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Adobe Warns of Flash, PDF Zero-Day Attacks 216

Posted by Soulskill from the who-even-uses-that-stuff-anyway dept.
InfosecWarrior writes "Adobe issued an alert late Friday night to warn about zero-day attacks against an unpatched vulnerability in its Reader and Flash Player software products. The vulnerability, described as critical, affects Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. It also affects the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix operating systems."

Comment Re:Ubuntu 6 month cycle (Score 1) 319

by Chang (#32080414) Attached to: Next Ubuntu Linux To Be a Maverick

Windows 2000 hits end of life this summer. 2003 enters extended support which ends in 2015 - this was extended due to poor uptake of Windows 2008. They currently offer 10 years of support but they often extend if uptake of the follow on release is low.

RedHat and Novell support their enterprise linux OS products on a seven year cycle.

Novell even leaves the downloads availble for up to 10 years.

Comment Re:How does virtualization help (Score 1) 93

by Chang (#31884630) Attached to: Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory

In most cases where VM is useful the people who care about the 10 processes bring so much baggage in terms of demands that it pays big dividends to have the overhead of 10 machine images running in order to not have to listen to 10 people whining.

There's IT theory and then there IT reality...
Oracle

Explaining Oracle's Sun Takeover — "For the Hardware" 154

Posted by timothy from the well-and-the-awesome-logo dept.
blackbearnh writes "Brian Aker, former Sun MySQL guy, and current proponent of the Drizzle MySQL fork, gave O'Reilly Radar an update on where MySQL is at the moment. During the interview, he was asked to speculate on Oracle's original motives for acquiring Sun. 'IBM has been moving their pSeries systems into datacenter after datacenter, replacing Sun-based hardware. I believe that Oracle saw this and asked themselves, "What is the next thing that IBM is going to do?" That's easy. IBM is going to start pushing DB2 and the rest of their software stack into those environments. Now whether or not they'll be successful, I don't know. I suspect once Oracle reflected on their own need for hardware to scale up on, they saw a need to dive into the hardware business. I'm betting that they looked at Apple's margins on hardware, and saw potential in doing the same with Sun's hardware business. I'm sure everything else Sun owned looked nice and scrumptious, but Oracle bought Sun for the hardware.'"
Unix

Submission + - Jury rules in SCO v Novell (novell.com)

Submitted by overshoot
overshoot writes: Looks like the obese lady in Utah is at least warming up: the jury in SCO v. Novell has returned their decision. It would seem that like Judge Kimball, they don't believe Novell transferred its Unix copyrights (whatever they may be, not that anyone knows by now) to CalderaThe SCO Group.

Submission + - Finally, the jury rules against SCO (groklaw.net)

Submitted by rewt66
rewt66 writes: SCO got the day in court that they've always claimed they wanted. And the jury ruled that the Unix copyrights did not transfer from Novell to SCO, so even if some SVRX code did get put in Linux (which I doubt), SCO doesn't own the copyrights to it.

Submission + - It's SCOver (groklaw.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Novell wins.
Novell

Submission + - Jury rules Novell owns copyrights to Unix (groklaw.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Groklaw is reporting that the jury in the SCO vs. the World case (actually just Novell in this one) has ruled that Novell never transferred the Unix copyrights to SCO. Where does this leave all the rest of the lawsuits?

Submission + - Novell WINS! 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Today, the jury in the District Court of Utah trial between SCO Group and Novell issued a verdict.

Novell is very pleased with the jury’s decision confirming Novell’s ownership of the Unix copyrights, which SCO had asserted to own in its attack on Linux. Novell remains committed to promoting Linux, including by defending Linux on the intellectual property front.

This decision is good news for Novell, for Linux, and for the open source community.

http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=2153&cpage=1#comment-195424

Submission + - Novell has UNIX copyrights, SCO does not (sltrib.com)

Submitted by RichMan
RichMan writes: The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that the jury has reached a verdict in SCO's slander of title case against Novell. Apparently SCO does not own the copyrights it accused Novell of slandering.
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  A federal jury Tuesday found that Novell Inc., and not The SCO Group, owns the copyrights to the Unix computer operating systems used by many businesses.
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Comment Re:How many more times are we going to run out? (Score 1) 460

by Chang (#30635862) Attached to: At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses

We are consuming a little more than a /8 every month and if every single /8 was reclaimed from a corporation that was assigned prior to 1995 how much extra time would that buy us?

How many years and millions would be spent getting them to renumber or forcing them to renumber through some sort of legal process?

How long is it going to take to transition to IPv6 - probably 10 years or more.

Where is the time and money better spent?

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