Chrome os benchmarked and compared

I don't like linking to slashdot articles as you've probably read them already, but I've been very interested in chrome OS recently, and some of you might be interested in how chrome os fared against Ubuntu netbook remix and Moblin. Another typically brilliant review from phoronix too.

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2nd iPhone worm, targets online banking

1 worm rickrolls you, the other steals your credit information. It's not as bad as it sounds though, it's a simple phishing scheme, so most of you would cop on not giving your details to a random site. The worm works on the same basis as the 1st work, ie. it only affects jailbroken iPhones with the default ssh password.

Anyway, you should be using android ;)

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Wikipedia losing volunteers

CNet have an article by Lanch Whitney about wikipedias decline in volunteers. The article is based on a post in the wall street journal about wikipedias decline and the reasons more people are leaving than coming, citing reasons such as arguements about content etc.

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Rant about Gimp, F-spot, Mono and Ubuntu

Haven't given any links to the blogosphere about Ubuntu dropping the gimp (something I agree with btw, even as a regular gimp user), so here's a quick rant from YaManicKill.

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Chromium bookmark syncing available on linux

This seems like a really handy tool. I like the author use xmarks to backup my hundreds of firefox bookmarks, but an official backup manager linked to your gmail account, on linux, is great innovation.

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FOSS POV; 5 things about corporations

Steve Harms' has a nice blog post about 5 things he's noticed about corporations, from a linux dev/sysadmins standpoint.

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Ubuntu firewall simple howto

I really like this, a blog by the name of "Shadows of epiphany" has make a simple yet pragmatic howto on setting up Ubuntu firewall, including setup and configuration for allowing peer to peer connections.

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