The US Ethics Committee has announced that a recent document leak was caused by junior staffer who installed file-sharing software on his personal computer. This statement actually raises questions. It is also testament to how data security requires a holistic

If you're a farmer in the UK, and have ever taken a payment from the Rural Payments Agency (RPA), consider yourself a victim of a data breach. The RPA has lost computer tapes with information on farmers who have ever

Published at LXer: There are far too many interesting Linux and free software conferences these days, so it would be difficult—really, impossible—to attend them all. Slides and videos of the talks...

I'm trying to install vmware tools on a slackware 13 guest. Instalation goes without problems but when running the configuration script there is a problem. After compiling the required modules (no...

Greetings all: This one is driving me crazy. I have a somewhat older Mac laptop and the right side of the touchpad is placed such that the palm of my right hand causes "tap" and "scroll" events...

I had to install a new disk drive in my PC a week ago because the old drive died. The new drive is a 160 gig drive. First I installed Win XP with S/P 3 and everything was fine. Then

I installed Slackware 10.1 or 10.2 (32 bit)two or three years ago. I've recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 (64 bit). I had some small programmes that I had written in C/C++. They compiled and ran on...

Hello everyone, I have a strange problem. I replaced my mobo (Tyan S3950) with an ASUS M3A78-EM (ATI Radeon HD 3200 GPU). Now I am having problems with my refresh rate being out of range for my...

I am backing up 4.2 GB iso images to DVD-Rs using an external USB 2.0 based DVD Burner, via K3b in the "direct burn" mode. I am seeing write speed of only 0.6x. I have usbutils installed and I...

Published at LXer: Android 2.0, nicknamed "Eclair," will make its big entrance on the Droid next month, and other handsets are sure to follow. Version 2.0 brings a set of new features to the table,...

Hello, Can anybody help me with a unix script project that I have no clue on starting it, and also I 'm not that much familiar with unix scripting. Don't get me wrong have little bit experience with...

Dear Mates, I have two machines, one has XP service pack2, second one has CentOS 5.3 (Linux), they are connected through crossover cable. I have configured everything fine but don't know why...

I've upgraded (using update manager) two laptops from 9.04 to 9.10, and in both cases I couldn't boot because of problems with grub 1.5 after the upgrade (while Grub 2 is installed by default for a...

when using this snipit: Code: --- struct cga_block { unsigned H: 1; unsigned G: 1; unsigned F: 1; unsigned E: 1; unsigned D: 1;

Published at LXer: Everybody posts about applications to install after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. That's interesting, and some applications in those posts are quite useful. But those...

I upgraded my Slackware 13 to Slackware current. I also compiled a new kernel. I've been using it for a week or so and everything seems fine. The problem is that when I try to compile something, it...

Whether you are or are not, what are the pros and cons? If you are, where and how much traffic is it seeing? What are the specs of your equipment?

A new Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities update is available for Ubuntu Linux. Here the announcement:

Another day, another high-profile outside hire for . Phoronix that Australian native Matthew Tippett, engineering manager for Linux Core Engineering at AMD/ATI, will be joining Palm as their new head of Linux kernel development. Matt's previous work on ATI's Linux

From the blogs: Event focuses on the tech media and the controversial embargo process.