Dell Sells Ubuntu Boxes That Cannot Run Ubuntu
December 31, 2008
bitsenbloc: “However, when opening the box I found something suspicious, the DVD provided by Dell was not a standard Ubuntu, but a version that contains a + after the number of the version. This Ubuntu is not free because it is written “Do not distribute” on the DVD.”
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Debian, Philosophy, and People
December 31, 2008
Thoughts by Ted: “More blood’s been spilled by the militant adherents of prophets of change than by any other group of people down through the history of man.”
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Installing Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 on PS3
December 31, 2008
Softpedia: “Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 operating system for SONY’s PlayStation 3, Apple PowerPC G4/G5, IBM Power Systems and YDL PowerStation was officially released by Fixstars on November 19th, 2008. Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 (codename Pyxis) is an operating system for the PPC64 architecture and it is based on the CentOS Linux distribution, a RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) derivative.”
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IE flaw worse than originally thought
December 28, 2008
Microsoft has confirmed that it is not just Internet Explorer (IE) 7 that is vulnerable to a new zero day attack , but older versions of the browser too.
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IE zero-day flaw under attack
December 28, 2008
A new attack targeting Internet Explorer 7 has been reported. The attack is said to target an unpatched flaw in IE7 and is carried out by way of a specially-crafted XML file.
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McCain campaign leaks crucial data
December 28, 2008
John McCain’s team forgets to wipe hard drives.
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Training key to tackling e-crime
December 28, 2008
E-crime must become part of standard police training if law enforcement authorities are to successfully tackle the huge problem of computer crime, according to the head of the Metropolitan Police e-crime unit.
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Check Point buys Nokia security appliance business
December 28, 2008
Security vendor Check Point Software Technologies has snapped up Nokia’s security appliance business for an undisclosed sum.
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Dell strengthens its ties to EMC
December 28, 2008
Dell is renewing its deal with storage specialist EMC. The company said that it would be expanding its partnership with EMC through the year 2013.
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Sun rolls out Shanghai servers
December 28, 2008
Server vendor Sun Microsystems will update its rackmount and blade lines today with new systems built around AMD’s latest quad-core Opteron processor called Shanghai.
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