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Novell Signs Linux Deal with Australian Government 127

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the foot-in-the-door dept.
truthsearch writes to tell us ITWire is reporting that Novell has just signed a deal with the Australian government to become an approved supplier of Open Source software and solutions. This deal, believed to be the first of it's kind, "places Novell on the NSW government panel of preferred open source suppliers. This is the first panel contract of its kind by an Australian jurisdiction that contains provisions specific to open source software, giving government agencies and departments formal access to Linux solutions."

Symantec Users, Start Your Keyloggers 313

Posted by CowboyNeal from the unfurling-the-welcome-mat dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Script kiddies have been taking advantage of intrusion prevention features of Symantec's Norton Firewall and Norton Internet Security Suites to knock users offline in IRC channels, according to an amusing post at Washingtonpost.com. From the article: 'Turns out that if someone types "startkeylogger" or "stopkeylogger" in an IRC channel, anyone on the channel using the affected Norton products will be immediately kicked off without warning. These are commands typically issued by the Spybot worm, which spreads over IRC and peer-to-peer file-swapping networks, installing a program that records and transmits everything the victim types (known as a keylogger).' Makes you wonder what other magic keywords produce unexpected results with Symantec's software."
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Journal Journal: A question answered

Journal by Chris Brewer

I had a reply to my last comment by an AC asking how I found info on accepted/rejected stories.

A bit redundant, and as the story is long gone and it would be off-topic anyway, here's how to view the queue:

  • Log in to your account
  • Click on submit story
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Journal Journal: My ankle hurts....

Journal by Chris Brewer

So I did something stupid, like walk across the road. Somehow I managed to roll my left foot over and stepped using that knobby thing on the outside. A nice horrible feeling as the ligament tore and I had to hop the rest of the way over before the lights changed.

Needless to say, I missed lunch that day.
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Journal Journal: Interesting linking behaviour

Journal by Chris Brewer

I thought that this comment was interesting, not because of the content, but because of the way the links were created, apparently disabling slashdot's 'safe link' tag.

So here's some links to see if it can be replicated:

Normal link: Slashdot
Square bracket at beginning only: [Fark

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