There are a series of articles at this site on the install and configuration of pcbsd, which I mentioned recently as a linux alternative. PCBSD is built on freebsd and is designed to be a desktop operating system.
Author: Avery
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Zotob Worm
According to The Sans handlers diary, a worm exploiting one of the security vulnerabilities disclosed last week by Microsoft, is in the wild and spreading. The worm tagged as zotob.a exploits the ms05-039 vulnerability. (Sans reminds us that ms02-039 was the vuln. targetted by the slammer worm. Interesting coincidence.)
They are still at infocon yellow. (Note the infocon graphic at the bottom of each page.)
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Good news – wordpress 1.5.2
Good news on the WordPress front. A new release has been, well, released. Version 1.5.2 is a bugfix/security fix release. On the heels of an August 10th security advisory. The release announcement is available here.
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High MPG hybrid car (250 Miles per gallon)
I think I first saw these stories Friday night, but several places are reporting on various efforts to modify current hybrid vehicles to squeeze higher mileage out of them. This is the true spirit of “hacking” in some ways. It looks that by adding extra batteries (and recharging those off of house mains), there’s one individual that can get 80 miles per gallon. Others have claimed up to 250 Miles per gallon
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Time to catch up on weekend news
I’ve got a slew of posts coming up trying to round up some of the things that came across this weekend.
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The junk that you will find in web access logs
If you have a website, you likely will look at your logs from time to time to see just who or how many people are visiting your site. I’ve certainly looked at a lot of logfiles both for my site and for others and thought I’d pass along some things you will likely see. For starters you are likely to see requests for pages that don’t exist. Even if you’ve never made changes to your site, you may see requests for files like (more…)
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Linux alternatives.
Once you’ve made the plunge to look at operating systems outside of the Microsoft realm, linux has typically been the easiest accessible. Lot’s of livecds are out there and much can be freely downloaded. Of course there is the Mac as well with Os X. I’ve liked what I have seen of it, but there is a higher cost of commiting to that platform. (Hardware +software). I’m also not comfortable giving up one company that has fairly tight control over the software for a company that has fairly tight control over the hardware and some of the software.
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KDE 3.5 preview part 2 up
A while back I did an article on a preview of KDE 3.5 (currently in alpha). Today the Second part of that preview of what is to come (kome?) in KDE is up. He picks up featuring the changes in konqueror. (The default web browser under KDE.) On the eyecandy front…. SuperKaramba has been included in the main release of the next KDE.
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Mandriva Linux 2006 Beta 2 review
Wow, some people are quick. What has it been a day? There is already a review up of the second Beta in the release cycle of Mandrake…. uhmmm Mandriva Linux 2006. (Still can’t quite get used to the name change.) Anyway… The review is complete with screenshots and a link to the complete package list.
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NY requires businesses to disclose security breaches.
The Register writes that New York has passed a law that will require local government agencies and businesses to disclose security breaches. (System broken into or data stolen). I can understand businesses being reluctant to disclose this kind of information. “What will they say about us”, “bad reputation”, “we’ll lose customers”, the thoughts could go on. However, there are some people that respect a business that is up front about a problem like this.