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20 December 2008

heise online news 20/12/2008


heise online news 20/12/2008
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Vulnerability in Realtek Media Player

A vulnerability has been found in Realtek Media Player and exploits have already been spotted for it

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Microsoft publish analysis of the zero day bug

An analysis of the zero day vulnerability from earlier this week is published by a Microsoft security expert

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Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.28 - Part 9: Fastboot and other remainders

Some of the patches for the next Linux version are designed to reduce system startup time. In addition, there is an overview of the important changes that we haven't discussed in the "What's coming in 2.6.28" series so far

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Two new transaction-capable MySQL backends

The users of MySQL 5.1 now have another two transaction-capable engines available

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Mark Shuttleworth talks about Launchpad's AJAX redesign

Mark Shuttleworth shows a preview of the redesign work going on with Canonical's Launchpad

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Palamida offer budget trimming tips

Palamida has listed twenty five open source projects that it rates as reliable, innovative and enterprise ready. They suggest these are tools that could help developers drive down costs

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Ted Ts'o to be new Linux Foundation CTO

Ted Ts'o, maintainer of Ext3 and Ext4 Linux filesystems, has become the CTO of the Linux Foundation

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BBC iPlayer arrives for Mac and Linux

The BBC have released iPlayer for Mac and Linux. heise online have had a look at the Adobe AIR based offering

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