Chris Webb

Hot off the presses: Hacking Ubuntu

This morning I was pleased to find my copy of Hacking Ubuntu, Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations, the latest from our ExtremeTech series. The book should be shipping from Amazon.com early next week. Congratulations to author Dr. Neal Krawetz for a great guide to Ubuntu hackery. This is an incredible guide to Hacking Ubuntu, [...]

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Upgrade to Wordpress 2.1.2 (this is not optional)

If you installed Wordpress 2.1.1 you may be at risk for an exploit, according to Matt Mullenweg: Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately. I upgraded my [...]

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