heise online news 27/01/2009

heise online news 27/01/2009 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Twitter's growing pain: spam Twitter is having growing pains that include spam posts and spam accounts › Read article     Denemo music notation program updated The latest version of the free music notation program comes with improved scripting support › Read article     Monster security breach Sophos advises users of careers website Monster.com and USAJobs.gov, to change their passwords following news that both sites have been the victim of a serious hacking attack, which has compromised both sites' user names and passwords › Read article     FileHippo leaks final OpenOffice 3.0.1 early A download site has leaked the final version of OpenOffice 3.0.1 ahead of Thursday's official release › Read article     New Variant of Mac Trojan Horse A new variant of the OSX.Trojan.iServices.A trojan, found in pirated copies of Apple's iWork, has now been found in pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Mac › Read article     UK Government says: no plank for internet pirates The Times reports that the UK Government has reversed its position on disconnection for internet users who persistently download files illegally › Read article     Multiple heap overflows in plug-in for GStreamer media framework Modified QuickTime files can be used to provoke several heap overflows in the GStreamer Good Plug-in, making it possible to inject code › Read article     Lucid Imagination promotes Apache Lucene Lucid Imagination aims to make Apache Lucene and Solr, the open source search software, as popular as Firefox and Drupal › Read article     Critical security hole in EMC AutoStart closed A critical security hole in EMC AutoStart that made it possible to remotely execute code without authentication, has been closed › Read article     Enterprise Java Server GlassFish 2.1 released Sun Microsystems has published version 2.1 of GlassFish, which includes bug fixes along with some new features › Read article     Patches for Cisco Security Manager The patches are intended to prevent attackers gaining access to the server, then removing devices from the database so that alerts from the Intrusion Prevention System are not noticed › Read article     "We're Linux" - Linux Foundation video contest The Linux Foundation has formally announced the kick off for its "We're Linux" video contest › 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.

Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference -- now available

Hi

I'm pleased to announce that my new book, Ubuntu Pocket Guide and
Reference, is now available. It's a compact yet comprehensive guide to
all aspects of day-to-day Ubuntu use.

You can buy it from Amazon.com for a recession-busting $9.94. It's
approximately 5x8 inches and 166 pages (ISBN 978-1440478291).

Uniquely, the PDF Edition of the book is available entirely free of
charge from http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com. What's more, people are
encouraged to share the PDF Edition file with friends, and even upload
it to file-sharing networks. The PDF Edition is exactly the same as
the Print Edition.

For more details, and to download the PDF Edition, visit the website:

http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com

If you've got any questions, get in touch.

Cheers

Keir Thomas

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[Developer] Process change: Developer applications

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The process for applying as a Core Developer, MOTU or Contributing
Developer changed slightly: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers

The aim of the process change was to come to speed up the existing
process by:
- getting better and more complete feedback earlier
- establish predictable MC meetings where voting is done

The new way of applying works like this:
- Set up a personal wiki page for your application. Please make use of
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/DeveloperApplicationTemplate.
(Talk to your sponsors beforehand and ask them to add some information
to the wiki page. In a regular application your will have 3-5 sponsors.)
- Add your application details to
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Council/Meeting, give a quick heads-up on
the motu-council list and pick a meeting time you'll be able to attend.
Please allow at least one week of time for the MOTU Council members to
review your application. (If you can't make it to one of the meetings,
please email motu-council@lists.ubuntu.com for either a different
meeting time or to process the application on the mailing list.)
- Attend the meeting.

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Have a great day,
Daniel

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