Openbravo, maker of open source ERP (enterprise resource planning) and POS (point of sale) platforms, has secured $12 million in new funding. The VAR Guy traded email with Manel Sarasa, CEO of Openbravo, for his thoughts on the funding. Here’s a look at the email exchange.

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Two superdelegates representing the Young Democrats of America turned down a promise of $1 million in exchange for their endorsement of Sen. Clinton.

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A new advocacy group, the Public Software Foundation (PSF), is working to make free and open source software available to local libraries so it can be checked out and used just like a book or video. The premise is simple: hand out one CD and maybe you…

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How To Build RPM Packages In A Chroot Environment Using mach

OK, so you want to build a binary RPM package for deployment on your
servers. You have a .spec file or .src.rpm that you got from one of the many
repositories such as freshrpms.net or dag.wieers.com, or that you wrote
yourself.

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How To Build RPM Packages In A Chroot Environment Using mach

OK, so you want to build a binary RPM package for deployment on your
servers. You have a .spec file or .src.rpm that you got from one of the many
repositories such as freshrpms.net or dag.wieers.com, or that you wrote
yourself.

Read more…

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With Fedora 9, the Fedora project continues its tradition of being the most innovative major distribution, combining new applications from other distributions as well as its own inventions. However, in no other release has Fedora walked the line betwe…

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A speech by famed chess player Garry Kasparov was interrupted Saturday by a remote controlled flying penis. Since many of you are at work or school we’ll leave all the pictures, videos, and tasteless jokes after the break.

LOLDongs definitely aren’t the main order of business in this office, but we have to admire the child like glee the builder of this contraption must have experienced. RC helicopters definitely are our expertise as we’ve covered several mini RC helicopter projects before: using an IR camera for position tracking, quad-copters at CCCamp, and basic building tips, but never anything so… turgid.

While first watching the video, we too were struck by the similarities to the infamous griefing attack on Second Life land baron Anshe Chung in 2006. While there doesn’t appear to be any hard evidence this was inspired by its virtual counterpart it is interesting to see the crossover into the real world. In both cases, the end result is the same: a room full of chuckles, an embarrassed speaker, and the blogosphere suddenly becomes dick pundits. At least we can agree on this: some things just weren’t meant to be airborne.

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A speech by famed chess player Garry Kasparov was interrupted Saturday by a remote controlled flying penis. Since many of you are at work or school we’ll leave all the pictures, videos, and tasteless jokes after the break.

LOLDongs definitely aren’t the main order of business in this office, but we have to admire the child like glee the builder of this contraption must have experienced. RC helicopters definitely are our expertise as we’ve covered several mini RC helicopter projects before: using an IR camera for position tracking, quad-copters at CCCamp, and basic building tips, but never anything so… turgid.

While first watching the video, we too were struck by the similarities to the infamous griefing attack on Second Life land baron Anshe Chung in 2006. While there doesn’t appear to be any hard evidence this was inspired by its virtual counterpart it is interesting to see the crossover into the real world. In both cases, the end result is the same: a room full of chuckles, an embarrassed speaker, and the blogosphere suddenly becomes dick pundits. At least we can agree on this: some things just weren’t meant to be airborne.

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general has discovered a vulnerability in www.nflshop.com, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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S_e_YM_e_N has discovered a vulnerability in www.globalresearch.ca, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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k1ll3r_null has discovered a vulnerability in skylinesoaring.org, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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xylitol has discovered a vulnerability in www.unique-gift-ideas-shop.com, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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Linus Torvalds tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon for open source software by the end of the decade.

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kInGoFcHaOs has discovered a vulnerability in www.lavozcolorado.com, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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The cowboy sheriff’s racial profiling isn’t making Maricopa County any safer.

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msort is a tool for sorting text files. With both a command-line and graphical interface, it allows you to pick out where your sort keys are in a file and lets you select how to order those keys in a number of ways.

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BackDoor has discovered a vulnerability in www.kawagoe-navi.com, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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PaPPy has discovered a vulnerability in mail.chi-chi.gov.tw, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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Dr.Hack3r has discovered a vulnerability in www.coolquiz.com, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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sl4xUz has discovered a vulnerability in biblioteca.bcn.gob.ni, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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tenest has discovered a vulnerability in www.runawaybox.com, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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ironzorg has discovered a vulnerability in www.plebicity.com, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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PaPPy has discovered a vulnerability in prima-tv.ru, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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CoRSaNTuRK has discovered a vulnerability in www.digisalestelecom.eu, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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C1c4Tr1Z has discovered a vulnerability in www.elmostrador.cl, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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kInGoFcHaOs has discovered a vulnerability in www.diariolasamericas.com, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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xylitol has discovered a vulnerability in www.businessesonly.com, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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PaPPy has discovered a vulnerability in bulletin.nhcsec.gov.tw, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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Dr.Hack3r has discovered a vulnerability in www.chicagoparent.com, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.

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