The management interface of the current stable version of DD-WRT, the free router firmware, suffers a vulnerability that lets attackers run programs with root rights on the router. The vulnerability, described at milw0rm and in the DD-WRT forum, is caused by inadequate handling of meta-characters in the query string in DD-WRT's httpd web server.
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Missing: Dell’s Ubuntu Linux Desktop PCs
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Rumors are swirling that Dell's U.S. Web site has stopped selling Ubuntu-based desktop Linux PCs. Here's what The VAR Guy knows so far, and the potential implications for Canonical and the desktop Linux movement.
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Linux Community Welcomes the NComputing $70 Cloud Desktop
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NComputing Brings Cloud Computing Down to Earth at CloudWorld Conference With a Perspective on Low-Cost Endpoint Devices
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Toorox
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I was very excited when I read the release announcement for a new Linux distribution based on Gentoo Linux. I used Gentoo for several years and admire Sabayon Linux, so I was quite anxious to test another derivative. After all the testing I was pleased to find that Toorox 06.2009 delivers a true Gentoo experience but is much easier to install and use.
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Lots of Reactions to SCO's Latest Bankruptcy Moves
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So much is happening at once in the SCO bankruptcy. Novell has filed a Response [PDF] to SCO's Notice of Cure Amounts. Oracle has filed a limited objection [PDF] to SCO's Notice of Cure Amounts and is sending in a lawyer [PDF]. IBM is adding yet another lawyer, Noah J. Phillips [PDF].
Read more »Seven Tools for Making Firefox Jump Through Hoops
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I’m now an avid Firefox user. It took me a long time to give up my treasured Maxthon, an Internet Explorer shell that I truly loved. Here are a few of the cooler Firefox add-ons I’m using. Give them a whirl and let me know what you think.
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The Wide-Open Career Landscape of FOSS Tech Support
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Free software may be becoming more attractive to businesses, but even though using the software is free, chances are they'll still need to hire some technical assistance from time to time. Open source tech support experts sometimes need a few different skills than their proprietary counterparts, but their salaries are often quite similar -- if not better.
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Tutorial: Fix Invalid Dictionary Entries in Firefox
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Firefox, one of the greatest browsers in the world, comes with it's own built in spell checker to help you ensure that all the words you type are correctly spelled. It won't help you with grammar, but hey, at least you'll have your spelling right.
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HadoopDB reconciles SQL with Map/Reduce
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Opponents of SQL had their hands strengthened when Google's SQL-free technique, "Map/Reduce", showed it could search databases measured in petabytes. They look on relational databases as antiquated, a technique that can't cope with today's quantities of data or meet the requirements of full-text searching. Rather than relations, they rely on key-value pairs.
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I’m Back with Kubuntu Linux (and Happy as Ever)
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It was an uneasy breakup. Kubuntu and I had parted about two months ago rather abruptly after I had installed 9.02. After a nearly four year love affair between us, I felt that I had been jaded. The new KDE 4.1 Plasma desktop was awkward and things just didn’t seem right.
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The Real FLOSS Community and the "Faux FLOSS Fundamentalists"
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I've come to realize that our community and the people in it, are under attack. We are being disrupted, we are being defamed, we are being lied to, and, in some instances, we are even having our lives invaded.
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NVIDIA 190.16 Driver Brings OpenGL 3.2 To Linux
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However, now that we have had a chance to analyze this driver, there is more in store than what the change-log shares regarding this driver. There is in fact support for the unreleased OpenGL 3.2 specification.
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Open Source for America Announced
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More than 70 organizations and individuals have joined to form a "unified voice" encouraging the U.S. government to support and participate in open source software.
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Greasemonkey for beginners
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The idea behind Greasemonkey is pretty simple. It's a Firefox extension, installed in the same way as any other Firefox extension (find it via the Tools > Addons menu and hit Install). However, it doesn't do anything in and of itself: what it does is to enable you to run scripts, either by other people or by yourself, which will alter the way webpages look and function.
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Evolution of a Linux Geek
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I am a Linux geek. There I said it. Actually, I am kind of proud of being a Linux geek. I slogged through the bad old days to get here. It seems like every day something new shows up that makes me glad that I chose Linux as my tool of choice.
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