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…
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World faces ‘cyber cold war’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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!!? [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
