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Extra patch for Internet Explorer

Microsoft has announced that a patch for the critical security hole in Internet Explorer will be released tomorrow, Wednesday, 17th December

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JSR310 in danger of missing Java 7

JSR310 offered a better way to do dates and times in Java 7, but the specification is in danger of not being ready in time

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XFree86 4.8.0 released

XFree86 4.8.0 has been released, but is very much on the sidelines for most Unix and Linux vendors

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Microsoft details their ODF 1.1 implementation

Microsoft lifts the veil on their ODF 1.1 implementation with an annotated version of the ODF 1.1 specification

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It's Christmas for cyber-criminals too

The rise in e-shopping as Christmas approaches offers rich pickings for cyber-criminals

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Security update for Opera

Opera 9.6.3 is a security update which addresses a number of "Extremely Severe" or "Highly Severe" vulnerabilities in the web browser

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Mobile Wikipedia officially launched

Wikipedia goes mobile with a lightweight version of the on-line encyclopaedia, powered by HawHaw

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Early port of Pygame for Nokia S60

Python and games come to the Nokia S60 platform as a developer releases a port of Pygame

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Perl 5.8.9 released

Perl 5.8.9 is the latest and probably last significant release of the Perl 5.8.x series

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Apple close 21 holes with 10.5.6

Apple has released Mac OS X 10.5.6, which shuts down 21 security holes and includes a large number of non-security fixes

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Re: Repeating events in the calendar

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Joey Stanford <joey@canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Yes, this is correct. We cannot install the event repeat module due to
> security holes though. The new events system for 6 is being
> completely rewritten so upgrading doesn't buy us anything either. :-(

Matthew is looking into upgrading the Fridge to Drupal 6. He is
investigating if any of the modules can help alleviate some of these
issues.

Matthew, have you had any luck yet?

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Ad policy

Hello FWN editors,

When I hooked you up with the folks from Red Hat's training sales
group, it was with the best of intentions. Naturally, the people who
are interested in Fedora are probably also interested in Linux
training, and that probably means Red Hat certification too. Having
them advertise an offer that directly benefited part of our global
community and rewarded them for their work in free software seemed
like a no-brainer to me. I brought that idea here to the FWN editors,
openly and publicly in the Fedora way, and left the decision with you.

However, I realize now that some community members might see running
that ad as a strange entanglement between Red Hat and Fedora. While I
may not agree with that viewpoint, I can understand it. The FWN goes
out on our mailing lists, and if we allowed unrestricted ads elsewhere
on the mailing lists, assuming anyone wanted to run such ads, it would
undoubtedly upset a lot of people.

However, if FWN had a clear ad policy, that might help alleviate such
concerns in the future. I think the FWN editorial staff should talk
with their contributors here, and decide on some sort of advertisement
policy for the FWN. I'm not here to dictate that policy to you,
because you're the ones who make FWN happen every week. It's a very
important service to the community, and one I and many other community
members make use of regularly. We're very grateful for your efforts,
and I think you're the best judges of how to handle this matter.

If you have any questions, I remain on this list, as always, and I'm
happy to help. Thanks, and I apologize for the bother.

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Re: Repeating events in the calendar

Hi James,

Yes, this is correct. We cannot install the event repeat module due to
security holes though. The new events system for 6 is being
completely rewritten so upgrading doesn't buy us anything either. :-(

Joey


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 17:25, James Westby <jw+debian@jameswestby.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I understand from UDS last week you have some problems with the
> calendar on the fridge. I believe this is because it doesn't do
> repeating events. I asked Emma Jane about this, as she is knowledgeable
> about Drupal, she had some good advice, and kindly showed me how
> repeating events can be set up.
>
> If the issue is that events simply cannot be made to repeat then the
> "eventrepeat" module should be installed and configured. When creating
> an event it allows you to define how it repeats. It is fairly easy to
> set up and use.
>
> If I misunderstood and you can create repeating events, but they do not
> work the way that you like for some reason then if you explain what
> issues you have then we can try and find a solution.
>
> Note that eventrepeat does the repeat at creation time, rather than
> display time, so you probably don't want to set the repeat too far in
> to the future. It does mean that the ical feed contains the repeated
> items as individual events, which may help with the ubottu issue.
>
> The eventrepeat page is at http://drupal.org/project/eventrepeat .
> It recommends that the "date" module be used instead, however that
> would require a switch to CCK. I'm told that would be a good thing, but
> may be more work that you wish to undertake at this time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
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Repeating events in the calendar

Hi,

As I understand from UDS last week you have some problems with the
calendar on the fridge. I believe this is because it doesn't do
repeating events. I asked Emma Jane about this, as she is knowledgeable
about Drupal, she had some good advice, and kindly showed me how
repeating events can be set up.

