http://www.devside.net/blog Linux, Windows, MacOS? Who cares. Just give me something that works! Mon, 12 May 2008 22:26:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It could have been worse. A few weeks ago we were hit with an SMF v1.1.3 exploit just a few days after the release of v1.1.4. The intruder inserted a slew of hidden spam links into the main 'index.php'. It took me a day or two to detect the modification. And in ... http://www.devside.net/blog/another-wordpress-hack There is nothing quite like innocently checking over your httpd logs, attempting to figure out why the 'preview' feature of your forum s/w has stopped working [stuck on 'fetching preview...'], only to come up to this... --09:57:23-- http://kotzilla.jino-net.ru/include.txt => `include.txt' Resolving ... http://www.devside.net/blog/smf-exploit-like-phpbb-hack I'm going to keep this one short and simple, and to the point. And I'm not even going to write anything. Why the Dell/Ubuntu Deal Won't Improve Linux's Market Share When you take a few steps back from the furor and zealotry and take a close look at whats happened here, you will ... http://www.devside.net/blog/ubuntu-dell-mismatch I scream, you scream, we all scream for ... DELL Ubuntu Linux? World to Dell: We want desktop Linux! Unless you've been living in a cave, you've probably heard the news: The world wants Linux. And as we all know, the news can't be wrong. Especially if it's regurgitated over and over again ... http://www.devside.net/blog/ubuntu-kills-linux-dell My favorite FUD recipe, it's delicious: 1) Create a completely misleading title. 2) Make a mountain out of a molehill. 3) Proclaim insider knowledge not possessed by more experienced individuals. 4) Carefully craft statements based on false premisses. 5) Spread the FUD around and bake @ 350. And whatever you do, DO NOT ADD FACTS, Facts, ... http://www.devside.net/blog/fud-recipe An Exercise for the Reader: Take a look at any of the major Linux friendly sites around the net and see if you can spot a pattern. The typical day revolves around crying wolf, proclaiming Linux the winner of every battle, and screaming FUD at anything and everything Microsoft related. It's almost ... http://www.devside.net/blog/linux-fud-microsoft Having priced similar Dell Ubuntu and Vista systems in the past, at a real difference of a whooping 10 dollars, I was curious to check in again and see if Dell has implemented anything the user-base of IdeaStorm have asked for. One particular thread caught my attention: Ubuntu Dell is $50 Less ... http://www.devside.net/blog/dell-ubuntu-lies It's great that Linux is finally getting the exposure it deserves, thanks to Dell, but the question still remains: how is Dell profiting from its Ubuntu offering? We know that the net margin for Dell, as a whole, is around 5% [the true profit made on revenue]. While we can compare ... http://www.devside.net/blog/ubuntu-windows-dell Just don't get too excited, because this is old news [circa 2004]. And something that is currently being rehashed as new on Digg, Slashdot, and Linux sites... I'm sure you have seen it too: the news along the lines of "[insert random OEM here] releasing incredible Linux offers", quickly followed by ... http://www.devside.net/blog/linux-notepad-pc Make an HTML form with a text field and two submit buttons. Load Firefox and IE, bring the text field into view, and press the enter key. When you have a form with one or more buttons, hitting enter under Firefox will POST the value of the 1st form button. On ... http://www.devside.net/blog/linux-windows-bug-feature