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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: GPL Webhosting Control Panel Alternatives 5

Submitted by slydder
slydder writes: With the number of dead, dieing and stale GPL Webhosting Control Panels rising I find myself in the situation where I have to migrate away from WebCP (dieing a slow painful death). I took a look at SysCP (dead) and have pretty much decided to go with Froxlor (http://www.froxlor.org/) which just released it's 0.9.26 version. However, I would like to get some feed back on the matter from the Community here. Below I list the projects that I have checked. If you know of another project that is not listed let me know. Import criteria is as follows:

1. Linux (preferably Debian)
2. No Perl or C(++,#)
3. Apache & NginX support
4. Exim/Dovecot/Courier/Postfix support
5. TinyDNS/Bind support
6. ProFTP/PureFTP
7. Root Jail a plus
8. Cron support
9. AWStats (no Webalizer)
10. libnss or LDAP
11. Support tickets
12. Billing a plus
13. IPv4 & IPv6

Projects I have evaluated:

1. WebCP (dieing)
2. SysCP (dead)
3. DTC (not bad but a bit unstable in my opinion)
4. Froxlor (currently my favorite)
5. GNUPanel (offeres too little)
6. IspCP (perl backend)

If you can come up with some others just let me know. Especially new and upcoming projects with fresh ideas are welcome. Thanks in advance.
Patents

Submission + - Apple Loses German Court Bid to Ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N, Nexus Phone

Submitted by chrb
chrb writes: Apple has failed to get a patent ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N and the Nexus phone in Germany. Presiding Judge Andreas Mueller stated "Samsung has shown that it is more likely than not that the patent will be revoked because of a technology that was already on the market before the intellectual property had been filed for protection". The patent in question covered list scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display. This news follows the recent Appeals court ruling that upheld the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban.
Android

Submission + - App Inventor Code Released - But Still No Service (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: The way Google has treated the App Inventor community is probably the biggest negative mark against it in some time and yet few seem to care.
Google simply pulled the plug on the App Inventor servers at the end of December 2011 and MIT Is still months away from providing a replacement.
As a result, and despite warnings, some students had their projects locked up in the dead servers. We are now told that, due to some heroic work by Googlers, the projects have been recovered.
A more heroic action would have been to not turn the servers off until there had been a reasonable overlap between the old and the new service.
MIT has now announced that the source code is available for you to download. This is great news but most of the people wanting to use App Inventor for educational purposes don't want to or can't get involved in the technicalities of setting up App Engine servics and so on.
What this means is that at the moment the source code is open but the service is closed.
In a status update report we are told that MIT's efforts are going well and it is three weeks into its three-month project to get App Inventor up and running as a free service. This is astonishing. It isn't as if the transfer of App Inventor to MIT happened only three weeks ago.
Never mind getting excited about Raspberry Pi and other hardware bringing programming back to the masses — App Inventor is the sort of software that could do just that and Google can't even keep the servers running to provide continuity. What would it have cost them?
Google

Submission + - Google Updates Algorithm to Punish Websites with E (itproportal.com) 2

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: Google has decided to take punitive actions against those websites that flood the top of their web pages with ads due to which the visitors have to scroll down to finally view the relevant contents on the page. According to Google, this type of layouts annoys the users and thus the web search company will be penalizing those websites through search results. The company disclosed this on its blog. According to Google over the top ads is not good for user experience and thus such websites might not get high ranking on Google web search.
Your Rights Online

Submission + - Ireland to implement laws for blocking websites (tjmcintyre.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In a move regarded by many as an 'Irish SOPA', Minister of State for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock, is about to introduce laws in Ireland, which allow copyright holders to seek injunctions against ISP's, for blocking websites hosting copyrighted material.
This is creating much concern in Ireland about its potential impact upon free speech and net neutrality, and while many people have tried to contact Sean Sherlock opposing this, their concerns have so far been ignored.
EU

Submission + - ACTA Makes Its Way to the EU Parliament (laquadrature.net)

Submitted by
jrepin
jrepin writes: "After the huge online protests against the extremist SOPA and PIPA copyright bills discussed in the United States, the EU Parliament starts working on their global counterpart: ACTA, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement. Citizens across Europe must push back against this illegitimate agreement bound to undermine free speech online, access to knowledge and innovation worldwide. Tomorrow, the EU Parliament “development” committee (DEVE) will hold its first debate on its draft opinion report on ACTA, presented by its rapporteur Jan Zahradil, a conservative, euro-skeptic representative from the Czech Republic. This disastrous draft opinion report is deceptive and tries to justify extremist repressive measures to protect the outdated regime of copyright, patents and trademarks."
Android

Submission + - Why Android smartphones are larger than the iPhone (displayblog.com) 6

Submitted by tripleevenfall
tripleevenfall writes: DisplayBlog details the reasons why Android phones tend to have larger displays than the iPhone:

"When the 960×640 3.5-inch Retina Display was introduced with the iPhone 4, the rest of the smartphone industry had to do something about it. At the time most of the competition was at 800×480 on displays much larger. With the Retina Display Apple shifted the focus of attention on a smartphone display to resolution, specifically to a resolution threshold of about 300 ppi on a smartphone that’s used at a distance of about 12 inches.

