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Programming

Submission + - New software development website with API (inf.ethz.ch)

Submitted by
Till Bay
Till Bay writes: "We at ETH Zurich have built a Sourceforge-like software development website that has an XML-RPC API. It is open source, but you can host both open and closed source projects for free.
  • Wiki pages with WikiMedia Syntax (public and private pages)
  • Subversion repository with UI
  • Issue tracking
  • Blog, forum, comments, screenshots
  • Simple user management
  • Release management and mirroring
  • XML-RPC API for integrating the platform into other applications
  • Plug-Ins for Eclipse, Visual Studio and EiffelStudio, allowing interaction with the plattform directly from within the IDE
  • free hosting of open- and closed-source projects
Create a user and register projects here: http://origo.ethz.ch/"
Quickies

Submission + - Arm Wrestling Machine Breaking Arms

Submitted by iminplaya
iminplaya writes: Japanese arcade distributor Atlus Co. said it will recall 150 arm-wrestling machines that are breaking players' arms.

The machine, known as Arm Spirit, has so far broken three arms of players who put it to the challenge. The machine features 10 levels of arm-wrestling difficulty, including a French maid, a drunken martial arts master and a Chihuahua. The final throw-down, for those who manage to avoid having their forearms snapped, is against a professional arm-wrestler.

"We think that maybe some players get overexcited and twist their arms in an unnatural way."
Security

Submission + - Ubuntu Servers HACKED! (ubuntu.com)

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Ubuntu had to shutdown 5 of 8 production servers that are sponsored by Canonical, when they started attacking other systems. Canonical blames the community, saying they were community hosted, and were poorly maintained. However, kernel upgrades couldn't be done because of poor backwards compatibility with the very hardware that Canonical had sponsored! While people point fingers at each other it is pretty clear that both sides are equally to blame, the community administrators for practicing bad security practices, such as using unencrypted FTP transfers with accounts, not properly maintaining the system. However Canonical should have been well aware of what they are hosting. The question remains, if any of the files distributed to users have been compromised. A major blow for Canonical though who are attempting to enter the business market with Ubuntu Server."
Programming

Submission + - Red Hat Developer Studio first contact (blogspot.com)

Submitted by
juanignaciosl
juanignaciosl writes: "First beta of Red Hat Developer Studio has just been published. This IDE is a bunch of Eclipse plugins which comes out from JBoss IDE and Exadel Studio fusion. The main advantages it offers are: JSF development improved, specially integrating RichFaces and Ajax4JSF libraries; Seam (next J2EE middleware standard?) integration; it also includes plugins for JBoss, Hibernate...

RHDS seems promising. Is finally the time Java development meets Visual Whatever integration?

If anybody wants to read on first impressions you can check my software engineering blog post on Red Hat Developer Studio installation."
The Internet

Submission + - Don't Kill The Trolls, But Feed Them (seorefugee.com) 2

Submitted by
Henk van Ess
Henk van Ess writes: "Voelspriet.nl has initiated an idea to rid communities (be it forums, blogs, whatever) of trolls. Not get rid of them by banning them or nuking their posts, no, by accepting their trolly messages and keeping them at ease. The smart thing is that this anti-troll plug-in only shows the trolly stuff to the troll itself. That way, the other community members need not suffer. The idea was presented today on Dutch radio in Radio Online. A free beta plug-in for Wordpress will be available soon."
Movies

Submission + - The Truth is Out There Returns

Submitted by DesertBlade
DesertBlade writes: Looks like Mulder and Scully will be re-uniting on screen in X-Files! Since Mulder left the show was never the same. Mulder, I mean Duchovny, is expecting to recieve the script as early as next week.
Businesses

Submission + - Good e-commerce software

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I'm looking to set up a small online store, at first with only about a dozen products, but room to grow. The store would ideally feature a custom design to fit in with the rest of the site. I'd like to hear about any experiences, good or bad, with online e-commerce tools. The ones I've looked at so far include Akopia Interchange Shopping Cart, Agora Shopping Cart, Os-Commerce Shopping Cart, and Zen-Cart. Over to you Slashdot community...
PHP

Submission + - Zend Framework launches! (internetnews.com)

