Archive for December, 2011
Posted in December 31st, 2011
While city engineers were setting up the multicolored ball of lights in Times Square this year, [Phil] at adafruit was busy designing the X2 Time Ball, a disco icosahedron perfect for celebrating the new year. The ball is made of 20 acrylic triangles zip-tied together into an icosahedron. On each face, six RGB pixels light up [...]
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(Posted 31 Dec 2011 by Boris Derzhavets)
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
It is essential to have a Web presence for your business, even if it’s no more than a simple information page. Your customers will look for a website to learn about your business before they look for a phone book or newspaper ad. You can publish and ma…
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
Make sure to brush up on your safety protocol if you undertake this project. The penalty for messing up when using live wiring as a radio receiver antenna is rather severe. But after reading about it in some old books [Miroslav] decided to give this technique a try. We love the old-school chalk board he [...]
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
GIMX stands for Game Input MultipleXer or Game Input MatriX. GIMX allows us to control video game consoles with a Linux PC. It currently only works with the PS3, but the Xbox 360 is a also targeted. The application gets data from the PC peripherals (mi…
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
[Marc Cryan] built this little bugger which he calls Wendell the Robot. But what good is an animatronic piece like this unless you do something fun with it? That’s why you can catch the movements matching [Michael Jackson's] choreography from the music video Thriller in the clip after the break. This is a ground-up build [...]
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
Digital Kryptonite has discovered a vulnerability in www.easy-song-writing.com, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct XSS attacks.
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
Welcome to the 180th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
Back in 2001, [Helmar] made an awesome monochrome video display out of a red laser pointer and a spinning 18-sided mirror. Blue and green lasers are much less expensive than they were a decade ago, so [Helmar] decided to go full color with his laser projector. (In German, so fire up Chrome or get the Google [...]
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
Here is a little extension I made for Gnome Shell. It removes the Message tray (bottom bar). I recommend to use with gnome-shell-gnome2-notifications extension by rcmorano so that you can see all your notification icons in the top bar. Have fun.[b][url...
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(Posted 31 Dec 2011 by mcasperson)
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(Posted 31 Dec 2011 by finid)
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
A PC World writer glosses over the naming conventions in Linux distros without going into the detail they rightfully deserve. So Larry the Free Software Guy gives her a hand, expanding on the how and why, from the perspective of digital anthropology, …
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
OWASP Mantra is a collection of free and open source tools integrated into a web browser, which can become handy for students, penetration testers, web application developers,security professionals etc. It is portable, ready-to-run, compact and follows…
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
WordPress CartPress plugin versions 1.6 and below suffer from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
We love our little Rigol 1052E oscilloscope. It’s seen us through some perplexing problems and loved being upgraded from 50 MHz to 100 MHz. We’ve always been pleased with its role dictating waveforms for us, but we never thought we’d see homebrew apps for our little ‘scope. We’re not exactly sure who [Krater] is, but [...]
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
The WordPress Whois Search plugin suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
Grebweb CMS suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
With the recent release of Bodhi Linux 1.3.0 I’ve had a few questions as to what our release cycle is exactly. I’d like to take a short moment today to clarify what exactly on current release schedule looks like.
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
Pear OS is a desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, Desktop, but with a desktop appearance fashioned after the Mac OS X UI. A review of the latest edition, Pear OS Linux Panther 3, has already been published on this website.This article presents a…
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
Rumour mill predicts high-end iPad 3 and mid-range twinApple will unveil not one but two iPad 3s on 23 January at the iWorld conference, according to a somewhat unlikely rumour breathlessly reported by gossip pumpers Digitimes.…
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
Calculate Linux, the popular Gentoo-based Linux distribution from Russia, is out with their 11.12 release…
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
The holidays for most people who read this site involve answering a cornucopia of tech support questions for their relatives. Honestly, I’ve watched friends field the most frustrating 45 minute IT department-level questions during holiday time with the family, which inevitably devolves into more of those types of conversations in between “Pass the gravy.”
These conversations will only increase in frequency as the average consumer wakes up to smartphones and the app economy. According to Flurry, nearly a quarter of a billion app downloads this year occurred on December 24th and again this Christmas Day, more than 2x any other day thus far, ever.
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
With 2011 quickly coming to an end, having written more than 1,370 news postings at Phoronix this year, what were the most popular stories?..
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
Developers need to know the right lingoOpen … and Shut If the last decade was all about open source, the next decade will be about open APIs. However, as with open source, APIs aren’t necessarily a guarantee of billions in the bank. They’re simply th…
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
Earlier in the month we published an article regarding the lilupophilupop.com SQL injection attacks …(more)…
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
The real beauty of open source software isn’t that it’s free; it’s that it’s free to change. Developers can tinker with it, strip it down or build it out, depending on their wants and needs.In the case of Google’s Android, this increasingly m…
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
With the last day of the year well and truly on the way in most parts of the world and almost finis …(more)…
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Posted in December 31st, 2011
But, despite the backing of a coalition of powerful tech companies, the bill to amend the Electronic Communications Privacy Act was dead on arrival, never even getting a hearing before the committee Leahy heads.In contrast, another proposal sailed thro…
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