heise online news 18/11/2008

heise online news 18/11/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Hyperic 4.0 for cloud watchers Hyperic HQ 4.0, a free monitoring solution for managing physical servers and virtual Xen machines, now also supports virtual machines in Amazon's EC2 › Read article     Vulnerability discovered in SSH specification An error in the secure shell protocol (SSH) specification can in rare cases be exploited to reconstruct part of the plain text. The problem is reported to occur in CBC mode, in conjunction with specific error states › Read article     DRBD+ high availability solution turns open source The forthcoming version 8.3 of the free DRBD replication solution will incorporate the features of DRBD+, which has so far only been available under a commercial licence › Read article     Adobe releases alpha Flash player for 64 bit Linux Adobe have released an alpha of their Flash player which runs in native mode on 64 bit Linux › Read article     Kickfire's "SQL chip" business gets a new CEO Kickfire, who make MySQL appliances powered with specialised SQL processors, has secured database veteran Bruce Armstrong as its new CEO › Read article     MP3 patent problem at Openmoko Openmoko removes the MP3 support from the firmware of the Linux Freerunner smartphone › Read article     Web forum for FreeBSD The FreeBSD project has set up an official web forum for discussions about the free Unix and its environment › Read article     Kernel Log: New graphics drivers and Linux versions: Dom0 patches for 2.6.29? New graphic drivers for AMD, Intel and Nvidia hardware; three new stable kernels with one more on the way; fifth pre-release version of Linux 2.6.28; X server 1.6 planned; details of the Android kernel; Xen Dom0 patches for appraisal › Read article     Adobe offers cloud computing services Professional Flash developers can now extend their applications in real time with social apps hosted on Adobe servers › Read article     German MP Heilmann capitulates in German Wikipedia dispute (Updated) Following massive protests, Lutz Heilmann today announced he was withdrawing his injunction against Wikipedia in Germany but the dispute isn't all over yet › Read article     UK government minister proposes ISP name-and-shame list To put pressure on internet service providers, the UK culture minister wants to introduce league tables showing how long they take to remove offensive and illegal material › Read article     Linux API harnesses GeForce GPU's HD video capabilities Nvidia has released the beta version of a generic API that allows Unix-like systems to pass the decoding of HD movies and several other HD video rendering tasks to the graphics hardware › Read article     Another false alarm in AVG antivirus program [Update] Recently the program mistakenly wanted to delete a Windows system library. Now, updating the virus signatures has resulted in Adobe Flash being identified as a malware sample › Read article     FBI tried to lure Half Life 2 hacker to the US Valve, the US games developer, in co-operation with the FBI, tried to use a job offer to lure the German Axel "Ago" Gembe to the US in order to apprehend him there › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. If you want to read it as plain text, you will have to change the display mode of your e-mail program. You are receiving heise online news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter heise open source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from heise online, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter heise Security: IT security news and alerts to keep your systems secure, with features giving an in-depth look at the world of IT security. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/security Newsletter heise networks features: In-depth articles, tools and techniques for networking and communications. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/networks Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Jonathan Bennett All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.