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What DMOZ is to websites , Rss Feeds.com hopes to be to RSS

Dell clarifies reports of Linux PCs in Europe
A PC dealer in Europe has begun selling Dell desktops equipped with Linux, but Dell emphasized that the systems were customized by
the dealer.

Dell Launches Desktop Linux Line in Europe

Slashdot are talking about it here

gmail phishing

If you have gmail, you might get an email from services@gmail.com asking you to change your password. DONT.

When you press submit on the form, you end up at this non-google site:
http://www.topdez.com/sg/index.php

Obviously a gmail phishing scam.

Wow!!

Greece win Euro 2004

Greece have created one of the biggest shocks in football history by winning Euro 2004

Cassini reveals the surface of Titan

NASA have released a set of images of the surface of Titan taken by Cassini, using infrared filters to pierce through the smog of the athmosphere.

Remember folks , this is just the start of a 4 year long mission.

Spacecraft Sends Back Images of Saturn (AP)

Getting your Gmail with Python
Handy python hack for grabbing those gmail conversations.

Internet Explorer Is Too Dangerous to Keep Using
Quote:
Yes, I know all of the tired, old arguments about how if open-source programs were as popular as Microsoft's products; they'd be just as
vulnerable. You know what? I don't have time today to deal with the fundamentally inane idea that security by obscurity is somehow the best
way to secure software. The bottom line is that for all practical purposes for today, open-source browsers are inherently more secure than
Internet Explorer, and I still have half a dozen more workstations to switch over to Firefox. Go ahead, stick with Internet Explorer for
everyday use. It's your funeral.

LinkDump
Cassini Achieves Historic Orbit Around Saturn (Reuters)
Spacecraft Cassini Enters Saturn
Heads roll but Blueprint stays - Sun
Commodore - Back In The Hardware Biz At Last?

LinkDump
NASA Cassini Probe Poised to Sling Around Saturn
There is no anti-spyware silver bullet
Malware attacks IE users via pop-ups
Sun axes core support professionals
Can A Bounty System Cure Spam?
NASA Considers Mobile Lunar Base
Metisse - New Looking Glass Alternative

Friendster goes PHP
Friendster site redone - was formerly a JSP/Tomcat site.

It's time to dump Internet Explorer

Netcraft - Hackers manipulating Internet Explorer add ons

Quote: "Hackers have found yet another way to compromise Internet Explorer, adding Browser Helper Objects to their toolkit in mounting ever-more sophisticated phishing attacks. A series of recent exploits have penetrated security holes in fully-patched versions of Microsoft's browser to steal users' online banking passwords, adding to a growing crisis of confidence in Internet Explorer, and perhaps online banking as well. "

"It ultimately installs its keylogger trojan, which scans for https sessions connecting to URLs of popular banks (including Citibank, WestPac, Barcklays and HSBC) and then intercepts outbound data from IE before it is encrypted using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol."

SANS - "New scam targets bank customers"
Quote: "When an outbound HTTPS connection is made to such a URL, the BHO then grabs any outbound POST/GET data from within IE before it is encrypted by SSL." - in other words, your bank details are stolen.

Konsole - logging into multiple boxen the lazy way

Tired of opening up multiple konsole tabs every morning in order to ssh into your various boxen? Here's a way of doing it automatically.

In Konsole , select Settings > Configure Konsole > Session

Create the various ssh sessions you make have to your boxen - in the Execute section you would type in ssh username@ipaddress. Where username is the user name you normally log into that box as, and ip address being the ip of that particular box. Name the session and save it - do this for the rest of the boxes you normally log into.

Now open up the new sessions as tabs in your konsole window (Session menu). Once you have all your ssh sessions opened , select Settings > Save Sessions Profile - type in a name for the profile , in my case "my_herd_of_boxen"

Right click on the Konsole icon on your desktop if you have one and change the Application>Command to:

konsole --vt_sz 90x25 --profile my_herd_of_boxen

Launching the konsole app from your desktop will now open up ssh connections to your multiple boxen.

1 Day to Cassini orbital insertion

Cassini is due to go into orbit around Saturn in 1 day , 7 hours and 19 minutes as I write this.

June 30, 9:30 p.m. EDT - NASA TV Coverage begins.
June 30, 10:36 p.m. PDT - Engine fires for 96 minutes to slow down.
July 1, 12:12 a.m. PDT - Engine burn complete; spacecraft in orbit.

Nasa also have a full guide to the orbital insertion

The BBC mention this story as well giving the UK times as follows:

"The burn starts at 0336BST on 1 July, with the probe's main engine turned towards the direction of travel. The braking manoeuvre ends at 0512BST, with Cassini in an elliptical orbit."

The Slashdot crowd are discussing it here , with a mention to join #cassini on irc.freenode.net

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US-Russian Spacewalk Reset for Early July 1 (Reuters)
Cassini Participation a Boon for ESA (SPACE.com)
ITNet in Cabinet contract blow
419ers score football lottery winner
Cassini runs rings round Saturn
Cassini-Huygens Saturn Orbit Insertion Imminent
Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 Released
The March Towards Micropayments

Allied Irish Bank to roll out JDS
Sun's Java Desktop system (a Linux distro variant) to be rolled out on 7,500 desktops at the Irish bank.

Interview with Sun's Peder Ulander
Talks about the JDS2.

Leafnode & Knode
Extensive article on how to configure Leafnode and Knode so that you can do offline Usenet posting and browsing.