Presens Technologies is the newest "Advanced Business Partner" to Red Hat, and will provide software, hardware and application services using Red Hat's open-source platforms to clients, according to an announcement.
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firebug 1.1.0b11 released
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"getfirebug.com now has the latest firebug 1.1 beta, b11. This release adds contributed localizations for Turkish and Bulgarian. Otherwise the main news here is that getfirebug.com will now be providing regular updates and, soon, access to early releases of firebug 1.2 and chromebug." -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
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Torvalds pleased that DRM music is dying
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Linus Torvalds, coordinator of the Linux kernel, is pleased that music publishers have started selling more DRM-free music -- last year he said the technology was a lot of "hot air".
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Eight Distros a Week: gNewSense 1.1
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This is the fifth in an eight-part series on distros I use. These observations are based on distros running on one or more of the following hardware: Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop, an brandless Pentium III-based desktop, an IBM PL 300 Pentium II, an iMac G3 (Indigo) and an iBook G3. As the auto commercials say, your mileage may vary.
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Meet the Anti-Nmap: PSAD
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Having a great defense involves proper detection and recognition of an attack. In our security world we have great IDS tools to properly recognize when we are being attacked as well as firewalls to prevent such attacks from happening. However, certain attacks are not blindly thrown at you - a good attacker knows that a certain amount of reconnaissance and knowledge about your defenses greatly increases the chances of a successful attack. How would you know if someone is scanning your defenses? Is there any way to properly respond to such scans? You bet there is...
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When in doubt, install Linux...
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So kind of out of left field, I decided to install Ubuntu on my laptop at about 1 AM. I got the newest version, 7.10, and resized my Vista partition so using Computer > Manage > Disk Management > Shrink Volume so that I had 10 GB of unallocated space for Ubuntu (I wanted more, but it wouldn't let me). Then I popped the disc in, restarted, and installed with ease.
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Linux role in botnets studied
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Researchers at a major security vendor are exploring the extent to which Linux systems - especially servers - are involved in the botnet plague.
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StartUp Manager - change settings in Grub, Grub2 and Usplash
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StartUp Manager, or SUM, is a gui tool for changing settings in Grub, Grub2 and Usplash.SUM should work with recent versions of Debian and Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu.
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Installing Ubuntu on OS X
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Today’s experiment was to get Ubuntu Linux running in a virtual machine on my Mac. It gave me the opportunity to play with two things — Ubuntu Linux and VirtualBox, an open source alternative to VMware and Parallels.
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Open Source, scavenged hardware, powers life-sized 747 simulator
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Retired Air Force pilot John Wojnaroski can’t seem to get away from flying and he’s been constructing the “ultimate” flight simulator with authentic screens, switches and even throttle controls. Using scavenged passenger jet parts and the “FlightGear” open source simulator platform, Wojnaroski’s simulator can emulate most jumbo jets and can even perform instrument approaches along with around the world flights.
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Why Gentoo is dead :(
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I finally removed myself from all the Gentoo mailing lists. I did this with some sad thoughts. I had been using gentoo for almost 4 Years and it tough me quite a lot about Linux. Unfortunately I have been seeing the Gentoo project die over the past Year or so. After going to the Gentoo UK meeting in 2006 I noticed that nothing important / technical was discussed. It was all about the flame wars going on on the mailing lists.
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KnowledgeTree Document Management System On Ubuntu 7.10 Server
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This guide will walk you through installing the KnowledgeTree Document Management System on Ubuntu 7.10 Server. This guide does not include any pictures. I just felt with this type of install, that they were not warranted.
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Red Hat aiming to grow JBoss at twice the rate of RHEL
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I saw that Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's new CEO, is gunning for $1 billion in revenue within the next three years. Given that Red Hat did $400 million in 2007, up from $278 million in 2006, this is perhaps not all that surprising of a goal.
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A User Interface Definition Language in Common Lisp
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"...So how does it work? From the perspective of a web application developer it's very simple. You just specify the user interface in a declarative manner and the engine figures out how to convert it to HTML: [...] So, does any of this work? You bet it does! And coupled with closures-based actions, continuations-based control flow, stateful widgets, and a shiny new CLSQL backend store1, it may very well be the web development nirvana2. Download Weblocks, and see for yourself..."
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GNU findutils 4.2.33 is released
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"I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.2.33 of GNU findutils. GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match certain criteria and for performing various operations on them. Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate". More information about findutils is available at
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/ ..."
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