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4th September Comments

DoS vulnerability hits Google’s Chrome, crashes with all tabs

Posted on September 4th, 2008 at 6:50 am

Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now? While Google’s Chrome team is cheering, Rishi Narang from Evil Fingers is typing and releasing a proof of concept for a denial of service vulnerability that is successfully crashing the Chrome browser with all tabs. According to Narang’s advisory : “An issue exists in how chrome behaves with [...]

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3rd September Comments

Forums and basic facts

Posted on September 3rd, 2008 at 7:47 am

I spend a lot of time browsing the various distro forums and it is funny I find a couple of themes that are carried out in each and every forum. First are the trolls, the ever present lifeform that just posts to see how mad and how many people will reply to their insults of [...]

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1st September Comments

Bandwidth Caps

Posted on September 1st, 2008 at 6:33 am

Okay as you all know, or I hope that you do Comcast has started to enforce a bandwidth on it’s users. While a 250 gig a month cap sounds like a lot, but if you have more than one computer and more than one user, what with movie,iso’s, podcasts, chattting, IM, and streaming music the [...]

Posted in Networking, News, Personal

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 [...]

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25th July Comments

Yahoo! Music Going Dark, Taking Keys With It

Posted on July 25th, 2008 at 5:09 am

  iminplaya writes with a link to an excellent article at Ars Technica, extracting from it a few choice nuggets: "The bad dream of DRM continues. Yahoo e-mailed its Yahoo! Music Store customers yesterday, telling them it will be closing for good — and the company will take its DRM license key servers offline on [...]

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24th July Comments

Report: Google in acquisition talks with Digg

Posted on July 24th, 2008 at 6:36 am

Social-news site Digg.com, a perpetual target of acquisition rumors, is in “final negotiations” to sell itself to Google for $200 million, according to a TechCrunch report Tuesday that cited multiple sources. Google has been in talks to bring Digg into the Google News group, but it could be a few weeks before the deal closes, [...]

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18th July Comments

Bush ; Before And Now

Posted on July 18th, 2008 at 6:02 am

  Who knew the Onion would be right? [Thanks Mister Justin] BTW, this chart is out of date. Remember the good, old days of $3 gas? Good times, good times… Darn this came from the Onion? And I am so sorry to say so correct, Thanks GW, Baldy   Bush — Before And Now

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11th July Comments

Canadian open source community upset over proposed copyright law

Posted on July 11th, 2008 at 5:25 am

  The Government of Canada has angered those who believe that a proposed copyright law threatens the country’s open source business model. Russell McOrmond, a member of the Canadian Software Innovation Alliance (CSIA), says that Bill C-61, the proposed copyright legislation unveiled by the government last month, ignores just about every recommendation made by CSIA, [...]

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17th June Comments

Inner Tuber Picked up by Arsenal Rescue

Posted on June 17th, 2008 at 5:19 am

Okay I don’t care how bad the situation or how stupid the idea is, trust me there is a idiot out there to always say “hey hold my beer and watch this”. It is not like there are more important things for the officials to be doing. Amid the hard work along the River, rescue [...]

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17th June Comments

The Coming of the Nerdettes and Linux’s Big Chance

Posted on June 17th, 2008 at 4:37 am

  Given the heavy proportion of males in the Linux world, we here at LinuxInsider have trouble resisting any topic that brings females back into the picture. Imagine our glee, then, when we spotted mention of a recent Newsweek article titled "Revenge of the Nerdette"! Indeed, some of us fairly fell off of our pink [...]

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