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Welcome to this week's ONLamp newsletter, where there will be no mention made of any Northeastern United States baseball teams currently choking like a diner with a 4 oz chunk of porterhouse lodged in his throat. Moving on to happier subjects, we have an Announcement to make. From this point on, the Linux Newsletter (AKA the ONLamp Newsletter, the OFOW Newsletter, the Linux DevCenter Newsletter, and several other aliases.) will come out on Wednesday afternoon, rather than the traditional Sunday night. Why? Well, the Sunday newsletter was either four days after or three days before the latest articles came out. By moving to Wednesday, we'll be able to keep you up to date on the articles that will be available the very next day, a short enough period of time that you may even be able to remember to check them out.

Otherwise, the newsletter will be remaining pretty much as you have remembered it, except that we'll be leading with the upcoming articles, rather than burying them at the bottom. And we have a great article to inaugurate the new system, Brian DeLacey's comprehensive look at the upcoming 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) release of Ubuntu. Brian not only gives us a detailed picture of the new and improved features, but also a good history of Ubuntu, and some information of the people and groups making Ubuntu happen.

Peter O'Toole You Ain't
The latest "Watering Hole" continues Gwen and Pearl's ordeal in the desert. You can find last week's at the bottom of the newsletter (HTML edition). This week's, as always, will be available on "The Watering Hole" blog, or via RSS feed.

YAPC Europe 2007
Looking back at the week in blogs, chromatic has a pointer to the post-mortem report of the European YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference).

Thank You, Firefox!
His expression of gratitude this week is to a piece of software that we all know and (mostly) love, in fact you may be reading these words using it, Firefox!

Yahoo Susceptible to Cross Site Request Forgery (XSRF) Attacks
Mobile versions of sites are great for cell phone and PDA users, but as Nitesh Dhanjani reports, they can also weaken the security of your site.

Adding Show Source to Perl Exceptions
Here's a useful trick. How about having exception handling in Perl display the code block that caused it. chromatic's figured out how.

MVC Frameworks and the Power of Legacy Databases
MVC frameworks are the accepted standard for web-based UI design, but Andy Oram had a discussion recently that pointed out the difficulties in implementing them on legacy databases.

PyMOTW: shlex
Doug Hellmann's PyMOTW? shlex

k3b and Permissions
Ever had a permission problem keep you from using your devices the way you want to? Juliet Kemp did, trying to burn some DVDs.

Digital Photo Management in Linux
Got a lot of photos you'd like to manage under Linux? Carla Schroder blogs a bunch of useful articles on the subject.

The Case for mod_evasive
Finally, Chris Josephes reports on why mod_evasive may save you from a malicious script-kiddie or an unscrupulous ticket broker trying to flood your site.

That's all 'til next week. Remember to check ONLamp.com tomorrow for our killer Ubuntu 7.10 report!

James Turner
Site Editor, ONLamp.com
turner@oreilly.com