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[osdn starter] March 14, 2003
Date: Fri Mar 14 2003 - 04:00:55 EST
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March 14, 2003 STARTER SERIES
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Slashdot
SuSE 8.2 Announced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/0128259
[0]Venotar writes "It looks like SuSE's once more setting the bar
pretty high. According to [1] their recent announcement, SuSE 8.2's
release date is set for April 12th. Amongst other nifty features, KDE
3.1 apparently includes tabbed browsing, the ability to sync with
Exchange servers, a new administration tool called "Desktop sharing"
that allows remote control of other desktops, and several interesting
new crypto/security features. Gnome 2.2 is also included, as well as a
profile manager for mobile users, and gcc 3.3. Have a lot of fun!"
Links
0. http://<gro.hcetelttab> <ta> <ratonev>
The Future of PC Games, According to Microsoft http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/0113234
[0]Geaty writes "[1]Gamespot has an article up about [2]Microsoft's big
PC plans. Topics covered include why DirectX 9 will be the last DX for
a while, the increased game support in Longhorn, and a 'standard' PC
controller. Looks to this ignorant reader like Microsoft is trying to
tackle the games market (again?), cornering matchmaking and patching.
The controller issue seems like an attempt to bring to the PC platform
some of the uniformity that consoles have."
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/~Geaty
1.
http://gamespot.com/
2.
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2912498,00.html
Building a Better Motorized Bicycle
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1757223
[0]toyotaboy writes "Saw this in 'design news' magazine. It's a bicycle
using an engine that looks like [1]something pulled off of an R/C
airplane. He uses a gear reduction system as well as a overrunning
clutch to keep the engine running while stopped. Claims to get 20 mile
range from its 1/4 gallon gas tank (80mpg). If you figure most engines
like that are 30k rpm with 1:100 gear reduction, and an average bike
rim is 26", you should get potentially 1,458,000 inches per hour, or
23mph! He goes on to say that similar devices in electric form (segway)
fail because of their heavy 80lb weight and limited 10-15 mile range
(and where do you recharge?) This thing can be filled back up at any
gas station."
Links
0. mailto:toyotaboy@iwic.net
Remote RSA Timing Attacks Practical
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/0012214
[0]David Brumley and Dan Boneh writes "Timing attacks are usually used
to attack weak computing devices such as smartcards. We show that
timing attacks apply to general software systems. Specifically, we
devise a timing attack against OpenSSL. Our experiments show that we
can extract private keys from a OpenSSL-based server such as Apache
with mod_SSL and stunnel running on a machine in the local network. Our
results demonstrate that timing attacks against widely deployed network
servers are practical. Subsequently, software should implement defenses
against timing attacks. [1]Our paper can be found at Stanford's
[2]Applied Crypto Group."
Links
0. mailto:dbrumley@stanford.edu
1.
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/abstracts/ssl-timing.html
2.
http://crypto.stanford.edu/Slashback: Centrinissimo, Damages, Software http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1748228
Slashback with more on open code in government, Intel's new low-power mobile chips, the nature of the engineers, craftsmen or whatchamacallims who spend their days forging software, the CD price-fixing settlement, and more -- read on for the details.
WETA Digital Operations Mgr. Talks Special Effects http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/2155229
[0]Xoanon (from TheOneRing.net) writes "I was recently privileged
enough to view a lecture by Milton Ngan. As far as IT stuff goes,
Milton has a pretty good job. You see, he is the Digital Operations
Manager at Weta Digital. He is basically the architect for all the
technical side of things at Weta. Last night he came and gave a 1 hour
lecture at Victoria University outlining the hurdles and obstacles that
needed to be overcome to produce the stunning 3D graphics lying in each
of the Lord of the Rings movies. The lecture itself was full of lots of
facts about Weta, the IT side of things and it also included some very
cool behind the scenes shots of The Two Towers. The following is a
detailed report from the event, where Ngan gave us an amazing
behind-the-scenes look at WETAs infrastructure, their mainframes and
various workstations. There is also a TON of info in regards to the
special effects process, and news about MASSIVE. [1]Take a look."
Links
Texas Court Blocks Screen-Scraper
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/2039226
An anonymous reader writes "A Texas court has granted American Airlines
[0]an injunction against Farechaser to stop them from using a
[1]screen-scraper to copy airfare information from their website in
violation of the terms and conditions. In a stunning display of
hypocrisy, [2]Farechase.com's own terms and conditions prohibit users
from doing to them exactly what they are doing to AA.com. [3]The EFF is
involved, but it's unclear whether they're supporting the
enforceability of a website's terms and conditions or Farechase's right
to violate them."
