It can take an nested associative array and generate a XML document.
The class can also do the opposite. i.e. parse a XML document into an array.
It can add one or more regular banner images with link URL and a time limit date.
If time limit was not reached, it returns the HTML to display the banner image as a link. Otherwise it returns the HTML to display a default banner image and a default link.
Grablets writes “Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that rethinks the way network blacklists are formulated and distributed. The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting, exploits the relationships between networks that have been attacked by similar Internet sources as a means for predicting which attack sources are likely to attack which networks in the future. A free experimental version is currently available.”
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get_Rootin writes “That didn’t take long. ZDNet is reporting that HD Moore has released exploit code for Dan Kaminsky’s DNS cache poisioning vulnerability into the point-and-click Metasploit attack tool. From the article: ‘This exploit caches a single malicious host entry into the target nameserver. By causing the target nameserver to query for random hostnames at the target domain, the attacker can spoof a response to the target server including an answer for the query, an authority server record, and an additional record for that server, causing target nameserver to insert the additional record into the cache.’ Here’s our previous Slashdot coverage.”
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Faced with the demands of mission-critical applications, many enterprise developers have pushed the Java language and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to the limit. The most common issue seen in transactional environments is achieving predictable response time or latency - in other words, the time it takes the system to respond to a request or to move a transaction through the IT infrastructure.
The once darling of the software industry, VMWare, is currently struggling to recover to anything close to what it was. With stock once riding high at $124 per share, it is now struggling to break the $40 barrier. VMWare rode the initial wave of the virtualization revolution, producing high quality software to allow you to run and maintain multiple operating systems on one host. They were largely uncompeted for a number of years, but now that the computing world has decided that virtualization is indeed here to stay and will shape our landscape, a number of competitors have appeared, including solutions from Microsoft.
10gen announced $1.5 million in Series A financing from Union Square Ventures. The cloud computing company, founded earlier this year by DoubleClick veterans Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz, and former Joost engineering VP, Geir Magnusson Jr., aims to provide significant time and cost saving advantages by allowing developers to focus on solving business problems and delivering functionality rather than expending effort on infrastructure, scaling and system management.
Emulex announced that its LightPulse Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), available from Sun as the Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4Gb/s PCI Express HBA, now offer Virtual HBA technology within Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) environments. Enhanced capabilities such as virtual port management, available via Emulex’s next generation HBAnyware management suite, are designed to enhance the overall functionality of Solaris Containers.
Tripwire announced the availability of Tripwire ConfigCheck for VMware ESX 3.0. Tripwire ConfigCheck is a free utility that assesses configuration settings for VMware ESX 3.0 and 3.5 hypervisors, determines potential configuration risks, and provides prescriptive remediation advice so that administrators can ensure greater security.
3PAR announced the 3PAR Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI, an integrated virtual desktop provisioning and management solution for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). 3PAR Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI is designed to let customers automatically provision hundreds of high-performance virtual desktops that consume only a fraction of the bandwidth and storage capacity required with traditional storage. By leveraging the unique performance benefits of 3PAR Utility Storage, 3PAR Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI offers customers cost-effective and simple storage scaling for VMware VDI environments.