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by Cyprix as at Sep 4 2010 12:34pm
Sep 4 2010
3:50am
Security advisories for Friday
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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