With point and shoot digital camera's I have owned in the past, both F-spot and Digikam have worked well. Now that I have purchased a new DSLR I am looking into other types of software for photo management (and it will be hard for me to change after using digikam all these years....if I even change at all).

With the above being said, I have found blueMarine. It is our "Link of the Week".

blueMarine is an open source application for the digital photo workflow, the blueMarine project will provide you an all-in-one tool for managing your photos, from the shoot up to the archiving and beyond. blueMarine is an expandable, open platform and includes specific support for different photographers communities, as well as the latest technologies.

blueMarine foundation is very similar to existing applications such as Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture: a photo browser, which can be explored in different ways (by folder, by calendar, by tags, by galleries). This is just a core upon which different modules can be plugged in. The aim of blueMarine is to fully support the photographic workflow, even before the photo shoot (for instance, trip planning supported by maps) and beyond print or archival. For instance, an ornithologist usually manages field notes about the bird observed and photographed: directly binding them to photos and maybe GPS positioning data is much better than keeping a separate Excel sheet.

When the PlayStation3 was released in November 2006, Gaurav Khanna's wife braved long queues so he could be one of the first people in the US to get his hands on the gaming console.

But the astrophysicist was not itching to burn some rubber in Gran Turismo or shoot hoops in NBA 07. Instead he wanted to build his own supercomputer.

Mr Khanna now owns 16 PS3s, which spend their days simulating the activities of very large black holes in the universe for the physics department at the University of Massachusetts.

Hooked together in a single cluster, the PS3 consoles provide his department with the same amount of computing power as a 400-node supercomputer.

Full article at Digital Life

A serious bug in the linux kernel v 2.6.17 or newer that allows a local user or someone who has ssh access to obtain root priviledges. The bug is due to vmsplice() system call.

CVE-2008-0009

CVE-2008-0010

CVE-2008-0600

More information here: dsd's weblog

Also, you can have a look at the redhat / fedora bugzilla which has a working exploit code

If you are the only person who uses your linux computer (locally or remote) then you really have nothing to worry about.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/27704.c
2. cc -o exploit 27704.c
3. [as non-privileged user] ./exploit

Actual results:

Root shell

I can never decide which I prefer, a desktop gui or simply a shell.  To complicate matters, I can never decide which shell I like from the many that are available or which desktop I like from all of the various flavors (lightweight to bloated).

So, I had been using gnome lately and one thing I hate about the default mode of file management, is that every time you click on a new folder, it opens up in a new window.  By the time you have clicked and opened up about 10 different folders, now your desktop is a mess with a bunch of open folders.

Well, this tip will help you get the single-window mode most people prefer (I am most people...lol).

Click on anything in gnome to open up the file manager.  The click on Edit > Preferences.  Click on the Behaviour tab. Simply tick the Always open in browser windows.  Close the file manager.  Open it back up.  Click on any other folder and now it opens in the same window.