Hewlett-Packard unveiled its first new thin clients since acquiring Neoware last fall. Among the new products is a Debian- based "t5735" model featuring a CPU and GPU (graphics processor unit) from AMD, which acquired GPU specialist ATI recently.

"Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable [GNU/Linux] CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian testing. Today marks the release of version 91.0 for the x86/AMD64, PowerPC, and UML/Xen platforms..."

addrepo is a simple command line interface for easily adding APT repositories to your sources.list

There exists no official flash package available for the 64bit architecture with Ubuntu and Kubuntu. If you click the add plugin button when visiting a page with flash, you are taken to the official Flash site and will soon notice that there are no available 64bit downloads here either. There are some workarounds on ubuntu forums, however, they don't always seem to work and get complicated if you have compiled your own 32bit Firefox. We have been using both the official 64bit Firefox package from the Kubuntu repositories as well as a modified 32bit version I built quite a while ago to get around some stability issues with the 64bit version. So after about a year without flash support, we finally took the plunge and have built a quick and easy solution.

Yesterday, my exams finished so I went back to working on my pet project, the Bonjour Plugin for Kopete.

I commited Revision 758598, and with it comes a very functional plugin, which completely supports chatting (at least with pidgin).

Read it to see how you can help.

In Slackware 12.0, USB plug and play support is not functional by default. In order to get such functionality working again, we will use a quick solution that will allow for use of HAL and enable KDE to recognize and automount our USB devices.

We use Gallery2 quite a bit for our photos and accordingly use a handy tool called Gallery Remote to upload images to the albums. Under Linux and OSX, there aren't really any efficient ways that I know of to upload lots of photos at once. Under Windows you can use an explorer type plug-in in the uploads section. Gallery Remote is a nice little java application which can handle drag-and-drop image adding, multiple photo addition, addition of captions and changing names, and some other features such as saving login information for multiple accounts or galleries. However, I have had trouble installing Gallery Remote on all of my Linux boxes so far, so I will show you the results of my Googling below and what has worked.

A nest of poisoned Web sites has been quietly attacking unsuspecting visitors using an arsenal of thirteen different exploits...The infected groups of servers are running various different flavours of Linux, hosting many different versions of Apache. This means it’s unlikely that the root vulnerability is in Apache.