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Submission + - Danish Municipality looking for a new CMS ! (google.com)

Submitted by
einar.petersen
einar.petersen writes: "Danish Municipality looking for a new CMS:

The Hvidovre municipality is looking for a Content Management-system (CMS)

They are open minded and will look at closed source, open source, mixed source — The key element is getting a good CMS

Translated article here: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.version2.dk%2Fartikel%2Fhvidovre-leder-efter-nyt-cms-med-aabent-sind-32921&act=url

Original article here: http://www.version2.dk/artikel/hvidovre-leder-efter-nyt-cms-med-aabent-sind-32921

So what does the slashdot crowd believe would be the right solution ?

  — Do you know of a FOSS solution that can live up to their demands or can you suggest mixed solutions.... the municipality is soliciting until december 21'st"

Comment Re:Recoup the lobby dollars (Score 0) 209

by einar.petersen (#38114412) Attached to: France To Tax the Internet To Pay For Music
LOL - sounds familiar.... maybe the Kings should have patented this business method... Abstract: Method to extract money from unsuspecting peons, method includes uncircumventable practice to prevent said peons from avoiding such taxation atrocities eg. shutting down the internet access for said peons, this practice can also be applied in the event that anyone finds a way to circumvent the access to such taxable content.
Android

Submission + - Apple's sale of iPhone 4S threatened by Danish ant (comon.dk)

Submitted by einar.petersen
einar.petersen writes: Danish Professor Gert Froelund has sold patents to Samsung that could devastate Apple sales in a multitude of countries and hopefully bash Apple back in line and have them concentrate on innovation rather that litigation, the scourge that has engulfed IT the latter years.

The patents are different than Samsung has used in previous cases but may nevertheless be something to tip the balance in favor of open competition and away from the I have a patent you can't do anything about it nah nah nah nah nah culture that is so detrimental to IT and innovation as a whole.A
Software

Submission + - Neelie Kroes in staunch support of FOSS

Submitted by einar.petersen
einar.petersen writes: Neelie Kroes

Former European Commissioner for Competition (2004–2010) and currently, since 2010 European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, has released a video in staunch support of FOSS and a plead for the public to get further involved.

She is citing the use of FOSS in the public sector as a success and encourages further use.

Her video can be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok100U4Fo3Y&feature=player_embedded

Danish story on the subject:

http://www.comon.dk/nyheder/Open-source-er-ikke-laengere-et-beskidt-ord-1.365505.html

Same story Google translated to english:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comon.dk%2Fnyheder%2FOpen-source-er-ikke-laengere-et-beskidt-ord-1.365505.html&sl=da&tl=en

Does the slashdot crowd know of other public figures and success stories for FOSS / Open Source that should be publicized ?
Space

Black Hole Emits a 1,000-Light-Year-Wide Gas Bubble 145

Posted by Soulskill from the reminds-me-of-a-buddy-of-mine dept.
PhrostyMcByte writes "12 million light-years away, in the outer spiral of galaxy NGC 7793, a bubble of hot gas approximately 1,000 light-years in diameter can be found shooting out of a black hole — one of the most powerful jets of energy ever seen. (Abstract available at Nature.) The bubble has been growing for approximately 200,000 years, and is expanding at around 1,000,000 kilometers per hour."

Comment GNS3 & wireshark & NMAP and package genera (Score 1) 138

by einar.petersen (#32467860) Attached to: Visual Network Simulator To Teach Basic Networking?
As someone working as a Network Engineer I would recommend you look at GNS3 since you can install it via sources or via a deb package, you already have the address in other post in this thread. The nice thing about GNS is that if you build the network and installe the images (that is the trouble part) you need actual cisco images, you might be able to obtain them for educational purposes, and why not approach Cisco to ask. The worst thing you could get is a no on the other hand you might end up with a system that acts as the devices do in real life, an ideal playground in which to learn about networking, but to properly learn get hold of a package generator to stream your simulated environment. http://sourceforge.net/projects/packeth/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pacgen/ http://bittwist.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/traffic/ http://gull.sourceforge.net/ http://mc-mint.sourceforge.net/ Are just some of the available package generators. Also someone else mentioned wireshark http://www.wireshark.org/ - That tool is a must for anyone serious about learning about networking and someone teaching about it. NMAP is another must as well http://nmap.org/ Good luck with your efforts
Open Source

Aquaria Goes Open Source 58

Posted by Soulskill from the come-on-in-the-water's-fine dept.
A post on the Wolfire blog yesterday announced that the source code for Aquaria has now been released. Aquaria, an action-adventure, underwater sidescroller from Bit Blot, was part of the Humble Indie Bundle, which was so successful that the developers of four games pledged to release them as open source. This marks the final release, following Lugaru, Gish, and Penumbra: Overture. The source code is available from a Mercurial repository.

