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Compared to our sample of servers across the Internet, Microsoft IIS features twice as often (49% vs. 23%) as a malware distributing server.

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2007/06/web-server-software-an…

the Department of the Navy has adopted a new policy which requires that open source software must be considered in every software acquisition the Navy makes.

Department of the Navy CIO Robert J. Carey signed a memorandum (pdf download) today entitled "DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE GUIDANCE" which first notes that misconceptions about whether or not open source software qualifies as COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) or GOTS (government off-the-shelf) software has hindered the Navy's ability to fully utilize open source software.
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/06/06/0135204

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/MS_Buys_Evil.html

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-06-05-n78.html
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MSSR
Gates of Bill :)

http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/the_ultimate_reset_button.php

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One thing that has always bothered me about Ubuntu's firefox is that the buttons, radio buttons, drop down menus, text fields, and checkboxes (known as widgets) are very cruddy looking. Fortunately I found a simple way to fix this. What we have below is a replacement set of images and CSS code for the widgets which will make them much nicer on the eyes (see bottom of the post for screenshots).

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=369596

Singapore Airlines is offering access to Sun's StarOffice 8 office productivity suite free of charge to passengers on its new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. StarOffice, Sun's proprietary version of OpenOffice.org, runs on the aircraft's Linux server and is accessed via a seat-back terminal at each passenger's seat.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2964256534.html

The results were not unexpected. Even by Microsoft's subjective and flawed standards, fully 38% of the most recent patches address flaws that Microsoft ranks as Critical. Only 10% of Red Hat's patches and alerts address flaws of Critical severity. These results are easily demonstrated to be generous to Microsoft and arguably harsh with Red Hat, since the above results are based on Microsoft's ratings rather than our more stringent application of the security metrics. If we were to apply our own metrics, it would increase the number of Critical flaws in Windows Server 2003 to 50%.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Security_Report_Windows_vs_Linux_2

"LONDON, May 23, 2007 – Ubuntu 7.04, commercially sponsored by Canonical Ltd., was honored by PC World with a 100 Best Products of 2007 Award. The article is available now on PCWorld.com, and will also be featured in the July 2007 issue of PC World, which hits newsstands June 12."

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/pc-world-top-100-best-products-2007
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_7_04_Wins_a_100_Best_Products_of_2007…

http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/zombie-flash-mob-2007.html
http://digg.com/apple/Brain_eating_zombies_invade_SF_Apple_store

http://www.scribd.com/doc/66081/Best-of-Geek-Art

http://kludgespot.blogspot.com/2007/05/20-things-i-learned-from-interne…

In a stunning discovery, Eben Moglen, legal counsel to the Free Software Foundation, reveals that the much vaunted MS/Novell "vouchers" have a fatal flaw: There is no expiration date. Confused? Read on and see how the upcoming GPL 3 may grant patent immunity to not just Novell users, but ALL Linux users.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070518124020691
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Microsoft_inadvertently_grants_patent_immuni…

Verisign's iDefense is putting up a $16,000 prize for any hacker who can find a remotely exploitable vulnerability in six critical Internet infrastructure applications. The bounty is for a zero-day code execution hole on the following Internet infrastructure technologies: Apache httpd, Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) daemon, Sendmail SMTP daemon, OpenSSH sshd, Microsoft Internet Information (IIS) Server and Microsoft Exchange Server.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/18/189208&threshold=4

PC without hard disk and only 2 MB of flash memory, booting into a minimal, yet functional, graphical environment.

Justin Steinman, Novell director of product marketing for Linux and open source, has dismissed Microsoft ’s claims that there are infringements of Microsoft intellectual property, in the Linux operating system. "I want to make it extremely clear. We do not think there are any IP violations in Linux," he declared.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/it-business/supplier-relation…
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Novell_rejects_Microsoft_s_Linux_patent_clai…

Pic Of the Week : Future Computer Engineer?

In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun Microsystems has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of Linux's success. Sun has been trying for years to restore the luster of Solaris, but that since has faced a strong challenge chiefly from Linux. Sun wants to embrace some Linux elements so "we make Solaris a better Linux than Linux," said Ian Murdock, Sun's chief operating systems officer, quoting Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, whose latest start-up, Ning, uses Solaris. But it's a tricky balance to adopt elements of Linux while preserving Solaris technology and advantages such as the promise of backward compatibility. "As we make Solaris more familiar to Linux users, we don't [want to] lose what makes it more compelling and competitive."
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/10/030226&threshold=4

Thanks to WikipediaFS, Wikipedia fiends tired of reloading pages in the browser can now, provided they’re using Linux, mount the site as a virtual filesystem.

WikipediaFS is a mountable Linux virtual file system that enables you to view and edit Wikipedia (or any Mediawiki-based site) articles as if they were real files.

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/mount_wikipedia.html

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Ext3cow is an open-source, versioning file system based on ext3. It provides a time-shifting interface that allows a real-time and continuous view of the past. This allows users to access their file system as it appeared at any point in time.
Some advantages of ext3cow:

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• It does not pollute the name space with named versions
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• It has low storage and performance overhead
3.
• It is totally modular, requiring no changes to kernel or VFS interfaces

http://www.ext3cow.com/