At the OpenSolaris Annual Meeting, held on IRC, Oracle executive Dan Roberts has assured the community about the future of the open source version of Solaris. The statements, available as a log of the meeting, have led Peter Tribble, who had expressed concerns on the lack of communication, to conclude “rumours of its [OpenSolaris] death have been greatly exaggerated”.

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Data recovery is the process of retrieving data from corrupted or damaged storage media when it cannot be accessed. The storage media in question will often be a hard disk, but it can also be removable media such as CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and storage tapes. There are many different reasons why a system administrator may need to use data recovery tools.

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Twitter appears to be on the verge of some big changes to its website if a tweet that Twitter engineer Alex Payne sent today is any indication. In fact, the new features may be so good that they could make some people re-examine their use of desktop Twitter clients, apparently. As Payne writes:

If you had some of the nifty site features that we Twitter employees have, you might not want to use a desktop client. (You will soon.)

Not surprisingly, that tweet had a few third-party Twitter developers worried.

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Wi-Fi Networking News: Another, Better TKIP Attack That’s Still Limited [pdf]

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digiKam is a truly versatile and powerful application for managing and tweaking photos, but it’s not the only photographic tool around. In fact, there are a few other nifty open source utilities that can make great additions to your photographic toolbox. Here are a couple of such tools worth considering.

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Since Facebook started on a college campus, it makes sense that they celebrate kegs. But did you know they actually have a Facebook application dedicated to the keg in their office? And they like to have fun with it.

While Keg Presence isn’t an official Facebook app, it was created and is maintained by Facebook employees. So what does it do? The app is a steady stream of information about what’s going on with the Facebook keg. For example, Keg Presence sends out notices to let users (other Facebook employees) know what type of beer is in the keg. And when the keg is empty, it posts pictures of BevMo, where Facebook employees apparently go to refill it.

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IBM AIX LDAP Login Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Transmission version 1.91 is released. Transmission is a Linux BitTorrent client and is designed to balance power and usability.

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(Posted 27 Feb 2010 by Ray)

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Yesterday we wrote about a post on ubuntuforums where a user reported that the latest Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 3 supports his iPhone 3GS out of the box. Just a user wasn’t enough, as every journalist knows (I’m not one, but anyway) that you always need at least 3 sources to confirm a news story.

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Good luck sorting this one out, short-sighted lawmakers. An upcoming piece of major legislation in the UK, called the Digital Economy Bill, would essentially force all public wi-fi points offline by requiring impossibly high levels of copyright protection by libraries and small businesses. The bill, which bears some similarity to the controversial DMCA here in the US, is ostensibly aimed at providing copyright holders the means of controlling their content online.

But while an ISP may detect a violation by one of its subscribers and send a nastygram to the appropriate party, it’s difficult to do that when your “subscriber” is a pub or café that offers free wi-fi to customers. If someone buys a cup of coffee, downloads a few songs, and then leaves and never returns, who is at fault? According to the Digital Economy Bill, the café.

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First sermonette in a series…
Not about politics. Those folks default to racism and conspiracy theories. They have a point about how they feel, which is how a lot of us feel. We are surrounded by a creeping dullness. A lack of traction with the outside world. How do we touch others? How do we have [...]

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So for those who are wondering what Chromium Web Browser is all about, this is the original project from where Google Chrome draws its source code. I would personally prefer Chromium over Google Chrome, because Chromium is devoid of any kind of tracking by Google of different usage statistics, which I think is a breach of privacy.

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I seem to have a propensity for contracting bizarre and almost comically annoying (but thankfully non-contagious and not-terribly-serious) illnesses.
Last fall, it was coital cephalalgia — “sex headaches” — and for around 5 weeks, I’d feel like a large man was kicking me in the head with a steel-toed boot whenever I experienced any, ahem, intimate [...]

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Lets say I was going through my RSS reader and I found a word am not familiar with I just need to highlight the word, press the keyboard combination Ctrl+Alt+W (Which can be changed to any key combo that suits you) The meaning of the word gets displayed as a Notification Bubble .

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A new “think tank†sponsored Zogby poll purports to show that people of color, including Latinos, support the mass-deportation, anti-immigrant agenda

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iPhone & iPod Touch Support, Gwibber and the MeMenu, Facebook Chat, and Improved Sound Controls.

