A hacker’s just exposed a Mozilla Firefox security flaw - one that makes phishing far too easy and clueless Net users far too vulnerable.
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"The message http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-12/msg01268.html by Eric Raymond has pointed out some of the main fallacies of the development process of Emacs..."
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Get KDE 4.0 Release counter for your website
Show the KDE 4.0 Release counter in your website and help us spread KDE4.
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Ubuntu Live 2007 conference videos
Ubuntu Live 2007 conference in Portland have been posted: http://ubuntulive.blip.tv/
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European Common Lisp Meeting, Amsterdam, April 19/20
"Arthur Lemmens and Edi Weitz are proud to announce (it says here, and so they should be) the European Common Lisp Meeting 2008..."
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Halcyon - A Ruby and JSON Powered Web App Framework
"Halcyon is a interesting new Web app framework by Matt Todd, written in Ruby. What makes Halcyon interesting is that while it's very small and fast, as many of the Web app framework newcomers (such as Sinatra) are, its focus is entirely on using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) for communications to and from the server..."
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Dealing With Contentious Kernel Blobs
The issue of binary kernel blobs cropped up on the gNewSense Mailing list recently. The discussion I saw was friendly enough, but the real benefit for me was that I got to see just why kernel blobs are so, well... contentious.
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Three steps to Open Source in the Church
The history and legacy of the Church in the late 1990s and 2000s will be lost in 10 years because we will lack the software to open its’ data.
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Mozilla Weave... Mozilla is trying to be more social
The newest Project of Mozilla labs was "Weave". It allows the user to save his browser settings on Mozilla servers (Favorites, sessions ,passwords...etc..) and be able to load it wherever he is.
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Announcing: The Coming Of Piglets To The Emacspeak Desktop
"This is to announce a new emacspeak module called Piglets that brings together Emacs and Firefox to create a powerful framework for authoring Web interaction wizards..."
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Does XML have a future on the web?
"I was invited to speak at XML 2007 last month. I was given the topic 'Does XML have a future on the web?' My answer was 'yes.' As evidence, I offered that there are still people selling Cobol compilers. Once this stuff gets into the enterprise, it can take generations to get rid of it..."
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Anti Releases an Update to antiX 7.0
"Morgantown, WV, US and Thessaloniki, Greece, Dec 31, 2007 -- MEPIS has announced the release of antiX-M7.01 "Lysistrata" , a lightweight derivative of SimplyMEPIS 7.0. antiX is built and maintained by MEPIS community member anticapitalista, as a free version of MEPIS for very old 32 bit PC hardware and is designed to work on computers with as little as 64MB RAM and Pentium II or equivalent, but not AMD K5/K6 processors..."
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SME Server 7.3
"The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 7.3. This release is based on CentOS 4.6 and all packages have been updated to the latest releases..."
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Monkeys Still Unable To Produce Shakespeare -- Or Perl
It seemed like a simple experiment. Put a million monkeys in front of a million Linux boxes and see how long it would take for them to generate a Shakesperian play or a useful Perl script.
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Java is becoming the new Cobol
"If you’re a Java developer, now’s the time to invest in new skills." Via obie fernandez -- I think java (and .net) will be superseded by dynamic and/or functional languages...
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