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Submission + - BBC trust to listen to OSC about iPlayer (digital-lifestyles.info)

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Virgil Tibbs

on Friday July 13, 2007 @09:44PM

Virgil Tibbs writes: "With the Launch of the BBC's iPlayer imminent, the BBC trust has agreed to hear the Open Source Consortium concerns regarding the BBC iPlayer's tie in with Microsoft's software. The move by the BBC to use Windows Media DRM & their apparent lack of commitment towards other platforms has caused outrage in many circles and prompted several online petitions."

Submission + - Vista makes forensic exam of PC easier for lawyers (abanet.org)

Submitted by Katharine on Friday July 13, 2007 @07:41PM

Katharine writes: Jason Krause, a legal affairs writer for the American Bar Association's 'ABA Journal' reports in the July issue that Windows Vista will be a boon for those looking for forensic evidence of wrongdoing on defendants' PC's and a nightmare for defendants who hoped their past computer activities would not be revealed. Krause quotes attorney R. Lee Barrett, 'From a [legal] defense perspective, [Vista] scares me to death. One of the things I have a hard time educating my clients on is the volume of data that's now discoverable.' The fun is primarily attributable to Shadow Copy, TxF and Instant Search.

Submission + - PHP 4 end of life announcement

Submitted by perbert on Friday July 13, 2007 @06:58PM

perbert writes: The PHP development team announced that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. Critical security fixes will be made available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, there is a migration guide. There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 migration guides as well.

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