Monthly Archives: January 2004

Fedora Core 1 Server Installation UML Image Released

Anyone who's interested in running a Fedora Core guest host, check out this announcement from the Linux Users Group of Cleveland: Fedora Core 1 Server Installation UML Image Released
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Gaim vulnerability

If you use Gaim for instant messaging, there's a patch you need to grab for a recent vulnerabiilty. If you don't compile Gaim yourself, check to see if there is an updated package for your Linux distro. Just in case anyone at Yahoo happens to stumble over this page: Quit changing the bloody sign on [...]
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Comcast targets so-called "abusers"

The more press this gets, the better. SecurityFocus has this piece, "Comcast targets Internet `abusers' but won't reveal limits" Essentially, Comcast is sending out threatening letters to its users telling those users that they need to "cut back" on downloading — but won't tell them how much they're actually downloading, and won't tell them what the [...]
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Little Boxes

Little Boxes is a page with some very nifty CSS tutorial-type information. Wunnerful. Give it a look if you're interested in Web design. Found it on the WP help forums.
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Konstruct

I'm doing a preview of KDE 3.2rc1 for Linux Weekly News and I've been quite impressed with Konstruct. I like to be able to test bleeding-edge releases without endangering my current setup. Konstruct is excellent for building a test release of KDE and related applications without displacing the current stable build of KDE that's included [...]
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Spiffy WP feature

One of the reasons I really love WordPress, is it comes with a "bookmarklet" that I can simply click on in Mozilla when I'm on a page that I want to blog about. This is amazingly useful. Just wanted to share... Oh, and it's GPL'ed, which makes it much more attractive than Moveable Type or [...]
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Distro overload

For years, I've maintained that having a ton of Linux distributions is a good thing. I still believe that — but it's getting damn hard for me to keep up with all the various and sundry distros that are good for this and that. I love SUSE's distro on the desktop, and I'm also a [...]
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