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The AMD outlet in Dresden, Germany, is aggressively advertising its search for experienced Linux knowledge workers.

What a contrast to the usual behaviour of sacking the workers! As the giant told the Sacramento Business Journal, it will “release” these 1,000 suits on July 28.

I got it with email (thanks, Joey!). And you can read it here in the official Debian News section: the compromised machine gluck.debian.org and all the services it’s running are back to normal.

Yesterday, James Troup (one of the core Debian developers and sysadmins) and others found out that one of the project’s machines was compromised.

They have finally arrived: the first mobile computers with dual core, 64 bit CPUs.

Ok, this quote isn’t really new - in fact, it is from Thu, 18 Aug 2005, but I found it just today when reading the blog of one of the two authors of the planet

No; WiMAX is not dead. For those of you who don’t know: it’s the new IEEE-802.16 standard, and now Intel, Motorola, and others are investing really big money into it.

Wow - now even high profiled, long term MAC users get it: read all about it here. I guess that’s what’s happening if you (as a company; in this case Apple) give up too much of your own profile and switch to using what everyone else builds in as well.

Here at TUX, we know that we are leading this change. We have seen where the information technology industry is headed and we choose a new alternative. We see independence from proprietary software as good for society. We realize this change may cause hardship, and will most definitely cause some to loose their comfortable use of proprietary software, but we believe that it is a price worth paying.

Univention, a Bremen-based integration and consulting company, today announced that it will release its Univention Corporate Server under the GPL from now on.

In a recent article, Linux Journal’s new Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Peterey built what he sees as the “Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Linux Box”. Being the first of his articles that I actually liked, he is way on the expensive side with his recommendations. We show here how to get along cheaper and still more modern.

Some two weeks ago, the GNOME Journal reported about end users, and all in all it it a nice article. But I think Vincent Untz didn’t even consider some things, so I wanted to comment a bit.

Interesting to see that now automatic system updates pop up once a day in Debian, at least in the ‘testing’ and ‘unstable’ flavours, better known as ‘Etch’ and ‘Sid’.

First I saw that on Ubuntu, and I thought: now that is end-user friendly. And unlike its proprietary counterparts, these updates don’t only care for your operating system, but for all of your applications as well, which shows how amazing free software really is.

Today my boss sent an email asking why the network on a newly created Windows Server 2003 as a Xen guest domain runs with only 10 MBit/s. I looked it up in Windows using RDP, and indeed it said 10 Megabits. So I checked a bit more thoroughly and started to stress-test it a bit.

A colleague had a defective harddisk in his personal laptop, so I told him to get a new one. When he came back with his shiny brand-new 2,5″ Samsung harddisk, he wanted Windows XP or better - so I installed Debian Etch…

I just set up some folders on our pages, called “uploads”. Group- and ownership are the ones of the web server, so now it should be possible for my brother, my son, and myself to upload pictures directly from Wordpress. Let’s try that:
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After reading some very positive reactions about the all-new Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ‘Dapper Drake’ release, I decided to go and give it a try as well.

I set up ftps on our vserver, and from work, I tested it sucessfully with lftp and kasablanca on Sid.

I haven’t done much over the weekend. Oh, just this: I sat down and installed a certificate from CAcert, and made our web server and email setup a bit more secure. Here’s how:

It’s interesting to look at your Webalizer statistics and to see the list of “Search Strings”. This is what people type into search engines and shows how they found your site. Another point is, it gives you hints about how you could improve your site and the service you are offering to your readers.