*Words of Wisdom From The Elder

The long awaited open source web browser Mozilla 1.0 was released today! To celebrate the release of open source browser, Mozilla release parties are being held throughout the states and other parts of the world. Tomorrow, June 6th, 2002 a Mozilla Release party will be held at Tap Internet, Inc. in Ypsilanti, MI. Any and all are welcome to attend. If you get lost or need directions call 734-482-1371. Party starts at 7:00 – Until. Pizza, pop, chips will be served (donations accepted). See you there!

I haven’t posted much news to the site lately and I apologize. I am working on some new howtos (such as this one) and some new PHP tutorials for you guys.

In my spare time I did manage to get my Handspring Visor to work with Evolution (the outlook replacement for Linux). I’ll post a full howto later on but here is the “raw” details of how to get it going.

There appears to be a bug in the 2.4-14 – 2.4-18pre9 Linux kernel which allows someone to compromise a Linux system. The hole is in the Netfilter package which is part of the kernel. Redhat has released a patch for its systems here. The original release about the problem can be found here

Question: “If you were a business owner and you had to make a company wide decision about which database your company is going to use which one would you choose?” I’m sure there would be a wide range of answers if we took a poll from our users. Maybe the following article will help you decide.

Ok all of you Linux geeks. Get out your pencils because I am about to tell you how to get rid of those 30 minute fscks when Linux crashes, the power goes out, or someone presses your reset button just for laughs. The following outlines how to setup the Ext3 journaling file system on your already installed Linux. It is short and really isn’t all that hard to follow.