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lisah writes:
Several colleges across the country went head-to-head in San Antonio, Texas last weekend at the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition to see which team could best protect their networks against attacks. In a modern day version of Steal the Flag, the teams duked it out using identical network setups that included a Cisco router and five servers. In the end, Baker College took the champion's title from last year's winner, Texas A & M University.
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lisa 'lisah' h writes:
Looking natty in a yellow Tux vest, Linux dignitary John 'maddog' Hall agreed to a rare video interview with Robin 'Roblimo' Miller after speaking at a conference in Jacksonville, FL. The two chatted about the mobile phone project OpenMoko, his volunteer work with Linux International, and beer.
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lisah writes:
Reports are beginning to surface that some Web servers running Linux and Apache are unwittingly infecting thousands of computers and exploiting vulnerabilities in QuickTime, Yahoo! Messenger, and Windows. One way to tell if your machine is infected is if you're unable to create a directory name beginning with a numeral. Since details are still sketchy, the best advice right now is to take proactive steps to secure your servers.
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lisah writes:
Linux.com's Robin 'Roblimo' Miller will moderate a live debate Wednesday, December 5, between the GNOME Foundation's press officer Jeff Waugh and fair competition advocate Roy Schestowitz. Both have strong — and opposing — points of view regarding GNOME's involvement with Microsoft's OOXML standard and vehemently defend their positions, so getting them together in the same virtual room ought to prove quite interesting.
Although the broadcast will be archived as a podcast and available for free download, you can listen live as it's recorded and also call in to participate and ask questions.
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Anastasia Beaverhousen writes:
In what many will consider either a total change of heart (or complete BS), Forbes columnist Dan Lyons was caught on video at a recent conference professing his undying love for Linux. The words, "pry it out of my hands at gunpoint" were even used at one point. Oh, and he also let the world know that he isn't sleeping with Stallman. We can all exhale now.
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lisah writes:
Linux users waited patiently for Google to put together a desktop search app, while Windows and Mac users have been happily indexing their system files for a long time. Now that it's available, Google Desktop for Linux is kind of a yawn. It's a bit slow, takes forever to perform an initial index, and doesn't come with the Gadgets and Plugins that are available for other operating systems. As you'd expect, it does do a great job of searching your files though. Oh yeah, and then there's the surprise you get when you turn on 'Advanced Features' . It's not for extra cool options or features, it means you give Google permission to collect 'non-personal' information from your computer.
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lisah writes:
Though Linus Torvalds isn't exactly tripping over himself to endorse the GPLv3 draft, he continues to warm up to it little by little and says the newest version is 'a hell of a lot better than the disaster that were the earlier drafts.'
