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Oracle

Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5 263

Posted by samzenpus from the new-and-improved dept.
darthcamaro writes "Two years after Sun released MySQL 5.1, Oracle has picked up the ball with the official release of MySQL 5.5. New features include semi-synchronous replication, InnoDB by default and new SIGNAL/RESIGNAL support for exception handling. Above all, Oracle stressed that they are committed to further MySQL open source development and that they see it as a complementary technology to their proprietary Oracle database."
Linux

Submission + - Linux Users: Ask Adobe (omgubuntu.co.uk)

Submitted by mugetsu37
mugetsu37 writes: An Adobe employee has urged Linux users wanting native Creative Suite applications for their OS to submit a 'feature request directly' to the company's engineering team.

Responding on the vote page of a campaign asking for Adobe to port their Creative Suite set of products to Linux, Adobe employee Carey Burgess listed several points of contact users should now use to further the case.

Burgess had previously replied to users voting in the poll, stating that he "understood" why people want to see the design tools made Linux-friendly.
Television

Internet Usage Catches Up With Television In US 119

Posted by CmdrTaco from the way-better-lolcats dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Joshua Brustein writes that, according to a survey by Forrester Research, the amount of time people spend on the Internet has increased 121 percent over the last five years with Americans now spending as much time using the Internet as they are watching television. And while people younger than 30 years old have spent more time with the Internet than television for several years, Forrester's survey shows that this is the first year that people in older age groups are doing so as well. Forrester's survey also shows a significant increase in the number of people using the Internet to watch streaming video with 33 percent of adults surveyed this year saying they use the Internet to watch video, up from 18 percent in 2007. However the rise of the Internet is not necessarily leading to a drop in television consumption because the Internet, and particularly the mobile Internet, simply creates more opportunities for people to consume media, says analyst Jacqueline Anderson with younger viewers increasingly comfortable with the Internet as the place to watch their television. 'For the younger population, the TV is still important, but where they're getting that content from is changing,' says Anderson. 'For the generations that are coming up, that's where we're going to see the cut.'"

Submission + - 35 dollars Laptop (localmarkethub.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Indian institute of technology students developed this wonderful laptop in a very less cost, yes its a 35 dollars laptop. Currently it is only used by the students but pretty soon it will be open for sale for all over the world.
Idle

Submission + - Wikileaks.org is Back (pcworld.com)

Submitted by mugetsu37
mugetsu37 writes: Wikileaks.org, the whistleblower organization's main Web site, is back up in the U.S. less than 10 days after domain name service provider EveryDNS terminated the domain name, citing stability concerns.

The restored site is now being hosted by Silicon Valley Web Hosting and is using Dynadot, a San Mateo, Calif.-based firm as its registrar and DNS provider, according to Netcraft , an Internet monitoring firm based in the U.K. The site has been up and running since Friday, according to Netcraft.

Submission + - FBI has IPSEC backdoors in OpenBSD (marc.info)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A former OpenBSD IPSEC developer has made claims that the FBI instructed a few developers to implement backdoors into the IPSEC code in the kernel, with full knowledge.
Privacy

Submission + - Allegations of Backdoors in OpenBSD's IPsec Code (marc.info)

Submitted by Mortimer.CA
Mortimer.CA writes: Theo de Raadt has posted an e-mail to openbsd-tech that he received from Gregory Perry alleging that the FBI paid developers to "implemented a number of backdoors and side channel key leaking mechanisms into the OpenBSD Crypto Framework". Mr. Perry is coming forward now that his NDA with the FBI has expired. The code was originally added ten years ago, and over that time has changed quite a bit, "so it is unclear what the true impact of these allegations are" says Mr. de Raadt.

Comment Re:Looking at the bigger picture (Score 1) 266

by mugetsu37 (#34541440) Attached to: Oracle Asks Apache To Rethink Java Committee Exit

Was it ever a good idea for Apache to participate in Java in the first place, knowing that the exact situation that they are complaining about today existed when they started, and has existed for the entire time they've been developing?

Except without Apache in the picture Sun might not have been able to release as much of Java under GPL as they did before Oracle came into the picture. Perhaps now work on OpenJDK will see a higher priority than before.

Comment Yeah but... (Score 1) 265

by mugetsu37 (#34541362) Attached to: Statistical Analysis of Terrorism
We found that we can't really reduce it to the realm of P, so we can tell you how big the attack might be, it just might take a few decades and hundreds of computers working together. We can get a grant for that right?

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