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by Cyprix as at Sep 4 2010 12:34pm
by Cyprix as at Sep 4 2010 12:34pm
| Sep 4 2010 3:50am | Security advisories for Friday |
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| Debian has updated barnowl (denial of service). Fedora has updated rekonq (F13, F12: cross-site scripting), sssd (F13, F12: authentication bypass), wireshark (F13, F12: multi... more | |
| Sep 3 2010 4:15am | Thursday's security updates |
| Mandriva has updated thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated wget (arbitrary code execution).... more | |
| Sep 2 2010 5:29pm | Pascal Terjan: The most unusable branch locator I have seen so far |
| Today I wanted to locate an HSBC branch in London, close to either the office or my home. Thanks to HSBC I got upset before 8. That starts fine, they have an "interactive map"... more | |
| Sep 2 2010 3:33pm | comment-less reassigning of bugs with patches/solution is like getting slapped in the face |
| Hi *, If you need context: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60839 https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60786 While I can understand that maintainers don't want to ... more | |
| Sep 2 2010 3:48am | Security advisories for Wednesday |
| CentOS has updated C5: httpd (multiple vulnerabilities) and C5: kernel (privilege escalation). Debian has updated wireshark (arbitrary code execution). Fedora has updated so... more | |
| Sep 1 2010 11:42pm | Eugeni Dodonov: KDE Hacking |
| So, after a take on Metacity , I just went ahead and implemented the same quick workspace switching feature for KDE (namely, kwin) – with great help from Nicolas Lécure... more | |
| Sep 1 2010 3:24am | Tuesday's security updates |
| Debian has updated openssl (denial of service). Fedora has updated bogofilter (F13, F12: denial of service) and php-pear-cas (F13, F12: multiple vulnerabilities). Mandriva h... more | |
| Aug 31 2010 9:44pm | Shlomi Fish: Is the web becoming fragmented? |
| Peteris Krumins writes: So I participated in the 48 hour Node.js Knockout competition together with James Halliday and Joshua Holbrook. Our team was called Dark Knights ... more | |
| Aug 31 2010 8:19am | Inquiring minds want to know - 2011 release?? |
| Hello fellow Cookers! Despite the various departures, and turbulence leading up to the 2010.1 release - it turned out to be another stellar release from Mandriva. My quest... more | |
| Aug 31 2010 3:39am | Security advisories for Monday |
| Debian has updated phpmyadmin (multiple vulnerabilities), typo3-src (multiple vulnerabilities), and openoffice.org (denial of service). Mandriva has updated phpmyadmin (Corpo... more | |
| Aug 31 2010 1:35am | [2010.1]Conflicting support statements in python packages |
| Hi, Looking at the python packages for version 2.6.5-2.1mdv2010.1 in main they have the following information: Notice: This is an offical update which is supported by Man... more | |
| Aug 30 2010 7:03pm | DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 369 |
| This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Under these rocks and stones News: OpenSolaris governing board resigns, Illumos, Mandriva 2010.1 "Xfce Live", Ubuntu 10.10 proposed w... more | |
| Aug 30 2010 5:06pm | Install (GUI + text) totally borked |
| Could someone please have a look at https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60720 ? Text and GUI installs abort immediately. It looks like some incompatibility with the rece... more | |
| Aug 28 2010 3:52pm | VMware player 3.1.1 crash with latest ALSA library |
| Today I was not able to start Windows guest; player crashed with the following in log: Aug 28 19:35:59.424: vcpu-0| PIIX4: PM Resuming from suspend type 0x0. Aug 28 19:35:5... more | |
| Aug 28 2010 2:15pm | Xorg dpi settings and external monitors |
| I just bought a new laptop with a full HD 15.6" screen and a 23" external monitor with a res of 2048x1152. Mandriva currently has X forced to 96 dpi, but I would like to opti... more | |
| Aug 28 2010 10:11am | ocaml and emacs |
| Hi, I've updated the package ocaml to the last version 3.12.0. There was a patch for emacs that don't applies any more. I don't know emacs at all so I don't know if this patc... more | |
| Aug 28 2010 3:29am | Friday's security updates |
| CentOS has updated C4: gdm (access restriction bypass), C4: kernel (correction to previous update), C4: kernel (denial of service), C5: kvm (denial of service), C5: qspice (de... more | |
| Aug 26 2010 5:12am | Shlomi Fish: Perl Debugger Tip: A Session Startup File |
| Here's a small Perl debugger tip: in order to have a file whose commands will be executed at the start of the debugging session (for example in order to get to a certain poin... more | |
| Aug 26 2010 4:16am | Wednesday's security updates |
| CentOS has updated openoffice.org (C3, C4: code execution). Debian has updated zope-ldapuserfolder (privilege escalation). Fedora has updated zabbix (F13: cross-site scrip... more | |
| Aug 25 2010 6:31pm | Stéphane Téletchéa: Your own local repository for Mandriva |
| Nowadays, RPMs are mostly downloaded from internet. Since accessing RPMs from the hard drive is still faster, we will see in this little article some tips and tricks to use a ... more |








