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9th May Comments

Mozilla: Firefox plugin shipped with malicious code

Posted on May 9th, 2008 at 7:03 am

Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months. Because of a virus infection (Compare antivirus products), the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 was polluted with adware, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder said in a blog posting. [...]

Posted in Security

9th May Comments

Top Ten Reasons for a Linux Laptop

Posted on May 9th, 2008 at 6:50 am

You have to love the humor of these guys, here is another part, this time the laptop version, Baldy. Here’s another Linux Top Ten Countdown (from our Reality mixed with humor section). Some of these items appeared originally in my article for The Linux Journal (Dec 2007, Issue 164). You may also be interested in: [...]

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9th May Comments

The computer security paradox

Posted on May 9th, 2008 at 6:35 am

Here is a great article concerning your privacy and the fact that it seems to be fading into the dark pages of history, Baldy. One of the most prized rights of any American is the right to privacy and security. It’s something people in some countries would kill for. Yet now there appears to be [...]

Posted in Security

9th May Comments

ERROR: Filepicker was unexpectedly closed by windows

Posted on May 9th, 2008 at 1:38 am

So, one day you start up your computer and attempt to view or download a .pdf or an image or a link, and you’re greeted by the following error: “ERROR: Filepicker was unexpectedly closed by windows” but that’s only if you’re using firefox, if you’re using IE7 all you get is a big flash and [...]

Posted in Billyware

7th May Comments

10 dumb things users do that can mess up their computers

Posted on May 7th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

Users find plenty of ways to run into trouble, from gunking up their system with shareware to leaving it exposed to attackers to forgetting about using surge protectors. Share this list with your own users so they can sidestep preventable problems like these. Technology may be changing at a lightning-fast pace, but one thing remains [...]

Posted in How-To, Security

7th May Comments

More Than Five Top, Free Tools for Web Developers

Posted on May 7th, 2008 at 6:14 am

More and more, open source projects are either integrating with the web or are developed entirely for on-demand use. This requires strong web development skills–or at least good enough tools to rescue you if any of your web development skills are weak. The good news is that there are many free open source tools to [...]

Posted in Programming, Security

6th May Comments

Linux Shootout: 7 Desktop Distros Compared

Posted on May 6th, 2008 at 6:58 am

In the last couple of years, desktop-friendly Linux distributions have taken enormous leaps — they’re easier to install, better maintained, and more powerful than ever before. There’s also that many more of them — which means that many more possibilities to sift through. n this roundup I’ve looked at seven Linux distributions, all mainly aimed [...]

Posted in Linux

5th May Comments

Stallman hopes to save children from proprietary software

Posted on May 5th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Stallman hopes to save children from proprietary software | John Carroll | ZDNet.com George Ou pointed me in the direction of Stallman’s comments relating to Windows on the OLPC project, though I did nothing about it because my head was (figuratively) on fire. I then saw Christopher Dawson’s response to Stallman’s comments, and so I [...]

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3rd May Comments

Are download limits anti-competitive?

Posted on May 3rd, 2008 at 6:05 am

Legitimate online video services have already been slow in coming to Canada, but because of download limits being imposed by the country’s major internet service providers, they may never really get here. Many of the country’s largest ISPs recently did away with unlimited download offerings in favour of consumption-based models, where users are billed extra [...]

Posted in Networking, News

1st May Comments

Flipping the Linux switch: Xfce, the hidden gem of desktop environments

Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 6:27 am

n the beginning, we talked a bit about the holy war that wages onward between KDE and GNOME. Some of you aptly pointed out that there is a third desktop environment out there. It was never our intention to slight this desktop (we actually use it regularly). Like a mouse dodging to avoid the crashing [...]

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