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Firefox 2.0.0.8 has been released. 2.0.0.8 is a security patch so make sure your firefox browser is up2date. Below are the list of fixes in this release taken from the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories page. MFSA 2007-36{.moderate} URIs with invalid %-encoding mishandled by Windows MFSA 2007-35{.critical} XPCNativeWrapper pollution using Script object MFSA 2007-34{.moderate} Possible file stealing through sftp protocol MFSA 2007-33{.low} XUL pages can hide the window titlebar MFSA 2007-32{.moderate} File input focus stealing vulnerability MFSA 2007-31{.moderate} Browser digest authentication request splitting MFSA 2007-30{.low} onUnload Tailgating MFSA 2007-29{.critical} Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.8) ...

Most non linux people tend to be taunted by the Linux command line, it’s no beast nor is the user behind it a super geek just because you see him hammering away at the keyboard with lines after lines of commands. Chances are he is repeating commands or changing commands here and there to get some results. In Linux the first time takes time and practice to produce accurate results. This is what most sysadmins spend their time doing but once you get the hang of it, it became a walk in the park. ...

Into online text based roll playing games? If your answer is yes then it will certainly be worth your time checking out Kings Of Chaos. In Kings of Chaos, you are in command of an army of humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, or undead. To be successful, you must manage your army and defeat your enemies. You must keep your troops in top condition and recover from losses. A powerful army will be strong in all four aspects of the game: attacking, defending, spying, and counter-intelligence. This makes it important to keep your forces and efforts relatively balanced in all these areas. There are a number of ways to build your army and thus generate more gold and become more powerful: you can get people to click on your Unique Link, giving you an additional soldier each time it is clicked. In this age, you can click links up to 5 times per 24 hours. You can also recruit other people as your officers - for every two soldiers your officers gain from their links, you will gain an extra soldier. You may also buy mercenaries - soldiers that will fight for you but will not generate extra gold. ...

I recently upgrade my IPCop to version 1.4.16 but my Snort (Intrusion Detection System) failed to load the latest rules set. The install logs revealed the error below. /usr/local/bin/oinkmaster.pl: Error: the output directory “/etc/snort/rules” isn’t writable by you. The fix was simple. simply change the permission for the “/etc/snort/rules” folder so that the owner is “snort” using the command below. # chown -R snort:snort /etc/snort/rules # ls -l /etc/snort/ | grep drw drwxr-xr-x 2 snort snort 4096 2007-09-18 18:20 rules ...

While loading K3b to burn a DVD earlier today I received a warning that my DMA support had been turned off and write speeds would be slow. DMA is normally enabled by default, provided the disk supports it and is handled by the OS. What is DMA? DMA (Direct Memory Access) is the mechanism which allow your disk device to move data directly to memory without passing through the CPU. This shortens the distance the data needs to travel and reduces the load on the CPU thus improving performance and quality of the data. DMA eliminates errors that might occur when data is passed through the CPU. For example, you might hear pops and click while playing an audio CD or your video quality might be distorted when reading directly from a cdrom/dvd drive with DMA turned off. I will have to investigate what happen later. But for now this is how I enabled DMA support for the DVD+-drive the manual way. ...