Comment Bundled with child porn... (Score 2, Informative) 276
Of course this stupid idea has been bundled with some child porn legislation to ease its way into the parliament. :/ Here is the original press release (in French, also available in German and Italian).
Comment Long Tail (Score 4, Informative) 88
The "long tail of search" TFA is referring to is explained in this Wired article and on its author's blog.
Feed The Register: Mozilla hatches Thunderbird 3 release candidate (theregister.com)
Almost out of the nest
Thunderbird 3 is nearly ready to leave the nest.
The power of collaboration within unified communications
Submission + - Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 3.0 RC1 (pcmag.com)
mikemuch writes: On the eve of T-day, T-bird 3 goes RC. The new version adds archiving, tabs, and new search options. It's also gotten a usability overhaul, with a much simpler email account setup. Under the covers, the latest version of the Gecko engine, 1.9.1.5 speeds up rendering, as does background IMAP folder synchronization. Search has been enhanced, too, with a timeline and refinement filters. PCMag.com has a full review andslideshow of the new Thunderbird 3.
Feed news.com: Mozilla issues near-final Thunderbird 3 (cnet.com)
The new e-mail software adds an archive option, improves search, and aims to ease some tasks. Also: Mozilla wants 3.1 sooner rather than later.
Submission + - Thunderbird 3.0 RC 1 Released (mozillamessaging.com)
kpgadkari writes: Mozilla just released the first release candidate for Thunderbird 3.0.
Submission + - DavMail 3.6.1 released (sourceforge.net)
SF:mguessan writes: Ever wanted to get rid of Outlook ? DavMail is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/LDAP exchange gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client (e.g. Thunderbird with Lightning or Apple iCal) with an Exchange server, even from the internet or behind a firewall through Outlook Web Access. DavMail now includes an LDAP gateway to Exchange global address book to allow recipient address completion in mail compoze window and full calendar support with attendees free/busy display.
The main goal of DavMail is to provide standard compliant protocols in front of proprietary Exchange. This means LDAP for address book, SMTP to send messages, IMAP to browse messages on the server in any folder, POP to retrieve inbox messages only and Caldav for calendar support. Thus any standard compliant client can be used with Microsoft Exchange.
DavMail gateway is implemented in java and should run on any platform. Releases are tested on Windows, Linux (Ubuntu) and Mac OSX. Tested successfully with the Iphone (gateway running on a server).
This is a bugfix release with fixed regressions from 3.6.0
and a few enhancements from user feedback.
Documentation:
- Doc: switch download links to generic link
- Doc: Update roadmap
- Doc: add roadmap
Bugfixes:
- Fix regression in Form Based Authentication: detect Exchange 2007 UserContext cookie
- Host is mandatory for NTLMScheme, get current hostname for proxy authentication
Enhancements:
- Experimental: reactivate NTLM authentication but leave authentication preemptive mode to allow basic authentication.
- Move PKCS11 registration to a separate class to avoid ClassNotFoundException
- Experimental OTP (token) based authentication
- Vista png icons support for JSmooth
- Fix from audit
- New upload-dist ant task to upload new release files
Caldav:
- Caldav: failover for Exchange 2007 plus encoding issue, search event by displayname to get permanent Url
- Caldav: Additional timezones
- Caldav: Revert commit 765, VTODO events have a null instancetype
- Caldav: additional timezone
- Caldav: Remove MAILTO: in addition to mailto: in getFreeBusy
- Caldav: Bug 2898469 do not UrlEncode draft url twice to avoid 404 not found on send event message
Submission + - Senator Kennedy dies at age 77 (nytimes.com)
dorfer21 writes: "Ted Kennedy dies at age 77 after a battle with brain cancer.
Link from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/us/politics/27kennedy.html?_r=1&hp
Although not all of us agreed with his political philosophy, it would be kind to hold a moment of silence for him"
Submission + - Ted Kennedy dies at 77
Hognoxious writes: Ted Kennedy has succumbed to brain cancer at the age of 77. The funeral cortege will leave the family residence before swerving left and right then driving off a bridge.
Submission + - D&D Co-Creator Dave Arneson Passes Away 1
Mr. Bad Example writes: Dave Arneson, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons with Gary Gygax, has apparently passed away at the age of 61. According to the announcement, the family is planning to hold a public visitation later this month.
Comment More reports (Score 1) 1
Submission + - R.I.P.: Dungeons & Dragons Co-creator Dave Arn (scifiwire.com) 1
Dave Knott writes: "Dave Arneson, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game passed away on Tuesday at the age of 61 after a long struggle with cancer. Arneson, along with Gary Gygax, drafted the original rules for D&D and, after failing to get any interest from mainstream publishers, formed Tactical Studies Rules (better known as TSR), jump-starting the role-playing games genre and publishing industry. Arneson left TSR in 1979 under the cloud of a lawsuit, the full details of which were never disclosed. He also founded the still active computer games company 4D Interactive, and spent much of the latter part of his life teaching role-playing game design."
Comment Re:A book couldn't hurt (Score 1) 195
I'll second this. Essential PHP Security is a good book to get you started in coding securely with PHP.
Submission + - Browse the iTunes Store Without Installing iTunes (labnol.org)
Kolargol00 writes: Browsing the iTunes Music Store was only possible with the iTunes desktop application. Thus limiting its platform support to MS Windows and MacOS X. Now with Nikhil's Google App Engine powered App Store one can browse the iTunes store as a website without having to install iTunes. He managed to successfully decode the complex XML format of iTunes and render it as regular HTML pages in real time.
