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Security Alert: Storm “Loves You” to Infect Your Machine
Ok, so I don’t do this often, but I gotta an email this morning: I Would Dream From: ########@#####.### (e-mails hidden to protect the innocent) To: ########@#####.### Date: Today 03:59:41 For You….My Love http://###.###.###/ (IP address also hidden) Turns out that e-mail probably originated from a system compromised by the Storm botnet. If you do…
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KDE & Linux: An Explanation for the Uninitiated
One of my friends after reading my last blog piece commented: “English please.” So here is the English summary translation of my last blog post: The short explanation would be: I occasionally review new Linux software. KDE is a window manager for Linux. And the new KDE4 rocks my world! Long explanation without too much…
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KDE 4: My Desktop Just Got Cooler
Tuesday, I decided to make the plunge and try out KDE 4.0.0 One word: amazing. So ever is my quick and unscientific review of KDE 4.0.0 Artwork KDE 4 is a very sexy looking desktop. The panel is darker, the default wallpapers classier and artwork much more modern. The icon and widget theme Oxygen and…
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Review of 2007, the Promise(s) of 2008
The year 2007 has been quite a dynamic year for me. Instead of writing a long article about each thing… cause that might take me an year to write and edit, I will just present a list of lists of things that happened. Academics Completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.…
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Ubuntu Toronto Meeting @ the Linuxcaffe
Today I went down to a small, cosy cafe called the Linuxcaffe on the corner of Harbord St. & Grace St. in downtown Toronto. Other than the fact, that the Linuxcaffe is way cool with organic coffee and free wireless; its also cool that the owner advocates Linux and free software. But what got me…
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Information Overload Via RSS
Eureka! I found out where a good chunk of my time disappeared to. RSS feeds and my favorite feed aggregation tool: Akregator. RSS feeds are an invaluable tool and using them feels like holding a hand on the pulse of the Web. However, I realized how much time I wasted because I subscribed to a…
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The Open Source Gamer Looking for Work
I am currently looking for work, so if anyone is interested in a software developer or software engineer position please let me know. I have experience from university (finished my B.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto) and from my open source projects in: Java development. PHP and JSP scripting. Database (MySQL and…
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A Free Society Needs a Free Market and Free Software
A few days ago I finished reading Richard Stallman’s “Free Software, Free Society”. The book consists of a number of interesting, well-written essays on the philosophy and history of the free software movement. Most people heard of open source as a practical development paradigm and distribution method. Eric Raymond’s “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” describes…
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Countdown to Ubuntu 7.10
To build up even more excitement to the release of Ubuntu 7.10, I am added this neat little countdown javascript app to the side of the blog. <img id=”countdownimage” src=”http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/dist/710countdown_default.png” mce_src=”http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/dist/710countdown_default.png” width=”199″ height=”164″ alt=”Ubuntu 7.10 – Coming soon” /> Share and Enjoy!
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Settling in with the Gutsy [BETA]
For past few days I have been beta testing Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. Overall, I have this beta release running on my main production system without too much breakage. By the time the real release occurs, most users will be grateful for a stable, reliable and increasingly user friendly release of Kubuntu. Update Nightmares Having…