heise online news 30/12/2008

heise online news 30/12/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Cracks in the iPhone security architecture at 25C3 Members of the iPhone Dev hacker team offered a glimpse of their ongoing work to get around the SIM lock on Apple's smartphone › Read article     OpenSolaris gets a Crossbow for Christmas The next release of OpenSolaris will have the ability to create virtual networks, within the operating system, using the recently integrated Project Crossbow › Read article     Government Minister's Twitter Name "kidnapped" A UK technology blog has "kidnapped" the Culture Secretary's Twitter user name as a response to his proposal for "cinema-style age ratings" › Read article     Google Calendar Phishing returns Phishers have returned to Google Calendar, using invitations to events to try and obtain user names and passwords › Read article     Ts'o calls for pragmatic Debian According to Theodore Ts'o, the Debian project should be more pragmatic and less absolutist › 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.

Full Circle Magazine #20 - out NOW!

Full Circle Magazine - Issue #20

Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community
are proud to announce the imminent release of our twentieth issue.

This month:

* Command and Conquer - The Daunting Terminal.
* How-To : Program in C - Part 4, Web Development - Part 1,
Backup & Sync Your Music.
* My Story - Making Money With FOSS
* Book Review - Ubuntu Kung Fu
* My Opinion - Italy Speaks OSS
* MOTU Interview - Andrea Colangelo
* Top 5 - Backup Solutions

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-20/

Also, we've set up a reader survey, to see how we can improve FCM:
http://url.fullcirclemagazine.org/e78bdf

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heise online news 29/12/2008

heise online news 29/12/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Now bootable - FSF membership cards The FSF will be shipping a bootable membership card to FSF members in January, complete with the gNewSense Linux distribution and advocacy tools › Read article     Vulnerability in Windows Media Player An exploit is available which demonstrates how Windows Media Player can be made to crash with a maliciously crafted WAV, SND or MIDI file. The exploit could be used to remotely execute code › 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.

When Vellore woke up for Ubuntu

Dec 21, 2008. The IT Association of  Vellore(1), the fort City of Tamilnadu, had organized a day of 'Ubuntu Dawn' for its members and general public on at Hotel Aavana Inn, Vellore. More than forty people from Vellore, Aarani and other places of Vellore district got benefitted as a result of this event.

Different modes of Ubuntu installation, Package handling techniques, Tamil features in Ubuntu, Fonts installation, Installation of Windows based applications using Wine were among various topics covered at the event.

While the proprietary accounting application Tally (commonly Used in India for Accounting) got installed and ran successfully using Wine, it was suggested by Ubuntu Tamil Team that, as a first Step, the resellers and users of Tally Solutions, compel the Tally Corporation to provide them a debian binary also(1).

We expressed hope that alternatives are being looked at by the Community and soon a Free Software replacement would emerge for Tally. A handbook on Ubuntu Basics was also provided(2).

Siva and Sri Ramadoss from Ubuntu Tamil Team conducted the event. We thank Sairam, other office bearers and members of Vellore IT association for providing us with this oppurtunity. This is the fourth event of similar kind Ubuntu Tamil Team has conducted, since we called out Public to host such events in their localities, just after the release of Intrepid Ibex.

Related blog: http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/when-vellore-woke-up-for-ubuntu/

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellore
(2) Ubuntu Tamil Team also requests, if you are an existing User of Tally, to compel Tally Solutions to provide a debian installable for its releases. You can write to support@tallysolutions.com. Website: http://www.tally.co.in/
(3) http://ubuntu-tam.org/avanam/nigazhchi/2008/dec/vellore/

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Re: Forum Council Jan 2009 meeting

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Craig
Tyche

Ryan Troy wrote:

Hello,

The Forum Council plans to have our monthly meeting on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 00:30:00 UTC. If we could get this added to the fridge calendar that would be great!

Thanks Ryan Troy

Forum Council Jan 2009 meeting

Hello,

The Forum Council plans to have our monthly meeting on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 00:30:00 UTC. If we could get this added to the fridge calendar that would be great!

Thanks Ryan Troy