Archive for March, 2006

Fedore Core 5 Released (Fedora Announcement)

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Hi, my name is Fedora Core “Bordeaux”, and today I am 5. When I turned 4 last year, they got a funny salesman to talk about me like I was a toy. I like toys. But today Teacher said I am a big kid, and I should talk about myself. For more info visit [...]

Quote of today

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

“Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.”

IBM Germany will not use Windows Vista

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

IBM switching to Linux desktops in Germany according to a Linux Forum 2006 presentation by their head of open source and Linux sales in Germany.
“Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has cancelled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning [...]

Linux worm turns on Mambo and PHP

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

Security experts warned of a Linux network worm that exploits holes in the Mambo content management system and the PHP XML-RPC library.
Dubbed Mare.D, the worm leaves multiple backdoors on infected systems. Two of these are connectback shell backdoors that link to a remote host, while a third allows the malware’s writer to access and [...]

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