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Red Hat Software

Submission + - Red Hat aims at messaging middleware

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Mattias Andersson
Mattias Andersson writes: "IT Week has published an article on Red Hat taking on messaging middleware giants. It made it to the front cover on this weeks edition. From the article: The open-source giant has introduced Enterprise MRG, a platform it said will allow applications and components to communicate radically faster than is possible with proprietary software available from firms such as IBM and Tibco. Messaging middleware is most used in environments where lowest levels of latency are needed, for example in financial trading systems, but Red Hat believes that it should be more widely deployed across companies seeking more automation, for example across supply chains and complex business processes involving multiple partners."
The Internet

Submission + - New way of web page making and usage (whipie.com)

Submitted by
Marcos Mirete
Marcos Mirete writes: "I want to describe here Whipie. A new patented free to use system that allows everybody to have a web page or web site without any computer science knowledge. Whipie is the first on-line web page maker that don't use any templates and lets people desing a web pages as if they were using a paint tool based in X,Y coordinates system. It's just as easy as that. Whipie is also the first web site maker that use HTML as a graphic specification language. Have a look at: http://www.whipie.com/"
The Internet

Submission + - AMF specifications get public (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by
neutrino38
neutrino38 writes: "Adobe released the specification of the AMF format. This was the format used by Flash Remoting, the equivalent of AJAX for the Flash world.

The article did not refer to the AMFPHP project and the fact that some German and Canadian guys already reverse engineered the format a long time ago. This disclosure will also remove a long standing legal uncertainty that prevented to use AMFPHP for commercial projects too openly.

Secondly, we need to note that Adobe does not document its RTMP protocol used to contact Flash Media server. This later protocol is more iteresting in terms of possibilities as it provides:
  • Sessionful operation
  • Media streaming
  • Remote procedure call both client side and server side using AMF format
  • Shared objects between several sessions and server side events


Fortunately, this protocol has partially been reverse engineered by people of the red5 project. I would suggest that the W3C should take a look at the whole Flash ecosystem if they think about upgrading the HTTP protocol."
The Internet

Submission + - HTML V5 and XHTML V2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: While the intention of both HTML V5 and XHTML V2 is to improve on the existing versions, the approaches the developers chose to make those improvements is very different. And with differing philosophies come distinct results. For the first time in many years, the direction of upcoming browser versions is uncertain. This article uncover the bigger picture behind the details of these two standards.
Biotech

Submission + - Mating Across the Species Barrier

Submitted by
Reservoir Hill
Reservoir Hill writes: "Mating with another species is often maladaptive, but biologists are reporting the first example of harsh environmental conditions driving an animal across the species barrier as a survival strategy. When drought threatens, one species of spadefoot toad will mate with more drought resistant toads of another species so that their offspring have the best chance of survival even if it means that those offspring will have a lower chance of reproducing successfully. One possibility is that the toads need their offspring to develop more quickly when water is in short supply and field tests confirmed that hybrid tadpoles were more likely to survive through metamorphosis in rapidly drying pools. "Females are probably assessing a lot more out there than just how long the male's tail is," says Karen Pfennig, a biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "They are probably more sensitive to their own condition and environment when choosing a male.""
The Internet

Submission + - HTTP Authentication: Solutions and Futures (jdarx.info) 1

Submitted by
wayland
wayland writes: "wayland's Computer Stuff has a series of articles on the usefulness (or otherwise) of HTTP Authentication. Covering problems ranging from whether authentication is optional, to the poor user interface, to internationalisation, this series presents solutions to the problems listed, both short-term (technical) fixes, and long-term (RFC-changing) suggestions."
Security

Submission + - Is 802.1X for real? If so, how do I pull it off?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I have been asked by management via auditors and regulatory compliance to deploy an 802.1X wired network at my work. This project has been going on for some time and with little success. The biggest problems we have seen is that the native windows supplicant does not work all that well and completely breaks down if you try to RDP in to a machine (which the support desk does all the time). It also has no support for EAP-TTLS/PAP, which we need as our user accounts are stored in Kerberos (MIT's). I have looked at a few other supplicants from Juniper and Cisco, but then stumbled upon XSupplicant from Open1X and read on their email list today that they have released 2.0 for Windows XP. Doing a little bit more reading I found out that this release comes on the heals of the announcement that Aruba Networks and HP Procurve have joined Open1X and the OpenSEA Alliance along with Extreme Networks, Identity Engines, Infoblox, Ja.net, Symantec, TippingPoint, and Trapeze to further secure network authentication via 802.1X. So with all of these vendors backing XSupplicant, does that mean it is pretty solid? I guess my big questions are, who is deploying 802.1X?, what are people's views of 802.1X? and does it really make the edge of my network more secure or are the auditors just up in the night? Thanks
Data Storage

