Date: 10/20/05 (Security)    Keywords: software, browser, security, web

With release 8.0.4, Netscape is now up to date on security patches with the underlying Firefox Web browser software.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Netscape+update+fixes+Firefox+bugs/2100-1009_22-5902868.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/20/05 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: software, css, web

jkshfkaasdywe!!!1

Opera 9 preview is availiable for download from today. check it out

I'm using it now and it fixes for just about everything that was even remotely wrong with Opera before.

Rich text editing now works (try it updating LJ); flash doesn't overlap things it shouldn't; IMAP is actually useful; support for XSLT/webforms/CSS3 selectors; even more configurable (opera:config)... the list goes on.

It completely blows Firefox out of the water.

Seriously, you want it.

(if you do download it, be sure to back up everything - despite being very stable, this is still technically pre-beta software. Use at your own risk!)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/opera_browser/47076.html

Date: 10/20/05 (Security)    Keywords: software

Bruce Schneier says profit-minded corporations are at fault for flaws in software.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Expert%3A+Vendors%2C+not+coders%2C+to+blame+for+bugs/2100-1009_22-5904996.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/23/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: blogging, software, web

WordPress.Com is a commercial venture from the authors of popular weblogging software - WordPress. They provide free weblog to selected individuals based on God-knows-what criteria. On their website they ask you for some mysterious invitation code to be a wordpress.com blogger. Recently however they opened up, possibly due to some marketing arrangement, and provides free Weblog account [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-get-free-wordpresscom-account-for-firefox-interent-explorer-opera-safari-users/

Date: 10/24/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, java

JavaWorld has this trivial article on simulating multiple inheritance in Java software using delegation. What he explains in a big long-winded article with several examples, requires just one sentence to elucidate. It is an age old technique. Create instances of objects (extend them if you need using inner classes) you wanted to inherit in the first [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simulating-multiple-inheritance-in-java-software/

Date: 10/25/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, database, java

Java Software - TinyDisk provides a way to store large amount of data anonymously (write once - read multiple times - delete admin only) on the internet. It overlays a write-once-read-many anonymous, persistent and globally shared filesystem. Once something is uploaded, only the database admin can delete it. Everyone can read it. No one can know [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-use-tinyurl-to-store-huge-data-online-anonymously/

Date: 10/25/05 (Security)    Keywords: software

One-fifth of DNS servers are running out-of-date software, and two-thirds are open to tweaking to help scammers.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Old+software+weakening+Net%27s+backbone%2C+survey+says/2100-1009_22-5913771.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/26/05 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: software, virus

Hi, long-time listener, first time caller, let me go ahead and jump right into it...

A buddy of mine at work has been having problems with his XP install so he decided to cut his losses, wipe the drive and reinstall. Perfectly normal, right? Well, here's where it gets weird...

After the numerous reboots he gets to the "Starting Windows for the first time..." screen. Everything looks normal. C:\ has tons of shit in there, everything's copacetic. He reboots the machine and it comes up to a C:\ prompt and a `dir' gives two or three files and that's it.

Allow me to reiterate that last bit to make sure everyone knows where I'm coming from, he installs XP, jumps through all the hoops, dots every i, crosses every t, everything looks good, he reboots and nothing's there.

Before you ask, "Why is he rebooting right after the install completes? Why is he doing that?", It's because the first piece of software that asked him to reboot, he did, and when the machine came back up, nothing was there.

We've checked the power supply, the RAM, formatted from an old 98SE install disk, ran the disk utility off the repair disk, ran the disk utility off the hard drive manufacturers repair disk, stuck a PCI IDE controller in the machine and installed/booted from there, no love, nothing.

At first I thought it was the IDE controller on the motherboard going bad, but it wouldn't have been able to write the OS to the hard drive to reboot for the "Starting Windows for the first time..." bit, never would've got that far.

You could say that it's never getting written to the hard drive but running from memory, but that wouldn't hold over between boots.

My latest idea is that maybe there's a boot sector virus written past the sector where XP writes the bootloader so it's not getting overwritten during reinstall, but that would get wiped during a format, wouldn't it? I've downloaded and burned a copy of Darren's Boot&Nuke (DBAN) and we're gonna try that next, but my hopes aren't that high.

Couldn't be a power supply problem, unless power supplies are wiping out OS's on reboot these days.

I would say it's a bad hard drive but it's done the same thing on two different hard drives.

The machine boots from Knoppix and runs fine, accessing the hard drives from Knoppix also works (albeit, there's nothing to look at), what the fuck is going on? I've been researching this for (going on) three weeks and I'm no closer to a solution than I was when I started. I don't think it's a hardware issue because Knoppix runs, why won't the XP install stick?

Any ideas?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ms_windows/48773.html

Date: 10/26/05 (Security)    Keywords: software

Attack uses flaw in the Snort open-source software, meant to protect networks against intruders.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Exploit+published+for+popular+network+tool/2100-1009_22-5915111.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/27/05 (Security)    Keywords: software, security

Software maker is coming under increased fire from security researchers who say its patch process is "years behind" other companies.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Flaw+hunters+pick+holes+in+Oracle+patches/2100-1009_22-5916171.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/28/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: software, database, web

Background: Web Designer/Business Consultant working on graduate thesis...

