Information freedom for open source users.
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The Mountain View Chocolate Factory has unveiled an online marketplace for third-party applications that hook into its Google Apps suite of web-based businessware.…
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We’ve all seen countless articles, blog and forum posts explaining how to back up a server with rsync and other tools. While I’ve cringed when people talked about using non-scalable methods, there actually is a place for quick and dirty backup mechanisms. Small companies running just a few virtual machines in the cloud, or even enterprises with test instances, may wish for a quick and effective backup.
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Electropages: “Availability of uCLinux for the APS3 family of processors has been announced by Cortus. This version of Linux is ideally suited to low-power, high-performance, embedded systems.”
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Texas Linux Fest is pleased to announce the initial list of speakers and
presentations for its inaugural event. Keynote speakers include Joe
“Zonker” Brockmeier and Randal L. Schwartz, with additional presentations by
Linux, free software, and open source experts such as Jon “maddog” Hall,
Amber Graner, Bradley Kuhn, and Max Spevack. The event will take place on
Saturday, April 10th, in Austin Texas. Registration is available online. The complete list of talks is
available as well.
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Listen is an audio player which comes with many very useful features such as Podcasts management, browse Shoutcast directory, provides direct access to lyrics, lastfm (currently playing song info and future events) and wikipedia information. One feature I really enjoy in Listem Music Player is it’s option to create playlists for you by retrieving information from last.fm and what you most frequently listen to. And another feature creates dynamic playlist based on some criteria you choose:
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gollum123 writes “US regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. The FCC provided few details about how it would carry out such a plan and who would qualify, but will make a recommendation under the National Broadband Plan set for release next week. The agency will determine details later. One way of making broadband more affordable is to ‘consider use of spectrum for a free or a very low-cost wireless broadband service,’ the FCC said in a statement.” Nobody has more than a couple of paragraphs on this story. None of the press coverage mentions the obvious likelihood that any such free network would be heavily filtered, censored, and monitored.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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In the important realm of science, technology and ideas, I believe that the continual conversion of ideas and development effort into the private property of companies like Apple is a great threat to continued free innovation.
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HP Security Bulletin – A potential vulnerability has been identified with HP Performance Insight. The vulnerability could be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary commands.
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Zero Day Initiative Advisory 10-026 – This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable installations of Hewlett-Packard Performance Insight. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists in the handling of requests to the helpmanager servlet running on the Performance Insight web server. Insufficient input validation and authentication allows for arbitrary JSP pages to be uploaded which can be leveraged to execute arbitrary OS commands. Exploitation of this vulnerability allows an attacker to gain control of the affected system under SYSTEM credentials.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2010-058 – Multiple vulnerabilities have been found and corrected in PHP. Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
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Core Security Technologies Advisory – A vulnerability was found in Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Producer, which can be triggered by a remote attacker by sending a specially crafted file and enticing the user to open it. This vulnerability results in a write access violation and can lead to remote code execution.
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Core Security Technologies Advisory – A memory corruption occurs on Microsoft Office Excel 2002 when parsing a .XLS file with a malformed DbOrParamQry record. This vulnerability could be used by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged on user, by enticing the user to open a specially crafted file.
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Technical Cyber Security Alert 2010-68A – Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.
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Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
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Food For Monkeys: “In the past weeks (actually, months) I’ve been doing some changes in the MonoDevelop GUI to make it more functional and better looking. Here is the result:”
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Nautilus image converter is a nautilus extension to mass resize or rotate images. if installed an additional menu entry will appear when you right click the mouse inside nautilus. It is a convenient utility which can save you lot of effort.
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eldavojohn writes “A new report from Games Industry indicates that MMO gamers in the United States paid $3.8 billion to play last year, with an analysis of five European countries bringing the total close to $4.5 billion USD. In America, the report estimated that payments for boxed content and client downloads amounted to a measly $400 million, while the subscriptions came to $2.38 billion. Hopefully that will fund some developer budgets for bigger and better MMOs yet to come. The study also found that roughly a quarter of the US population plays some form of MMO. Surely MMOs are shaping up to be a juicy industry, and a market that can satisfy people of all walks of life.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Parallels, the virtualization and cloud enabler, has officially announced they’re supporting Chrome OS, Google’s Linux distribution. Here are the implications for corporate customers, consumers and partners.
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Skytap – the Jeff Bezos-backed startup that lets you mimic internal IT infrastructure in the so-called cloud – has introduced a new set of automation tools designed to facilitate the creation of complex network topologies on its floating interwebs service.…
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Intellectual Property Watch: ““Apple is selling directly to consumers, who aren’t the best guardians of their own self-interest. The open PC model works for knowledgeable users who know what they are doing and how to protect themselves, but not so for 15-year-old fashionistas and techno-phobic geriatrics,” Kahney said.”