Archive for June, 2009

The Man Wall

| June 30th, 2009
The Man Wall
Bring the sports bar experience home with The Man Wall ($14,900). This all-in-one chunk of awesomeness features room for four TVs — one 52" and two 26" units are included...

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Yamaha NeoHD

| June 30th, 2009
Yamaha NeoHD
It might not be the all-in-one home theater box of your dreams, but the new Yamaha NeoHD ($600-$800) is certainly a step in the right direction. This streamlined receiver features...

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Tag Heuer Monaco LS

| June 30th, 2009
Tag Heuer Monaco LS
Tag's legendary Monaco series is back and looking better than ever. The new Tag Heuer Monaco LS Chronograph Calibre 12 ($TBA) is a modern masterpiece, featuring a high-tech face with...

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FISL 10 is over … WOW!

| June 30th, 2009
FISL--the international free software conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil--was a huge success this year. Thousands and thousands of free software enthusiasts crowded in to hear over 400 speakers and interact with people from various organizations that has setup shop in the pavilion including the President of Brazil himself.

Firefox 3.5 is now available

| June 30th, 2009
Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 3.5. "Firefox 3.5 has been under development for the past year, contains many new exciting features for users and web developers, and is our fastest Firefox release ever."
NetworkWorld covers a talk by Jim Zemlin. "The move by carriers to sell netbooks at a discount and seek revenue from later application downloads is an opportunity for Linux, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said at a Beijing forum. He urged Chinese and global companies to consider offering devices and download stores based on Linux."
Gentoo has updated wireshark (multiple vulnerabilities), tomcat (information disclosure), phpmyadmin (multiple vulnerabilities).

Red Hat has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities), seamonkey (arbitrary code execution).

Slackware has updated ghostscript (multiple vulnerabilities).

After thorough testing of the leading Open Source index engines, Mailspect Inc. has selected Sphinx as the search and retrieval engine for MPP, the Message Processing Platform. Sphinx is an Open Source project founded and maintained by Andrew Aksyonoff of Voronezh, Russia. It was designed from the ground up to integrate seamlessly with SQL databases and scripting languages.
The following tutorial was created especially for those of you who want to test the Android platform and install various applications, on the popular Ubuntu operating system. OK, so let's get started... shall we?