Heh.... Unlike the 1.2 kernel tree, Apache 1.3.x is still in common use today, though people are gradually moving to 2.0.x. Apache 1.3 is much like the famed McDonnell Douglas DC-9-- old, but reliable and productive. The Apache Foundation should be commended for continuing to support the 1.3 base as long as they have. Certainly it beats Microsoft's answer to Windows 98's problems-- selling the user a copy of Windows XP.
The set's not so bad, but that strident fourteen-year-old that replaced Patrick Norton gives me a headache-- I've stopped watching everything except the anime.
Shouldn't users suspect a "patch" from Red Hat (who gave the world RPM) distributed as a tarball? Also, a real Red Hat alert would encourage users to download the update from RHN or a known good Yum repository.
If those two holes in the story weren't enough, there's the lack of a case number and the single patch offered for SIX distributions, all of which are end-of-life save for Fedora Core 2. Red Hat now only provides official updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which isn't mentioned in the "alert" at all. The Fedora Project would only provide updates for Fedora Core 2, while RHL 7.3, 9 and FC 1 are now supported by the Fedora Legacy Project. RHL 7.2 and 8.0 are pretty much abandoned, so any fixes for those releases would need to be built by the user.
Fedora Core doesn't even ship a 'fileutils' package-- the Fedora version is called 'coreutils' and also includes sh-utils, textutils and the 'stat' command.
This kind of phishing scam is unfortunately commonplace, though large financial institutions are the usual covers. This is the first one I've seen pertaining to a Linux distro-- I can only hope most Red Hat/Fedora admins are familiar enough with their distros to see right through this one.
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... they wouldn't charge twice as much for it as they do for the Windows version.
I guess I must be sick... This dog-ugly Brit makes me want to renounce my American citizenship.
Heh.... Unlike the 1.2 kernel tree, Apache 1.3.x is still in common use today, though people are gradually moving to 2.0.x. Apache 1.3 is much like the famed McDonnell Douglas DC-9-- old, but reliable and productive. The Apache Foundation should be commended for continuing to support the 1.3 base as long as they have. Certainly it beats Microsoft's answer to Windows 98's problems-- selling the user a copy of Windows XP.
The set's not so bad, but that strident fourteen-year-old that replaced Patrick Norton gives me a headache-- I've stopped watching everything except the anime.
Shouldn't users suspect a "patch" from Red Hat (who gave the world RPM) distributed as a tarball? Also, a real Red Hat alert would encourage users to download the update from RHN or a known good Yum repository. If those two holes in the story weren't enough, there's the lack of a case number and the single patch offered for SIX distributions, all of which are end-of-life save for Fedora Core 2. Red Hat now only provides official updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which isn't mentioned in the "alert" at all. The Fedora Project would only provide updates for Fedora Core 2, while RHL 7.3, 9 and FC 1 are now supported by the Fedora Legacy Project. RHL 7.2 and 8.0 are pretty much abandoned, so any fixes for those releases would need to be built by the user. Fedora Core doesn't even ship a 'fileutils' package-- the Fedora version is called 'coreutils' and also includes sh-utils, textutils and the 'stat' command. This kind of phishing scam is unfortunately commonplace, though large financial institutions are the usual covers. This is the first one I've seen pertaining to a Linux distro-- I can only hope most Red Hat/Fedora admins are familiar enough with their distros to see right through this one.