LXer Feature: 13-Apr-2008

In this week’s Roundup we have a Gartner report stating that Open Source will quietly take over, a comparison of CrossOver Games vs Wine 0.9.58, Nine Improvements Needed in KDE and a couple of articles on Abiword. Microsoft is all over the news with the OOXML vote having taken place and they released 14,000 pages of code in an attempt to make the European Union happy, I have a funny felling it is not going to work. And Rob Enderle shows with up some FUD for your enjoyment.

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I’ll admit that I’m not a Marvel Comics fan (color me Vertigo), but this one’s got me genuinely stumped: Iron Man is fighting the dark forces of Linux. That’s direct from the writer’s mouth, in fact.

[Equating Linux with terrorists. Ballmer must be wetting himself with delight - gus3]

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I’ll admit that I’m not a Marvel Comics fan (color me Vertigo), but this one’s got me genuinely stumped: Iron Man is fighting the dark forces of Linux. That’s direct from the writer’s mouth, in fact.

[Equating Linux with terrorists. Ballmer must be wetting himself with delight - gus3]

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The Register: Network Solutions hijacks customer sub-domains for ad fest

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c|net News: Microsoft – Vista feature designed to ‘annoy users’ "A Microsoft manager has said that one of the security features in Vista was deliberately designed to annoy users to put pressure on third-party software makers to make their applications more secure"

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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Mandriva 2008.1)

This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is
based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in
a MySQL database. I will also demonstrate the installation and
configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier
can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. In addition to that, this
tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords.

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Looking to boost the Web, Sun is working on a royalty-free and open video codec and media system, company officials said Thursday afternoon. “The main benefit is that you don’t have that now and there are markets, key markets like the Web, that are in need for the Web 2.0 experience a foundation of royalty-free for the media element,” for audio and video, said Rob Glidden, global alliance manager for TV & Media at Sun.

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Linux usage has grown fast over the past several years as the operating system moved from perimeter Web servers to workloads much closer to the heart of the business, while gaining a broad following of contributors and commercial users. But the days of these easy advances may be past.

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Linux usage has grown fast over the past several years as the operating system moved from perimeter Web servers to workloads much closer to the heart of the business, while gaining a broad following of contributors and commercial users. But the days of these easy advances may be past.

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Most Americans don’t want to hear, see or feel anything about Iraq, whether they support the war or oppose it.

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Most Americans don’t want to hear, see or feel anything about Iraq, whether they support the war or oppose it.

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While changing to a great OS like Ubuntu , I had to make some sacrifices , one of them being : less gaming. I’m not seeing I ended my gamer ” career” , buy i start to look for smaller web games , or testing the big LINUX games that everybody was talking about. ( Tremoulos,Quake Wars,Nexuiz,Battle For Wesnoth).

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“I took my clothes off because they treat us like animals. We are claiming asylum, we’re not animals.”

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This document describes how to set up and configure rsyncbackup on Debian Etch. Rsyncbackup is a Perl script that cooperates with rsync. It is easy to configure and able to create scheduled backups (partial and incremental backups).

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Last year open source analyst Michael Coté of Redmonk coined the term Little Four to describe four up-and-coming open source management vendors and as a foil to the Big Four of systems management.

In the open source space, the 4 names that come up each time — usually from people I’m talking with even before I say anything — are: Zenoss, Hyperic, GroundWorks, and openQRM.

This week Qlusters/openQRM announced they would no longer be developing their open source project openQRM and leaving it to the community at large.

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Last year open source analyst Michael Coté of Redmonk coined the term Little Four to describe four up-and-coming open source management vendors and as a foil to the Big Four of systems management.

In the open source space, the 4 names that come up each time — usually from people I’m talking with even before I say anything — are: Zenoss, Hyperic, GroundWorks, and openQRM.

This week Qlusters/openQRM announced they would no longer be developing their open source project openQRM and leaving it to the community at large.

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(Posted 7 Apr 2008 by Ray)

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(Posted 7 Apr 2008 by Ray)

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The zlib extension module contains a method for flushing decompression streams that takes an input parameter of how much data to flush. This parameter is a signed integer that is not verified for sanity and is thus potentially negative. When passed a negative value memory is misallocated and then the signed integer is converted to an unsigned integer resulting in buffer overflow.

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The Python core API provides multiple functions for the allocation of string objects, specifically providing an API call that allows for either the allocation or reallocation of a PyStringObject. This function, PyString_FromStringAndSize() takes two parameters:a pointer and a signed integer. If the pointer is non-NULL then the memory pointed to it is reallocated to the size specified by the second parameter. If the pointer is NULL then the number of bytes specified by the integer are allocated and returned.

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The Python core API provides multiple functions for the allocation of string objects, specifically providing an API call that allows for either the allocation or reallocation of a PyStringObject. This function, PyString_FromStringAndSize() takes two parameters:a pointer and a signed integer. If the pointer is non-NULL then the memory pointed to it is reallocated to the size specified by the second parameter. If the pointer is NULL then the number of bytes specified by the integer are allocated and returned.

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Microsoft Windows graphics device interface (GDI) is “the core library used to display graphics and text on the Windows operating system. It is the standard interface through which applications access the graphics rendering engine”. Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft’s GDI engine, these vulnerabilities allow an attacker to cause the engine to execute arbitrary code by overflow and internal heap buffer or by causing an integer corruption.

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Microsoft Windows graphics device interface (GDI) is “the core library used to display graphics and text on the Windows operating system. It is the standard interface through which applications access the graphics rendering engine”. Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft’s GDI engine, these vulnerabilities allow an attacker to cause the engine to execute arbitrary code by overflow and internal heap buffer or by causing an integer corruption.

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EMC DiskXtender is “a data backup and migration suite. It consists of several applications that are used to manage storing large quantities of files across multiple storage devices. The main components of the product suite are the File System Manager, the MediaStor and the License Server. These components all create RPC endpoints that can be accessed remotely. One of the components of DiskXtender is the MediaStor, which is used to provide support for a variety of media and device types, another ne of the components of DiskXtender is the File System Manager, which is used to create and manage backups., “. Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in EMC DiskXtender’s components.

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EMC DiskXtender is “a data backup and migration suite. It consists of several applications that are used to manage storing large quantities of files across multiple storage devices. The main components of the product suite are the File System Manager, the MediaStor and the License Server. These components all create RPC endpoints that can be accessed remotely. One of the components of DiskXtender is the MediaStor, which is used to provide support for a variety of media and device types, another ne of the components of DiskXtender is the File System Manager, which is used to create and manage backups., “. Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in EMC DiskXtender’s components.

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Issue 12 of Amarok Insider has been released, it has screenshots and takes an in-depth look at Amarok’s visual theme. Also, Plasma-centric technologies, Web services, and MacOS X integration, pending Amarok releases and more.

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Issue 12 of Amarok Insider has been released, it has screenshots and takes an in-depth look at Amarok’s visual theme. Also, Plasma-centric technologies, Web services, and MacOS X integration, pending Amarok releases and more.

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We had one reader submit a question with regards to lots of blocked traffic.

Most of the blocked t …(more)…

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