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The Kerberos developers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have reported multiple vulnerabilities in their network authentication suite. Attackers can reportedly exploit a weakness to cause a SPNEGO GSS-API application crash, including the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind). A remote attack could also cause a key distribution center (KDC) or kinit program to crash.

When it comes to the world of graphics, Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator and DTP applications such as Quark and InDesign, stand head and shoulders above the rest and are the defacto standards for graphics professionals. But they're not open source, even if a little Wine hacking gets them running. If you're committed to doing your graphics the open source way then we have a few suggestions, and a couple of handy tutorials to get you up and running.

Most Linux Twitter clients look pretty much the same; they look like the interface on Twitter.com. Which is all right, but David Harding introduces us to two that are a little different. Twidge is a command-line Twitter client that is perfect for netbooks, for scripting repetitive tasks, and for blocking certain updates from friends that you really don't need to see. Tircd gives you a friendly, familiar IRC-style interface.

Microsoft’s Small Business Server (SBS) has a new little brother. It’s called Windows Server Foundation, and it targets small businesses with up to 15 users. Take a closer look, and this resembles a preemptive strike against small business Linux appliances. Here's the scoop from The VAR Guy.

The Australian government has ditched its plan to fund a privately built fiber-to-the-node broadband network. Instead, it will directly build an open-access, 100Mbps+, fiber-to-the-home network that will reach 90 percent of Australian homes within eight years.

Canonical calls Microsoft out on "4x return rate," Windows having 96% netbook market share, peripheral support, and other pieces of MS netbook FUD.

This article shows step-by-step all the details regarding copying a database from SQL Server 2008 to a Postgres Plus database. The process of creating a target database; connecting to the SQL Server database in the Advanced Server's Migration Studio; and the migration of chosen object. A comparison of the original and the migrated table on Postgres is also presented.

This article is a short introduction to cron jobs, their syntax, and how to set them up. A cron job is a scheduled task that is executed by the system at a specified time/date.

David Coursey at PCWorld knew full well he'd opened a can of worms when he asked why anyone would want an Android netbook. Personally, I'd rather have an Ubuntu Netbook Remix powered one, or one with an operating system tailored with the latest Moblin Image Creator utility, but I'm sort of one of those types anyway. I love and use open source software, nearly exclusively. I think the last time I really sat down to run Windows was when I transferred Windows XP on to my husband's newly built "mostly playtime" machine. As much as I love open source software, however, I am a stronger advocate for having the right tool for the job, and using the software that works best for the user and the task at hand.

After weeks of private negotiations, IBM was poised to buy rival Sun Microsystems for a reported $7 billion. Negotiations apparently broke down on Sunday when Sun's board rejected a reduced offer. But beyond allowing IBM to reclaim from Hewlett-Packard the title of world's biggest computer company, why would the company even want Sun, a sprawling Unix vendor that has struggled for years to even show a profit? The answer, according to insiders at both companies, lies in Sun's intellectual property.

Google has announced that it has added Java to Python as the supported languages on its App Engine service. Adding Java was the first and most popular request from developers and users that was filed in App Engine's issue tracker. App Engine launched with only Python support with an App Engine API added to access the shared database and other functionality.

Another idea came to me after reading Software AG Deputy CTO Mike Miko Matsumara's blog, who thinks that with this deal collapsing, we might see the return of Sun Co-founder, Scott McNealy. Whether that happens or not, the company should also pursue an option of going private. The four Sun co-founders - Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla and Andy Bechtolsheim - swing enough clout in the Valley to help put together a rescue package. Given how easily Palm has been able to raise additional funding, I don't think Sun will have trouble raising the capital. Bad as it is - down 10.7 percent from fiscal 2008 - Sun will post revenues of just over $12 billion. And it still has a few billion dollars in cash.

At this years UKUUG's annual Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) conference I gave a talk on OpenLDAP Replication Strategies. You can grab the OpenLDAP Replications Strategies PDF or SlideShare version. Other presentations regarding OpenLDAP that day (including one from Howard, the Projects Chief Architect and Symas CTO), OpenLDAP and MySQL: Bridging the Data Model Divide and Andrew Findlays Writing Access Control Policies for LDAP

Novell is starting to connect the dots between SUSE Linux and two recent product acquisitions: PlateSpin and Managed Objects. Here's the scoop from The VAR Guy.

Could President Obama get the power to shut down the Internet? That's the concern of some digital rights groups, who fear that last week's sweeping cybersecurity bill could give the government overly broad power to regulate the Internet in times of crisis -- or even pull the plug on it entirely.

That's why the tech admin at the hospital told the Medical Professional to just relax and go back to Windows. Linux just wasn't ready for mainstream use. She told him to go PUAR. She told him that she refused to go back to a buggy, insecure system that enslaved her to maintenance and worry. She had been a GNU/Linux user for a week and refused to "downgrade to Windows". They would indeed GIVE her a laptop with the required wireless and closed software she needed to connect for work. She refused to put Windows back on her computer at home. Mint Linux had spoiled her. But it gets better.

EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow once said that "relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds." Guess who has just put the new blinds up in Britain?

Local business Suretec teams up with world experts at Digium to bring ‘eccentric and entertaining’ professional trainer to north-east Scotland.

I was working for Digital Equipment Corporation when I first met Linus and facilitated the port of Linux onto the Alpha processor.

The Linux Foundation (LF) announced that it will help companies excise the Microsoft FAT filesystem from their systems to avoid the fate of TomTom, which recently settled with Microsoft over alleged patent infringements over FAT. Meanwhile, other open-source leaders are suggesting a standardized FAT substitute may be in the offing.