The Mandrivaclub has a new Download MirrorFinder, it works much like easyurpmi to find sources of Mandrake RPM’s (including plf). You have to be a club member to access it.
Author: Avery
-
Linspire? no freespire
Distroreviews has an article up reviewing the release of a freespire livecd. Did I say freespire? Yes, it’s a free clone of linspire. They’ve basically taken out all linspire proprietary addons and branding. (Although according to the review there are a few traces.)
-
Rumors abound on Google Instant Messenger
Slashdot is reporting, as well as other sources, that Google is preparing the launch of an Instant Messenger.
-
How to Recover deleted items from Outlook .pst file
About 6 months ago I had a customer call with a bit of a crisis. They had deleted some folders in Outlook without realizing the cleared out a few things they NEEDED to keep. Up until then I hadn’t had much opportunity to try to find out what was recoverable, but I discovered there is a pretty easy way to deal with this.
-
US-CERT talks spyware
US-CERT is addressing the issue of spyware. According to Spyware Confidential, they’ve released a document (pdf) on the matter, including techniques to guard against spyware. Education and awareness are two elements that are highly emphasized.
-
Good wireless security post
I found this one at The sunbelt blog, very good article referencing a talk on wireless network security by Xavier Ashe.
-
A note for those of you using Google Adsense
You’ve probably noticed the Google Adsense ads throughout the site. I have a couple of tools that I use to monitor adsense and one is a firefox plugin that tracks impressions. This afternoon it went to zero suddenly which had me investigate. It looks as though adsense has changed their reporting just slightly this afternoon.
-
Debian based distros pursuing LSB standards?
It sounds as though the distributions of Linux based on debian are trying to define a standard base to work from. It looks as though the disunity among various debian derivitives has prompted a move to unify and work towards LSB (Linux Standards Base) compliance to improve their standing compared to other distributions.
-
The passing of Dr. Bob Moog
CNN and others note the passing of Robert “Bob” Moog today. He was really a pioneer of the synthesizer. He has lived in Asheville for some years. I remember way back in grade school he came to our school and demonstrated one of his early synthesizers I think it had been the minimoog. (It’s so many years I can’t recall). I do recall him demonstrating the different synthesized sounds he could get by combining different waveforms. This was about the time that electronic keyboards were just starting to become popular.
-
Zotob aftermath and analysis
The dust over the zotob worm infection has settled a bit at this point. (You can bet there are still infected machines out there though so if you haven’t patched yet – DO IT and check for signs of infection.) Among other things, The Security Fix is analyzing the impact.