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Opera 9.60 Released, With Upgraded Mail Client 128

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @01:49PM from the alternative-alternative- dept.

Kelson writes "Opera Software has released Opera 9.60, the latest version of their web browser & internet suite. It's an evolutionary release, focused on performance optimization, improving the email client and adding more items to the Opera Link synchronization service."

Submission + - Tired of the Rapid Pace of the Internet? (gfilter.net)

Submitted by

ohxten

on Monday July 28, 2008 @09:55AM

ohxten writes: "GFilter.net is hosting a project called WebToSnailMail. WebToSnailMail is 'a free service where you can receive web pages by regular postage.' Apparently all you have to do is send a self addressed and stamped envelope with the URL of the desired web-page to them, and in 4-6 weeks they'll return your envelope with the web-page you requested printed out in it.

If you're still running a 300 baud this just might be an attractive offer..."

Submission + - OSX Virus Up for Auction? (intego.com)

Submitted by

ohxten

on Thursday July 24, 2008 @03:12PM

ohxten writes: "According to Intego, a Macintosh security specialist, a virus writer by the name of Miguel García Carmen claims to have written a virus that exploits a previously unknown ZIP vulnerability, that, according to him, when uncompressed, "KO's the system [OSX] and Hard Drive". Miguel's full quote is "MIGUEL GARCÍA CARMEN, this is the name APPLE will have to engrave in stone and STEVE JOBS will never forget, since this man has been the first to ever make such a file that when you uncompress it, it KO's the system and Hard Drive."

Intego isn't providing a link to Miguel's website, which is apparently down, but they claim that Miguel is auctioning off the virus, and the bid is currently over $7000 USD."

Submission + - AMD CEO Steps Down after Financial Difficulties (nwsource.com)

Submitted by

ohxten

on Thursday July 17, 2008 @07:21PM

ohxten writes: "SeattlePI.com is reporting that AMD CEO Hector Ruiz is stepping down after roughly 6 years with the company. Apparently he takes the blame for AMD's financial struggles. Ruiz will remain on AMD's board of directors, and his new title will be executive chairman."

Submission + - New malloc() Helps Discover Ancient yacc Bug (undeadly.org)

Submitted by

ohxten

on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @09:58PM

ohxten writes: "An ancient (at least 33 years old) stack-overflow bug has been discovered and fixed in yacc, thanks to a new malloc() implementation by Otto Moerbeek. It turns out in a rare case yacc will attempt to access data above the stack pointer, causing a segfault. More information and a complete description of the problem can be found here.

It's deja-vu all over again."

Submission + - XShm: A Much Faster Way to Share Images in X (xfree86.org)

Submitted by

ohxten

on Saturday June 28, 2008 @07:05PM

ohxten writes: "XShm is an extension that changes the way X shares image data with other processes. X is designed to write image data to a socket each time an image needs to be drawn. XShm allows image data to be placed in shared memory instead, which, as you might imagine, allows for quite a nice speedup."

Submission + - Hans Reiser Offers To Lead Cops to Nina's Body (cnet.com)

Submitted by

ohxten

on Sunday June 08, 2008 @09:25PM

ohxten writes: "CNET and Wired are reporting that Hans Reiser may lead cops to Nina's body in exchange for a reduced term. Hans was arrested for murder of Nina October 10, 2006.

I guess this just about proves he did it."

Submission + - goosh - the Unofficial Google Shell (goosh.org)

Submitted by

ohxten

on Monday June 02, 2008 @05:02PM

ohxten writes: "Stefan Grothkopp has come up with a pretty neat tool called goosh. It's essentially a browser oriented shell-like interface that allows you to quickly search Google and Wikipedia and get information in a text-only format.

This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a good while."

Submission + - Comcast Hacked

Submitted by NewView on Thursday May 29, 2008 @10:41AM

NewView writes: Starting late yesterday, Comcast users began noticing that Comcast.net has been hacked. More technically, early indications are that someone hacked Comcast's registrar account at Network Solutions, changing the authoritative DNS servers for comcast.net — rerouting portal visitors to IP addresses in Germany or elsehwere.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Hacked-94826

Submission + - Comcast.net Hacked 1

Submitted by A Big Fan of Comcast on Thursday May 29, 2008 @09:08AM

A Big Fan of Comcast writes: Late last night comcast.net was taken down and replaced witha message saying "Error. Page cannot be displayed. Please contact service provider for more details." According to some reports the site was hacked and the index page was replaced with a message promoting the hackers.

Submission + - PunBB Goes Commercial, Forks into FluxBB (fluxbb.org)

Submitted by

ohxten

on Thursday May 15, 2008 @10:31AM

ohxten writes: "PunBB, a PHP-based bulletin-board system, has recently gone commercial, being purchased by the people who run Informer.com. Rickard Andersson, the project leader, announced he would be ceasing his active involvement with the project at least temporarily. Most of the developers of the project thought it best to maintain control over the direction of the project while still living up to the standards set by Rickard, so they created a fork. Enter FluxBB, a free open source forum application designed to be fast, light and user friendly.

You can read the FluxBB development team announcement here."

Submission + - SPAM: Pidgin Forked

Submitted by

stoolpigeon

on Wednesday April 23, 2008 @04:22PM

stoolpigeon writes: "The popular instant messaging client, Pidgin has been forked. The sourceforge site for the new project, Funpidgin states that the primary difference between the two projects is that, "Unlike the Pidgin developers, we believe the user should have the final say in what goes into the program." Apparently the change that spurred the fork was the removal of the ability to manually resize the message box in newer versions of the Pidgin client. To some, I am sure that this is an indicator of what is great about OSS. To others it is just one more example of what can go wrong."
Link to Original Source

Submission + - Linus Torvalds Has Trouble Running YouTube (redhat.com)

Submitted by

ohxten

on Monday March 31, 2008 @09:51PM

ohxten writes: "Today Linus Torvalds filed a bug report on Fedora's Bugzilla page, stating 'youtube no workee — fedora 9 not usable for wife'. Apparently 'This is "high" priority because the wife will kill me if she doesn't have her videos. And the adobe player won't install on current rawhide due to some library issues.'"

Submission + - Newegg Responds to Creative Product Returns (creative.com) 2

Submitted by

ohxten

on Monday March 31, 2008 @03:41PM

ohxten writes: "It appears that Newegg (or someone claiming to be the company) is suspending sales of the Creative sounds cards which are having issues running under Windows Vista, in response 'to nearly 5,000 return orders within the past 48 hours', after Creative decided to put a stop to a driver modder who was redistributing modified drivers to fix the said issues. As of yet, however, the products in question are still listed on Newegg's website."

Submission + - GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug (lwn.net)

Submitted by

ohxten

on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @04:34PM

ohxten writes: "It appears that GCC 4.3.0's new behavior of not clearing the direction flag (DF) before a string operation on x86 systems poses problems with kernels — such as Linux and BSD — that do not clear the direction flag before a signal handler is called, despite the ABI specification."

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