Enterprise / Open Source News

Friday, October 05 2007

Sun grabs patent for magneto-hydrodynamic heatsink

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/06/sun_magneto_hydrodynamic_heatsink/ (20071006 02:59)

Like a tiny X-Men villain on your CPU

Sun Microsystems has been issued an interesting patent for a "magneto-hydrodynamic" heatsink packed in a closed fluid system.…

Introducing the Dump Analyzer for Java

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93712 (20071006 02:47)

The IBM Dump Analyzer for Java is a tool that performs basic analysis against a formatted system dump and produces a concise report indicating what it thinks your next course of action should be. Cut through endless dump files to get to the heart of the problem.

MicroSD Smart Card adds security to Linux devices

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4756295876.html (20071006 01:52)

German mobile security specialist IICS has announced what it claims is the world's first Smart Card that fits into a microSD slot. Supporting Linux-based mobile and embedded devices, the "Certgate" incorporates 2048-bit RSA encryption and 512 MB or 1 GB of user-accessible memory,

Web 3.0 will be a mobile web revolution

http://digg.com/programming/Web_3_0_will_be_a_mobile_web_revolution (20071006 00:10)

Everyone has an opinion on Web 3.0 lately. Personally, I think they are all wrong. And while I won’t profess to carry the official definition of Web 3.0 (personally, i think the definitions are stupid and misguided) I’ll tell you what I think the future of the web holds.

Cisco aims to sway FCC on digital TV regulations

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/100507-cisco-fcc-digital-tv-regs.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20071005 22:38)

Cisco asked the FCC today to consider all possible alternatives before it decided how to regulate the use of WLAN devices operating in television white spaces.

LinuxCertified Announces its next "Linux Fundamentals" Course.

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/93683/index.html (20071005 22:00)

This two-day introduction to Linux broadens attendees horizons with a detailed overview of the operating system. Attendees learn how to effectively use a Linux system as a valuable tool. They get familiar with the architecture and various components of the operating system, learn both graphical and command line tools, and learn to do basic networking. This class is scheduled for October 25th - 26th, 2007 .

This week at LWN: LCE: GPL enforcement: waiting for the Monsoon

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93716 (20071005 21:13)

Some lawsuits begin quietly, others are launched with great fanfare. The Software Freedom Law Center and two BusyBox developers have recently decided to take the latter approach to address a GPL compliance problem.

Linux-based airline seat-back entertainment system is a winner

http://www.linux.com/feature/119544 (20071005 21:00)

The Linux-based eX2 in-flight entertainment system (IFE) from Panasonic Avionics was the big winner at this year's Avion Awards, sponsored by an IFE trade group. The Best Overall IFE awards went to Emirates, Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways, all running variants of eX2.

Alfresco takes the open road to success

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93704 (20071005 20:26)

Open source has been the driving force behind a British software company's global growth - except in its home market. What's the problem?

USB framegrabber comes with Linux SDK

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8558711390.html (20071005 20:04)

Sensoray has introduced a framegrabber module suitable for use in embedded devices running Linux or Windows. The 2251 framegrabber converts NTSC or PAL composite analog video into compressed MPEG and JPEG digital formats, and interfaces to the host system via high-speed USB,

Giving Away Ubuntu Costs More Than You Think

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Giving_Away_Ubuntu_Costs_More_Than_You_Think (20071005 20:00)

The Ubuntu software repository contains over 121 million lines of code and is worth over 7 billion dollars.

Ontario Linux Fest - Is it exciting in here or is it just me?

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93686 (20071005 18:30)

Ontario Linux Fest is just over a week away, and the final pieces are coming together. We'll be at The Toronto Congress Centre, 650 Dixon Road, on Saturday the 13th of October for a full day of Open Source festivities.

Free webinar examines embedded development

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4699232579.html (20071005 18:29)

Market analyst firm Evans Data Corp. (EDC) will discuss recent embedded market research data in a free webinar on Oct. 18. The presentation, by EDC President and CEO John F. Andrews, will present highlights and insights from a just-completed survey of 500 embedded system developers,

Financial institutions spending more on security, IT governance

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/100507-financial-institutions.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20071005 18:25)

Financial services institutions around the globe putting greater focus on IT governance, according to Deloitte & Touche annual survey.

