At the age of four Jon Maddog Hall stuck the wires from a rabbit-ear television antenna into an electric socket which sent him flying across the room

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Microsoft has set out a 'poisoned honeypot' in its antitrust case by offering to open its source code, a rival said in a confidential filing to the European Commission on Tuesday

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Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Inc. believes in offering Linux on the desktop, server, and workstation. What he doesn't believe in, for now, is giving Linux full support on the desktop

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Nigel Cunningham, the creator of the Suspend2 software suspend system for Linux announced his retirement from the project in a mail sent to the Linux Kernel Mailing List

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Mozilla Corp. on Tuesday confirmed that it is taking in millions of dollars from the Firefox browser, but declined to give an exact figure

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Nancy [Drew] would have been great at doing charts in OpenOffice 2.0

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If you are reading this paper, this is probably your first encounter with the Firebird RDBMS

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Learn how to use Writer's version control tools to keep track of who made which changes and when, without diving into big CMS applications

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The problem isn't Firefox, so much as its enticing array of easily-added extensions. The recent Grand Prize winner of the Extend Firefox competition, Reveal, is a case in point

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The diff and patch utilites can be intimidating to the newcomer, but they are not all that difficult to use, even for the non-programmer

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ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does

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Google Maps API along with DB2 or Informix, PHP, JavaScript, and XML let you create an easy-to-use map with your data on it

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Today's security advisories: tar (Debian GNU/Linux); freeciv (Mandriva Linux); initscripts, openssh, squid, spamassassin, Red Hat Application Server Release 2 Update 1, mailman (Red Hat Linux); and flex (Ubuntu Linux).

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I've been a MythTV user since version 0.16, so I was happy to find out that version 0.19 is now available. MythTV 0.19 brings a number of improvements, new features, and added stability and usability

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Instead of painful long queues of filling in ballot forms and putting them in ballot boxes, Americans were ready to use open source systems for voting

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The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just a few years ago I was looking forward to a happier Linux future; one where as Linux uptake increased, so did supported hardware

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Imagine you were as rich as Bill Gates. What would be the first thing you'd do? If you're male you'd probably buy that slick car you've admired so many times

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Kevin Carmony and Mark Shuttleworth, the respective heads of Linspire and Canonical Ltd., have reportedly been talking about porting Linspire's Click-N-Run (CNR) to Ubuntu

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truthsearch writes to tell us ITWire is reporting that Novell has just signed a deal with the Australian government to become an approved supplier of Open Source software and solutions. This deal, believed to be the first of it's kind, "places Novell on the NSW government panel of preferred open source suppliers. This is the first panel contract of its kind by an Australian jurisdiction that contains provisions specific to open source software, giving government agencies and departments formal access to Linux solutions."

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An anonymous reader writes "Michael Dell explains his company's Linux desktop strategy in an interview at DesktopLinux.com. He says that it's not practical for Dell (the company) to support numerous distributions due to their incompatibilities, but that he doesn't want alienate large segements of the Linux community by selecting a favorite Linux distro to standardize on (Ubuntu appears to be his favorite, at the moment, by the way.) What he'd really like to see, is for the popular Linux distros to converge on a common core platform, according to the article."

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inkslinger77 writes "In a recent interview Jon 'Maddog' Hall speaks with Computerworld Australia about his life, Linux, and the Linux world conference to be held this year in Sydney. He also talks about Linux International's new direction and the future of FOSS."

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musicon writes "Nigel Cunningham, the creator of the Suspend2 software suspend system for Linux announced his retirement from the project in a message to the Linux Kenel Mailing List. 'Users of Suspend2 can rest assured that I will not allow the patches to suffer bitrot. I will be continuing to use them myself, and will therefore have the best of incentives to keep them up-to-date [ ] I won't, however, be making any sort of concerted effort at getting them merged into the vanilla kernel [ ] I don't see the point to doing anything but maintaining the patches as they stand.'"

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steveit_is writes to tell us CommentWire is reporting that the decline in NetWare and Open Enterprise sales is plummeting at a much faster rate than their SUSE Linux sales are growing. It seems that the transition is proving to be every bit as difficult as Novell execs originally suspected. From the article: "When Novell last week announced its financial results for the fiscal first quarter ended January 31, the said that growth in its SUSE Linux and related products was decent, but that sales of its NetWare and Open Enterprise Server--a variant of NetWare that uses Linux as the operating system kernel that was announced last year--declined by 11%."

Source: Linux Magazine Online

To keep your system running securely and efficiently, you should periodically audit your system, looking for servers that need not be running. Here’s how to do it.

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Rexx is one of the world's first scripting languages. Its portability, power, and open source implementations make it useful for all sorts of system administration features. Howard Fosdick and Jon Wolfers show how Open Object Rexx makes it easy to build a useful, usable GUI sysadmin tool even for platforms such as Windows.

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Many corporate projects fail to produce quality software, yet many large-scale open source projects succeed, and under much more difficult conditions: no budget, a geographically distributed team, and a volunteer workforce, to name a few. So how do open source project teams ensure success? Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene introduce five basic principles in their new book, Applied Software Project Management, that will help any project succeed, open source or proprietary. The authors detail these principles in this article.

