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To mark the second birthday of the openSUSE project, the community program last week celebrated with two announcements – the availability of the first beta of openSUSE 10.3 and the growth of the openSUSE Build Service with a new end-user interface. The openSUSE Build Service is a framework that provides an infrastructure for software developers to create and compile packages …

Vulnerability Discovery and Analysis (VDA) Labs, founded in April by Jared DeMott, notifies software vendors of security bugs found in their software, as do many other security researchers. But as part of VDA’s business model, vendors are asked to pay for the bugs it discovers, or its consulting services, otherwise VDA threatens to sell the bug to a third party …

When it comes to security expertise, you have two options: become a security expert or hire a security expert. There really is no middle ground. How prepared is your IT department or administrator to handle security incidents? Many organizations learn how to respond to security incidents only after suffering attacks. By this time, incidents often become much more costly than …

After years of development, intensive fine-tuning, and much anticipation, Windows Server 2008 is almost ready for release. But not before it passes one more test. Microsoft is handing it over to the global Information Technology community for final scrutiny. And we’d like you to be part of that process. Here’s how the Face of Windows Server 2008 website lets you …

Lenovo will offer a version of Linux on its ThinkPad notebooks beginning in the fourth quarter, the company announced Monday. The Chinese PC maker has selected Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell as its first supported entry into the world of open source. Though ThinkPads have been certified to run Linux in the past, this is the first time …

This year’s Black Hat was pretty much summed up in a prescient keynote by Richard Clarke, the nation’s former cyber security czar now novelist and chairman of Good Harbor Consulting. Clarke said “we’re building more and more of our economy on cyberspace 1.0, yet we have secured very little of cyberspace 1.0.” The apparent speed gained in Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript …

Bicara tentang sosok Iwan Fals, kita tidak akan bisa melupakan kaum marjinal di negeri ini. Sebab, berbagai judul lagu yang membesarkan nama Iwan Fals seolah tak lepas dari masalah kepedulian sosial, seperti kemiskinan, pengangguran, dan berbagai protes sosial. Semisal lagu Oemar Bakri, yang menggambarkan pahit getir nasib guru, hingga lagu Bento yang merupakan sindiran bagi pejabat negeri. Pria bernama asli …

For years Microsoft kept its “shared source” distinct from the broader open-source movement, but now the company is seeking official blessing for its work from the organization that bestows official open-source status. The company said last week at the O’Reilly’s Open Source Conference that it’s submitting its shared-source licenses to the Open Source Initiative, which judges whether new licenses meet …

Admit it: For many of us, our work computer is a home away from home. It seems only fair, since our home computer is typically an office away from the office. So in between typing up reports and poring over spreadsheets, we use our office PCs to keep up with our lives. We do birthday shopping, check out funny clips …