Submission + - What is Your Off-site Backup Strategy? 2

Submitted by Giarc
Giarc writes: I am rethinking our current backup strategy of the off-site storage of tapes. I have looked into Iron Mountain, but with us being a small/medium sized company I think that is overkill. I was, however, thinking of using a courier service to pick up the nightly backup and drop off the previous night. as well as store archival tapes in their warehouse. Problems I see with this method is that it environment may not be the greatest nor the transport mode. But it is better than the tape sitting on the front seat of my Saturn and on my counter, when I do remember to bring the tape in. What is your off-site strategy?
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - Has anyone gotten the GPL code for the Samsung TVs 2

Submitted by Daniel Lamblin
Daniel Lamblin writes: When I got my Samsung LN-T3242H 32" 720P LCD HD TV It came with a copy of the GPL, and a statement saying that some software used in the product is covered by the GPL and other software by LGPL. There was also a USB port on the back from which new firmware could be loaded. This excited me and I emailed the address specified with a request for the code, and anything they were willing to give as documentation with it. I believe the GPL specifies that there must be a usable way to build the source too. Well, two requests later, I had no reply. I emailed a Samsung engineer formerly involved in GPL related work, and he forwarded my request to the right people. It seemed. The last I heard, and they did try to keep me updated, was that they're getting it together for me, I should have it soon, and they need to talk to people in Monta Vista. This was in October. I got the TV in June and made requests starting then.

Apparently several, if not all, Samsung TV models have a reference to using some GPL code. This goes back about to 2005, maybe more. Has anyone's request for the source been honored? I understand maybe my TV has slightly different code, and they may be using a VCS to find the right branch, but it would make me feel better knowing that this isn't a black-hole and that someone's actually gotten some code out of Samsung regarding their TV using GPL & LGPL.

PS edit as needed.
Software

Submission + - Nokia claims Ogg format is "proprietary" 2

Submitted by a nona maus
a nona maus writes: Several months ago the WHATWG workgroup of the W3C decided to include Ogg/Theora+Vorbis as the recommended baseline video codec standard for HTML5, against Apple's aggressive protest. Now, Nokia seems to be seeking a reversal of that decision: they have released a position paper calling Ogg "proprietary" and citing the importance of DRM support. Nokia has historically responded to questions about Ogg on their internet tablets with strange and inconsistent answers, along with hand waving about their legal department. This latest step is enough to really make you wonder what they are really up to.
Announcements

Submission + - Huge offshore wind power programme launched in UK

Submitted by OriginalArlen
OriginalArlen writes: The UK government has announced an ambitious plan to expand the existing, already extensive offshore wind turbine farms to an estimated 7000 units, enough to generate 20% of the UK's power needs by 2020. The newly green-friendly Conservative opposition party is also backing the scheme. Wonder what they'll make of it in Oregon...
Programming

Submission + - LPI Exam 301: LDAP Development

Submitted by LinucksGirl
LinucksGirl writes: Welcome to the next step in studying for the Linux certification exam 301. In this tutorial (the second in a series of six tutorials on exam 301 topics), learn how to install and configure a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server, and writing some Perl scripts to access the data.
Programming

Submission + - OAuth Core 1.0 (oauth.net)

Submitted by
mr4braham
mr4braham writes: "The OAuth Working Group is pleased to announce publication of the OAuth Core 1.0 Specification. OAuth (pronounced "Oh-Auth"), summarized as "your valet key for the web," enables developers of web-enabled software to integrate with web services on behalf of a user without requiring the user to share private credentials, such as passwords, between sites. The specification can be found at http://oauth.net/core/1.0 and supporting resources can be found at http://oauth.net./"
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Music Industry on Last Legs says Exec

Submitted by
Ponca City, We Love You
Ponca City, We Love You writes: "For years, the major record labels have fought a pitched battle against the MP3 format and although major labels like EMI and the Universal Music Group have embraced the MP3 format in recent months, a story from the Mercury News says early returns from those moves indicate they've had little impact on the industry's fortunes — for better or for worse. "These are ailing businesses on their last legs," said Eric Garland, chief executive of BigChampagne, a market research company focused on digital media. The question of copy protection on song downloads "matters a whole lot less to them than it once did." The industry has a bigger problem. Consumers used to buy CDs for $10 or $15 a pop. Increasingly, they're buying songs at about $1 apiece instead. So, even if transactions continue to increase, the industry is seeing far less money each time consumers buy and it's having a difficult time making up the difference. By potentially encouraging more music sales, moving to MP3s may be one piece of the answer to the industry's problem but it's not the only one. Instead, the industry's going to have to explore other ideas, including advertising-supported music, promotional relationships and subscriptions."

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