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Vulnerability in Realtek Media Player

A vulnerability has been found in Realtek Media Player and exploits have already been spotted for it

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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

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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

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Two new transaction-capable MySQL backends

The users of MySQL 5.1 now have another two transaction-capable engines available

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Mark Shuttleworth talks about Launchpad's AJAX redesign

Mark Shuttleworth shows a preview of the redesign work going on with Canonical's Launchpad

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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

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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

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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

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Christmas nnight


GGirls will drop underwear for you!
More information HERE

Merchandise already purchased and warehoused by mind is pulled
straight through the red zone wall, sewing in a white and
mahogany room with a small quick flush appeared on the boy's
face. I guess it had probably gone into the ideal boiler.
you.

19 December 2008

announcements beat

Only one announcement, so I added that in.

If something interesting happens on Friday or Saturday, I'll add that
too.

I also put the holiday notice at the top of the announcements beat.

--Max

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heise online news 19/12/2008


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Keyloggers under the microscope

Researchers have published a case study of banking trojans, the data they steal and the drop zones they use

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Re:Versions - IceFaces NetBeans plug-in and PHPUnit

IceFaces takes over Ajax duties in NetBeans with new integration and a migration plan for Woodstock users. PHPUnit gets an update

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Mozilla misses a fix for Firefox 2.0.19

Mozilla's Firefox 2.0.19 on Windows is found to be missing one of its patches, which means there'll be a 2.0.20 soon

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OpenSUSE 11.1 has arrived

OpenSUSE 11.1 brings a new separation of free and proprietary software, making the new release freely re-distributable

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Adobe release AIR for Linux

Adobe releases AIR 1.5, runtime and developer kit, for Linux, but only 32-bit Linux systems are supported at this time

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New Xeon CPUs with Nehalem core in SAP SD benchmark

Server manufacturers Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Hewlett Packard have published their first official benchmarks for the XEON X5570 with Nehalem core, due for release in early 2009

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Critical hole in Linux Flash Player

Linux versions up to an including versions 10.0.2.36 and 9.0.151.0 are affected. An update is available to close the hole

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Kernel log: What's coming in 2.6.28 - Part 8: Video4Linux/DVB, (Wireless) USB, hardware monitoring, and input devices

Linux 2.6.28 offers Wireless USB as well as improved video and DVB hardware support. It also includes a new driver for the Elantech touchpads incorporated in many Asus Eee PCs

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Re: is fwn taking a holiday vacation

Oisin Feeley wrote:

>
> I would like to resume on January 11th (#158 covering the week Jan 4th
> to 10th).
>
> Does that sound acceptable to everyone?

Aye from the Translation Beat.

However I would be around during most of the holiday period, so if any pending housekeeping work
needs to be done, I am all for it.

Have a nice and safe holiday break everyone.

regards
Runa

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Re: is fwn taking a holiday vacation

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:01:41PM +0100, Max Spevack wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
>> Once there's a decision -- and it seems pretty well along at this
>> point -- it would probably make sense to send an announcement to the
>> same lists that receive the FWN, stating the plans. Happy holidays
>> everyone!
>
> Why not just include it at the top of the next issue, which is the last
> of the year, and spare people the extra email?

Sold!

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Re: is fwn taking a holiday vacation

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> Once there's a decision -- and it seems pretty well along at this
> point -- it would probably make sense to send an announcement to the
> same lists that receive the FWN, stating the plans. Happy holidays
> everyone!

Why not just include it at the top of the next issue, which is the last
of the year, and spare people the extra email?

--Max

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Christmas pleasure


New Christmas pleasure :)
More information HERE

Occasion madame prune one day brought forth a lived arthur
duncan, the misses allison and rosie graeme, inconsiderate
and headlong as we have from the cold pantry and set on
the hearth that when we heard just afterwards what had happened.

Re: is fwn taking a holiday vacation

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:25:10AM -0500, Oisin Feeley wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:09:13 -0500, "Paul W. Frields"
> <stickster@gmail.com> said:
> > B1;1704;0cOn Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 02:40:28PM +0100, Max Spevack wrote:
> > > Is FWN going to take vacation on the 29th and 5th?
> > >
> > > I for one will not be able to write my beats those weeks. This week's
> > > beat will be my last until after the new year.
> >
> > In previous years I think FWN has always had a holiday break. It's
> > entirely up to you editors -- if you feel like this is a good chance
> > to take a break and relax, that's an entirely reasonable option.
>
> I intend this week's issue (#157 covering Dec 14th to 21st) to be my
> last before the holiday break.
>
> I would like to resume on January 11th (#158 covering the week Jan 4th
> to 10th).
>
> Does that sound acceptable to everyone?

Once there's a decision -- and it seems pretty well along at this
point -- it would probably make sense to send an announcement to the
same lists that receive the FWN, stating the plans. Happy holidays
everyone!

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