In light of the recent uproar about data mining by unscrupulous people exploiting a hole in the viewer media system, I thought it might be helpful to include a few ways to protect yourself.

These are not ideal by any means, but until Linden Labs bans these and any other data mining systems and fixes the security hole(s) they exploit, options are limited.

Someone recently asked why I prefer Linux systems over “another operating system” and one of the things mentioned during this conversation was software management.

I recently installed UbuntuStudio 10.04 in preparation for some audio and graphics operations I would need to be performing soon. Normally, I would have stayed with my beloved Debian, but for sake of convenience1 , I decided to use UbuntuStudio and chose the 10.04 LTS edition. I am very sensitve during certain times about when [...]