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Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
| Time |
Event |
| 5:29p |
Tuesday's security updates Red Hat has updated flash-plugin
(multiple vulnerabilities) and kernel
(multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated kernel (8.04
LTS; 12.04 LTS OMAP: privilege escalation). | | 5:34p |
Migurski: Openstreetmap in postgres For anybody wanting to work with Openstreetmap data using PostgreSQL, here's a collection of useful tools and techniques. " At first glance, OSM data and Postgres (specifically PostGIS) seem like a natural, easy fit for one another: OSM is vector data, PostGIS stores vector data. OSM has usernames and dates-modified, PostGIS has columns for storing those things in tables. OSM is a worldwide dataset, PostGIS has fast spatial indexes to get to the part you want. When you get to OSM’s free-form tags, though, the row/column model of Postgres stops making sense and you start to reach for linking tables or advanced features like hstore.. | | 7:36p |
| | 7:42p |
HTTPS Everywhere 3.0 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released
version 3.0 of HTTPS Everywhere. HTTPS Everywhere 3.0 adds encryption protection to 1,500 more websites, twice as many as previous stable releases. " Our current estimate is that HTTPS Everywhere 3 should encrypt at least a hundred billion page views in the next year, and trillions of individual HTTP requests." |
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