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Water

Hi, This post is to spread the word – Water. To spare a moment to think about – Water. To help grow awareness about this source of life – Water. Do share! I was thinking of writing this post since

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New DJBDNS-1.05.7

Hello,     # yum install ndjbdns-1.05.7 I feel happy to announce yet another release, version 1.05.7, of the New DJBDNS. This is by far the most complete release of the New DJBDNS. It fixes a major bug(BZ#913651) in dnscache resolver while

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New DJBDNS-1.05.6

Hello, I feel happy to announce yet another release of the New DJBDNS. (New wordpress interface looks neat too.)The release 1.05.6 of N-DJBDNS fixes a major security flaw in the DNS resolver, which would allow an attacker to keep a

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ndjbdns-1.05.5

Hi, happy new year! I’m happy to announce the latest release of New DJBDNS version 1.05.5. This release is special. It includes two very important security patches reported here -> BZ#838965. These patches protect dnscache resolver from cache poisoning attacks.

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nullcon Delhi’12

Hi, The nullcon day #2 is turning out to be really cool! After the keynote speech by Mr Alok Vijayant of IDG(NTRO), Mr Zoltan Hornak demonstrated insecurity of the ubiquitous Set Top Box devices. Mr Zoltan was followed by Mr

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Fedora meet at nullcon Delhi

Hi..! Nullcon – the Information Security conference which brings eminent hackers, researchers and information security professionals together under one roof, is happening in Gurgaon, near New Delhi, at the end of this month between Sep 26 – 29, 2012.     ->

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Fedora-17 Anaconda LVM Bug

Friday, I get new laptop – Lenovo Thinkpad X220. Excited, I copy boot.iso to USB device and set out to install Fedora-17.     $ dd if=boot.iso of=/dev/sdb Usual chore: select language, time zone, set root password, create paritions, select packages and

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Airtel 3G and Fedora-16

This weekend I got myself a shiny new Airtel 3G USB modem. It is a Huawei E1731 model of the data card that supports speeds up to 7.2Mbps and also has some storage capacity. Though it says up to 7.2Mbps,

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Client side XSLT

Hi, Lately, the Beacon editor team has been toying with the idea of making the editor work entirely on the client side. Beacon is a powerful docbook and guidexml editor. Idea is to use jQuery XSLT and/or Google AJAXSLT libraries

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Release name – why?

Hi, Not long ago, lwn covered a story about boiling debate surrounding Fedora release names. I never quite understood the point of having a release name. All these years that I’ve been using Fedora, since FC-2, I’ve never known the

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