Category: Computer Tech

The first Slackware release in more than a year has been released. There are a whole bunch of changes in this release incl. Xorg 6.9.0., KDE 3.5.4, NPTL and others. I have the DVD iso if anyone is interested.

Nearly there …

Slackware updates available for Firefox/Thunderbird, openssl and bind

I’ve just received my first points towards Assurer for CAcert. Thanks D.

I’ve changed both my personal email and webserver certs to CAcert seeing as they are offering free certs. Their root ca is included in my webserver and if you need it for your email client, then you can just import it from the top of my website homepage.

Slackware 11rc4 has been released:  Sun Sep 3 01:46:42 CDT 2006 I wasn’t planning a Slackware 11.0 release candidate 4, but here we go.

RC3 is now available – from Patrick: I think most of the irresistible upgrades are in here now, and the bug reports have been mostly handled. There may still be a few changes, and possibly another release candidate, but this is pretty close to final with the exception of updating documentation and building ZipSlack.

I’ve been put onto a great little tool called policyd developed by Cami Sardinha. It provides for white, black and grey listing, as well as rate limiting and blocking of users and MTAs. From Cami himself: Policyd is an anti-spam plugin for Postfix (written in C) that does Greylisting, Sender-(envelope, SASL or host / ip)-based…

RC2 is out as per -current Changelog: Sat Aug 19 23:58:27 CDT 2006 This is mostly frozen now unless bugs (or irresistible upgrades) come up, so I’ll call this update Slackware 11.0 release candidate 2. 🙂

Slackware 11.0 draws ever closer with following in the -current Changelog: Aug 3: kde/*: Upgraded to KDE 3.5.4. I know I told at least a few people that I wasn’t planning on including this in Slackware 11.0 at the last minute, and there have been a couple of patches needed for it already. Please test…

mod_security ( the web application firewall ) continues to impress as it takes a beating from ( mostly ) automated bots and hacks scannning for web server vulnerabilities – this is a must for anyone running a publicly accessible web server. Version 2 rc2 is out and features significant improvements in areas like data persistence,…

Portugal beat England on penalties after a fairly boring game but heart stopping stuff at the end there. Tonight Germany come up against Italy, and tomorrow it’s Portugal vs France. Should be interesting to say the least.

Win32/Gaelicum seems to be very prevalent on the p2p and torrent networks. Don’t use these networks without AV software loaded and a good anti-spyware tool such as Spybot. If you do get infected, get vcleaner from AVG Grisoft.

Portugal ahead 1-0 at half time but a man down!!!

The 2 lovebirds have announced the first commecial 1 Petaflop Supercomputer to be installed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2008. It’s design will be dual-core 4 socket ( 8-way ) SMP nodes using Cray’s SeaStar interconnection technology. Shouldn’t be too expensive once AMD introduce their ( apparent ) massive…