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Just as they did last year, over thirty international security organisations have come together, to publish a list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors leading to vulnerabilities that can be exploited for cybercrime and espionage.
In my most recent article “Five ways to ease the migration from Windows to Linux” I examined how you can help new users make the migration from Windows to Linux easier. But does the same hold true when trying to migrate from Mac OS X to Linux? Let’s find out.
"After a lot of work, the DebConf7 Final Report has been released. The report is intended for a large audience, and includes impressions and facts from the conference. Whether you were there or not, we hope you will find the report an interesting read! ..."
So that’s where a migration guide becomes necessary. LibreOffice migration guide, published by The Document Foundation, helps organizations understand why they need to migrate, how to begin the migration process, and steps to take during the process.
Let's correct some facts and assumptions in Dr. Gary Pisano's Expert Report on behalf of SCO in the SCO v. Novell trial, shall we? Why? First, it's fun. Geek fun, granted, but that is who we are. Second, I see what I view as mistakes, and I surely don't want people to be confused or for errors to go down in history unanswered.
After seriously giving Firefox 3 Beta 4 a try due to Safari 3.1 breaking the Shift key in Gmail (update: as kindly pointed out by some of my readers in the comments, it was Gmail that was broken, not Safari 3.1, doh), I’ve converted to using Firefox 3 Beta 4 as my primary browser.
Techrights responds to people who believe that IBM should be left alone after using software patents to negotiate a competitor's departure from the market
OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation, that also includes sftp, client and server support. This new relase fixed several non-critical errors and contains some useful additions.
