Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring released

Mandriva has announced the launch of the final version of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (codename Pauillac). This new version comes with a hos...Read more »

Firefox 3.0.10 fixes critical vulnerability

The Mozilla developers have announced the release of version 3.0.10 of their open source Firefox web browser. The security and stabilit...Read more »

How to Fix "symbol lookup error: ... /lib/libavcodec.so.52: undefined symbol: av_gcd" after installation of ffmpeg

It's actually quite easy once you know what's causing the problem. There are two different versions of libavcodec in your system. In...Read more »

Testing Red Alert 2 with wine

I had unsuccessful attempt to run (old) Red Alert 2 game with sound using wine 1.x.x. After ignoring to test it for a few months due to my b...Read more »

Btrfs' Hot New Features

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Intel Graphics Users: Don't Upgrade Your Ubuntu

As phoronix points out , the intel driver woes in the newest Ubuntu version 9.04 are so bad, you should probably skip this distribution upgr...Read more »

Mount a Partition from inside a Disk Image

You need sfdisk and losetup. sfdisk -l -uS disk_image.raw # look for the start sector of the partition, e.g. 2 mount -o loop,offset=$((2 * 5...Read more »

Some useful CLI Commands

Tuxradar has put up a nice list of useful CLI commands and other tipps. For tip #36 to work in KDE 4, you need to type e.g. = 4*5+4. I also...Read more »

A List of Default Passwords

can be found here :http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.htmlRead more »

postfix can't connect to MySQL

I got this error in syslog when postfix was trying to connect to MySQL: Apr 13 17:34:53 webmail postfix/smtpd[6726]: warning: connect to mys...Read more »

CUPS: Unable to open device and permission denied

I use CUPS for my printer system and I got this error: Unable to open device " hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_2...Read more »

DoS in Linux Server with Boinc

For kernels earlier than 2.6.29 tasks with SCHED_IDLEPRIO creating children such as boinc can freeze the entire system . The bug seems to be...Read more »

clamav detects conficker

Taken from http://www.clamav.net/2009/01/29/conficker-aka-downadup/ Some of you may have heard of a current major outbreak of a virus known ...Read more »

Amazon MP3

Amazon's MP3 Service does it right and brings support not only for Windows and Mac OS X, but also for all major Linux distributions incl...Read more »