Gnome 2.26 has been released
Already out the latest version of the famous desktop for UNIX, version 2.26. It brings many new and improved file sharing with WEBDAV, HTTP or Bluetooth, improved migration from Windows and various improvements to system components such as Pulse Audio or the display settings.
There are also developments in desktop applications as sistintas Evolution, Brasero, Epiphany Media Player or Empathy among other applications.
For more information read the official notice of the Gnome team .
For those who do not want to wait for the various distributions empaquten the new version you can download a live distribution to test new developments in this direction .
Problems Jaunty and ATI drivers
The next version of Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) has a problem with drivers for most ATI cards. The problem seems to lie in the compatibility with the new version of XServer, version 1.6, with the driver current owner.
So far it has prioritized wishlist so you do not think that since Ubuntu is going to give short-term solution. According to the developers of Ubuntu is ATI which is responsible to update the driver and now propose using the free driver despite not available graphics acceleration.
More information on the page of discussion of the bug .
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 is considered one of the most secure systems on the market. However this finding may be that serious attacks appear to Mac OS X.
Curiously the iPhone OS is not vulnerable to the problem described above.
More details in faq-mac-com .
Mono 2.4 is throwing themselves and contains more functionality
The. NET incorporates universal in its most complete ASP.NET 3.5, metadata checker for the JIT compiler and the expected inclusion of MonoDevelop 2.0.
Except that does not support Linq what you needed to completely replace VStudio 2008 Orcas Microsoft?
I think Mono is what certifications closer to those developers that are shifted to open this tool and platform-level software architects WinFX, J2EE Java or Objective-C Cocoa "institute" Apple.
Novell certifications.
Mono 3.0 is expected with C # 4 to the end of 2009.
Packages, and live virtual machine OpenSuSE available on some days in Mono-Project.com
QT 4.5
In the beginning (1994) was Trolltech and graphics libraries and expanded the possibilities of free Unix GNU / Linux. Nokia has just announced the availability of open source QT 4.5 (apart paradox is to promote open source SymbianOS to compete in the always open and always open Linux KDE applicant of the QT, nothing's stopping by the way). The novelty is that the name is converted to QtDesigner Qt Creator IDE into a very modern 1.0 SDK that supports WebKit, Flash, JScript engine and launches a new framework for improving Cocoa development on Mac OS X. Interoperability and integration with KDevelop will be news from my user experience in a few weeks.
Airport Wi-Fi problems in iMac solved
IMac computer users had a serious problem with the wifi connection due to a failure Airport, the program that manages connections. It is an update (5.4.1) for Mac OS X 10.5.6, and it solves the problems with roaming and network selection wifi.
Airport Wifi
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 have read a lot but fears Kazcinsky) three-dimensional magnetic lattices contiguous, if successful, the current perpendicular recording Hitachi and WD be at 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
Mac OS 10 Leopard upgrade will have a more
Since the last version published on 15 December all expect Snow Leopard which is currently in build 10A261, but well before the summer will allow progress to OS X 10.5.7, security updates and minor synchronization with mobile devices so require. The Snow Leopard will come later with maximum use of Intel multicore and GPU as ATI Radeon HD 4850 that border the stream-teraflop their processors.
The ubiquitous among us JJ Ubuntu 9.04 (alpha5)
It has published the penultimate alpha of Ubuntu (the beta on March 26 will be). Bring shoes the X.Org server 1.6 in userspace, kernel 2.6.28, ext4 filesystem, notifications are displayed as a transparent bubble to operate with XWindows Growl style of Mac OS X, etc.. You can upgrade previous version using update-manager-d from Konsole.
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Errors have been reported with the child processes in a console Perhaps best alpha6 by March 12?
How to write your Linux virus in 5 easy steps.
This is the headline with which I am in http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6229
As discussed in the web that mention, has always been said that Linux and Unix systems are extremely safe. Sim, however, that as time passes these systems be gaining users, and these programs using increasingly more complex and more "automatic / comfortable", causes the lack of knowledge, the routine use or lack of foresight made our system as robust, at least internally, to become a sieve. In the article that I have left are described 5 steps to create a type of software that is able to spread through almost every Linux and Unix with Gnome and / or KDE and cause damage that can be considered quite simply with a little social engineering. This article could easily open multiple debates but particularly I think the more necessary would be to talk about the minimum training that anyone should have when using a computer, after all we have learned also all driving?
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