Recently I published a short article outlining how to install the latest Firefox Web Browser manually, alongside your existing Firefox installation. In this article I will outline how to install the latest stable Firefox release by making use of the Mozilla Team PPA. This Personal Package Archive (PPA) provides the latest stable releases for Firefox,… Read More »
I know many of you use Launchpad’s “Personal Package Archive” for updated and beta packages. I have about a half-dozen configured on my machine to give me the latest and greatest of my favorite applications. The one problem with a PPA though is that the packages can’t be verified when downloaded because you don’t have… Read More »
Its been a while since I’ve blogged about my Folding@Home management tool, now called Origami. There was a lull there in development for a while, but this last week I’ve done probably 20+ commits, which puts us up to version 0.6.6.1. There are now also two branches being maintained on Launchpad (bzr). One for trunk,… Read More »
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Release Candidate for version 7.10 of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Gobuntu, and Xubuntu codenamed “Gutsy Gibbon”. The Release Candidate includes installable live Desktop CDs, server images, alternate text-mode installation CDs, and an upgrade wizard for users of the current stable release. We consider this release candidate to be… Read More »
It’s things like this that remind me the people trying to represent us in government really don’t understand us. Particularly in the way of Technology. Recently I sent an email to my Senator expressing my concern over the recent rape of our privacy in the HomeLand Security “we can spy on you if we *think*… Read More »
The Situation It has come to our attention that a small portion of nvidia users are experiencing a failure to boot into X after today’s kernel update. The problem seems to only happen on some specific configurations involving the unofficial 9631 driver installations and does not appear to affect 877x from the official repositories. Symptoms:… Read More »
According to a recent article on ZDNet.com it appears that roughly 60 million users are using stolen or pirated volume license keys. ZDNET.com reporter Ed Bott has been researching the new Windows Genuine Disadvantage as it progresses from quietly inserted update to known menace. According to his recent article a member of the Windows Genuine… Read More »
The following security announcement applies to mysql-server. If you have mysql-server installed, please see below for details on the vulnerability and instructions on patching your system: It was discovered that MySQL could be made to overwrite existing table files in the data directory. An authenticated user could use the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options… Read More »
The following security announcement applies to dhcp-client. If you have dhcp-client installed, please see below for details on the vulnerability and instructions on patching your system: USN-803-1 fixed a vulnerability in Dhcp. Due to an error, the patch to fix the vulnerability was not properly applied on Ubuntu 8.10 and higher. Even with the patch… Read More »
I just read an article over at Dustin Kirkland’s blog regarding the enormous server farm that Weta Digital has setup to render blockbuster movies. Apparently the latest Blockbuster, Avatar, had scenes rendered using a 35,000 core Ubuntu-based server farm. 35,000! That is hard to imagine! They’ve also rendered a few other films you may have… Read More »