The rapid advance of the cloud, along with other existing Internet-based services, into the business space has highlighted the need for trust in the underlying protocols that provide the driving force behind the Internet. Some are now arguing that a secure software-based DNS signing system is essential if business is to maximise the potential of the cloud.

Though new smartphones, mobile devices and mobile applications of all kinds are sure to surface at the conference, industry watchers say Google's open source platform Android will grab the lion's share of headlines.

X-IVi is a obvious name for two reasons: 1. The base-theme was “Ivi” (Thank to “nale12″). 2. X-IV means 10.4 (Lucid) and the simple “i” means Design (iPod, iMac, …), but don’t care really about the “i”.

Thats true. Now you can install and get the latest updates of Google Picasa in Ubuntu by adding these repositories. Here is how you do it.

The screen lock of openSUSE 11.2 can be bypassed by the simplest of means. A reader's report prompted The H's associates at heise Security to investigate. Tests confirmed that a locked desktop session can be unlocked without password by holding down the return key. This causes the GNOME screen saver to crash and unlock the desktop after only a few seconds.

The promise of open source is simply better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.

Sure I've tried Wine before. But never successfully. I took the plunge recently, forking over $20 for the Bordeaux GUI front-end for Wine, the non-emulator that allows users of Linux (and Solaris and FreeBSD) to run Windows applications on their Unix-like computers. I decided to use Bordeaux because its developers (or developer singular ...