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Angry Birds is still going strong. Its parent company, Rovio, earned $67.6 million on sales of $106.3 million last year, and the Finnish firm is now preparing itself (for real this time, apparently) for an IPO that could take place in New York or even Hong Kong, (where the Angry Birds game and plush toys sell like hot cakes). With Facebook gearing up for its own megabucks floatation, Rovio has been caught up in the ongoing debate about funny money. Is it really worth the $9 billion that analysts have been predicting, just below the $10 billion market cap of its neighbour Nokia, the world’s second biggest handset maker? Read More

After my foray into making bootable flash drives , I decided to put my flash drive back to its original state. It was going to take at least a little bit of effort since I know had multiple partitions on the drive which would need to be removed. I first went to my default disk utility, GParted. GParted allowed me to first unmount the partitions that Linux was auto-mounting as drives. I was then able to delete the partitions to make the drive completely unallocated space. That’s where I started to run into issues. I went to make the entire drive a single FAT32 partition, but GParted gave me the following .... Read More

Updated sudo packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The sudo (superuser do) utility allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run commands as root. This update fixes the following bugs: * A race condition in the signal handling code caused the sudo process to become unresponsive after receiving the SIGCHLD signal. This update modifies the signal handling to prevent the race condition, which ensures that the sudo process no longer hangs under these circumstances. (BZ#802440) * The "-l" option is used to list allowed and forbidden commands for the invoking user or for the user specified by the "-U" option. However, previously, the getgrouplist() function incorrectly checked the invoker's group membership instead of the membership of the specified user. Consequently, using the "sudo" command with both the "-l" and "-U" options listed privileges granted to any group the