Leopard Estimated to Ship Last Weekend of October

http://osnews.com/story.php/18729/Leopard-Estimated-to-Ship-Last-Weekend-of-October/ (20071005 16:16)

"Apple has begun preparatory measures for significant announcements to take place during the last full week of October, AppleInsider has been told. While sources have requested that we not go into detail regarding the specific measures being put into place, they say the announcements are likely to arrive any time between the 22nd and 27th of the month. Obviously, such a timeframe would coincide with Apple's self-imposed release schedule for Mac OS X Leopard, which the company - after having delayed the software once - has promised for 'October'." Think Secret thinks the same.

Linux Console Compendium

http://osnews.com/story.php/18728/Linux-Console-Compendium/ (20071005 15:31)

This is a series of five articles treating about GNU/Linux command line interface as a great way of both exploring and simply using this operating system. It covers basics features of the CLI including file management, pipes, streams, redirections, regular expressions, system variables and more.

The Security of Free Software

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93650 (20071005 15:21)

With this article I want to point out how Free Software provides a secure environment and how important the community is. Security is not only limited to "technology to keep crackers away from your data", but it also is about secured freedom.

Forget municipal Wi-Fi, welcome to Zigbee City

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/05/zigbee_city/ (20071005 15:09)

Gothenburg to get 270,000-node Zigbee network

Utility company Göteborg Energi AB has selected NURI Telecom to provide Zigbee-enabled electricity meters to every home in the Swedish city of Gothenburg.…

OpenOffice vs. Lotus Symphony

http://www.linux.com/feed/119638 (20071005 15:00)

The new open source office suite by IBM offers competition for OpenOffice -- yet it falls short in some key areas.

Webkit vs. Mozilla: Should Firefox jump on the Webkit bandwagon?

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4144 (20071005 14:52)

As the Mozilla folks start making plans to plan for the Mozilla 2 codebase, Matt Gertner over at the AllPeers blog has a radical suggestion: Dump the Gecko rendering engine and embrace WebKit.

Bad things lurking on government sites

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/100507-bad-things-government-web-sites.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20071005 14:44)

The U.S. federal government took steps earlier this week to shut down Web sites in California in order to protect the public from hacked Web sites, but new incidents show that the problem is not going away any time soon.

Building A Solaris 10 Recovery DVD

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93646 (20071005 14:33)

There was a lot of interest generated by my last article titled "Build a (Very) Inexpensive Solaris 10 Workstation". Several topics were brought up in this feedback, among which these two questions "what tools does Solaris have for backups?" and "is it possible to make a restore DVD for Solaris?" struck me as particularly important. For reasons of my own, which I divulge in the Purpose section, I decided to pursue these questions and write an article.

Introducing Enterprise 2.0 to the Boss

http://www.linux.com/feed/119636 (20071005 14:30)

While a CIO, CEO, or office manager may understand what a blog and wiki does, they are not always sure what the real benefits of such applications are to their organization. If your boss asked you why a company should formally support Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 applications, how should you answer the question?

Pipex-Intel WiMAX emerges as Freedom4

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/05/pipex_wimax_freedom4/ (20071005 13:54)

4 how much exactly?

The first serious attempt at a WiMAX ISP is getting tarted up for launch, but keeping its pricing cards close to its bosom.…

Use Health Vault, Lose Your Rights

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93670 (20071005 12:59)

Microsoft has announced (NY Times Article) Health Vault. What should have followed here is a review of the service by my actually trying it. I was in the process of registering when I began reading the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and I had to stop right there with my review when I read it. In addition to the contract being lengthy, it specifically states: "In using the Service, you may not:..

The Future of Web Startups

http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Future_of_Web_Startups (20071005 11:50)

There's something interesting happening right now. Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. It's so cheap to start web startups that orders of magnitudes more will be started. And if the pattern holds true, that should cause dramatic changes...

Skype for Linux 1.4 Gold, The Panacea

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Skype_for_Linux_1_4_Gold_The_Panacea (20071005 10:40)

Today we have released a new production release of Skype for Linux 1.4 with a codename Panacea. Skype for Linux 1.4 delivers a superior voice call quality in comparison with previous production release of Skype for Linux 1.3.

