Newsforge has a review up on The Book of Postfix.
They recommend it for anyone administering Postfix as work or hobby.
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Category: Computers
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Lawsuit to block the release of Windows Vista?
Betanews.com is reporting on a move by a public interest lawyer (who is running as a Republican for the Governors Office of Illinois) who is attempting to block the distribution of Windows Vista. He intends to ask Microsoft for an unconditional warranty that the operating system is free from major bugs that could lead to security vulnerabilities. (Good luck with that one…)
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Doom on the iPod?
The Register is reporting on the iPod linux project and a developer “Kyle” there that has made Doom run on the platform. It gets a painful 3-4 frames per second. One of the next goals is to scale the video to the iPod display and get sound working.
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Raft of Microsoft updates out – time to get updating
The promised batch of windows updates for today are now out and it turns out there were 3 critical updates out of the 6 released. It looks as though the biggy is an RPC problem with the plug and play system (Plug and play needing a remote procedure call?) This is one that could likely be quickly exloited. There is a workaround on this of having port 139 and 445 firewalled (many places do that by default now, last I checked my ISP does.) Don’t take that as a tool for complacence though. Patch it anyway!
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Browser competition, market decisions and open standards
I just read a blog entry at zdnet. The writer, John Carroll, essentially asserts that the free market has chosen that monopoly in the case of the web browser IS what’s best for it. There are a few things that I think he fails to take into account in his perspective on browsers and competition.
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Laser Printer Buying guide
Last week cooltech had an article on an inkjet printer buyers guide. This week they follow up with a Laser Printer buying guide.
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Google now officially giving news feeds
For some time the only way to get an RSS feed of google news was through third party scrapers. Well, according to The Google Blog. Now there are two flavors of OFFICIAL news feed from Google.
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Google filtering some searches
It caught me by surprise at first. I had done a search and got the following…
“We’re sorry…
… but we can’t process your request right now. A computer virus or spyware application is sending us automated requests, and it appears that your computer or network has been infected.
We’ll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your computer is free of viruses and other spurious software.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we’ll see you again on Google. ”
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Web smarts is the main defence against spyware
Over at the Security Fix, Brian Krebs is talking about spyware and the fact that keeping up-to-date on patches, and running current antivirus with current definitions is not enough to protect your machine from spyware. He sums it up by saying common sense is the best defence.
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