Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

Time	Event
3:31p	Security advisories for Wednesday Debian has updated tiff (multiple code execution flaws). Fedora has updated glibc (F19: multiple vulnerabilities), nmap (F18: arbitrary file upload flaw), python-django14 (F19: cross-site scripting), and python3 (F19: man in the middle attack). Gentoo has updated wireshark (multiple vulnerabilities). Mandriva has updated puppet (multiple vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated kernel (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated kernel (RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
5:27p	Desmond: Out-Tridging Tridge Barney Desmond talks about an rsync performance problem and its solution; the result is an interesting overview of how rsync works. "Most of the activity in this MySQL data file occurs at the end, where more zeroes had been written on the sender’s side. rsync hits this section of the file and is calculating the rolling checksums as normal. For each checksum, it’s referring to the hash table, hitting the all-zeroes chain, then furiously traversing the chain skipping over unusable chunks. Things are now possibly hundreds of times slower than normal, and the backup job has been running for over a week with no sign of finishing any time soon; not sustainable." (Comment on this)
9:28p	In historic vote, New Zealand bans software patents (ars technica) Ars technica reports that New Zealand has banned software patents. "One Member of Parliament who was deeply involved in the debate, Clare Curran, quoted several heads of software firms complaining about how the patenting process allowed "obvious things" to get patented and that "in general software patents are counter-productive." Curran quoted one developer as saying, "It's near impossible for software to be developed without breaching some of the hundreds of thousands of patents granted around the world for obvious work."" (Comment on this)
10:34p	[$] Adobe's open source font experience The fifteenth annual TypeCon conference was held in Portland, Oregon on August 21–25, featuring a mix of session topics that encompassed type design, letterpress printing, and modern font software. Open source and open font licensing have become hot topics in recent years—largely due to the rise of CSS web fonts. But the signs are that open source is gaining even broader acceptance, as evidenced by Paul Hunt and Miguel Sousa's presentation on the Adobe Source Sans Pro and Source Code Pro fonts—and the ripple effects they triggered within the company. (Comment on this)

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