IBM Ditches Outsourcing Patent

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/165640944/article.pl (20071005 10:38)

Xenographic writes "IBM has dropped their controversial outsourcing patent, both withdrawing the application and placing it into the public domain. Apparently, it was filed eight months before they implemented more stringent reviews of their patent applications so as to avoid filing for obvious patents, especially business method patents. The notice also says that they would like to thank the community for bringing it to their attention."

Why Analysts Today Don't Get Linux on the Desktop

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Why_Analysts_Today_Don_t_Get_Linux_on_the_Desktop (20071005 09:30)

"It's not that Linux isn't ready for 'joe user,' it's not ready for OS X and Windows users who want to run their proprietary technologies and services [i.e. iTunes, MS Office, Photoshop] on Linux. And that's fine by most Linux users. [...] that type of user wants something completely different than what he's been getting under Windows and Mac OS X.

Mac OS X Leopard October 26?

http://digg.com/apple/Mac_OS_X_Leopard_October_26 (20071005 09:10)

I certainly hope this is true!

Secure remote access to your desktop

http://www.linux.com/feature/119446 (20071005 09:00)

Accessing your home server safely can be problematic, especially if you don't have a fixed IP address, but with Linux, DynDNS, PAM, and NX Free you can create a safe remote access path to your machine.

Speaking UNIX: Ten more command-line concoctions

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93660 (20071005 09:00)

In this thirteenth installment of Speaking UNIX discover more shortcuts and power at the UNIX command line. From benefits of Shell or making better usage of your time, this article will teach you the secrets of the UNIX command-line wizards.

Seven Companies Decide Open Source Is the Future of Cellphone Technology

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Seven_Companies_Decide_Open_Source_Is_the_Future_of_Cellphone_Technology (20071005 08:20)

"The idea is to address the rise in consumer demand for Internet access and advanced applications on cellphones. The seven companies are ARM, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Mozilla, Marvell, MontaVista, and Movial. The new standard chosen: a Linux-based open source platform to be designed for next-generation mobile applications."

Apple Seeds ZFS Read/Write Developer Preview 1.1 for Leopard

http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Seeds_ZFS_Read_Write_Developer_Preview_1_1_for_Leopard (20071005 06:10)

Apple has seeded version 1.1 of ZFS for Mac OS X to Developers this week. The preview updates a previous build released on June 26, 2007.In the release notes, Apple confirms that the original release of Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) will only offer Read-Only ZFS. As a result, no ZFS pools or filesy...

Linux on mobile: manifest destiny?

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/10/05/linux_mobile_choice/ (20071005 04:22)

Or unholy past?

When the Linux Foundation emerged from the collision of the Open Software Development Labs (ODSL) and the Free Standards Group in January 2007, cynical observers described it, with some justification, as "yet another Linux knitting circle".…

DHS Injects Itself With DDoS

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/165546751/article.pl (20071005 04:13)

An anonymous reader writes "Here's a story about what can happen to any enterprise IT department that overestimates the intelligence of its users. Only in this case, the enterprise in question is the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The spokesman says there's no Jack Bauer mentality. No kidding!"

Google and Frontline smack Verizon over US wireless auction (again)

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/05/court_denies_verizon_request_for_expedited_review_of_700mhz_suit/ (20071005 02:53)

Court gives a helping hand

Score one for the anti-Verizons in the ongoing battle for the 700-MHz band, a slice of US wireless spectrum set to be auctioned off by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in mid-January.…

WiFi positioning system SDK targets Linux devices

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4862152313.html (20071005 02:46)

WiFi positioning system (WPS) technology provider Skyhook Wireless has announced a "major upgrade" to its WPS software development kit (SDK). The update improves positioning accuracy, supports a broader range of WiFi devices, adds compatibility with a wide variety of GPS software, and now targets Linux devices.

IBM preps Power6-based blade and Blue Business Platform

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/05/ibm_power6_blade_blue_business_platform/ (20071005 02:06)

Making another bundle

IBM has some server shenanigans planned in the coming months, and we'd like to share them with you.…

ARM aims Linux initiative at mobile Internet devices

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8620895791.html (20071005 01:11)

ARM Ltd. has unveiled a sweeping project designed to ensure that its processors support a modern Web browsing experience on mobile devices running Linux. Spearheaded by embedded Linux service provider Movial, ARM and unnamed partners will port GNOME, Firefox, and associated browser plugins to specific hardware based on ARMv5/6/7 architectures.

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