About 120 countries are trying to use the Net as a weapon to target financial markets, government computers, and utilities, McAfee says. A “cyber cold war” waged over the world’s computers threatens to become one of the biggest threats to security in the next decade, according to a…

World faces ‘cyber cold war’ threat, report says

Slackware Linux today features a powerful and easy-to-use package management system, but making Slackware packages has not always been straightforward. Now Slackware application developers have a tool for easily making Slackware packages from source code and precompiled binaries. Src2pkg, now in version 1.6, very nearly lives up to its author’s tag of being Slackware’s “magic package maker.”

Slackware’s “magic package maker”

By James Archibald
27 November, 2007

As we begin to slip into the festive season and things begin winding up for the year, we thought it would be an ideal opportunity to check out some of the best Linux games available.

We are opening nominations for the games to be entered into a poll for the best Linux games available.

The requirements for games to be included are:

- they must run on Linux, without Wine
- they must be completely free
- they must be a complete game and not an add-on to a commercial game
- installation must be relatively easy

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Legend has it that a Moleskine notebook and a pen were the tools of choice for Chatwin and Hemingway — but that’s because they didn’t have Writer’s Café. Designed specifically for writing professionals, this application suite includes a few clever features that make it a must-have tool, whether you write for a living or for fun. Although the Writer’s Café developers state that it’s most suited for writing fiction, novels, and short stories, you can easily use it for all kinds of writing activities.

Writer’s Café: An IDE for writers

For the last two days, security software firm Sunbelt Software has documented what could develop into a scary trend: Rigged Google search results that deliver big malware payloads.

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The Ontario government has taken its first step in fulfilling an election promise by announcing it will begin offering full-day kindergarten classes in three years.

The government will spend $200 million in 2010 and another $300 million in 2011 to get the project off the ground, Premier Dalton McGuinty said on Tuesday.

Are you kidding me!!? This is just more proof of government stupidity! Spending 500 million on kindergarten!?? 7:30am to 6:00pm! Daycare, that’s all it is. Wouldn’t 500 million dollars would be much better spent on education at a junior or senior high level? Oh no, of course not, these children don’t need daycare!!!

Source: CTV News

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Crashes happen. People make mistakes. Hardware fails. It’s all just a matter of time before you lose your data. Indeed, certain failure is the impetus for backups. But creating backups is often painful, so much so that many users choose to ignore the procedure, albeit at great peril. Hence, the ideal backup system is thorough, powerful, automatic, and easy to maintain.

Source: Linux-Mag.Com

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The Canadian government is about to bring down Canada’s version of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and it promises to be the worst copyright law in the developed world. It will contain an “anti-circumvention” clause that prohibits breaking the locks off your music and movies in order to move them to new devices or watch them after the company that made them goes out of business — and it will follow the US’s disastrous lead with the DMCA in that there will be no exceptions to the ban on circumvention, not even for parody, fair dealing, time shifting, or other legal uses.

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Apple has been presented with yet another security headache by an independent researcher. Krystian Kloskowski has posted a proof-of-concept exploit for a vulnerability in Apple’s QuickTime multimedia software. The researcher said that a successful attack could enable the remote execution of malicious code. The exploit targets a flaw in the way QuickTime handles information for streaming media files. Malformed data could be hidden within a streaming media file to trigger a buffer overflow error, which could allow the attacker to access the system with the privileges of the current user.

Firefox Vulnerable to New QuickTime Exploit

Okay these are nasty and yes people do suggest some newbee’s run them, and yes I have seen folks suggest it. How ever that is not a good thing. As you read the article you will see that most are very very nasty, and while the “guru” that told the noob about it will be laughing, the noob will walk away with a bad taste in his or her mouth and bad mouthing Linux and it’s users. Congrats to the Ubuntu Forum for taking a pro active stand.

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