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Comment Re:Bye Bye Monopoly (Score 1) 295

Very close... That wasn't the original jailbreak, per se, but rather was used after it was found that the version of libpng used in the Safari app had a well-documented vulnerability. This was patched in 1.1.2, if I recall.

The original jailbreak required quite a bit of hacking to get to work, and involved great strides from the community in reverse-engineering the communication protocols used in the dock connector, and in getting SSH and other services compiled for ARM.

Comment Re:Best way to upgrade? (or Videolan's website suc (Score 2, Informative) 419

They tend to stagger the updates just a bit on the automatic updates... They post it on the website for those who absolutely must have it now, while the casual users, using a perfectly good 0.9.9a, will get it sometime over the course of the next few days, or when they next get around to opening it.

Microsoft

Microsoft Deprecating Some OOXML Functionality 138

christian.einfeldt writes "According to open standards advocate Russell Ossendryver, Microsoft will be deprecating certain functionality in its Microsoft Office Open XML specification. Ossendryver says the move is an attempt to quiet critics of the specification in the run up to the crucial February ISO vote. The Microsoft-led industry standards group formally offering OOXML confirms in a 21 December 2007 announcement that issues related to the 'leap year bug', VML, compatibility settings such as 'AutoSpaceLikeWord95' and others will be 'extracted from the main specification and relocated to an independent annex in DIS 29500 for deprecated functionality.'"
Software

Submission + - Shareaza Site Hijacked

An anonymous reader writes: The site shareaza.com has been hijacked and now redirects to shareazaweb.com. The download on the shareaza.com site now points to a file that installs spyware and malware. The real Shareaza software, still open source and GPL'ed, is at http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/. The sordid history of how this occurred is at http://torrentfreak.com/shareazacom-hijacked-and-turned-into-a-scam-site-071224/. This points out a problem with some open source projects: there is not a well-financed and structured organization to fight for online rights. As an individual domain holder, how can you respond when a determined entity tries to take it from you, either through the legal system or other means?

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