JENNIFER HOLLETT
Globe and Mail Update
Can you go without a computer for a day?
No e-mail. No Google expertise. No Mapquesting. No MSN. No YouTube or MySpace, or Facebook. No access to your brain’s external drive.
Saturday, March 24, 2007 marks Shutdown Day, an online experiment that aims to find out how many people can go without a [...]
A variant of the Warezov Trojan horse has again been programmed to spread through the instant-messaging feature in Skype.
Technorati tags: Security.Software, News
Source: Trojan horse targets Skype users
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rustalot42684 writes “The CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] has posted an article on its website promoting the use of Ubuntu Linux to the ‘average computer user’. ‘With the exception of gaming, which is limited, almost all of the average person’s basic computing needs are well looked after with this package. I’ve used the last three versions [...]
Free software fans of YouTube jumped for joy last week when developer Benjamin Otte announced on his blog that the free Swfdec Flash player has reached the point where it can play YouTube’s Flash video content. At that time the feature was only working in the project’s Git repository, meaning only those users willing to [...]
Don’t dispose of your old computer Throwing away a PC really is a waste, re-use or recycling are always preferable options. Usually an old PC still work well but many think that is obsolete and a computer outdated is annoying and it must be replaced. We can recycle our computer !! We can donate our [...]
SimplyMEPIS 6.5 Release Candidate 3 (RC3) today was uploaded to the MEPIS subscribers’ pool and propagated to the public mirrors — only nine days after RC2 was released. It features a 2.6.15 kernel, a KDE default desktop, and Beryl 0.2.0 Final.
And Warren has added support for the Broadcom wireless cards and has cured the [...]
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the beta release of Ubuntu 7.04. Ubuntu 7.04 is the most user-friendly Ubuntu to date and includes a ground-breaking Windows migration assistant, excellent wireless networking support and improved multimedia support.
Technorati tags: Linux, News
Source: Ubuntu 7.04 Beta Released
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ICANN is to terminate Registerfly’s license to sell domain names, cutting off its main revenue stream and leaving its customers victorious but nervous, after months of scandal which have rocked the company. The domain name industry overseer chose to exercise its so-called “nuclear option” of de-accrediting Registerfly, saying it was “frustrated and distressed by recent [...]
Netcat or nc in short can be aptly described as one of those two letter command-line tools that have all of legendary UNIX magic and power.nc however is a new program and does not share the age of well known programs like cat or dd. However its power and versatility make one think why no [...]
