Montreal Linux Users Group

After enjoying PCLOS with KDE for a little more than one year I finally decided to change to Ubuntu 8.10 with the Gnome desktop and modded to my liking. Its pure awesomeness !

We're a non profit organization that is searching for a C/C++ Linux Programmer for our video broadcast system. We will use Aja OEM cards with SDI Video & AES Audio output on something like CentOS Linux.

We want to develop 3 services: A Media player that waits for its playlist by listening to an IP port, a playlist service that makes up the playlist by reading infos on an SQL server, a copy service that will intelligently pull MPEG2 avi files from a server by FTP and place them locally on the playing server while managing local hard disk space.

We are curently looking for:

LINUX PACS/SUPPORT ANALYST - SHIFT ROTATION

On May 13th, Debian announced that there is a bug in the way SSH RSA/1024 and DSA/2048 were generated, the actual probelm was that the keys were not random enough, given time and resources you can generate enough keys to use in a brute force attack. Aside from the obvious, I have my own thoughts on the matter.

First, I was mad, really mad. How can Debian miss such a glaring hole? And then I read the description of what actually happened - I won't go in detail here, you can find it online - and guess what, I got even MORE mad. This was beyond a simple mistake, this was bad management.