With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 last week, it’s not too surprising that few other topics got much attention on the Linux blogs in the ensuing days. Yes, there was a rather intriguing discussion of porn and piracy over on DaniWeb and LXer; and yes, a moderately active conversation fired up the Slashdot community following Keir Thomas’s post about “Good Enough Computing” on the PC World blogs. When it came right down to it, though, it seemed people mostly just wanted to talk about Ubuntu 9.04 — Jaunty Jackalope, that is, the successor to Intrepid Ibex.

Jaunty Jackalope: Are Alarm Bells Ringing in Redmond?

The Psyb0t worm infects Linux-based routers, including consumer-level broadband routers, and turns them into botnet nodes. Psyb0t finds easy entry because they are misconfigured. Eric Geier tells how to find out if you are infected and what to do about it, and gives sound advice that is pertinent to all routers.

Pay Attention folks this is a good read, Baldy

How to Detect and Prevent Psyb0t, the Linux Router Worm

Okay thanks to LC the Paradox is now available on your Cell Phone or PDA. Just another way to check out the news and see if I have been doing anything.
Everyone knows that I never do anything but there is always that hope and dream. LOL I hope that you enjoy the newest addition and that you make use of it if so desired. And a big thanks to LC for the time she put in, Baldy

Skype founders said to be eyeing eBay company: report by Reuters: Yahoo! Tech

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -

The founders of Web telephone service Skype, currently owned by eBay Inc, are interested in bidding for the company they sold some four years ago, according to a media report.

When it comes to the world of graphics, Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator and DTP applications such as Quark and InDesign, stand head and shoulders above the rest and are the defacto standards for graphics professionals. But they’re not open source, even if a little Wine hacking gets them running. If you’re committed to doing your graphics the open source way then we have a few suggestions, and a couple of handy tutorials to get you up and running.

Here are some great graphics programs and links to some really good tutorials to help the total noob to pro with just a little reading and a lot of practice, Baldy

Graphics on Linux: Eight great image image resources and tools

WordPress is the most widely used content management system amongst bloggers for many reasons. Not only does it make site management seem like a walk in the park, but it also uses a type of shared hosting, which means that most users can afford it. It has plug-ins for any occasion and desire and finally, it has themes. For many WordPress users, finding the right theme is a long process that often leads to endless tweaking in the code and stylesheets. However, only a few ever consider learning how to create their own. If you are one of them, this tutorial will help you learn how to built and start your own theme.

Good read for those who love to play with themes in WordPress, Baldy

 

Creating Your Own Theme – A WordPress Tutorial

As Linux sysadmins, many of us still need to deal with Windows worms and how they affect our networks. Today is April 1st, and the Conficker worm will be activating on vulnerable computers everywhere. Here’s a quick HOW-TO showing how you can detect compromised and/or vulnerable computers on your network:read more

You might learn something here folks, Baldy

Detecting Conficker with Linux Tools