Merry Christmas

"May all the seasons of your life be Filled with Peace and Love! "

Warmest thought and best wishes for
A Wonderful Christmas
(May the love that comes that holy night light all your days and with hope and joy)
and
A Very Happy New Year 2008!!

Ubuntu Linux vs Windows Vista

Borys Musielak compares the Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista.

It may be a brave opinion but I predict that Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista are going to be the two operating systems that will take over the largest chunk of the desktop OS market during the next couple of years. This comparison is based on my experience with both systems during the last couple of weeks on two different computers. Read More

Ubuntu - Firefox regression

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-546-2 December 04, 2007
firefox regression
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405584 ===========================================================

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 7.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.10:
firefox 2.0.0.11+0nobinonly-0ubuntu0.6.10

Ubuntu 7.04:
firefox 2.0.0.11+1nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.4

Ubuntu 7.10:
firefox 2.0.0.11+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Firefox to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

USN-546-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The upstream update included a faulty patch which caused the drawImage method of the canvas element to fail. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Firefox incorrectly associated redirected sites as the origin of "jar:" contents. A malicious web site could exploit this to modify or steal confidential data (such as passwords) from other web sites. (CVE-2007-5947)

Various flaws were discovered in the layout and JavaScript engines. By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. (CVE-2007-5959)

Gregory Fleischer discovered that it was possible to use JavaScript to manipulate Firefox's Referer header. A malicious web site could exploit this to conduct cross-site request forgeries against sites that relied only on Referer headers for protection from such attacks. (CVE-2007-5960)