Your daughter’s birthday was beautiful and you have lots of videos and pictures from the event that have to be organized in a nice-looking way. Your graduation party was a blast and you want to remember it properly. Whatever the occasion, whatever the content, a custom-created DVD will pack your memories nicely and will spike your geek cred because you created it and hey, it looks so cool. But what tool should you use? There are professional, paid-for programs that can help you in creating a DVD, but why use another OS and pay when you have free OSs and free software to do this? You can use the command-line approach from start to finish, but sometimes a GUI that will wrap around these utilities looks like a nicer solution. Such a solution is DeVeDe, and it even has a Windows version if you insist, but I will focus on Linux (of course!) in this article.
Google Chrome Prior to 16.0.912.75 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Apple Safari ‘libxml’ (CVE-2011-0216) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
SSL/TLS Protocol Initialization Vector Implementation Information Disclosure Vulnerability
An anonymous reader writes “The reverberations from the SOPA fight continue to be felt in the U.S. and elsewhere, but it is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that has captured increasing attention this week. Several months after the majority of ACTA participants signed the agreement, most European Union countries formally signed the agreement yesterday (notable exclusions include Germany, the Netherlands, Estonia, Cyprus and Slovakia). Michael Geist has a full rundown on what is at stake and what you can do, wherever you live.”
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redletterdave writes “Microsoft chairman and philanthropist Bill Gates pledged $750 million to the troubled global AIDS fund on Thursday and urged governments to continue their support to save lives. Since the fund was launched 10 years ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given $1.4 billion to the charity, having already contributed $650 million prior to the latest donation. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria accounts for around a quarter of international financing to fight HIV and AIDS, as well as the majority of funds to fight TB and malaria.”
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ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) was called “more dangerous than
SOPA” by US Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), as ars technica reports. “Kader Arif, a French member of the European Parliament from the Socialist Party, had been assigned to be a rapporteur on ACTA, meaning that he was asked to study the issue and deliver a report on the subject. But he resigned in protest on Thursday.
”I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement,” he said, according to one translation. “No inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament’s demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly.””
Simple and Elegant is all I have to say about Xubuntu 11.10. I have done a short Video Review on Xubuntu 11.10. Fast and stable this *buntu favorite run extremely well in my Virtual Machine. Check out this short video and try Xubuntu for free today!
Trailrunner7 writes “The FBI is in the early stages of developing an application that would monitor sites such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as various news feeds, in order to find information on emerging threats and new events happening at the moment. The tool would give specialists the ability to pull the data into a dashboard that also would include classified information coming in at the same time. One of the key capabilities of the new application, for which the FBI has sent out a solicitation, would be to ‘provide an automated search and scrape capability for social networking sites and open source news sites for breaking events, crisis and threats that meet the search parameters/keywords defined by FBI/SIOC.’”
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AdaCore Security Advisory SA-2012-L119-003 Hash collisions in AWS
Notice how the 11 comes before the ten. This does signify that eleven is, indeed, louder than ten. Everyone loves hating Unity. It’s new. It’s different. It’s pretty. It’s everything that Linux typically isn’t. People also love hating Ubuntu in general. While people struggle to make their Linux desktops look and feel more like OSX every day and there are over 9000 different OSX-like docks out there, people apparently really hate having something that looks and acts like an OSX desktop. It’s very odd.
Velcroman1 writes “Failed pressure chamber tests have forced Russia to postpone two manned launches to the International Space Station — echoing a 2011 situation that left the country’s space transport vehicles grounded and led to speculation that scientists may be forced to abandon the orbiting space base. Six astronauts are currently aboard the ISS including two Americans: Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineer Don Pettit. ‘There is plenty of margin for the current space station crew to stay onboard longer, if necessary, and plenty of margin in our manifest for upcoming launches,’ a NASA spokeswoman said. But Soyuz issues are scary nonetheless. ‘This re-entry capsule now cannot be used for manned spaceflight,’ an unnamed source told Interfax.”
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Logs out for possible political career
The first US government chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra has announced he’s leaving the job.…
IT World: “If a new proposal by Oracle is accepted, oversight of Java technical standards will fall under the auspices of a single committee, rather than the current system, which has separate entities for Java EE/SE and ME.”
New submitter el borak writes
“Never mind all the talk about the revival of the American auto industry. What may be the greatest car the U.S. has ever built is currently a tidy 78 million miles (125m km) away from this world — resting on the edge of Endeavour crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. It was on January 25, 2004 that the rover Opportunity bounced down on Mars for a mission designed to last a minimum of three months and a maximum of just a year or two.”
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Debian has updated libxml2 (code
execution/denial of service) and wireshark (multiple vulnerabilities).
Fedora has updated F15: php (denial
of service and information disclosure), F15:
php-eaccelerator (denial of service and information disclosure), and F15: maniadrive (denial of service and information disclosure).
Gentoo has updated ktsuss (privilege
escalation).
openSUSE will be updating the
certificates for all openSUSE hosts located Nuremberg. Click below for
details.
Spanning more devices and hypervisors
Gale Technologies, one of the many companies that wants to manage your private and public clouds, has revved up its GaleForce cloud control freak to 6.0, and is improving its support for XenServer-based clouds and adding KVM to the mix.…
Everyone should be backing up their data. This just doesn’t go towards sysadmins, but even people at home who never even think of it. Just like everything else in I.T., hard drives were built to fail. If you do not make efficient back ups, you are at your own mercy when your drive will no longer spin up, meaning all that data is now gone.
Thousands roil Polish streets – more protests planned for Friday
Over 30 Polish lawmakers held up paper replicas of the Guy Fawkes mask, made famous by both Anoymous hacktivists and the Occupy movement, during a protest in parliament of their country’s signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the EU’s highly controversial online-piracy legislation.…
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “ReDigi has fired back, opposing Capitol Records’s motion for a preliminary injunction. In his opposition declaration, ReDigi’s CTO Larry Rudolph explains in detail (PDF) how the technology employed by ReDigi’s used digital music marketplace effects transfer of a music file without copying, but by modifying the record locator in an ‘atomic transaction,’ and how it verifies that only a single instance of a unique file can enter the ReDigi cloud system. ReDigi’s opposition papers also point out plaintiff’s own admissions that mp3 files are not ‘material objects’ or ‘phonorecords’ under the Copyright Act, and therefore not subject to the Copyright Act’s distribution right, and defend ReDigi’s used digital music marketplace and cloud storage system (PDF) on a number of grounds, including the First Sale exception to the distribution right applicable to a ‘particular’ copy, the Essential Step exception to the distribution right applicable to a copy essential to the running of a computer program, and Fair Use space shifting.”
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