A week after adding API access to its Amazon-esque cloud, Rackspace has now open-sourced these APIs. On Wednesday, the company said it had opened up the specs for both its Cloud Servers APIs and Cloud Files APIs under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
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Open-Source Apps Earn Software Security Seal Of Approval
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Two prominent open-source projects recently got a thumbs-up from Veracode, a company that applies a standards-based approach to software vulnerability testing.
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Groovy’s SQL Switch: A Powerful Tool In The Quest For A Truly Real-Time Web
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The real-time web is shaping up to be the next online revolution, and as we saw during our RealTime CrunchUp earlier this month, it’s already begun. But there are still some things that are holding us back — for one, many services still aren’t actually real time, they’re just something close to it.
Read more »Managing Realeyes Memory
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First, I have to say that this is not a generic memory manager. It is specific to my application. It may be possible to adapt it to other applications, but the key word here is 'adapt'. However, it will hopefully give anyone who is considering doing their own memory management some food for thought.
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Root vulnerability in DD-WRT free router firmware
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The management interface of the current stable version of DD-WRT, the free router firmware, suffers a vulnerability that lets attackers run programs with root rights on the router. The vulnerability, described at milw0rm and in the DD-WRT forum, is caused by inadequate handling of meta-characters in the query string in DD-WRT's httpd web server.
Read more »HadoopDB reconciles SQL with Map/Reduce
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Opponents of SQL had their hands strengthened when Google's SQL-free technique, "Map/Reduce", showed it could search databases measured in petabytes. They look on relational databases as antiquated, a technique that can't cope with today's quantities of data or meet the requirements of full-text searching. Rather than relations, they rely on key-value pairs.
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NVIDIA 190.16 Driver Brings OpenGL 3.2 To Linux
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However, now that we have had a chance to analyze this driver, there is more in store than what the change-log shares regarding this driver. There is in fact support for the unreleased OpenGL 3.2 specification.
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Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++
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The creator of the C++ programming language brings us a new textbook in programming principles that could well become a classic tome.
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Do Linux Benchmarks Have A Leg To Stand On?
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A recent set of Linux distro benchmarks appears to show some surprising results. Yet it also shows the dangers of relying too heavily upon such benchmarks to make real-world technology decisions.
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Adobe peels off Flash layers for open source
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Adobe Systems has open-sourced two pieces of Flash technology to build community buy-in around its media player. Today, the company announced the release of the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) and Text Layout Framework (TLF) under version 1.1 of the Mozilla Public License.
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Convert SpreadSheets to CSV files with Python and pyuno, Part 1v2
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Some months back I developed some pyuno code for converting spreadsheets into CSV files from the command line. Pyuno being the Python interface to the OpenOffice runtime. One of the enhancement suggestions I got was to add the ability to extract all the sheets and/or a specific sheet rather than always extracting the first sheet. The following update to the code does just that.
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Akademy 2009 Technical Papers Published: Research And Innovation In The KDE Community
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Over the last few years KDE has seen increased involvement of students and university researchers. While many universities still feel uneasy about working with Free Software, the open and welcoming attitude in the KDE community has already brought several scientific research projects to life.
Read more »Root Exploit Vulnerability in Kernel 2.6.30
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A recently discovered root exploit attacked the newest Linux versions and circumvented protection systems such as SELinux and AppArmor. A solution has been found.
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Hacker Group to Release OpenSSH Exploit and Worm: "Give us 48 Hours"
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After rumors of an OpenSSH exploit vulnerability got out, an anonymous hacker group intends to release the exploit code and an accompanying worm "within 48 hours."
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Eclipse for Visual Studio C++ Developers
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Being able to create cross-platform applications is becoming more and more important for developers. Here you will see where some of the basic Visual Studio C++ options are under Linux and Eclipse.
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