heise online news 09/10/2008

heise online news 09/10/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news American Airlines and Delta decide to filter in-flight broadband In-flight wireless broadband services will offer restricted access to block objectionable content › Read article     Mozilla previews Geolocation for Firefox Mozilla Labs have introduced Geode, a plug-in for Mozilla Firefox 3 that enables Wifi geolocation, as a prelude to the W3C Geolocation API being incorporated in future versions of Firefox › Read article     Clickjacking: any click could be the fatal click A demo illustrates how users can unknowingly change their Flash Player settings, allowing attackers access to their webcam. Many browsers are reported to be affected by this kind of clickjacking problem › Read article     SpringSource changes open source policies SpringSource, developer of the open source Java application framework Spring, has "fine-tuned" its controversial maintenance policy announced last month › Read article     Symantec to acquire MessageLabs The US security company will buy the UK-based email security service provider for £310m › Read article     OOXML ISO specification leaks onto internet The "Boycott Novell" blog has published what it claims is the final, 5560 page version of the standard for Microsoft's Office Open XML document format; ISO representatives complain that this is a blatant copyright violation › Read article     Customers return Linux Netbooks more often Linux based netbooks are four times more likely to be returned than Windows XP netbooks according to MSI; Canonical confirms › 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.

Asia Oceania Membership Board Meeting - 07 Oct 08 - Results

Hi,

We have ArcRiley from new Hampshire LoCo Team, US as the new member.
He has been active with the New Hampshire LoCo helping the LoCo in
resolving the conflicts at crucial times, conducting Install fests and
has shown interests in packaging games and educational softwares. More
about ArcRiley can be read from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArcRiley.

Our next meeting will happen on 21-Oct-08 at 11.00 AM UTC at #ubuntu-meeting.

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0941-04: Low CentOS 2 i386 tzdata enhancement update

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the
centos mirror:

RHEA-2008:0941-04 tzdata enhancement update

Files available:
tzdata-2008f-1.el2_1.noarch.rpm

More details are available from the RedHat web site at
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html

The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches
is to run:
# yum update

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Re: [RFC] Weekly Kernel Team IRC Meeting Time & Format Change

Pete Graner wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> Since I had no objections to this proposal we will change the kernel
> team meeting times to:
>
> Tuesdays @ 1500 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

I made a mistake that should read 1700 UTC.

Sorry for the confusion.

~pete

>
> This upcoming Tuesday (Oct 14th 2008) will be the first to use the new
> time and format.
>
> Thanks
>
> ~pete
>
> Pete Graner wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I would like to propose a change to how the kernel team conducts its
>> weekly IRC meetings.
>>
>> Currently the Canonical portion of the kernel team has a weekly phone
>> call on Tuesdays. On this call we cover numerous topics, most of which
>> should be discussed in a community forum. Immediately afterwards we
>> have the weekly IRC meeting in #ubuntu-kernel on Freenode.
>>
>> I would like to propose that we move the IRC meeting to 1500 UTC
>> starting Tuesday 23 Sep 2008. With that I would like to move it to
>> #ubuntu-meeting.
>>
>> Why this proposal & what does it solve?
>>
>> I've noticed that the current IRC meetings held in #ubuntu-kernel are
>> not broadly attended and lack content. I believe the reason is that by
>> holding the internal call first much of the interesting topics get
>> covered there and have to be repeated in the IRC meeting. I'm
>> proposing holding the IRC meeting first, coving all the topics of
>> community interest in the IRC forum. This leaves the Canonical
>> portion of the kernel team free to hold the weekly call afterwards and
>> discuss Canonical relevant business.
>>
>> Also by holding it in #ubuntu-meeting it brings the meeting in line
>> with what the other teams are doing and mootbot can be used to track
>> meeting mins, actions and the like.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> ~pete
>
>

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Re: update-manager Hugday

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Fellow Ubuntu Triagers!

This week's HugDay target is *drum roll please* Firefox 3!
* 658 New bugs need a hug
* 131 Confirmed bugs just need a review

I don't think I need to say anything about how important Firefox is,
It just nees to work. With over 1300 bugs currently open, we can use a
lot of help getting the information needed to shake out the bugs.

Bookmark it, add it to your calenders, turn over those egg-timers!
* Thursday October 9th
* http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20081009

Can't stress it enough: everyone can help!

Have some time? Triage bugz! I won't be upset if you get a headstart~ :)
Have a blog? Blog about Hugday!
Have some screen space? Open #ubuntu-bugs and keep an eye out for
newcomers in need.
Have some minions? Teach THEM to triage for you! :)

Make a difference: We will be in #ubuntu-bugs (FreeNode) all day and
night, and will be ready to answer your questions about how to help.
My handle is Awsoonn, free free to msg me any time.

If you're new to all this, head to
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs

~Dereck

[From the BugSquad]

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Re: [RFC] Weekly Kernel Team IRC Meeting Time & Format Change

Everyone,

Since I had no objections to this proposal we will change the kernel
team meeting times to:

Tuesdays @ 1500 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

This upcoming Tuesday (Oct 14th 2008) will be the first to use the new
time and format.

Thanks

~pete

Pete Graner wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would like to propose a change to how the kernel team conducts its
> weekly IRC meetings.
>
> Currently the Canonical portion of the kernel team has a weekly phone
> call on Tuesdays. On this call we cover numerous topics, most of which
> should be discussed in a community forum. Immediately afterwards we have
> the weekly IRC meeting in #ubuntu-kernel on Freenode.
>
> I would like to propose that we move the IRC meeting to 1500 UTC
> starting Tuesday 23 Sep 2008. With that I would like to move it to
> #ubuntu-meeting.
>
> Why this proposal & what does it solve?
>
> I've noticed that the current IRC meetings held in #ubuntu-kernel are
> not broadly attended and lack content. I believe the reason is that by
> holding the internal call first much of the interesting topics get
> covered there and have to be repeated in the IRC meeting. I'm proposing
> holding the IRC meeting first, coving all the topics of community
> interest in the IRC forum. This leaves the Canonical portion of the
> kernel team free to hold the weekly call afterwards and discuss
> Canonical relevant business.
>
> Also by holding it in #ubuntu-meeting it brings the meeting in line with
> what the other teams are doing and mootbot can be used to track meeting
> mins, actions and the like.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks
>
> ~pete

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[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2008:0925 CentOS 4 i386 openmpi Update

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CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2008:0925

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0925.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

i386:
openmpi11-1.1.5-1.el4_7.i386.rpm
openmpi-1.2.7-2.el4_7.i386.rpm
openmpi-devel-1.2.7-2.el4_7.i386.rpm
openmpi-libs-1.2.7-2.el4_7.i386.rpm

src:
openmpi11-1.1.5-1.el4_7.src.rpm
openmpi-1.2.7-2.el4_7.src.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2008:0925 CentOS 4 x86_64 openmpi Update

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Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0925.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

x86_64:
openmpi11-1.1.5-1.el4_7.i386.rpm
openmpi11-1.1.5-1.el4_7.x86_64.rpm
openmpi-1.2.7-2.el4_7.i386.rpm
openmpi-1.2.7-2.el4_7.x86_64.rpm
openmpi-devel-1.2.7-2.el4_7.i386.rpm
openmpi-devel-1.2.7-2.el4_7.x86_64.rpm
openmpi-libs-1.2.7-2.el4_7.i386.rpm
openmpi-libs-1.2.7-2.el4_7.x86_64.rpm

src:
openmpi11-1.1.5-1.el4_7.src.rpm
openmpi-1.2.7-2.el4_7.src.rpm

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