And once again, the Microsoft camp attempts to spread the F.U.D. that “we’re winning” and “Linux is not free”.

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So, what is hacking really?
Is it an all encompasing word that should be used when ‘bad stuff’ happens? No
Is it a phrase that is often over-used to promote one’s own ego? Yes
Is it something that is catastrophic and unrecoverable from? That depends on what was done.

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So, I  woke up this morning, doing my usual ‘news’ rounds, seeing if anything interesting had happened, and lo and behold, I ran across this article , in my rounds. This is just disturbing for more and more reasons, but, the most important reason? Well, read more to find out.

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Inevitably, it was going to happen, right ?
Sorry about the downtime, folks, in the process of moving things around to a more efficient database server, I ended up (accidentally) deleting the blog database. Thankfully, I follow my own advice and had backups a plenty ready, but, OOPS!
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