Tag Archives: Linux

I haven’t seen this hit the mainstream press, or slashdot or anywhere yet. It could be some obvious hole missed while configuring these Red Hat 7.3 boxes but I’m worried. 8 Red Hat 7.3 boxes were broken into and rooted. John doesn’t know how they were cracked, almost missed it but thinks it might be a worm mentioned in Phrack a while back..
I checked my own Red Hat 7.3 boxes and they appear to be fine but given the nature of the worm, it won’t be easy to find without shutting down first.

Chris Gulker on Workspot – Linux anywhere!

Compare $10 for Workspot to, say, the $8.25 .mac costs: both give you an email account, but .mac’s is via a clunky (read: slow) Webmail interface, where Workspot gives you the full Ximian Evolution email application (with address book that autotypes, calendar, etc. etc.) – it’s what you wished Outlook was.

Sounds interesting, if I had a fast internet connection and wanted to learn about Linux I’d try this. It could be very useful if I was travelling and wanted a familiar desktop to work off too.
I’d probably use a Yahoo account and whatever was available though 😉

/Trackballs/ is a Marble Madness or Gyroscope clone. Gyroscope was the first C64 disk game I ever had. I was given it by someone but I don’t remember who now.. hmm. must download this tomorrow!

She likes soaps, you like sci fi. She wants to watch East Enders but you want to watch Alias. Problem eh? This could be handy then.

Right, this is a completely personal observation. On my redhat 8 box here at work, KDE just kicks the ass off Gnome 2 for speed. I don’t use the file manager of either environment much, so this is simply and observation on how using Galeon, Gnome Multi-terminal, xchat and Kmail work. They just work faster!

This site is a great source of useful information, despite what the title says!

While searching using a popular search engine for Bash help I found a few goodies:

1. Unix: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly – short article on the short-comings of Unix, from a user-friendly perspective. While I agree that “info” is horrendous, the much more useful “pinfo” is much better. Instead of using arcane key combinations to navigate you can use your cursor keys to move about. Of course, in Gnome, you can (or used to be able to) view helpfiles through their help system. I’m sure the same exists in the KDE world. There is already a searchable database of commands. You access it through the “apropos” command, although I never use it so that might indicate how useful it is.
2. Shell scripts in 20 pages – A guide to writing shell scripts for C/C++/Java and unix programmers which is a good summary of shell scripting when you’re already familiar with programming in other languages. Recommended!