May 16, 2008
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WhitePages.com does exactly what you’d expect from the name — it tries to provide phone book-style listings for both the U.S. and Canada. Of course, there’s nothing new about that, so WhitePages.com tries to do an especially thorough job. The … Continue reading
May 16, 2008
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Debian, the popular Linux distribution, has just been shown to have made an all-time stupid security goof-up. They managed to change OpenSSL in their distribution so that it had no security to speak of. Good job guys! OpenSSL makes it … Continue reading
May 15, 2008
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Sometimes, people do such stupid things that words almost fail me. That’s the case with a Debian ‘improvement’ to OpenSSL that rendered this network security program next to useless in Debian, Ubuntu and other related Linux distributions. OpenSSL is used … Continue reading
May 15, 2008
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Adobe Systems is reaching out for Linux desktop users with its announcement today that the first beta of Adobe Flash Player 10, a.k.a. Astro, is now available for Linux, as well as Windows and Mac OS X. In a statement, … Continue reading
May 7, 2008
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Thanks to a recent column by my friend Andy Patrizio, I found out that there’s “been an ongoing debate among bloggers and industry observers over one simple question: Where are the open source billionaires?” OK, I’ll buy that some people … Continue reading
May 7, 2008
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I am, shall we say, more than a little cynical, even by my standards, when it comes to wireless networking. For example, I really, really have doubts about the wisdom of moving up to 802.11n. That said, I think the … Continue reading