Security Issues in Mac OS X
In Boston, the conference SOURCE, Dino Dai Zovi has made a demonstration on how to break the security of Apple's operating system. To make the show has used the data memory (HEAP Memory) is not sufficiently protected in order to perform the attack. This problem is currently produced in Leopard but it is anticipated that in the next version, Snow Leopard, will be resolved as data memory will be random.
So far, Mac OS X was considered one of the most secure systems on the market. However this finding may be that serious attacks appear to Mac OS X.
As a curiosity the iPhone OS is not vulnerable to the problem described above.
More details on faq-mac-com .
If you're legal, use Open Office
"This copy Linex Legal" is a slogan I use in his day the Junta de Extremadura to promote circulation and that could well be estrapolar to Open Office today. Gloger is gerund, I found this article on UbuntuArte . Take a look that is priceless
"A promotional message from OpenOffice, cites that 35% of software in the world are pirated or illegal, we asked whether our software is legal and clearly described Microsoft's strategy.
"After years of unofficially tolerating piracy as a means of securing control of the market, Microsoft is now conducting an offensive to ensure that copies of their software is legitimate:
* Just buy AssetMetrix, a software company specializing in detecting what programs we have installed in our PCs
* You are using the internet to install detection software copies of MS-Office on users' PCs.
* Throughout the world, the Business Software Alliance is organizing efforts to prosecute those who violate their conditions - for example in the UK offers great financial rewards to any informer who reports to companies that use pirated software.
* Microsoft itself admits that clients have difficulty understanding the complexities of software licensing - it's easy to accidentally break their conditions. "
Note that OpenOffice is a perfectly viable alternative, and further copies are legal and will not cost you money. "
Βeta2 NexentaCore Platform 2.0
OpenSolaris build104 + Symbiosis and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (replacing Debian) to gain support for hardware, can now use apt-clone from Zetta Filesystem to install, manage, update applications Sun / Linux compatible (13000 packages in the repository). A GNU with Solaris kernel but he seems to Linux.
File. Iso.zip to burn or virtualize >>>>>>
PC-BSD 7.1 "Galileo" αlpha2
Faster than my updates to PCBSD is the development of BSD Unix FreeDesktop "beautiful" and simple when you install software, now based on FreeBSD 7.1-Stable and adding Xorg 7.4 (headaches for Kris Moore and colleagues) with KDE 4.2. I guess you already have full support in Spanish from the preferred WindowManager Linus Benedict Torvalds.
For experimenters: DVD (1.9 GBytes) FTP site
Nanowires to create memory circuit
Stuart Parkin, a former developer for IBM hard disk, goes after a memory chip with a storage capacity of magnetic hard disk, the durability of electronic flash memory, and faster than both: technology called "memory circuit ". He claims that the current limiting are two-dimensional structures and proposes the use of nanowires (not read Bill Joy as Kurzweil has read a lot of fears but Kazcinsky) magnetic contiguous three-dimensional framework, if successful, the current perpendicular recording Hitachi and WD remain in the museum of International Business Machines developments. The device handle 100 times more data in the same area as NAND Flash uses transistors, fast as RAM. Now everything depends on the material used for the nanowire comes after this time of wire-less ... and there will be petabytes of holography.
Source: Technology Review
Interesting collection of viruses / malware most important of recent years.
In http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/444935/0/virus/importantes/historia/
You can find an interesting collection of virus / trojans and malware in general the most important and influential of the past 30 years.
It is interesting and also worrying to see as increasingly become more complex and more encouragement to cause the most damage possible. It is also interesting to note that these "junk" are produced from long ago, when the software was not as complex or as safe as now alleged. Or is that the complexity of current software is a fundamental reason that it is used to promote their judgments for destructive purposes? Is it impossible to completely secure software design? If so it makes sense to have such a number of languages and possibilities would be more effective and make efforts to create "lines of code" safer?
The model Freeware application development ERP CRM
Years ago I move into the world of "free software" and more and more companies decide to change its business model "giving away" their applications and offering his services as compensation. Behold, surfing the net I found a very interesting series of articles about a company that just happened to offer its main asset, in this case an ERP + CRM, free charging only for the installation, configuration, ETC. of your product. The director of the company, Ignacio Herrero del Campo, has published a series of articles on the business model Freeware for interesting reading. Here you first.
It is no coincidence ... infected the British navy.
Relatively recently, posteabamos news about an alleged operating system derived from the British Navy used Windows XP. Although at the time looked quite disbelief the news, now we see another that makes us believe a little more at first. Apparently a virus has invaded the British fleet, extending out of control so that according to The Inquirer have had to make regular telephone communications with the-mill. According to reports from the concerned government weapons systems and navigation is not affected.
We assume that the news should be taken with caution though it seems that it is a joke. I leave the link to the original story is lost less significant (detail) possible:
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Chaos-for-navy-as-virus.4879984.jp
Real or taken out of context?
More legal trouble for Microsoft
As if Microsoft did not have enough trouble with the law because it Europera unfair competition considers the fact of including a media player with its operating system (Windnows Media Player) (remember that Microsoft has already paid more than $ 600 million as a penalty ), now the commission Europera load again, this time the problem seems to be of the same nature is accused Microsoft of abusing its dominant position by the inclusion of Internet Explorer in its default operating system, thus preventing some way that other alternatives may come more clearly to the end user.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/EU-Charges-Microsoft-with-Quashing-Web-Browser-Rivals/
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