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As web applications talk to each other more and more, the issue of URI escaping becomes more important--and more difficult. Escaping reserved characters correctly is vital to preserving user security and proper behavior, but it's neither idempotent nor free. Robert Spier shows how to build a canary trap into your URIs to help you escape and unescape data appropriately, effectively, and sufficiently.

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The RESTful view of the Web says to use HTTP's verbs--GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE--where appropriate. Yet most browsers support only GET and POST. How can you achieve RESTfulness without writing your own client? Nic Ferrier shows how to design a RESTful web application using Ajax and Python.

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A friend and old colleague of mine has been working on a tool for penetration testing and exploitation of web applications for quite a while now and he has recently released it publicly. It is called Oedipus, and it is available on Rubyforge here.

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I was having a little trouble getting a file upload to save the file until I found a post on Google Groups.

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The second and last day of EUSecWest has been and gone. It turned out to be a fun experience, with a lot of valuable and interesting information shared by the speakers, and a lot of interesting folks met at the conferece. Here are my notes from the main speakers today:

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I was making a really stupid mistake in one of the Django apps I'm currently juggling and it cost me far more time than it should have.

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New Safari vulnerability allows attacks to execute unsafe content when you click on a specially crafted archive.

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If you are interested in the topic of network security, I highly recommend TaoSecurity

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Here are my notes from day one of the first annual EUSecWest/core06 security conference in London

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The first annual EUSecWest conference (from the organisers of PacSec and CanSecWest) kicks off in London tomorrow. I'll be there, and speaking on Tuesday. Here's the talks that we'll all be listening to

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Django is saving me time in ways that I didn't know it would

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There's a difference of opinion as to whether OSX/Oompa-A is a worm, or a trojan.

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The headline says it all.

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While Windows Server software and Unix-based Server Software systems battle it out in the marketplace, 2005 marking this first year Windows Server software has beat Unix-based server software (notably, by a small margin), it seems that something else has appeared to emerge as part of the overall server systems story. Linux actually *DOES* have a business model, and is thriving despite what some would want you to believe. Here's my analysis of what all of this means:

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The most popular "proper" way to build a web application seems to be to use the Model-View-Controller design pattern. While it sounds complex, the concepts are sound and the ease of development it provides are compelling. Joe Stump shows how the View works by developing a working version in PHP 5.

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Last month, I discussed Google's XSS Vulnerability and provided an example that demonstrates it. I was hoping to highlight why character encoding consistency is important, but apparently the addslashes() versus mysql_real_escape_string() debate continues.

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Where are the all-in-one PHP frameworks that make building well-factored and maintainable applications as easy as building simple sites? Brian Fioca shows how to make a simple database-backed site with WASP in just a few lines of code.

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One of Django's features I've really liked from the beginning is the URL mapping. I just ran into something that makes me like it even better.

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As I've ported my wife's site from TurboGears to Django, I've thought about how the two web frameworks compare. Here are a few of those thoughts.

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Python is a good language for machine learning--it's easy to express powerful algorithms maintainably, and it's flexible to experiment with new approaches. Christopher Roach demonstrates the use and implementation of decision trees, a fundamental feature of datamining, that can help you find trends in your data.

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The Python Atlanta "Meetup" group has been using Meetup.com for quite a while now but we've recently decided to discontinue using them.

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Someday your program will have to parse text. If you're lucky, a few regular expressions will handle it. Otherwise, you need to write a parser. Don't be afraid of that dragon book from college--writing a parser in Python is easy with Pyparsing. Paul McGuire explains everything you need to know.

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And the Google Sponsored Links on the side of the page above has (for me, anyway) a link to something that contains "Soy and Milk Proteins". Kevin's not talking about a food product, here.

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IPython moves forward.

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I've been using TurboGears since its public debut around September of last year. I believe it has incredible potential, but I'm finding myself needing something a little different. That something is Django.

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Getting my wife's website going has been an adventure. Really.

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Snakes and Rubies was a meeting held in December to allow developers from the Ruby on Rails and Django projects to present their respective projects and discuss them in an open forum.

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I'll be speaking at the RSA conference next week. Here is what I plan to discuss

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Sorry for cross-blogging :-), but its a fun bit so I figured I'd post it here too. In this blog post I discuss what was one of the important lessons of CME-24 (you do know what it is, don't you?)

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I love those "security mistakes" papers (I've written a few myself) and here is a fun one specifically on Unix.

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Here's how to check (almost) any Cingular user's voice mail via Caller ID spoofing

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As I promised, my security predictions for 2006 are posted. Make sure you use them to make fun of me come next year! :-)

Source: Security DevCenter

Do you think vulnerability management is fun? Me too! :-) Here is a paper [OK, my paper ] about "common mistakes that organizations make on the path to achieving vulnerability management perfection, both in process and technology areas." Scanning but failing to act Thinking that patching is the same as vulnerability management Believing that vulnerability management is only a technical problem Assessing a vulnerability without looking at the whole picture Being unprepared for the unknown - "zero-day exploits"

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If you've missed it, Nessus has been updated