In terms of business sytems... (in the larger sense - ie corporate identity, databases, web sites, software, intranet, etc) If a system works and runs as it should, why is the design important? What about design will set apart one system to another? Why is it we "need" design in everyday things we use within business?

X-posted

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/261932.html

Date: 10/28/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft is implicitly agreeing with us that a certain set of freedoms allows creators and users of code to collaborate more closely to produce higher quality software.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=480&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/31/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: software

Hi I'm trying to make a VCD. I have a blank cd that's 700mb free space, and I have a 800mb+ file. I want to make it so that it fits on the VCD. I used Virtualdub to make the movie into a 400mb .avi file, but when I put it on the VCD, it doesn't fit--it goes over the 700mb. Does the burning software (Nero) make a .avi file into .mpeg when it's making it into a VCD?

Can I get any tips on making this movie fit into the VCD?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/522084.html

Date: 10/31/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: blogging, software, spam

Matt, author of WordPress blogging software, has released an anti-spam plugin for WordPress - Automattic Spam Stopper (now renamed as AKismet) Bad Behavior, a competing rather effective comment spam prevention plugin, author nicknamed IOError posted a review which points out some obvious downsides of such centralized spam filtering mechanisms like: 1. Privacy concern - all your comments [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/meta-review-of-wordpress-matts-automatticsic-spam-stopper-ass/

Date: 10/31/05 (Application Development)    Keywords: software, microsoft

With rival Microsoft in mind, the search giant will hire people to work on the open-source software suite.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Google+throws+bodies+at+OpenOffice/2100-9593_22-5920762.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 11/02/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, software, html, technology, database, sql, security, apache

This is a follow up to the post I made before regarding this database connection problem I'm having. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/359304.html)

After receiving responses from people that suggested I install the MS SQL PHP functions, I inquired with my IT contact (we are a large institution and therefore have ridiculous amounts of red tape to deal with) as to whether or not they could be installed.

This is what I was told:

We do not support MSSQL odbc connection on our Sun Solaris server running Apache. mssql_connect would require a staff member who knows the technology, purchase of licensed software (which we do not have), and recompiling of Apache that may potentially break other users code. Also, there would be MSSQL security issues if we were to open up or authorize connections to it from our Sun Server, we host a variety of departmental databases on that SQL server, that could be a potentially serious problem if any of our other databases we to be compromised. Sorry for the inconvenience, but that is the story.


If I can't connect to that database, the entire project that I'm working on is going to be fucked and I have a 11/21 deadline. I need to know two things, if any of you can discern from all of this:

1. Is it EVER going to be possible for me to connect to that database? Or should I just stop wasting my time and create another for my personal use?

2. If it is possible, can someone tell me how? :(

Thanks everyone.

Cross posted to PHP/MySQL communities.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/263959.html

Date: 11/02/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, java, apache

Ant (java software) from Apache Foundation is a popular build tool (often used successfully with other release management tasks) which replaces make. "Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, but without Make's wrinkles. " Included in Ant are optional tasks like FTP & Telnet. For example the FTP Task [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-run-ant-ftp-telnet-rexec-task/

Date: 11/02/05 (Application Development)    Keywords: software

The software giant's business-applications group experiments with code sharing with a group of 600 Solomon partners.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+dips+toe+in+shared+source/2100-9593_22-5928509.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 11/02/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, software, html, technology, database, sql, security, apache

Edit: Thank you all for your help and suggestions. I had a meeting with my server administrators and have found that it would just be easier to dump and import the data into my own little MySQL database. But I learned a lot in this process thanks to you all!

This is a follow up to the post I made before regarding this database connection problem I'm having. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/359304.html)

After receiving responses from people that suggested I install the MS SQL PHP functions, I inquired with my IT contact (we are a large institution and therefore have ridiculous amounts of red tape to deal with) as to whether or not they could be installed.

This is what I was told:

We do not support MSSQL odbc connection on our Sun Solaris server running Apache. mssql_connect would require a staff member who knows the technology, purchase of licensed software (which we do not have), and recompiling of Apache that may potentially break other users code. Also, there would be MSSQL security issues if we were to open up or authorize connections to it from our Sun Server, we host a variety of departmental databases on that SQL server, that could be a potentially serious problem if any of our other databases we to be compromised. Sorry for the inconvenience, but that is the story.


If I can't connect to that database, the entire project that I'm working on is going to be fucked and I have a 11/21 deadline. I need to know two things, if any of you can discern from all of this:

1. Is it EVER going to be possible for me to connect to that database? Or should I just stop wasting my time and create another for my personal use?

2. If it is possible, can someone tell me how? :(

Thanks everyone.

Cross posted to PHP/MySQL communities.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/363248.html

Date: 11/04/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, java

Subversion is a popular version control software and replacement for CVS, the grand-daddy of all version control software which is still widely used in open source community. Recently I had the necessity to invoke Subversion commands like checkout from Ant, a popular java based build software which replaces make tool. There are two ant tasks to accomplish [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-integrate-subversion-version-control-software-with-apache-ant/