Laptops With Certain NVidia Chips Failing
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITEukariote writes “An estimated 18 million laptops with NVidia G84 and G86 graphics chips sold in the past one and a half years are experiencing high failure rates. Various laptop models from multiple manufacturers (Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others) are affected. NVidia blames it on bad chip packaging causing thermal failure. BIOS updates that turn the laptop fan on more frequently or permanently have been released by Dell and HP. The cynical interpretation is that this is likely to only delay the problem until the warranty has expired.”
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OSCON Wrapup
Another OSCON has come and gone. It was a very busy week filled with talks, work, social events, and everything in between. (Sleep is optional and not recommended.) The OmniTI family (Message Systems included) was well represented with a number of speakers and talks: Chris Shiflett Experience-Driven Development: Designers and Developers Working in Harmony Security 2.0: Emerging Trends in Web Application Security David Gray How I Learned to Love Revision Control Luke Welling PHP Taint Tool: It Ain't a Parser Mike Hillyer How to be Normal: A Guide for Developers Robert Treat Pro PostgreSQL Theo Schlossnagle Full-Stack Introspection Crash Course Wez Furlong Hot Chocolate: Creating Cocoa Apps with PHP PDO: PHP Data Objects PHP Extension Writing Experience-Driven Development is a talk I gave with Jon Tan, and we explored ways designers and developers can collaborate better to create a better user experience, and thereby create a better web site.
Slow Cool Ain't Cool
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) combine proven technologies including JavaScript, Extensible Markup Language (XML), dynamic HTML (DHTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and the Document Object Model (DOM) to enable the delivery of interactive Web applications. AJAX-based Web applications no longer have to reprocess and resend the entire Web page to the end user’s browser every time anything changes on the page.read more
Java & Rich Internet Applications: Sun Launches JavaFX SDK Preview Release
Designed to “deliver content across all the screens of your life,” Sun's rival to Adobe's Flash/Flex - JavaFX - today releases a preview release of the JavaFX SDK, focusing on the RIA workflow. Sun's aim is to help the world's six million Java developers to create RIAs.
Citizens Spy On Big Brother
An anonymous reader writes "Citizens of the world are striking back at 24/7 state surveillance by pulling out their cameraphones and filming inept officials, deadly healthcare lapses and thuggish cops. So-called Sous-veillance is seeing more and more people posting damning footage of official misdemenours to sites such as YouTube to shame them into action." I wonder what happens if you inform a cop that you are recording him when he pulls you over.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Qumranet's Solid ICE Anchors Effective Hosted Desktop Virtualization
Qumranet announced a report published by analyst firm Ovum. The report, "Qumranet's Solid ICE Anchors Effective Hosted Desktop Virtualization," provides an overview of desktop virtualization as well as opportunities and challenges for Qumranet in this space. read more
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Package: image_jpg Summary: Manipulate JPEG images Groups: Graphics Author: Logan Bailey Description: This class can be used to manipulate images. It can load JPEG images from files or remote URL. The class perform several image manipulation operations like adding borders and resize images.
Sun Microsystems Lance Son Pack AMP
Sun microsystems vient d'annoncer la disponibilité de son pack AMP pour systèmes d'exploitation Solaris et Linux. Ce pack est constitué du serveur HTTP Apache, du système de gestion de base de données MySQL et du langage PHP (et PERL). Le pack est disponible en téléchargement sur le site de Sun.
Apple Patches Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability
'This update addresses the issue by implementing source port randomization to improve resilience against cache poisoning attacks. For Mac OS X v10.4.11 systems, BIND is updated to version 9.3.5-P1. For Mac OS X v10.5.4 systems, BIND is updated to version 9.4.2-P1.' It also closes the script-based local privilege escalation vulnerabilities, the most common examples of which were ARDAgent and SecurityAgent, and addresses other less-publicized security issues as well." A few days back we noted Apple's tardiness in fixing their corner of this Net-wide issue.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Creating A Security Test Evironment?
Enderandrew writes "Our IT department has been tasked with creating a list of authorized software, and only allowing software to be added to such a list after it has been thoroughly tested. In theory that sounds like a great idea — but how should we test apps to make sure they are secure?
Creating A Security Test Environment?
We have tools to scan internal websites, and we use MBSA for our Windows servers. However, I'm turning to Slashdot to ask what are the best methods for creating a test environment where I can analyze apps for security vulnerabilities.