Archive for June 10th, 2008
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We’re getting a lot of reports that amazon.com is returning: Http/1 …(more)…
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IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory have built the world’s first petaflop machine, a supercomputer named Roadrunner designed to ensure the safety and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile, IBM said Monday. A petaflop is equal to one thousand trillion calculations per second, and was a highly sought-after goal in the world of supercomputing. Scheduled for installation at Los Alamos in August, IBM says Roadrunner represents a breakthrough in hybrid computing, combining AMD microprocessors found in standard laptops and servers with the IBM Cell Broadband Engine chips that power Sony’s PS3 gaming console.
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Cisco Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Filed under: news
Like many of you, growing up Neuromancer played a pivotal role in how we thought about the future and where “cyberspace” was going. Things have turned out very different. Although the underlying mass of data and consciousness is still there, it’s not the fully immersed 3D world some are still clinging to. [William Gibson], author of the seminal novel, has recognized this and readers will find his recent works like Spook Country, are set very firmly in the now, with technology like location sensitive augmented reality. io9 sat down with him during a San Francisco visit to talk about his fondness for Vancouver, the inability of authorities to maintain secrets, if his novels are really dystopian, and whether moving to Canada counts as draft dodging if you never get drafted.
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The main post in the article is simply a rehash of what helios stated his blog about a certain school in California. Christian Einfeldt himself clarifies what he needs in order to convince the school in question to adopt a FOSS platform by commenting below the post.
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At the Geek Ranch we recently made a decision to implement
some software in Python. Or, more accurately, I decided and there
was no disagreement. Then Python gets picked as the best scripting
language in the LJ Readers’ Choice survey. That inspired me to
write this article (and get ready for Perl and Ruby fans to start
yelling at me).
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arstechnica: Study paints grim picture of automated P2P enforcement "A network printer should not be the target of a DMCA takedown notice from US copyright holders"
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The next administration needs to address the disparities that keep us from delivering the results that Main Street was promised and deserves.
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Posted in June 10th, 2008
The next administration needs to address the disparities that keep us from delivering the results that Main Street was promised and deserves.
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Oracle and now IBM seem to have strange ideas about creating a business around open source software for the enterprise. First it was Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux program, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux sans its proprietary bits and supported for …
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Those of you who have enjoyed our series on theFreeBSD Desktop are due an update on the situation with the 7.0release. I recommend against it, for now.
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Sun Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities in Java
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Filed under: cellphones hacks, news
You may be hoping to subsidize the purchase of an iPhone 3G with the sale of your old one, but since you should wipe all your personal data from the old one first, we brought you [Rich Mogull]‘s method for wiping all your private data off of an iPhone. The method, which involves overwriting your data with music, is slightly flawed, mainly because of live files that can’t be deleted while the phone’s OS is working and because the OS reserves a portion of the hard drive as unwritable space, which will make it impossible to completely fill it with music.
For those looking to annihilate every scrap of personal information, check out [Jonathan Zdziarski]‘s method. It involves restoring the phone as a new phone, then jailbreaking it. Once the user has shell access, umount is used to force the two mount points into read-only mode. Now the partitions can be overwritten with /dev/zero, which should wipe them clean. The phone should then be forced into recovery mode to perform another full system restore, and the process is complete. As [Zdziarski] notes, several iterations of the process with /dev/random should prevent even NAND recovery, but there is an even better way of ensuring full data destruction: “simply take a sledgehammer to the device.” If you are unfamiliar with the command line though, chances are [Rich Mogull]‘s method will be easier for you to handle, but don’t blame us if you sell your phone and the Feds get wise to the evidence you left on it.
[via Engadget]
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Apple Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
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SUSE has issued an update for multiple packages. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information, malicious users to gain escalated privileges, and malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
Be sure to check if your system is missing security updates or have insecure applications installed:
http://secunia.com/software_inspector/
Feature Overview – The Secunia Software Inspector:
* Detects insecure versions of applications installed
* Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied
* Assists you in updating your system and applications
* Runs through your browser. No installation or download is required.
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A vulnerability has been reported in openwsman, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.
Be sure to check if your system is missing security updates or have insecure applications installed:
http://secunia.com/software_inspector/
Feature Overview – The Secunia Software Inspector:
* Detects insecure versions of applications installed
* Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied
* Assists you in updating your system and applications
* Runs through your browser. No installation or download is required.
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Posted in June 10th, 2008
His0k4 has discovered a vulnerability in the yvComment component for Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Be sure to check if your system is missing security updates or have insecure applications installed:
http://secunia.com/software_inspector/
Feature Overview – The Secunia Software Inspector:
* Detects insecure versions of applications installed
* Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied
* Assists you in updating your system and applications
* Runs through your browser. No installation or download is required.
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Obama sees potential in traditional red states such as Virginia and North Carolina. McCain looks to target blue states like Pennsylvania and Michigan.
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Yet another marijuana study on health risks that relies on subjects who smoke pot 24 hours a day, seven days a week?
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Posted in June 10th, 2008
Yet another marijuana study on health risks that relies on subjects who smoke pot 24 hours a day, seven days a week?
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Since 2007, Maureen Dowd frequently has characterized Sen. Clinton as masculine, while portraying Sen. Obama and John Edwards as feminine.
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Some conservative Indian parents are telling their kids that it’s OK to be gay — as long as they are not single.
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Filed under: news
Download Squad has been publishing an informative series on switching to Linux, and their latest article is about the benefits of web tools on Linux.
HTML editors like Bluefish and Quanta do not have all the features of Dreamweaver, but with many modern CMSes these features aren’t really necessary.
Other benefits include testing out web pages on your Linux home environment, and adding webhosts as remote locations. This makes management, testing, and deployment easier, and can eliminate the need for FTP software.
Bear in mind that the article is only the first part of an ongoing series on Linux web tools, which is itself part of a larger series about switching to Linux.
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“Whether you are creating content for delivery on cell phones, broadcast or the Internet, or a software developer looking to take your application to the next level, QuickTime provides the most comprehensive platform in the industry.” Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Apple Quicktime which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user’s system.
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Phoronix has more details about the much-anticipated Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a version of Ubuntu designed for UMCPs, that Canonical recently announced.
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OpenOffice is “an open-source desktop office suite for many of today’s popular operating systems”. Remote exploitation of an integer overflow vulnerability in OpenOffice, as included in various vendors’ operating system distributions, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the logged-in user.
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