Linux, News and Random Stuffs
Jun 27
Fleeing employees and irate shareholders aren’t the only things that Yahoo is worrying about these days.
The embattled search portal is also fighting the good fight against security vulnerabilities.
Yahoo has admitted that its Yahoo Mail online e-mail service was at risk from a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
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Good thing they fixed the flaw immediately, this will hurt their business if they haven’t acted fast.
Popularity: 13% [?]
Jun 27
SYDNEY - The spam and malware tsunami continues to cast a mounting shadow over the Internet this week.
An announcement from F-Secure warned that malware is growing faster than ever before, while Marshal’s TRACE team claims that the volume of malicious spam in circulation has more than tripled in one week.
Popularity: 12% [?]
Jun 23
SYDNEY- ASUS has announced the release of the new Eee PC 901 and the reduced prices of the previous 701 and 900 models.
The 901 is the third-generation Eee PC and the first to sport Intel’s Atom processor, clocked at 1.6GHz, and, like its predecessors, will ship with Linux and Windows.
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I am never a fan of Eee and any similar devices, I just don’t like the feel of it, it’s TOO SMALL. I’ll just invest my money on a full pledged laptop. But kudos to Asus for coming up on a thirds generation Eee.
Popularity: 16% [?]
Jun 23
FRAMINGHAM- One in three IT administrators say they or one of their colleagues have used top-level admin passwords to pry into confidential or sensitive information at their workplace, according to a survey by a password-management vendor.
Nearly half also confessed that they have poked around systems for information not relevant to their jobs.
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All I can say is that I am one of those Admins that do not practice these kind of things, I value my work and I respect the privacy of others. AMEN!
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Jun 21
The campaign of getting Firefox a world record for “Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours” is a success. On that day over 8 million downloads was made, making it to the world record. They are now waiting for Guiness for the official tally and annoucement.
To those Firefox freaks who participated in the event you can you can now print your own personalized Firefox 3 Download Day Certificate.
Flaunt it to the world!
Popularity: 17% [?]
Jun 21
The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road!
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Wow! After so many years, finally Wine is now stable. I’ve been using it for years and during the beta days Wine is performing well.
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Jun 21
This is the first time I wrote a sponsored blog article since only Bloggerwave approved my site. The unique thing about Bloggerwave is that you can immediately accept an opportunity, no bidding required. Bloggerwave been around since 2007 and I found some articles on the net that says negative things about it. I don’t believe it unless I found out myself. So watch out for any updates on Bloggerwave here.
Join now if you want to experience it yourself.
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Jun 17
This is a working script from one of our production server. Basically this will sent an email alert when disk usage is in critical level.
code>#!/bin/bash
LIMIT=”96|97|98|99|100″
CHECK=$(df -h | awk ‘{print $5}’ | awk -F % ‘{print $1}’ | uniq | egrep -i $LIMIT)if [[ -n "$CHECK" ]]
then
echo “=======================================================
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
=======================================================
`df -h`
=======================================================
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
=======================================================” | mail -s “Disk Usage Alert on $HOSTNAME” email@yourdomain.com
else
echo Good;
fi
This will generate a neat formatted email similar to this:
Popularity: 15% [?]
