Beware The Koala
Now that Ubuntu 9.10 is finally released and everyone has finished praising/pandering it, I felt that I should talk about what happened with me, and boy, what a story this is. It all started when my...
View ArticlePlaylist Goodness
This was a problem I faced when I upgraded to the latest Ubuntu. It was not Ubuntu’s fault, but rather, it was my own fault. The problem came from when I tried to load my playlists into my audio...
View ArticlePitfalls Of A Release Schedule
I have a problem with Ubuntu Studio. There, I said it. I think that Ubuntu Studio is a wonderful distribution, packed with all the programs needed for my music composing hobby. But, there is a...
View ArticleUbuntu and The Community
Ubuntu is owned by a company and not by the community. This is the statement that a lot of Ubuntu lovers do not seem to understand. The underlined plan of Canonical is to make money, not to make a...
View ArticleWindows Is Still To Blame For Spam
Recently, there was an article that came out that stated that Linux has a higher ratio of spam computers running Linux than Windows. Even though the ratio is higher, to which the ratio is always...
View ArticleUpgrades and Solutions
Let’s face it, upgrading a distribution sucks. In my entire career in Linux, I have had to upgrade my distribution of choice at least once (usually because I’m changing distributions and upgrades are...
View ArticleDealing With Korean Hackers
One day, at work, I took a look through the logs and noticed that one of our servers was being attacked by a whole bunch of different IP addresses. They were not continuous attacks, really, only...
View ArticleBlocking Script Kiddies
This is a continuation to my previous post on Dealing With Korean Hackers. When I last left off, I started banning all IP addresses with iptables because the mod-rewrite utility in apache was not...
View ArticleLinux news sites
There are a few Linux News sites that I frequently check out. One day, after reading yet another “Top 5” blog posts, I asked myself, why do I still go here? I am not going to answer that question here,...
View ArticleWildcard Search Strings
I came across this while updating my companies web based sales tool. I had to create lookup files for all of our sales files. The format of the files are as follows. (order number):(account...
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