If the issue is that events simply cannot be made to repeat then the
"eventrepeat" module should be installed and configured. When creating
an event it allows you to define how it repeats. It is fairly easy to
set up and use.

If I misunderstood and you can create repeating events, but they do not
work the way that you like for some reason then if you explain what
issues you have then we can try and find a solution.

Note that eventrepeat does the repeat at creation time, rather than
display time, so you probably don't want to set the repeat too far in
to the future. It does mean that the ical feed contains the repeated
items as individual events, which may help with the ubottu issue.

The eventrepeat page is at http://drupal.org/project/eventrepeat .
It recommends that the "date" module be used instead, however that
would require a switch to CCK. I'm told that would be a good thing, but
may be more work that you wish to undertake at this time.

Thanks,

James


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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:1017 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 kernel Update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:1017 Important

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1017.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename )

x86_64:
430fd7a6b1073a7b9ea0461c86960d56 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.x86_64.rpm
b07ace8de31c4e7c39374ca2e53e285d kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.x86_64.rpm
f0b21fe6d34d121d1b78b0a228338170 kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.x86_64.rpm
f4bb6548e24878fe4cfa58d9ea624683 kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.x86_64.rpm
2a500b4115e8cfdf896a8cde46dc726b kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.noarch.rpm
2ced664fa981404c3cd98f47b5266cc0 kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.x86_64.rpm
2b355d674fa6e22831e12425933f31de kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.x86_64.rpm
c5e7690e4999825327608bc690f8e6e3 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.x86_64.rpm

Source:
4c322d470d8c9c07e2174199f9cc27d3 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.src.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:1017 Important CentOS 5 i386 kernel Update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:1017 Important

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1017.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename )

i386:
ae36496ab708163804ed08e79021c0e6 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm
1138d39b9181ab992561d68406bc962f kernel-debug-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm
5302c5708d6b9acc20c4301988c3bb7a kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm
ab7cb2118f3df67c799630a1e15c3534 kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm
df45d2c2cbcb2b3f51daaae34f826ad7 kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.noarch.rpm
fdd423f688cc5046a3b51bae39ef65f8 kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i386.rpm
ad291167b47947aed1683e9c6e8b4f4a kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm
f6744092d36abb059f75eca6d87c8b0d kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm
3a227bef86380bd5cd0c87ec517f02af kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm
f4f1ea994113c05361c2d8022de1aa02 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm

Source:
4c322d470d8c9c07e2174199f9cc27d3 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.src.rpm


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Re: Forum Council Meeting Event

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Ryan Troy <ryan@emailblue.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We would like to list our Forum Council Meeting on the fridge event calendar
> for the following time. Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 23:00:00 UTC. If
> there
> are any issues please let me know.

Done.

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Forum Council Meeting Event

Hello,

We would like to list our Forum Council Meeting on the fridge event calendar for the following time. Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 23:00:00 UTC. If there
are any issues please let me know.

Thanks, Ryan Troy

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Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.28 - Part 6: Changes to the audio drivers

Linux 2.6.28 supports Jack Sensing, recent Asus Xonar models and the Tascam US-122L USB Audio/MIDI Interface. Better support also for AC97 and HD audio codecs as well as current PCs, notebooks and mainboards

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Google's Chromium gets first non-Google committer

The Google open source browser becomes truly open source as the first person outside Google is given "commit" privileges

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IWF blocking policy questioned by Open Rights Group

An article posted today, 15th December, on the Open Rights Group site asks if there are lessons to be learnt from the recent Wikipedia block listing

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Buffer overflow in MPlayer media player

A flaw in the function for processing TwinVQ files can potentially be used to inject code into a system and to execute it

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German credit card security breached

A box addressed to the editors at the Frankfurter Rundschau contained microfilm with credit card details of tens of thousands of credit card users

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Patent problem for a future Linux feature?

A report suggests that a possible future feature for Linux, KSM, which is designed to reduce memory consumption, may clash with a VMware held patent

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Zero day exploit for Internet Explorer is spreading

According the security firms, more and more servers are being compromised so that seemingly trustworthy sites launch the particularly dangerous attacks on Internet Explorer

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Symantec security update

A flawed driver in Symantec's anti-virus products can be exploited to crash a PC

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USB 3.0 for Linux in development

Intel's Open Source Technology Centre is working on Linux drivers for USB 3.0, and a posting by one of the developers sheds light on the development process and timetable

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VMWare quietly acquire Tungsten Graphics

VMWare has acquired the company behind Mesa and other Linux graphics technology

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