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The Next Ubuntu coming…

The next version of Ubuntu is coming soon

Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 on HP EliteBook 8760W: a perfect portable Linux workstation

After working for years on a Elitebook 8530p, I was looking at a laptop which has to be performant, robust and with a good display since for my work I spend most of the time without external monitor and I need a lot of space on my desktop.

The final choice (compatible with the budget) was [...]

Advisory: Range header DoS vulnerability Apache HTTPD 1.3 2.x CVE 2011 3192

Advisory: Range header DoS vulnerability Apache HTTPD 1.3 2.x CVE 2011 3192.

Exploit is in the wild! Be warned!

UPDATE: Apache 2.2.20 has been released and it fixes this vulnerability. Update ASAP!

Please note that on Ubuntu the fix has been backported to Apache 2.2.14-5ubuntu8.6 for 10.4 LTS, and 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.21 for 8.04 LTS.

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Ubuntu 11.10′s Unity Dash is taking shape

Ubuntu 11.10′s Unity Dash is taking shape – The H Open Source: News and Features.

Ubuntu 11.10 looks really promising!

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The Solution Schema for Every Problem

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Kernel Log: BIOS bugs behind greater power use – The H Open Source: News and Features

Finally someone at Phoronix has found the reason of the greater power usage of the latest Linux Kernel.

Kernel Log: BIOS bugs behind greater power use – The H Open Source: News and Features.

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npviewer.bin segfault issue SOLVED with the Adobe Flash Player 64-bit native plugin

If are using a 64-bit flavour of Linux, you’ll be surely affected by the npviewer.bin issue about random crashes of the Flash Player plugin in Firefox with a message like this in your /var/log/kern.log:

npviewer.bin[6489]: segfault at 418 ip 00000000f6034d36 sp 00000000ffaaf868 error 6 in libflashplayer.so[f5dc7000+b5f000]

Well, Adobe some time ago released a beta quality 64-bit native [...]

TEMPer Sensor temperature graphing and monitoring with MRTG

If you need to monitor indoor temperature of a server room or similar, the TEMPer Sensor from PCSensor.com may be the right solution for you, at an incredible low cost! You can buy this cheap device from Amazon.com or from e-Bay, plug in the USB port of a server, and with the power of MRTG [...]

ZenOSS events database cleaning

If you need to purge all the records in the events database of your ZenOSS installation, the simple procedure is the following (tested on Zenoss 2.5.x on Ubuntu server).

# /etc/init.d/zenoss-stack stop
# /etc/init.d/zenoss-stack start mysql
drop the “events” database
# /etc/init.d/zenoss-stack stop mysql
delete the ibdata1 and ib_log* files in the mysql data folder
# /etc/init.d/zenoss-stack start mysql
zenoss$ zeneventbuild localhost [...]

Solaris VM recovery after cloning

The scenario: ESX 4.1 Cluster and a Solaris 10u8 64 bit VM running on RDM Luns. Clone the LUNs at the storage level (a crash consistent cloning) and map them to a new VM configured in the same exact way, same virtual hardware version, same SCSI Controller, same Hard Disk SCSI [...]

Google Data Centers Video

An interesting video attached to this post about the Google Data Centers.

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/security-first-security-and-data.html

At around 4:05 you can see something that resemble a tape library (or a TAN I suppose) used for backup puroposes.

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