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Monday, October 8th, 2012
| Time |
Event |
| 5:45p |
Security advisories for Monday Debian has updated icedove (multiple
vulnerabilities), hostapd (denial of
service) and bacula (information
disclosure).
Fedora has updated phpldapadmin (F17; F16:
cross-site scripting) and openstack-swift
(F16: insecure use of python pickle).
Mageia has updated apache (multiple
vulnerabilities), php (multiple
vulnerabilities), dbus (root code
execution), libxslt (code execution), wireshark (denial of service), php-zendframework (multiple vulnerabilities)
and gimp (denial of service).
Mandriva has updated html2ps
(directory traversal).
openSUSE has updated postgresql
(multiple vulnerabilities). | | 7:05p |
The Patent, Used as a Sword (New York Times) Here's a
lengthy New York Times article looking at the problems with the US patent system. " In the smartphone industry alone, according to a
Stanford University analysis, as much as $20 billion was spent on patent
litigation and patent purchases in the last two years — an amount equal to
eight Mars rover missions. Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple
and Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases
exceeded spending on research and development of new products, according to
public filings. | | 8:27p |
The open GSM future arrives (The H) The H creates
a standalone mobile telephone network using the sysmoBTS base station. " In previous articles, we've looked at the question of how free are the phones that people use every day, and looked at the theory behind building your own GSM phone network using open source software. Now, in this article we take a look at the sysmoBTS, a small form-factor GSM Base Transceiver Station (BTS) built around these principles and the steps required to configure it to provide a standalone mobile telephone network that is useful for research, development and testing purposes." | | 8:57p |
The KDE Manifesto The KDE Manifesto has been released. " The KDE Manifesto is not intended to change the organization or the way it works. Its aim is only to describe how the KDE Community sees itself. What binds us together are certain values and their practical implications, without regard for who a person is or what background and skills they bring. It is a living document, so it will change over time as KDE continues to grow and mature. We are sharing the Manifesto to help people understand what KDE is all about, what we want to accomplish and why we do what we do." |
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