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Subject: Android control code issue affects almost all manufacturers
Smartphones from nearly every manufacturer are exposed to an Android control code vulnerability which can kill a phone's SIM card. The causes of the problem have now been identified
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Android-control-code-issue-affects-almost-all-manufacturers-1720298.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Android-control-code-issue-affects-almost-all-manufacturers-1720298.html/from/rss
Gigolo -- Xfce's "mounts anything" file-manager-helper utility has an unfortunate moniker. But what's really annoying is continually losing my ftp bookmarks in Nautilus. This never happens in Gigolo. It may be awkward, poorly designed and cringe-inducingly named, but it does what it says.
http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2012/09/i-still-need-xfces-gigolo-even.html
http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2012/09/i-still-need-xfces-gigolo-even.html
AMD released a new development tool suite this week called CodeXL that focuses upon heterogeneous compute support across GPUs, CPUs, and APUs...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NDc
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NDc
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Firefox's birthday present to us: Teaching tech titans about DIY upstarts
A decade of real choice - there's no app for thatOpen ... and Shut It's hard to believe it now, but not too long ago the web was dangerously close to being owned by one vendor: Microsoft.…
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/28/firefox_legacy/
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/28/firefox_legacy/
As part of a facelift, the Nautilus file manager has gained and lost a number of features. The Boxes VM tool and the GNOME Disks utility, which are also of interest for Cinnamon and Unity users, have matured. The account manager now allows programs to access Facebook friends and Microsoft's SkyDrive
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/First-Look-GNOME-3-6-1719235.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/First-Look-GNOME-3-6-1719235.html/from/rss
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Joomla 3.0: Major version jump for the open source CMS
The Joomla developers have released version 3.0 of their open source CMS. Many new features, and new standard templates for the web site and administrator areas that also work on mobile devices, justify the major version jump
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Joomla-3-0-Major-version-jump-for-the-open-source-CMS-1719803.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Joomla-3-0-Major-version-jump-for-the-open-source-CMS-1719803.html/from/rss
An alpha release of the Tizen 2.0 SDK with source-code was released this week...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NDU
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NDU
The top utility will need little introduction to seasoned Linux users. top is a small utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It allows users to monitor the processes that are running on a system.
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20120928144010527/AlternativesToTop.html
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20120928144010527/AlternativesToTop.html
After being in beta for a while, HP's Open webOS has a new release: version 1.0...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NTA
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NTA
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: EMI:Legitimately Afraid That Aliens Might Listen To The Beatles Without A License
Ah, life imitating art (or art accidentally imitating life). Earlier this year, we had Rob Reid post an excerpt and discuss his new novel, Year Zero, concerning aliens listening to Earth music for free, without a license... and then realizing that they've been infringing our copyrights for years, and owe the record labels more money than exists in the galaxy. Funny story, right?Except... as Joe Betsill points out, apparently at least EMI really was afraid that aliens might listen to music without a license.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120927/00430020528/emi-legitimately-afraid-that-aliens-might-listen-to-beatles-without-license.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120927/00430020528/emi-legitimately-afraid-that-aliens-might-listen-to-beatles-without-license.shtml
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Samsung wins reconsideration of Galaxy Tab sales ban
However, the jury found that Samsung had not violated the patent that was the basis for the tablet injunction and Samsung argued the sales ban should be lifted. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said she could not act because Samsung had already appealed.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-apple-samsung-ruling-idUSBRE88R11V20120928
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-apple-samsung-ruling-idUSBRE88R11V20120928
Pat Volkerding is finally satisfied and has released his latest offering. Slackers rejoice!
http://www.slackware.com/
http://www.slackware.com/
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Google's Copyright Crackdown Punishes Author For Torrenting His Own Book
A few years ago, Jackson, while deployed in Iraq, wrote a book about Python (the programming language) called Start Programming with Python. He decided to give away the book for free, as a "thank you" to the open source community which, he notes, has provided him with tremendous value over the years. He has always made the book available for free, and linked to various sources where you can get it. At the same time, he's offered people the option to support him via donation. He also made a little bit of money via Google AdSense ads on his site.Last week, he was contacted by a Google bot, telling him that AdSense had been disabled. Why? Because they claimed he was distributing copyrighted content illegally. The email, which I've seen, notes that his account has been disabled for the following reason:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120923/22351120487/googles-copyright-crackdown-punishes-author-torrenting-his-own-book.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120923/22351120487/googles-copyright-crackdown-punishes-author-torrenting-his-own-book.shtml
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Former Copyright Boss: New Technology Should Be Presumed Illegal Until Congress Says Otherwise
As you hopefully recall, Aereo is the online TV service, backed by Barry Diller, that sets you up with your very own physical TV antenna on a rooftop in Brooklyn, connected to a device that will then stream to you online what that antenna picks up. This ridiculously convoluted setup is an attempt to route around the ridiculous setup of today's copyright law -- something that Oman was intimately involved in creating with the 1976 Copyright Act. The TV networks sued Aereo, but were unable to get an injunction blocking the service. Oman's amicus brief seeks to have that ruling overturned, and argues that an injunction is proper.But he goes much further than that in his argument, even to the point of claiming that with the 1976 Copyright Act, Congress specifically intended new technologies to first apply to Congress for permission, before releasing new products on the market that might upset existing business models:
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20120927/00320920527/former-copyright-boss-new-technology-should-be-presumed-illegal-until-congress-says-otherwise.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20120927/00320920527/former-copyright-boss-new-technology-should-be-presumed-illegal-until-congress-says-otherwise.shtml
While it's been a number of days since mentioning anything on Intel's forthcoming Valley View Atom SoC, the open-source graphics driver support continues to mature...
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Phoronix/~3/25DvP0X9pVs/vr.php
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Phoronix/~3/25DvP0X9pVs/vr.php
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: The $99 supercomputer: Adapteva turns to Kickstarter for funding to get its massively parallel, fully open Raspberry Pi killer off the ground
The bright, shining light in open source hardware -- [i]software-wise[/i] anyway, as the hardware ain't all that open -- has been the $35 Raspberry Pi single-board computer that runs Linux, sips power and has a great deal of the world busy crafting enclosures, fine-tuning OS images and basically geeking out. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But there will be competitors. Others that want to take the throne.
http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2012/09/the-99-supercomputer-adapteva.html
http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2012/09/the-99-supercomputer-adapteva.html
Today's been quite a busy news day for a Friday, but it's not over yet. Slackware 14.0 was released today after being in development for more than one year...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NTM
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NTM
Thanks to the Google Summer of Code, the openSUSE distribution made progress on several fronts...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NDg
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NDg
Taking a brief break from his direct work on Wayland, Kristian Høgsberg has published his "Render Nodes" work for DRM2 following the recent DRM2 proposal...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NDk
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NDk
That's right, the long wait is finally over and a new stable release of Slackware has arrived! Since our last stable release, a lot has changed in the Linux and FOSS world.
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/174244/index.html
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/174244/index.html