heise online news 20/12/2008

heise online news 20/12/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Vulnerability in Realtek Media Player A vulnerability has been found in Realtek Media Player and exploits have already been spotted for it › Read article     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 › Read article     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 › Read article     Two new transaction-capable MySQL backends The users of MySQL 5.1 now have another two transaction-capable engines available › Read article     Mark Shuttleworth talks about Launchpad's AJAX redesign Mark Shuttleworth shows a preview of the redesign work going on with Canonical's Launchpad › Read article     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 › Read article     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 › Read article     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 › 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.