iPhones can be hacked with a series of SMSes.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/28/hackers-iphone-apple-technology-security-hackers.html
And there is no way you can stop it!
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CentOS founder, Lance Davis, gone AWOL:
July 30, 2009 04:39 UTC
This is an Open Letter to Lance Davis from fellow CentOS Developers
It is regrettable that we are forced to send this letter but we are left with no other options. For some time now we have been attempting to resolve these problems:
You seem to have crawled into a hole … and this is not acceptable.
You have long promised a statement of CentOS project funds; to this date this has not appeared.
You hold sole control of the centos.org domain with no deputy; this is not proper.
You have, it seems, sole ‘Founders’ rights in the IRC channels with no deputy ; this is not proper.
When I (Russ) try to call the phone numbers for UK Linux, and for you individually, I get a telco intercept ‘Lines are temporarily busy’ for the last two weeks. Finally yesterday, a voicemail in your voice picked up, and I left a message urgently requesting a reply. Karanbir also reports calling and leaving messages without your reply.
Please do not kill CentOS through your fear of shared management of the project.
Clearly the project dies if all the developers walk away.
Please contact me, or any other signer of this letter at once, to arrange for the required information to keep the project alive at the ‘centos.org’ domain.
Sincerely,
Russ Herrold
Ralph Angenendt
Karanbir Singh
Jim Perrin
Donavan Nelson
Tim Verhoeven
Tru Huynh
Johnny HughesOpen letter republished from centos.org.
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uzyn
If your idol says hating Microsoft is uncool, you had better listen.
Slashdot: Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred “a Disease”
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Smart asked Torvalds if Microsoft was contributing the code to benefit the Linux community or Microsoft. ‘I agree that it’s driven by selfish reasons, but that’s how all open source code gets written! We all “scratch our own itches.”
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‘So complaining about the fact that Microsoft picked a selfish area to work on is just silly. Of course they picked an area that helps them. That’s the point of open source — the ability to make the code better for your particular needs, whoever the “your” in question happens to be.’”
Selfish? I don’t really selfishness here. For the first time something is being shared, calling the landmark move “selfish” is not appropriate.
I don’t think Linus is happy about it, deep down he’s probably hating it but he can’t do a thing. Not accepting the code would be a major boo-boo for open source, they have to accept it anyway.
Linus is like a baker who ate someone else’s piece of cake and insists a little more milk would be better.
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Just as Kah Wee and I were talking about the lack of 3D support in Parallels yesterday, looks like the open source alternative, Virtual Box, has outdone the commercial counterpart in this area.
VirtualBox 3 brings 3D graphics support
The VirtualBox developers have gradually been adding support for accelerated 3D graphics. VirtualBox 3 has relatively solid support for OpenGL on Windows and Linux guests. It also has gained experimental support for Direct3D 8 and 9 on Windows. These advancements could make VirtualBox a viable solution for 3D gaming.
Via http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/virtualbox-3-brings-3d-graphics-support.ars
uzyn
Don’t Copy That Floppy is back. Sequel out in summer.
Trailer:
Don’t Copy That Floppy (circa 1992):
[ via Slashdot ]
Somewhere in the discussion at Slashdot, someone brought out this analogy, to counter anti-piracy:
Got into this argument with someone today. They said they wouldn’t be STEALING a movie they want to see. I pointed out that downloading it is hardly stealing when, by my downloading it, I am not depriving a single person from seeing it.
The car analogy doesn’t work unless when I download Big Robots Part 8, someone going to see the movie gets turned away. “Sorry, Goldberg’s Pants pirated this film so you can’t see it.”
Definitely not the first time I’m hearing that argument. I think the anti-anti-piracy people need a better analogy than that. I would give it to the anti-piracy guys with their “You wouldn’t steal a car” argument/analogy if the best anti-anti-piracy people could came up was that.
At least so far I haven’t heard The Pirate Bay used that argument.
Software piracy is a illegal. Fullstop. No buts. No anti-anti-piracy.
uzyn
Collection of bing homepage images:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/bingimages
That’s probably my favorite ‘feature’ of bing, so far.
uzyn
You ain’t see plugging yet until you’ve seen how this man did it.
Joe Jackson, the father of Michael Jackson, plugged his upcoming record company when being interviewed on CNN on his son’s death.
In fact, it’s more than that. The whole interview was a shock to the world who’s mourning his son’s death.
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kahwee
I feel kinda bad for Michael Jackson having such a dad. It seem to be loving all the attention he is getting in the interview.
uzyn
Flicker is down.
Flicker is down for maintenance. Please check back again soon
Yes it is, but not really.
A unique, though lame, attempt at getting linkbacks.
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kahwee
Wow, this could actually generate significant revenue.
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uzyn
Oh, they have taken down the ‘Tweet This’ button on the homepage.
uzyn
Of course Google would want a piece of the action too:
Announcing AdSense for Mobile
AdSense for Mobile Applications allows developers to earn revenue by displaying text and image ads in their iPhone and Android applications.
From: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/announcing-adsense-for-mobile.html
It’s amazing how long it takes for one of the Internet giants to go into this space. Since the introduction of AppStore more than a year ago, neither Yahoo!, Microsoft or Google expressed any interests in mobile advertising and the space has largely been dominated by other independent advertising providers whom only came about after the launch of AppStore.
uzyn
This is why I like PHP, its official documentation ships with an apt XKCD comic: http://php.net/goto
[via @ditesh]
kahwee 2:52 pm on July 31, 2009 Permalink
I wanted to post this too. Well, they could always fork CentOS or something although it’s a big deal in the branding aspect.
kahwee 3:27 pm on August 2, 2009 Permalink
The CentOS admin has resurfaced. Meanwhile another developer opens up and talks about CentOS’s problems: http://dag.wieers.com/blog/the-burden-of-keeping-things-private
kahwee 7:39 pm on August 2, 2009 Permalink
From CentOS: