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- Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- A Friday Active Directory puzzlerSuggestions...Have you installed the required hotfixes and patches in the 2000 environment? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331161similar problemupgraded a larger AD domain from 2000 to 2003 by adding a 2003 server.Depending on the error, it could be a lot of things.I got a similar error.it came down to using the...
- Tags: Friday Active Directory puzzler, Friday Active Directory, puzzler
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Weak US dollar starts to drive up mobile software prices
- Weak US dollar starts to drive up mobile software pricesAnd this is news . . .why?Seriously, one software company in Europe (hmm, you know all that Euro software you buy, you know!) raises it's prices and we get that headline?ZDNet needs quality control!Oh Well, it can wait. ntno text
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, mobile software, software, mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1
- The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot! According to the story the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...
- Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptopsjust thinknow instead of being stuck in a little puddle they can go out there and swim in the ocean of windows applications like the rest of us - a zillion kids just smiledlinuxhelp.net:~# apt-get install mozilla-firefoxReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneThe following...
- Tags: Operating systems, Vista-64, Microsoft Windows XP, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., OLPC Laptop, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awardsRE:Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards"their motivation is to take money out of the system,..."is this a good thing?Hmmm...kinda wrong..."...their motivation is to take money out of the system, to take down the old Microsoft monopoly. They lack compelling business models of their own."If the only biz...
- Tags: Leadership, Web browsers, OpenOffice, motivation, old-Microsoft monopoly, old-Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., SourceForge
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Is there an open source jobs boom?
- Is there an open source jobs boom?...can't be too bad.My phone is ringing off the hook because I left a profile out on the job boards and I'm not even looking. I haven't even touched the thing in MONTHS so I know I have floated to the bottom of the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, What-If, tool, Microsoft Corp., development schedule, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Microsoft to show off spherical Surface next week
- Microsoft to show off spherical Surface next weekMoixa - US20070247439 - Spherical Display and Control DeviceThose designers over at Moixa Design who created the eco-friendly USBCELL batteries (http://www.moixa.com http://www.usbcell.com) seem to be a few steps ahead of this with their 'Spherical Display and Control Device' patents US20070247439, that also covers...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...
- Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- TP-LINK TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router
- The TP-Link TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router is a wireless router that supports the Draft N 2.0 specification and not much else. This means no network storage or dual-band support (the router works only in the 2.4GHz frequency), no print-serving capability, and no Gigabit Ethernet. The router doesn't even offer N-mode-only...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Home networking, router, TP-Link, Wireless-N, TP-Link TL-WR941ND, TL-WR941ND
- Product reviews 2008-07-24
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- 2008 Audi A8 L W12
- Photo gallery:2008 Audi A8 L W12The 2008 Audi A8 L W12 rests in a premier echelon of cars that combine extreme luxury with exceptional driving performance, cars that make it difficult to decide whether you'd rather be reclining in the back seat while a chauffeur drives or up there where...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, subwoofer, Audi A8, Audi AG, Bang & Olufsen, car, MP3
- Product reviews 2008-07-24
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...
- Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...
- Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Server, Kaminsky, Dan, Patches, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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