Submission + - Tcl/Tk-8.5.0 released (libpipe.com) 1
mi writes: "After several years of alpha- and beta-testing, Tcl/Tk-8.5 have been officially released yesterday. And there was much rejoicing."
Submission + - UK Government Rejects Anti-DRM e-Petition
Anonymous Coward writes: "The UK government has rejected an e-Petition calling for a ban on DRM. In a response posted to the e-Petitions site, they claim that DRM gives users "unprecedented choice". BBC News reports on the response: "It said DRM acted as a policeman in that it protected digital content, but, it added, the technology also improved choice and the price consumers wished to pay." The response did, however, recognise that "the needs and rights of consumers must also be carefully safeguarded.""
Submission + - Severe Google Desktop XSS Vulnerability
Tsudohnimh writes: "A new research from Watchfire has revealed a serious vulnerability in Google Desktop.
The attack, which is fully presented in a new Watchfire research paper released today can allow a malicious individual to achieve not only remote, persistent access to sensitive data, but in some cases full system control as well.
The full paper can be found here (1).
A demonstration of the attack flow can be found here(2).
1. http://www.watchfire.com/resources/Overtaking-Goog le-Desktop.pdf
2. http://download.watchfire.com/googledesktopdemo/in dex.htm"
The attack, which is fully presented in a new Watchfire research paper released today can allow a malicious individual to achieve not only remote, persistent access to sensitive data, but in some cases full system control as well.
The full paper can be found here (1).
A demonstration of the attack flow can be found here(2).
1. http://www.watchfire.com/resources/Overtaking-Goo
2. http://download.watchfire.com/googledesktopdemo/i
Submission + - A Universal Markup Storage Format
An anonymous reader writes: Every blog, forum, or CMS has its own markup language for formatting posts. But when you start to mix and match markups, things go haywire. If you have a web-based platform and are looking to support multiple markup languages for posters/authors to use, then you need to start to use a universal markup storage format in your database to preserve formatting, extend flexibility, and allow users to switch from one markup language to another.
Submission + - Bill Gates' kids get limited screen time
MuttonChops writes: "Bill Gates says he limits his kids' computer usage time to 45 mins each day, and an hour at weekends. His son asks if his computer usage will be limited like this all his life. Well son, it depends if you keep using Windows all your life. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1171 5"
Microsoft Apologizes for Serving Malware 171
dark_15 writes "Microsoft has apologized for serving malware via its websites and Windows Live Messenger software. APC reader Jackie Murphy reported the problem: 'With Microsoft launching Vista along with their Defender software to protect users from viruses and spyware, it seems therefore to be an oxymoron that they have started to putting paid changing banner advertisements for malware, on the popular MSN groups servers.'"
Submission + - Six advanced-technology open source projects - Net
Julie188 writes: I'm always on the lookout for cool open-source technologies and I hadn't heard about several of the ones listed in this story before. Some of the projects are just beta code, but interesting all the same. The open-source projects in the article do automated server provisioning, intrusion detection, something called "grid storage" (hard to explain, you have to read about it), network-attached storage, a "messaging framework" for SOAs and secure telephony (interesting because it helps get around encryption laws that allow governments to spy on VoIP calls). http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2007/ndc1/021907- ndc-best-of-open-source-tools.html
Submission + - NASA's New Mission to the Moon
mattnyc99 writes: Popular Mechanics has a new, in-depth preview of NASA's Orion spacecraft, tracking the complex challenges facing the engineers of the CEV (which NASA chief Michael Griffin called "Apollo on steroids") as America shifts its focus away from the Space Shuttle and back toward returning to the moon by 2020. After yesterday's long op-ed in the New York Times concerning NASA's about-face, PopMech's interview with Buzz Aldrin and podcast with Transterrestrial.com's Rand Simberg raise perhaps the most pressing questions here: Is it worth going back to the lunar surface? And will we actually stay there?
Submission + - Codegear announces Delphi for PHP and Delphi 2007
An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday CodeGear (Go CodeGear!) launched the pre-orders for Delphi for PHP (in partnership with Qadram Softare http://www.qadram.com/products.php) and Delphi 2007.
http://www.codegear.com/
As far as I can see the WCL (VCL for PHP) will still be open source under LGPL/GPL.
Submission + - ESR gives up on Fedora
dsinc writes: Dependency hell makes ESR "reach his limit" and give up Fedora:
http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/2 1/1340237
Submission + - ROCKET EXPLOSION
PhreakOfTime writes: http://www.spaceweather.com/
ROCKET EXPLOSION:
What was it? It was a mystery for almost 24 hours until satellite expert Daniel Deak matched the trajectory of the plume in Palmer's photo with the orbit of a derelict rocket booster — "a Briz-M, catalog number 28944."
One year ago, the Briz-M sat atop a Russian Proton rocket that left Earth on Feb. 28, 2006, carrying an Arabsat-4A communications satellite. Shortly after launch, the rocket malfunctioned, leaving the satellite in the wrong orbit and the Briz-M looping around Earth partially-filled with fuel. On Feb. 19, 2007, for reasons unknown, the fuel tanks ruptured over Australia.
Submission + - Demystify C's greatest difficulty memory debugging
An anonymous reader writes: Memory errors in C and C++ programs are bad: they're common, and they can have serious consequences. Many of the gravest security notices from the Computer Emergency Response Team are simple memory errors. Many of today's C and C++ coders seem to regard memory errors as uncontrollable and mysterious afflictions from which one can only recover, not prevent. It's not so. This article shows that it's possible to understand all the essentials of good memory-related coding.
