heise online news 10/01/2009

heise online news 10/01/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news New Nvidia driver for Linux Nvidia have updated their proprietary graphics card driver, adding OpenGL 3.0 support, CUDA 2.1 and initial support for GPU assisted video playback using VDPAU › Read article     Storm Worm botnet cracked wide open A team of students has analysed the notorious Storm Worm botnet, and concludes it can actually be eliminated rather easily › Read article     Oracle plans massive update for Tuesday Oracle is planning a massive security update for hundreds of their products next Tuesday › Read article     Google-perftools reaches version 1.0 The developers of google-perftools, a high performance memory allocation library for multi-threaded C++ applications, have released version 1.0 › Read article     Red Hat to hold a virtual JBoss conference With the credit crunch biting around the world, Red Hat have announced that they will be holding a travel saving virtual conference for JBoss developers and users › Read article     Maven repository manager Artifactory 2.0 released Artifactory, a repository manager for Maven developers, has been updated to version 2.0, adding features such as LDAP integration and MySQL support › Read article     Only one patch planned for upcoming Microsoft Patchday Next weeks Patch Tuesday will see only one critical update for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 › Read article     MySQL 5.1 downloaded a million times MySQL 5.1 has passed it's million download milestone since its November release › 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.