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Goldman Sachs appears to be testing the limits of its special talent for avoiding all accountability following revelations of its role in exacerbating the Greek debt crisis.
The bank has come under heavy criticism from European political officials over its role in helping Greece hide its debts, and on Wednesday, Greek labor unions staged a historic [...]

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ARISg5 (version 5.0) cross site scripting vulnerability

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Computer World: Suspend airport body scanner program, privacy groups say

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Here’s two input devices you can easily build with materials you already have on hand.
To the left, [John] built a 3×3 keypad matrix from paper and tinfoil. The rows and columns are made up of strips of tin foil on the front and back layers of paper. The layers are separated by spongy double-stick tape. [...]

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International Business Times: Losing Google would hit Chinese science hard

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When it comes to routers, there is one that is hacker’s favorite, the WRT54GL. But a slightly lesser known company, Pirelli with their “Alice Gate2 plus Wi-Fi”, seems to be a popular choice among our Italian friends.
[Esteban] has done everything from installing serial and parallel ports, to unlocking firmware while installing Debian. Our personal favorite [...]

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You probably heard about the major earthquake in Chile happening last night. So have the malware wri …(more)…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 27 February 2010 at 15:53:00

One of the criminal masterminds behind the infamous DarkMaket site built to
allow cyber criminals to collaborate on online scams, has been sentenced to
nearly five years in jail, according to widespread reports.

Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court to 46
months for conspiracy to defraud and 10 months for five counts of mortgage
fraud.

John McHugh, 66, of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, was jailed for two years for
conspiracy to defraud after being caught using the site under the alias
‘devilman’.

According to an Associated Press report, Judge John Hillen said: “Criminals
should learn from this case that, even in cyber space, there is no hiding place.
“

The case was brought after an international investigation involving the UK’s
Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and the FBI during which undercover
officers infiltrated the site which has since been dubbed a ‘Facebook for
fraudsters’.

Soca alleged that Subramaniam set up DarkMaket in November 2005, offering an
“invitation-only service” for criminals to buy and sell stolen credit card
details and “anything else they needed to commit financial crime”.

The site was shut down in 2008, having enabled deals which led to scams worth
tens of millions of pounds and generating over 60 arrests, said Soca.

“The key to investigations of this sort is finding the evidence to connect
the online persona with a living breathing person,” said Sharon Lemon, deputy
director of Soca, at the time Subramaniam pleaded guilty.

“Subramaniam went to great trouble to hide his activity. He seems to have
thought that carrying data around on memory sticks and using internet cafés
would somehow protect him from scrutiny. He was wrong.”

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SyScan’10 CALL FOR PAPERS

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About three weeks ago, eBay’s electronic payments daughter PayPal suddenly started blocking personal payments going in or coming out of accounts from Indian customers, resulting in a flood of online complaints from the latter that ranged from accusations of racism to sheer amateurism.

Last week, rumors that PayPal was actually forced into halting personal payments by Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) because they did not comply with all relevant regulatory requirements, were confirmed. Last night, PayPal posted a status update on its corporate blog, saying that they anticipate to resume part of its service, namely bank withdrawal abilities, as of Wednesday, March 3rd.

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Mirano Cafiero and Saskia and Malakai Wade really do believe that in the future women will play a more prominent role in the world of high tech and computing. No, the record to date hasn’t been good. But you can afford to be optimistic when you’re 8, as Saskia is, or 12, as Mirano and Malakai are. Still, the girls aren’t leaving anything to chance. Which is how they found themselves last week standing before a crowd of people giving a presentation during the Women in Open Source segment at the Southern California Linux Expo, one of the biggest open-source software conventions on the West Coast. They were there to be seen and heard, never mind the old admonition concerning children.

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getPlus insufficient domain name validation vulnerability

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Today I’d like to tell you about Firefox Mobile on the N900, running in conjunction with the new Mozilla Weave web service. I’ve been testing them out on my handset for about a month now since the beta release of Fennec (the codename for Firefox Mobile). The N900 is the first device to get Firefox Mobile but it should also appear on Google Android phones in the near future. There is talk from Mozilla of an iPhone version, but Apple are so draconian with 3rd party software I’m not sure that’ll actually happen. I just can’t see them allowing another browser on the iPhone to compete with Safari. Anyway, here’s my thoughts upon testing Firefox Mobile for some time.

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