Android OEMs and Google responded to the 3.5-inch 960×640 Retina display by improving the pixel format to 1280×720. But because Android renders text and graphics like desktop OSes (e.g. Windows, OS X) increasing resolution above 320 ppi means smaller UI elements. The display had to grow in size to compensate for shrinking UI elements. iOS renders the Retina display not by shrinking UI elements by one fourth but by doubling clarity and sharpness. Unless Google adds an additional “DPI level” beyond XHDPI, Android smartphones that match or beat the iPhone 4/4S in resolution will always be bigger, much bigger."
Android

Submission + - Apple Closes Marketshare Gap With Android (nielsen.com) 1

Submitted by bonch
bonch writes: A Nielsen report states that the launch of the iPhone 4S helped Apple close the marketshare gap with Android, raising them to 44.5% compared to Android's 46.3% in December, coinciding with an earlier study by the NPD group. Apple sold 35 million iPhones last quarter, with the iPhone 4S making up 57% of those sales. RIM continued its decline but still outsold Windows Phone 7, which came in at a measly 1.6%.

Submission + - US Supreme Court upholds removal of works from Pub (wsj.com) 2

Submitted by langelgjm
langelgjm writes: While much of the web is focused on the SOPA and PIPA blackout, supporters of the public domain today quietly lost a protracted struggle that began back in 2001.The Supreme Court, in a 6-2 decision, rejected the argument that Congress did not have the power to convey copyright upon works that were already in the public domain. The suit was originally filed to challenge provisions that the U.S. adopted when signing the TRIPs agreement. Justices Breyer and Alito dissented, arguing that conveyed copyright on already existing works defied the logic of copyright law. Justice Kagan recused herself. The text of the opinions is available here (PDF).
The Internet

Submission + - Harvard Business Review comes out against SOPA (hbr.org)

Submitted by
hype7
hype7 writes: "The Harvard Business Review has come out with an article extremely critical of SOPA. As opposed to a battle of "content" vs "technology", they are characterizing it as a battle of "giants" vs "innovators". From the article: "If you take a look at many of the largest backers of SOPA and PIPA — the Business of Software Alliance, Comcast, Electronic Arts, Ford, L'Oreal, Scholastic, Sony, Disney — you'll see that they represent a wide range of businesses. Some are technology companies, some are content companies, some are historic innovators, and some are not. But one characteristic is the same across all of SOPA's supporters — they all have an interest in preserving the status quo. If there is meaningful innovation by startups in content creation and delivery, the supporters of SOPA and PIPA are poised to lose.""
The Internet

Submission + - PIPA Co-Sponsor Drops Support for the Bill (facebook.com)

Submitted by Tiek00n
Tiek00n writes: Florida Senator Marco Rubio, one of the co-sponsors of PIPA, has dropped his support for the bill, and is encouraging co-sponsor Harry Reid to stop rushing the bill through congress. "As a senator from Florida, a state with a large presence of artists, creators and businesses connected to the creation of intellectual property, I have a strong interest in stopping online piracy that costs Florida jobs. However, we must do this while simultaneously promoting an open, dynamic Internet environment that is ripe for innovation and promotes new technologies." "Congress should listen and avoid rushing through a bill that could have many unintended consequences. Therefore, I have decided to withdraw my support for the Protect IP Act."

Submission + - SOPA author Lamar Smith infringes copyright on his (google.com)

Submitted by Craefter
Craefter writes: On an earlier version of Lamar Smith's campaign website Lamar himself wasn't too clever by pulling a background image from Flickr without asking or mentioning the original photographer, DJ Schulte.
Vice magazine did a research into any copyright infringement Lamar could have made on his website and found one in violation of the Creative Commons.
Hardware

Submission + - Scammers replacing iPads with bags of clay in Cana (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A group of thieves in Canada managed to upset a number of legitimate consumers come Christmas morning when they opened their iPad 2 packaging to find nothing but a bag of clay, in some cases even the charger had been replaced with clay.

What the scammers had managed to do was purchase iPad 2s, remove the tablet, and then make up the weight and shape with clay. They also had the necessary tools and materials to professionally reseal the iPad 2 box so it looks as if it had never been opened. The stores accepted the tablets back as returns without further checks because they were sealed, and then proceeded to resell them to other customers.

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