I think Ubuntu is great, easy to use, standardized, and built on Debian… what could be better? Apparently – there are certainly some things which could be better.
Here is a great experiment one geek and his girlfriend undertook:
Introduction I’ve toyed with Linux since 2002, when I first installed Mandrake. With the latest release of Ubuntu,I was interested to see how far Linux had come since then in terms of
Just an FYI – some of our old sites are not filtering out injection
attacks and got hosed last weekend. The attack seems fairly
sophisticated (imo) and is described in this post.
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If you just copy the hex value from this URL, as this…
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Poppy went swimming for the first time in her cute little two piece + diaper. Mom and Grannie C and Papa all helped keep her afloat. She did great, not always sure she knew what was going on, but was happy and absorbed the new experience without drinking too much chlorinated water. All told, she was probably in the water for almost an hour.