Archive for January, 2009
Posted in January 31st, 2009
The next two releases of Silverlight will take Microsoft’s media player in completely new directions, the technical executive in charge has promised. The corporate vice president of Microsoft’s developer division Scott Guthrie told the company’s Channel 9 “whole new areas you can’t do today will start to open up” with Silverlight 3 and 4.
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Tor-ramdisk is an i686 uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes security and privacy. Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Security is enhanced by employing a monolithically compiled GRSEC/PAX patched kernel and hardened system tools. Privacy is enhanced by turning off logging at all levels so that even the Tor operator only has access to minimal information. Finally, since everything runs in ephemeral memory, no information survives a reboot, except for the Tor configuration file and the private RSA key which may be exported/imported by FTP.
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Posted in January 31st, 2009
Don’t be alarmed if it looked like the entire internet was infected with something earlier this morning—Google apparently tagged every search result, including its own sites, as something that “may harm your computer.” The glitch seems to be fixed now (11:50 a.m., EST), and the tips we received from watchful readers came in between 9:52 and 10:20 a.m. EST. We’ll update if any official word on what happened comes out of Mountain View.
[Apparently I missed the whole thing.. - Scott]
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Posted in January 31st, 2009
The Wine development release 1.1.14 is now available. What’s new in this release: Various bug fixes for Internet Explorer 7. Many crypt32 improvements, including new export wizard. Better support for windowless Richedit. Improvements to the print dialog. Many fixes to the regression tests on Windows. Various bug fixes.
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Sooner rather than later, we’ll learn that "reformism" does not rise to the challenge of the current crisis.
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(Posted 31 Jan 2009 by solrac)
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As of right now, it appears any google search you do will come up with all the same results as befor …(more)…
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Ah yes it is that time of year again for U.S. citizens. So when we started looking for an online tax tool that worked with Linux we were disappointed and surprised.
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We’ve all been there: You’re tracking down some evil bug, and you have the sudden chilling realization that you’re going to have to re-factor an enormous chunk of code to fix it. You break out in a cold sweat as you run a quick grep over the source base: hundreds of lines of code to change! And the change is too complex to do with a script because it depends on the calling context, or requires adding a new variable to every caller.
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The current batch of DDoS attacks continues now for quite a few days. Let’s recap a few things and l …(more)…
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One of the many great things about Linus is that he doesn’t bottle it up: he speaks his mind on things that matter to him, without worrying overly about what others might say as a result. And when he mentioned in the course of an interview that he had switched from KDE to GNOME, others soon had plenty to say on the subject. But I don’t want to revisit those arguments about which is better today: instead, I want to explore the possibility that Linus decided to jump to GNOME at precisely the time when KDE could soon leapfrog it in important ways.
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Posted in January 31st, 2009
[doctek] wants to help ease any fear you may have of surface mount design. He has written this extremely in depth explanation of how to design and build an LED driver composed of surface mount parts. While there has been plenty of surface mount instruction floating around for a while, he feels that they skimp [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2009
NVIDIA has already released quite a few Linux drivers this year already that improve their VDPAU support and stabilize their OpenGL 3.0 implementation. Yesterday AMD had then released its first proprietary Linux driver of 2009 that brought OpenGL 3.0 support. While both sides are off to a good start, what else do you want to see from them and their drivers in 2009?
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Posted in January 31st, 2009
Some folks will never ever understand FOSS, or anything worthwhile, because they think the universe starts and ends with money, and that the pursuit of money justifies anything.
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Posted in January 31st, 2009
Linux Australia assert they are the peak body for Linux user groups around Australia and represent some 5,000 Australian Linux users and developers. Yet, the 2009 elections roused a mere 66 voters. Why didn’t people vote? (And, in a related incident, why can’t I please all the people all the time?)
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Posted in January 31st, 2009
Embedded Linux has now been around for a decade and consistently ranks as one of the top OS choices for device development. But, does it still have its mojo?
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Posted in January 31st, 2009
www.intelcomms.net has discovered a vulnerability in w1.siemens.com, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.
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