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29th August Comments

Taiwan busts hacking ring, 50 million personal records compromised

Posted on August 29th, 2008 at 9:22 am

Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) has successfully tracked down and arrested six people in what the CIBTaiwan CIB believes to be the biggest personal data breach in Taiwan to date. Apparently, the group also managed to obtain personal data on Taiwan’s current and former presidents : Read the Rest of the Article

Posted in Security

29th August Comments

Geotagging your digital photos

Posted on August 29th, 2008 at 9:19 am

Struggling to keep control of your growing collection of digital photos? Breathe easy — you’re not alone. With digital cameras making it easy to take images of just about every aspect of daily life, budding photographers are left wrestling with the best way of labelling them so they can be saved and shared with friends [...]

Posted in Graphics

28th August Comments

Easy file uploads with Droopy

Posted on August 28th, 2008 at 5:06 am

Suppose someone wants to send you a large file. They could try to send it via email, but many email servers impose limits on file size. They could try sending it over during an instant messenger or Internet Relay Chat session, but that’s slow, as the file actually gets transferred twice: once to the [...]

Posted in Networking, Software

27th August Comments

MEPIS 8.0 Available For Testing

Posted on August 27th, 2008 at 4:59 am

Morgantown, WV, Aug 26, 2008 — Warren announces the first MEPIS Beta, version 7.9.70. The MEPIS beta offers up to date user applications delivered on top of the new Debian (Lenny) core. Some of the important packages included with the beta are: 2.6.26.2 kernel, Xorg 7.3, KDE 3.5.9, OpenOffice 3.0beta2, Firefox 3.0.1, Sun Java 6.0, [...]

Posted in Mepis

26th August Comments

Hackers Get Under Red Hat’s Skin

Posted on August 26th, 2008 at 5:47 am

Red Hat issued a security advisory Friday notifying customers that some of its servers were compromised last week due to a network attack. The company called the advisory critical and said it sent out the alert primarily for those who may obtain Red Hat binary packages via channels other than those of official Red [...]

Posted in News, Security

20th August Comments

A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP

Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 4:30 am

Vista’s death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built to run the Windows operating system have been downgraded to XP. In a survey of more than 3,000 computers, performance testing software developer Devil Mountain Software estimated that more than one in three [...]

Posted in Billyware

15th August Comments

Did Microsoft Forget a Patch?

Posted on August 15th, 2008 at 9:14 am

Lost in the shuffle of this month’s Patch Tuesday barrage is the fact that a critical vulnerability in the ever-present Windows Media Player (WMP) was not fixed “because of a last minute quality issue.” Microsoft originally listed the WMP update in the advance notice for August but, when the patches dropped on Tuesday, it had [...]

Posted in Billyware

13th August Comments

Okay I have been slacking

Posted on August 13th, 2008 at 9:11 am

And no that does not mean I have changed over to Slackware. I have had a series of setbacks from 3 major storms to personal situations to a pair of computers deciding they should be retired. Yes I am still out here just a tad slow in the posting is all and I hope to [...]

Posted in Personal

8th August Comments

08-08-08

Posted on August 8th, 2008 at 8:31 am

Why is this date different? Twenty years ago the lights went on at Wrigley Field! Okay I am a Cub fan and maybe nobody else remembered or cares but it was a dawning of new look and feel to the game of baseball in Chicago. But as normal the purists whined the new wave cheered [...]

Posted in Personal

6th August Comments

WiFi software arrives on Linux desktops

Posted on August 6th, 2008 at 4:55 am

A vendor of Linux-based WiFi arrays is finally releasing a version of its WiFi Monitor utility for Linux desktops. The open source, widget-like Xirrus WiFi Monitor for Linux enables users to monitor, secure, and troubleshoot WiFi networks, says Xirrus. The company refers to the software as a "desklet," a widget-like applet that provides quick [...]

Posted in Networking

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