Submitted by
friedrla
friedrla writes: "Sean Michael Kerner of InternetNews.com posts about Zend Framework 1.0 Since its inception 11 years ago, PHP has been a language for the Web. Now with the release of the Zend Framework 1.0 today, PHP becomes a language for Web applications and Web services enterprise applications. Zend Framework 1.0 is an open source framework for PHP that brings it in closer competition with JavaEE and .NET than ever before. The effort began back in October of 2005 with the first public development release appearing in March of 2006. Zend co-founder Andi Gutmans claims that they have had over 1 million downloads since the first Zend Framework development build was released, have received contributions from over 230 developers and had the support of both IBM and Google. Zend is one of the lead commercial sponsors of PHP development. "The adoption that we've seen pre-release has amazed us, we didn't plan for that," Gutmans told internetnews.com. Gutmans also noted that the level of contributions that the project has received also exceed expectations. One such example cited by Gutmans was documentation. "Documentation was important for us when we began the effort, but we didn't imagine that we'd have 16 translations; we were just planning on English. A lot of things like that happened," Gutmans said. At the heart of the Zend Frameworks are the framework components which aim to make it easier and faster to deploy Web applications and take advantage of Web Services. Among the components in the framework is the GData component which enables the framework to create mash-ups (define) and better utilize Google components that use GData. Zend Framework also has support for Amazon, Flickr and Yahoo APIs under the Zend_Service module. Gutmans expects that over time Zend Framework will organically end up in Linux distributions, much the same as PHP is now included in all versions of Linux. Beyond Linux, Gutmans said Zend is working with Microsoft as part of a deal inked last year and as such Zend Framework will work on the Windows platform as well. Out of the gate, IBM will be using Zend Framework in its QEDWiki application and Gutmans expects that many other ISVs (define) will redistribute Zend Framework as well. IBM is also working with the Zend Framework community on further extending the JSON (define) support available to PHP developers. Zend_Xml2Json will be a server component that enables XML to JSON conversion at the middleware server layer. Gutmans said the component is not in the 1.0 release but he expects to be including it in a future 1.1 release once it's production-ready. Also on the future roadmap is AJAX tooling for the Zend framework. Gutmans first explained the AJAX tool at the AjaxWorld Conference earlier this year. When completed, the Zend component model Ajax tool will be a full development environment complete with drag-and-drop components, cross-language debugging and advanced CSS support. Gutmans noted that it will still take more time for that functionality and that it would likely come even later than a 1.1 release. Ultimately it is the continued participation of contributors and ISVs that Gutmans expects will help grow the framework, both in terms of feature and adoption. "The health of the partner and development ecosystem and our ability to build the ecosystem will be our main success metric," Gutmans said."
Programming

Submission + - Why Do People Write Free Software Documentation? (onlamp.com)

Submitted by blackbearnh
blackbearnh writes: Creating good documentation for Free/Open Source projects is one of the most thankless jobs around. If you do it well, no one notices, and if you do a bad job, everyone complains. O'Reilly's Andy Oram set out to discover what drives people to contribute documentation, and 354 survey responses later, he has some data and analysis.
Security

Submission + - CPS-3 Encryption Scheme Broken (exophase.com)

Submitted by
x3sphere
x3sphere writes: "It's taken awhile, ten years to be exact, but Andreas Naive has successfully managed to break the protection on Capcom's CPS-3 arcade system board. The CPS-3 powered less than a dozen arcade classics, including JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Red Earth, and Street Fighter III.

The security system of the CPS-3 was rather advanced for its time. Any tampering to the game's security cartridge would result in the decryption key being erased, thereby rendering the respective cartridge useless.

So, the decryption is broken, what does this all mean? In one word: Emulation. Now that the decryption task is done, the folks over at MAME have already started work on a CPS-3 emulator."
The Internet

Karl Auerbach — ICANN the USSR of the Internet 35

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the back-in-the-ussr dept.
gnaremooz writes to tell us that The Register recently sat down with Karl Auerbach, the last publicly elected member of the ICANN board, and discussed some of the more recent developments. "Perhaps my main point of view regarding what I want to do for the net is expressed in my presentation [PPT] "From Barnstorming to Boeing - Transforming the Internet Into a Lifeline Utility" (speakers notes avilable [PDF]). I've long been interested in making the net a solid utility, and I have a great deal of sympathy for the folks who have to go out and fix things at 3am. I'm very interested in building tools for those folks."
Security

Submission + - Damn Vulnerable Linux

Submitted by
Scott Ainslie Sutton
Scott Ainslie Sutton writes: "Enterprise GNU/Linux Resource Linux.com have highlighted a newly created GNU/Linux distribution named Damn Vulnerable Linux, built upon Damn Small Linux. The distribution, headed by Thorsten Schneider, aims to deliver the Operating System in such a way that it allows Security Students first hand insight and hands on experience with Security issues within GNU/Linux in order to teach them protection and mitigation techniques The project's website describes the distribution as 'the most vulnerable, exploitable Operating System ever' and it's true, the developers have ensured that it contains outdated, ill-configured, flawed code and contains GNU/Linux 2.4 Kernel which is known to have many exploitable avenues in itself. Damn Vulnerable Linux's website can be viewed here."
IBM

Submission + - Learn Cell BE Programming

Submitted by arehnius
arehnius writes: The lab of High-Performance Computing of Georgia Tech, directed by Dr. Bader, and in which I work in was chosen to be the "STI Cell Center of Competence". Therefor, the College of Computing of Georgia Tech hosted a one-day workshop on Cell Programming run by Hema Reddy, Cell Solutions Engineer at IBM Cell Ecosystem & Solutions Enablement. From the website,

"The workshop consists of a series of lectures and hands-on exercises in a Cell development environment to familiarize the students with Cell basic programming skills."
You'll find there everything needed to be started: an development environnement (in a virtual machine, to be used with vmware), the slides of the presentations, and the COMPLETE video of the workshop. Link to website: http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~bader/CellProgram ming.html

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