Comment Cosider a wiki (Score 1) 125

by einar.petersen (#25187435) Attached to: FOSS Multicast Document Sharing?
If you collaborate on documents I would seriously consider a wiki - http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki is extremely simple to set up. You get revision control - Plug In structure for ODF/PDF export, easy editing etc. Plus a wiki is accessible even from a simple mobile browser with no extra installation needed. Multicast... well - More or less accessible to all at the same time. Looking forward to see this thread develop, as it could prove to be immensely helpful for any FOSS organization/project.
Security

Submission + - Danish government decides what goes into your OS. (tekno.dk) 3

Submitted by einar.petersen
einar.petersen writes: So fellow /. 'ers.

In my country of residence, Denmark, an IT taskforce is publicly discussing and proposing FORCED PATCHING of peoples computer systems as a way to keep the masses safe on the internet.

As an IT professional I was in shock and disbelief when I first heard of the idea on the second of April, and thought some journalist had just been sucked in, but alas it was not a delayed Aprils fools, there are actually people here who believe 1) It is a good idea, 2) It is doable.

What makes this even worse is that having a patched system might become mandatory in order to access your government service pages (The Danish government is moving towards e-governance as a savings measure).

And the fear is that it might become mandatory to keep your system patched to be allowed to get onto the Internet as well.

In my head I'm thinking, which patches to which operation system and to which programs? Another thought screaming in my head is freedom of choice.

I would like to be able to access the collective regarding this matter and deliver a serious punch in the stomach of this initiative and thus ask you to explicitly explain to me in very laymans terms why forced patching is a bad idea.

I hope to be able to use your gold nuggets in order to do so, please mark your answers FREE TO USE.

The people who must understand the arguments are potentially politicians and laymen. I truly hope for an entertaining debate and good arguments regarding the matter in play.

The following PDF's contain the now published report on the issue:

http://www.tekno.dk/pdf/projekter/brugernes_it-sikkerhed/p08_brugernes_it-sikkerhed_eng.pdf — SUMMARY IN ENGLISH.

http://www.tekno.dk/pdf/projekter/p08_brugernes_it-sikkerhed.pdf — Full report IN DANISH ONLY

http://www.tekno.dk/pdf/projekter/brugernes_it-sikkerhed/p08_brugernes_it-sikkerhed_bilag.pdf — the questions and answers — DANISH ONLY

I hope for some good points that can be brought forward in the debate.

Rgds.

Einar Petersen
Operating Systems

Submission + - Forced patching - Did anyone say Big Brother ? 1

Submitted by einar.petersen
einar.petersen writes: So fellow /. 'ers. In my country of residence, Denmark, voices are publicly discussing FORCED PATCHING of peoples computer/operating systems etc. as a way to keep the masses safe on the internet. As an IT professional I was in shock and disbelief when I first heard of the idea on the second of April this year, and thought some journalist had just been sucked in. But alas it was not a delayed Aprils fools joke played on an unsuspecting journalist, there are actually people here who believe 1) It is a good idea, 2) It is doable. What makes this even worse is that having a patched system might become mandatory in order to access your government service pages (The Danish government is moving towards e-governance as a cost savings measure). But even worse it is not far fetched to see the logical consequence that it might become mandatory to keep your system patched to be allowed to get onto the Internet as well. In my head I'm thinking, "What patches?", "To which operation system?", and "To which programs?" Another thought screaming in my head is freedom of choice! Will everyone be forced to use the same operating system, if not who is to choose which? I would like to access the collective thoughts vregarding this matter and deliver a serious punch in the stomach of this initiative. The people who must be made to understand the arguments are potentially politicians and laymen.Thus I must ask you to explicitly explain in the simplest of terms, (examples welcome) why forced patching is a bad idea. I truly hope for an entertaining debate and good arguments regarding the matter. Best Regards. Einar Petersen

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