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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements EFF: Diebold Attempts to Evade Election Transparency LawsThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is going to court in North Carolina to prevent Diebold Election Systems, Inc. from evading North Carolina law. "EFF, with the assistance from the North Carolina law firm of Twiggs, Beskind, Strickland & Rabenau, P.A., intervened in the case on behalf of McCloy, the founder of the North Carolina Coalition for Verified Voting. In a brief filed Wednesday, EFF argued that Diebold had failed to show why it was unable to meet various new election law provisions requiring source code escrow and identification of programmers. North Carolina experienced one of the most serious malfunctions of e-voting systems in the 2004 presidential election when over 4,500 ballots were lost in a voting system provided by Diebold competitor UniLect Corp."
EFF Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Sony BMGThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with two class action law firms, has filed a lawsuit against Sony BMG, demanding that the company repair the damage done by the First4Internet XCP and SunnComm MediaMax software it included on over 24 million music CDs. Click below for the EFFs press release. For information on other suits against Sony see sonysuit.com.
Ask GNOME Foundation candidate questions (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop.org has announced the opening of the questioning phase of the GNOME Foundation election. "Before the voting starts, a debate will happen. We usually send questions to the candidates to launch the debate. If you want to see some discussion about what is important to you, here's your chance to make it happen!"
Gartner on SonyBMGEven the Gartner Group has put out a pronouncement on the SonyBMG debacle. "After more than five years of trying, the recording industry has not yet demonstrated a workable DRM scheme for music CDs. Gartner believes that it will never achieve this goal as long as CDs must be playable by stand-alone CD players. The industry may now refocus its attention on seeking legislation requiring the PC industry to include DRM technology in its products. Gartner believes the industry would be better-served by efforts to develop solutions that use DRM as an accounting/tracking tool, rather than as a lock. This approach would enable them to move to play-based business models not tied to hardware, and to track their digital assets without complicating users' ability to move legitimately acquired content to whatever devices they choose."
Commercial announcements McAfee Protection Comes to Linux with StandGuard Anti-VirusBytware Inc. has announced a new anti-virus solution for Linux. "StandGuard Anti-Virus for Linux brings the industry-leading power of McAfee's scanning engine and the ease-of-use of the award-winning StandGuard Anti-Virus to Linux running on x86-based PCs. StandGuard Anti-Virus for Linux (x86-based PCs) allows users to detect and clean the full 150,000+ threats identified by McAfee's AVERT, a huge improvement over the 40,000 viruses that some Linux solutions promise to detect."
Cluster File Systems, Inc. Releases Lustre Version 1.4.5Cluster File Systems, Inc. has announced the free availability of their Lustre file system V1.4.5. "Cluster File Systems(TM), Inc. (CFS), the leader in high-performance parallel file systems, this week released the latest update to the open source Lustre(TM) file system. Lustre version 1.4.5, available to CFS customers since August 2005, is now available to the general public at no cost."
Macromedia Releases Second-Generation Flash Media Server (Publish)Macromedia has released their Flash Media Server 2, according to an article on Publish.com. "Flash Media Server 2 is a foundation for delivering both recorded and live Flash video in large-scale deployments such as video on demand, live Web broadcasts, MP3 streaming, video blogging and video/audio chat applications, the company added. "Flash allows a publisher complete creative control over a piece of work," Chris Hock, Macromedia's director of product management for Flash video, told Ziff Davis Internet. "Because Flash just works across all platforms—Windows, Linux, Mac, all of them—they can just QA it once and know it'll look good everywhere it's used.""
Novell Appoints Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe as Executive Vice President and CTONovell, Inc. has announced that Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe has been appointed executive vice president and chief technology officer for Novell. "Dr. Jaffe, 51, brings unparalleled technology and business experience from over 25 years at IBM and Lucent Technologies. He will be responsible for Novell's technology direction, as well as leading Novell's product business units. He will report to Ron Hovsepian, president and chief operating officer, Novell."
Eclipse CDT Gains Momentum, Sets PrioritiesQNX Software Systems has announced a set of development objectives for their CDT code base. "QNX Software Systems, the company leading the C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) project on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation, today announced the development objectives set by the contributing members at the CDT Contributors Summit held last month. The CDT team agreed upon several priorities for the next release of the CDT code base, including improved build management and debugging. A new indexer, called the Persisted Document Object Model (PDOM), will also be developed to improve system performance."
