Author: Robby Pedrica
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Sysadmin Day!!!
This blog has been a bit empty lately but never mind, Sysadmin day is here. For those actually interested, please go to: http://www.sysadminday.com/ Note carefully the Gift Idea section where you can get ideas of items to send me. Anything over R10K is acceptable.
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Microsoft ODF/OOXML
Well very interesting news that Microsoft is to support ODF in MS Office 2007 SP2 albeit the older 1.1 specification. But the most interesting is that this comes straight after Matusow’s visit to SA. I wonder if he got wind of the intended SABS appeal against the JTC1 OOXML process. MS will be shut out…
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South Africans apparently don’t understand OSS
Well that’s according to one of the largest commercial software vendors on the planet – Microsoft. I wonder where they get this drivel from? Maybe from the fact that they’re fighting a losing battle with OSS and need to try and grab any last share of support they can. Perhaps they thought that coming to…
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OpenOffice 3 Beta now available
with a lot of improvements to functionality and support, including: prelim docx support for MS Office 2007 shared network spreadsheets streamlined UI
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Track Day
… at Killarney this Sunday past was eventful. A very full event with a lot of members from the Ulysses group made for a somewhat delayed start to the day. In addition, the oval drivers had laid oil ( as per usual ) on the track in various places leading to the marshals delaying the…
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Reiser and ReiserFS
Hans Reiser has been found guilty on the charge of 1st degree murder ( of his wife ) yesterday. From the little information I’ve read in the press, I understand that there’s mostly circumstantial evidence in this case, and the body of Hans’ wife hasn’t even been found. Based on this, I’m quite surprised with…
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Open Document Standards
OOXML has gained ISO approval even though the process leading up to this was seriously flawed. I think the following points apply: ISO is no longer an open standards organisation and are in Big Business pockets There was not enough time to go through the changes that were requested in the last round of voting…
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A SciFi legend …
has died – Arthur C. Clarke ( author of 2001: A Space Oddysey amongst many others ) died today in Sri Lanka aged 90.
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Security ( or not )
It’s quite interesting that out of the 30 or so contacts I sent information to about the vmsplice issue, only one person came back to me requesting their kernel be updated. This is unfortunately the reality of security these days – with more to lose, people have less concern about security.
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Linux kernel vmsplice vulnerability
The recent vulnerability in the linux kernel pertaining to the vmsplice function has resulted in quite a hole in many Linux PCs all over the world. It is recommended to updated to 2.6.24.2 immediately to close this loop hole. Please note that to successfully exploit this bug, you need to have at minimum unprivileged local…
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Translate.org.za
has won the pan SA Language Board award for contribution to multi-lingualism and nation building over the past decade