Month: July 2008
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A new search engine? – Cuil
Cuil was launched earlier this week and hailed ( by its founder nonetheless ) as having indexed more than tripple the amount of information than its supposed closest rival, Google. Unfortunately, the first day saw porn results been returned for non-pornography related queries – apparently as a result of high load on the quantum computing-based…
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DNS Issues
Dan Kaminsky previewed information relating to possibly the worst DNS-related exploit ever, earlier this month. The issue is a cache poisoning vulnerability and can result in DNS answers containing fiddled information. This is actually a general design issue more than any vendor-specific issue. Imagine entering a url in your browser and been taken to another…
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KDE 4.1 released
The final version of KDE 4.1 is now available. While the 4.x series has been a bone of contention for many in terms of the radical change it has brought, 4.1 completes a lot of the work that has been brewing over the last year. While there are still areas needing to be addressed, 4.1…
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KDE frontman dies
Uwe Thiem, long time Namibian representative of KDE in Africa, died earlier this month of sudden kidney failure. Besides being the first to right a KDE book and being one of the original KDE developers, Uwe worked tirelessly to promote KDE and OSS specifically in the African context. He’ll be sorely missed. KDE 4.1, released…
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Sysadmin Day!!!
This blog has been a bit empty lately but never mind, Sysadmin day is here. For those actually interested, please go to: http://www.sysadminday.com/ Note carefully the Gift Idea section where you can get ideas of items to send me. Anything over R10K is acceptable.
