May 2024 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

gtalug.org had an outage from Friday through Monday
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 09 May '24

09 May '24

We had a bit of a rocky transition between DNS servers. Our domain names were not usefully resolved during that time so you could not email to the lists or accessed the web pages. All this gets extended by DNS caching. If you are still experiencing problems you should be able tell me by email to my personal address.

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Off-topic nostalgia: CorelDraw and WordPerect on sale
by Evan Leibovitch 08 May '24

08 May '24

Hi all. >From the and-you-thought-they-were-dead department: I've come across an offer at a site I watch that piqued my interest: A bundle of - The 2021 version of CorelDraw Essentials - A bunch of add-on brush patterns - Corel Painter 8 - Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 25 - WordPerfect Standard 2021 is going for CAD $41.23, with some proceeds going towards the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Windows only, unfortunately, digital download. https://www.humblebundle.com/software/corel-productivity-creativity-essenti… The relevance to GTALUG is weak but exists. Once upon a time, Corel was a great Canadian software success story, and for what seems like a very short period of time was a massive supporter of Linux that actually produced its own distribution. Its only hardware offering was a Linux box called the Netwinder. At one time I thought the company was ready to offer a real across-the-board challenge to Microsoft, then had a change of management and lost all interest in that. Anyway, much time has passed since those days when I learned that working in vector graphics was more satisfying than pixels. I've long since moved from CorelDraw to Inkscape (which happily reads .cdr files). And WordPerfect? I'm just amazed that it still exists. I've kept all of the vector clipart that shipped with early CorelDraw versions and sometimes they come in handy.. Anyway... anyone who has an investment in Corel-specific skills that they want to maintain may find this a good deal. For some of the rest of us that can remember, https://www.humblebundle.com/software/corel-productivity-creativity-essenti…, perhaps, a flash of nostalgia. -- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56

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Maximum-severity GitLab flaw allowing account hijacking under active exploitation
by Ron / BCLUG 03 May '24

03 May '24

This one looks fun: > A maximum severity vulnerability that allows hackers to hijack GitLab > accounts with no user interaction required is now under active > exploitation, federal government officials warned as data showed that > thousands of users had yet to install a patch released in January. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/0-click-gitlab-hijacking-flaw-unde… > The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-7028, carries a severity rating > of 10 out of 10. Make sure you're patched if you run GitLab! rb -- BCLUG.ca https://bclug.ca To subscribe, send an email to discuss-join(a)lists.bclug.ca List Web site: https://lists.bclug.ca/mailman/listinfo/discuss

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