Sun Announces Support for Postgres Database on Solaris 10Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced that it will be distributing, integrating and supporting (but not correctly spelling) the PostgreSQL database in Solaris 10. "Today Sun announced that it will be integrating the Postgres open source data base into the Solaris 10 OS and providing world-wide 24x7 support for customers who wish to develop and deploy open source database solutions into their enterprise environments. Sun is working with the PostgresSQL community to take advantage of the advanced technologies in the Solaris 10 OS, such as Predictive Self-Healing, Solaris Containers and Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace)."
New Books Phishing Exposed--latest from SyngressSyngress has published the book Phishing Exposed by Lance James.
Essential PHP Security - O'Reilly's Latest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett.
Tips and Tools for Podcasting Like a Pro--O'Reilly's Latest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Podcasting Pocket Guide by Kirk McElhearn, Richard Giles and Jack D. Herrington.
Sams Publishing Publishes First Book on SUSE Linux 10Sams Publishing has published the book SUSE Linux 10 by Mike McCallister.
Twisted Network Programming Essentials - O'Reilly's Latest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Twisted Network Programming Essentials by Abe Fettig.
Signate Announces Second Edition of VoIP Telephony with AsteriskSignate has published the book VoIP Telephony with Asterisk, second edition by Paul Mahler.
Resources EFF: Guide for Student Bloggers Helps Kids Speak OutThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced a new guide to student blogging. "Just what are students allowed to publish about their school, their teachers, and their classmates? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released a guide to student blogging Friday to help kids learn about their rights and how to defend them. These are important issues for millions of students: a study this month by the Pew Internet & American Life Project says approximately 4 million teens keep a blog."
Wireless HotSpot HowToA new Wireless HotSpot HowTo is available. "Yunus Bookwala has published a tutorial dealing with setting up a WLAN HotSpot on a Linksys WRT54GS router using OpenWrt, ChilliSpot, and FreeRadius."
Contests and Awards BitMover's open source awards programBitMover, the company behind BitKeeper, has announced an "open source awards program." The first recipient is Joe English, for his work on the Tile project.
GIMP 10th Anniversary Splash ContestA new GIMP splash screen contest has been announced. "It is GIMP's Tenth Anniversary and close enough to the time for the 2.2.10 release of stable GIMP making it a very good time for a splash contest. This contest is very simple. We are collecting images with tutorials and when it is all done, the GIMP's Lead Developers will pick the one they find most appropriate."
PathScale EKOPath Compiler Suite Receives Three SC05 AwardsPathScale, Inc. has announced the winning of three HPCwire 2005 awards for its EKOPath Compiler Suite. "The PathScale EKOPath Compiler Suite won the Editors' Choice award for the "Most Significant New HPC Software Product for 2005," and both the Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards for the software product with the "Best Software Price Performance.""
Education and Certification Linux Professional Institute exceeds 100,000 examsThe Linux Professional Institute has announced that it has now given over 100,000 Linux certification examinations. That is double the total from one year ago.
Event Reports First O'Reilly European Open Source Convention Wrap-upO'Reilly presents a wrap-up of the First Annual O'Reilly European Open Source Convention. "Nearly 500 developers, programmers, hackers, and systems and network administrators attended tutorials, sessions, on-stage discussions, informal events, and hallway conversations focusing on almost every aspects of the open source platform."
Upcoming Events openlab openday (london)The next openlab openday will be held on December 11, 2005 in London, England. "In the past year, openlab has been a self sufficient project driven by like minded people to promote and demonstrate the use of open source free software in the context of real-time audio/visual performance practice. We have organized live performances, workshops, a radio show and various other activities. Of course, we also enjoyed our meetings and drinking beers;)"
ShmooCon 2006 - Washington DCShmooCon 2006 will be held in Washington, D.C. on January 13-15. Event tracks include Break It!, Build It! and Bof It!.
SNORT Video ConferenceA SNORT video conference has been announced by the folks at Irvine Underground. "We will be having a Video Conference with SNORT Lead Developer, Marc Norton at our next meeting in Irvine, CA on December 9th." Snort is an open-source network intrusion prevention and detection system.
Events: November 23, 2005 - January 18, 2006
Web sites ganfyd: Medical Reference Wiki (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the new ganfydd site. "ganfydd is a qualified medical reference wiki established in the UK. It uses the Mediawiki software and has a variant Creative Commons content licence."
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