For the past couple of issues we are striving to reward our loyal readers and this time we have something big. One of the cover topics of (IN)SECURE Magazine 14 is wireless security, so you can be the lucky one which will win a Linksys WRTG54G Wireless-G Router accompanied with the "Linksys WRTG54G Ultimate Hacking"[1] book.

"The RDF Data Access Working Group has published three SPARQL Proposed Recommendations: SPARQL Query Language for RDF, SPARQL Query Results XML Format, and SPARQL Protocol for RDF..."

Last week we looked at Ubuntu Server's documentation, discussed hardware requirements, tried to figure out what sets Ubuntu Server apart from Ubuntu Desktop, and what's included in the current release, 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).

Open source vendors like GroundWork ... package Nagios and other tools together into an enterprise class suite that challenges the proprietary stalwarts.

"About a week ago Wal-Mart began selling a $200 Linux machine running on a 1.5 ghz VIA C7 processor and 512 MB of RAM. While the specs are useless for Vista, it works blazingly fast on Ubuntu with the Enlightenment Window Manager. The machine is now officially sold out of their online warehouses (it may still be available in some stores).

Over the last week since my short review on gOS and the introduction of the ASUS EEE PC with it's stream line version of Xandros I have been thinking about what value this has for the Linux OS and it's familiarity to the masses.

New Ideas Corp. announced the immediate availability of their custom-built C3 workstations and laptops preloaded with Ubuntu on C3PC.com today. New Ideas Corp. began selling their custom built PCs regionally in 1997, as a way to provide high quality hardware to business at a lower cost than other builders and resellers.

"Before the word “hacker” was wrongly associated with vandalistic script kiddies and mischievous virus writers, it was used to describe an underground culture. This underground culture was made up of professional engineers and basement tinkerers obsessed with improving computer technology through unconventional, simple, yet brilliant tricks.