Links
0.
http://www.eff.org/Cases/AA_v_Farechase/20030310_prelim_inj.pdf
1.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1849243&tid=156
2.
http://www.farechase.com/farechase/website/terms.jsp
3.
http://www.eff.org/Cases/AA_v_Farechase/
Mozilla.org Launches Mozilla 1.3
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/2028209
[0]theBrownfury writes "Mozilla 1.3 is out and about. New to this
version are features like image auto sizing, bayesian junk-mail
filtering, dynamic profile switching, about:config for a pretty view
into all of Mozilla's "secret" settings, an initial version of [1]Midas
for rich text editing, and a lot of other fixes for performance,
standards compliance and site compatability. Also with 1.3 Mozilla is
now applying [2]machine learning to improve the autocomplete feature.
Mozilla 1.3 is now the official stable release from [3]mozilla.org.
Users of all previous versions should upgrade to 1.3 for the latest in
features and stability. More info at the [4]1.3 release page and
discussions at [5]mozillaZine.org."
Links
0. mailto:the_brownfury@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midas-spec.html
2.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ml/autocomplete/
3.
http://www.mozilla.org/
4.
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.3/
5.
http://www.mozillazine.org/
Mandrake 9.0 for AMD 64-bit Technology
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/208259
[0]Wister285 writes "Mandrake Linux has released a version of their
operating system that is compatible with [1]AMD’s 64-bit x86
architecture. This version is based upon Mandrake 9.0. In addition to
this, Mandrake announced Corporate Server 2.1 for AMD64 to be released
in April 2003 and MandrakeClustering for Opteron in June 2003. Although
they say that you can download the operating system now, I cannot find
any FTP servers. [2]The press release is located on Mandrake's
website."
Links
0.
http://wister.org/
1.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_875_1024,00.html
2.
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2414
Red Hat Announces Enterprise Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1656246
[0]OldBen writes "RedHat has announced the product stable to replace
the mainstream releases for enterprise use. RedHat Enterprise Linux AS
replaces Advanced Server (with quite a price hike to go along), ES is
targeted at "entry-level" servers, and WS is for workstations. See the
details at [1]RedHat's website."
Links
0. mailto:mmerideth@raindance.cSLACKWAREom minus distro
Linux.com
Testing SMP Kernel Modules with UML
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1630239
So you have just written, tested, debugged, and delivered a kernel module to your satisfied customer, who then distributed it to end users. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/03/03/uml_smp.html
HOWTO: Streaming MPEG-4 with Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1527202
What is video streaming? Traditionally, we must download the whole video file in order to play it. With streaming, video data sent to the streaming client is decoded and played immediately, as it is received. Implementations such as video conferencing, surveillance systems and video on demand (VOD) all are based on video streaming technology.
Windows out, Linux in
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1847217
While recent research from Gartner Dataquest shows that Linux server sales are up compared to Unix boxes (see the first newsletter of last week), that's not the whole story when considering how much Linux is actually being used in enterprise networks.
1GHz PPC-based Linux-compatible SBC targets DoD "smart platforms" http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1716238
Synergy Microsystems announced a PowerPC-based single-board computer that the company says was designed specifically to meet the DoD's emerging "smart platform" requirements.
1dok.org at the CeBIT 2003 ...and more
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1713233
dada9700 writes "1. CeBIT: In cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the Fraunhofer Institute for open communication systems and the Technologietransferzentrale Schleswig-Holstein 1dok.org will fill one of the Future Talks subject blocs at the CeBIT 2003 on 18 Mar 2003."
Microsoft blesses VM technology
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1710237
In late February, Microsoft acquired technology that could significantly change the way companies acquire server hardware and deploy Windows-based operating systems on the client and the server. For Microsoft, the acquisition of Connectix virtual machine (VM) technology signals a major change in its attitude toward the virtualization of its operating systems.
Mandrake Linux 9.0 for AMD 64-bit technology is available http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1655232
Gael Duval writes "MandrakeSoft today announced the release of Mandrake Linux 9.0 for Opteron® processors based on AMD 64-bit technology. This development will lead to a planned release in April 2003 of the 'Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 2.1' for AMD Opteron®, a product dedicated to server deployment in medium to large accounts. Later in June 2003, MandrakeSoft will release 'MandrakeClustering' for Opteron®, an easy-to-use clustering solution ...
How Open Source Software Harms the Environment http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1650207
turmeric writes "As you may know, Open Source has always lagged far behind in many 'consumer' type of features. Among the most prominent are 'power saving' modes featured on many of the newer PCs. The subsystems, of hardware, BIOS, and operating systems, reduce the amount of power consumed by the computer when it is not in use, and thus save energy and the environment. However, it is clear that by eschewing these features as being for 'lame ...
Mandrake Linux Advisory: usermode
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1559207
The /usr/bin/shutdown command that comes with the usermode package can be executed by local users to shutdown all running processes and drop into a root shell.
Debian Security Advisory - qpopper user privilege escalation http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1551211
Florian Heinz posted to the Bugtraq mailing list an exploit for qpopper based on a bug in the included vsnprintf implementation.
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