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TeamQuest Corporation Announces FIPS 140-2-Validated Encryption for TeamQuest Performance Software
First FIPS 140-2 compliant performance optimization software delivers expanded security for Government sector
Adodb Multiple Test Scripts Remote Command Execution ...
Two vulnerabilities were identified in ADOdb, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The first issue is due to an input validation error in the "server.php" test script that does not properly validate the "sql" variable, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries (when the MySQL password for the root user is empty). The second flaw is due to an input validation error in the "tests/tmssql.php" test script that does not properly validate the "do" parameter, which could be exploited by remote attackers to call arbitrary PHP functions.
Fedora Weekly News Issue 28
Welcome to our issue number 28 of Fedora Weekly News.
Apache shot with security holes
Red Hat warned of a flaw late last week in mod_auth_pgsql, an Apache module that allows authentication against information in popular open-source database PostgreSQL.
Cio Insight survey gives Red Hat high marks
For the second consecutive year, Red Hat Inc. ranks among senior level IT executives as the leader in vendor value and overall customer satisfaction, according to results of a study by trade publication CIO Insight.
Becta reviews UK schools for Microsoft 'lock-in'
The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) last week announced a value for money review of Microsoft's educational licensing programme, and a second looking at ways of improving home ICT access for school pupils.
A Libertarian begins to see the light
Many people sympathetic to the free market are not at all sympathetic to open source. I used to be one of these people.
Avg UK Introduces Free Virus Protection For Linux
Newark, UK, January 9th, 2006
AVG UK, the official business partner of Grisoft, makers of the award-winning AVG Anti-Virus software, has introduced a new free version of its software specifically for the Linux desktop.
AVG UK, the official business partner of Grisoft, makers of the award-winning AVG Anti-Virus software, has introduced a new free version of its software specifically for the Linux desktop.
ISPConfig: A hosting control panel
A while ago I moved the debianHELP site to another server and was faced with the prospect of building the box from scratch. To me, handling Apache or MySQL is no problem, but I loath setting up virtual email domains. Being of the lazy sort, I decided to examine free software hosting control panels and to install one on the box I was going to build.
eWEEK Names VMware Workstation a Top Product of 2005
Fifth Generation of Powerful Desktop Virtualization Software Honored for Pushing the Technology Envelope
IBLS development release
For those who dont know, IBLS is a modular mini linux server distribution.
An updated version of IBLS is now avaliable, included are numerous upgrades, from bug fixes and security updates to new features.
An updated version of IBLS is now avaliable, included are numerous upgrades, from bug fixes and security updates to new features.
China Says Yes to Linux, No to Open-Source Middleware
Though Linux is rising in popularity in China, the majority of enterprises still prefer commercial software over open-source middleware.
xlibs-dev Mass Bug Filing
Hello everyone,
As many of you may have noticed, Xorg 6.9 has been uploaded to unstable. With this upload, the xlibs-dev metapackage is no longer built.
As many of you may have noticed, Xorg 6.9 has been uploaded to unstable. With this upload, the xlibs-dev metapackage is no longer built.
Open-source GPL licence draft out this week
The first draft of the open-source GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3 will be unveiled this week, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.
Microsoft Touts Windows On Linux Site
Old news to readers of LXer, but though a light wieght item it does warrent repeating: Microsoft Everywhere Pushing Questionable "Facts".
Packet Traceroute Plotted on World Map
Curt Brune writes about a Google Map application he created that maps the IP addresses contained in a "traceroute". On a world map this shows you the path that IP packets take across the Internet.
[ED- Nothing to do with Linux or FOSS but fairly cool -bstadil]
Lies, damned lies and US-CERT statistics
The US-CERT's list of vulnerabilities make it very clear that nothing is quite as misleading as IT statistics, especially when it comes to comparing Windows and open source software.Here Jason Norwood-Young does some quick analysis and comes to a completely differerent conclusion.
DistroWatch Weekly: Fedora rescue CD, Gentoo LiveUSB, Puppy2, first look at DragonFly BSD 1.4
Welcome to this year's second issue of DistroWatch Weekly. We had a quiet week, only disturbed by new releases from Arch Linux and DragonFly BSD. We'll take a critical look at the latter, especially from the perspective of a desktop user, but don't expect much praise for the new version. In other news, the Fedora project has started testing its new rescue CD, Gentoo has published a HOWTO on creating a Gentoo LiveUSB, and Puppy is preparing for the launch of Puppy2, a major update. Among the distributions newly included on DistroWatch we have three live CDs: ArcheOS for archaeologists, Arudius for penetration testers, and Xenoppix for the fans of the Xen technology. Happy reading! Join us at irc.freenode.net #distrowatch
Switching to Windows: Not as easy as you think
There was a loud bang, a nasty smell (think burnt cabbage) and a lot of smoke billowed out from the hole where the CD-ROM used to be. Then Nothing. At this point, the idea occurred to me that maybe my computer was broken.
"Why not use this opportunity to try this 'Windows XP' I keep hearing so much about."
Driver education for Linux novices
LA Times (original source News Day a Long Island, NY paper) readers introduced to DSL Linux and how to get it running with some words of warning: " ... left out the first rule of DSL Linux as it pertains to inexperienced computer users: It may not work with your hardware. All companies that manufacture printers, mice, video and sound cards - pretty much everything that gets plugged into a computer - also create drivers, little chunks of software that make the hardware gadget work with an operating system. In most cases, that operating system is Windows XP."
[ED: So be polite. if you cannot be helpful yourself do something better than "RTFM" that is known to have endeared many new users to Linux. Stories like this will do more to get some to try to escape miind control. So just remember the problems you had as a newbie or turn them over to someone less skilled than yourself that has social skills that you lack - HC]
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