An issue near and dear to my heart, both personally and professionally is that of spam. Not the lunch meat, which, when prepared correctly, I happen to enjoy, but that bane of email, the unsolicited commercial email (UCE). At what point does legitimate communication cross the line to become junk.
I have six basic different uses for free, open-source software: 1) my law office practice; 2) managing and editing video for the Digital Tipping Point Project; 3) running a 25-seat Edubuntu lab at a public middle school as a volunteer in San Francisco; 4) placing ACCRC.org Linux computers in classrooms; 5) giving out ACCRC.org Ubuntu computers to friends, neighbors and the children who attend that
Email is one of the least private and least secure forms of communication, although few people realize this. MixMaster is one way to allow secure, anonymous communication even over the very public medium of email. This tutorial will get you started with MixMaster quickly and easily.
If you’ve never looked at Eclipse and you work with multiple programming languages or multiple platforms, take some time to try Eclipse.
What does it mean to be open.
My copy of Oxford defines open as: unconcealed circumstances or condition. Way back in the day when the GNU operating system was getting going, they coined the mantra: Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer.
The August 2th “Linux Product Insider” features Memopal Online Backup, gNewSense 2.1, Super Talent Pico D USB Drive, SEH’s PS56 WLAN Print Server and the new book Building Embedded Linux Systems
In case you were wondering about the fun side of Linux World Expo, we thought we’d give you a peek at our shenanigans. We at Linux Journal love what we do so much, that we can’t help but have a ball wherever we go.
This certainly qualifies as an interesting development. CBC is reporting that FACIL, a non-profit organization that promotes the adoption of free software in Quebec, is suing the provincial government for buying Microsoft software. More specifically, they are alleging that Quebec’s provincial government refuses to allow competing bids (including bids from free software vendors) in preference of large players like Microsoft. Allow me to quote from the CBC article.
The debian security flaw and the supposed attacks were pointed
out to me earlier today.
There’s a blurb about it
here
on LJ.
The US-CERT warning is
here.
The original debian advisory about the actual bug is
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