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Debian Project’s machine has been compromised!

Debian Project machine gluck.debian.org has been compromised yesterday and the machine has been taken offline, meaning that the following services will be unavailable temporarily :
cvs, ddtp, lintian, people, popcon, planet, ports, release

source : Debian mailing list

My thoughts
Debian should audit their software more often. Although it’s clearly hard to maintain a distro that supports many platforms/processor as Debian, but at least they should do regular check on the security of their own machine to prevent this thing from happening again.

Btw, when the last time you heard Debian made a major release?

debian,security

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ThinkAll free software CDs, becareful with them

Think All Publishing LL is one of many companies that make profits from distributing free CDs around the world.

If you ever gone to ThinkAll website or clicked on one of their advertisement, chances that you will get to order Free CD (4 to be exact) offer from them with minimal shipping cost (USD 2.95 or so).

Be warned, think twice before you request any Free CDs from them, because there’s a sleazy clause in their Terms of Use gave them permission to charge your credit card with USD21.95 each for 2 CD (the other two is given free).

Another thing that may suprised you is that you’re automatically ‘subscribed’ to their monthly 4 CD offer which you will be charged USD41.90 per month. So becarefull when dealing with Think All.

Should you’ve already ordered the “free” CD from Think All, the best you can do is to cancel your subscription by going to http://www.thinkall.com/freeCD.htm (which is randomly changed according to some) to avoid being billed further by the company.

You could also call their (carefully hidden) customer support line at +1800 4628 144 or +1902 462 6085 to cancel your free cds. Remember, think twice before ordering CDs from Thinkall.com

What others say about ThinkAll:
Thinkall.com Think again
RipOffReport

thinkall,fraud,scam,free software,rip-off,scammers

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Today is the 4th of July, and i’m having a fever

Yup, it’s the 4th of july and i’m having some sort of fever, I felt a bit weak with minimal writing mood right now.

The Spam Karma i recently installed is working well, caught 800+ spams its first day, not bad at all, and oh, my website is also affected by the “Google Dance”, my daily visitor shrunk from 1200+ to 400+, I think google is removing my older posts from it search result, as I’m not getting info from them in my statistic.

I guess I better lie down right now, I’ve taken some paracetamol, hope that will help.

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Howto create a simple Debian/Ubuntu Repository

So now you know how to create deb package. This time I’m going to point you to some howto that shows you how to create a Debian repository.

Why do you need to create repository? Because it’s convenience to your users, assuming that you’re a developer. Repository helps to automate software installation too in a centralised manner.

Here’s a couple of howto that teaches you to create Debian repositories :

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Google Earth on Ubuntu Dapper Video

For those who are interested in installing Google Earth on their Linux PC (especially Ubuntu Dapper Drake), you can refer to this video.

It might interest you that Google Earth is easy to install despite having to use console to install it.


  

  

  

Google Earth on Ubuntu

Google Earth can be downloaded at the Google earth homepage

The video can be also downloaded as Ogg Theora files. Windows user can use VLC Player to play the file.

google,google earth, ubuntu, linux, debian

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Xajax and side-projects

Hi there, I just want to tell you guys that i’m a bit busy lately because i’m currently doing some side-project at the moment, I can’t tell you what I’m working on just yet, but I can assure you that it has something to do with Ubuntu.

By the way on a completely different matter, I’ve been experimenting with Xajax toolkit since I always wanted to explore this toolkit for quite sometime ago. It is a simple AJAX, but powerful toolkit that allows you to easily create AJAX applications with PHP.

So far life is good down here in Alor Star, though it has been raining lately, the kind that makes you want to stay on bed longer :p

I’ll be back writing more interesting stuffs when I’ve settled out the side-project, which is due in a couple of days.

personal,life,xajax,php,ramblings