After all, it was IBM that stood to benefit the most from OpenOffice.org joining the ASF. IBM is still making Lotus Symphony and are marketing this OpenOffice.org-based suite as a business desktop application. Because of this vested interest, Big Blue should be much happier keeping OpenOffice.org with the ASF than The Document Foundation.
Why? Because now that OpenOffice.org is part of the ASF, the OpenOffice.org office suite is licensed under the Apache Software License (ASL) v2. This means IBM and any other Apache OpenOffice.org project member can innovate the OpenOffice.org source code for their own purposes and not be obligated to give back to the mainline OpenOffice.org code, since the ASL is a non-copyleft license. [...]
Okay, so given that IBM should have a lot to gain from an active Apache-licensed OpenOffice.org, where's the money?

So könnte der Buchbesitz in seiner physischen Form mehr und mehr ein Vergnügen für Sammler werden. Sollte man allerdings in einigen, vielleicht vielen Jahren überraschend bei einem neuen Bekannten ein gut gefülltes Regal erblicken, dann kann man sich noch sicherer sein als heute: Wir könnten Freunde werden.

Researchers from the Godai Group set up what are called doppelganger domains — close imitations of legitimate domains — for all Fortune 500 companies, then sat back for six months to see what they would get.

In all, the researchers report, 151 of the companies were vulnerable to having e-mail misdirected. And in that six-month period, they collected 120,000 e-mails amounting to 20G of data, including trade secrets, business invoices, employees’ personal information, network diagrams, user names and passwords.

It's never a matter of if a disk will fail, but when. So, what do you do when you're awakened at 2 o'clock in the morning because of file system, LVM, or SAN errors on an IBM AIX server? Or, better yet, how do you prevent them from waking you up in the first place? This article looks at strategies for managing disk resources to maximize availability, performance, and redundancy and provides techniques on how to recover from failures when good disks go bad.

Learn to guide your Linux system through the boot process. You can use the material in this article to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to learn about the boot process.

My Custom Cubeecraft / Papercraft Cutout template of the 11th Doctors TARDIS from Doctor Who.

Unobtrusive JavaScript is the practice of separating the JavaScript, CSS, and HTML elements in your web applications. By keeping your applications organized in this way, it's easier to maintain them and to ensure that your applications behave consistently across various platforms and web browsers. In this article, learn how to employ techniques to reap the benefits of developing web applications in an unobtrusive manner.

Im Rahmen einer Präsentation (PDF) auf der diesjährigen Hacktivity-Konferenz in Budapest legte der Sicherheitsexperte László Tóth die Auditing-Funktionen von Oracles Datenbank lahm. Dafür nutzte er den Befehl oradebug, der bei jeder Oracle-Installation vorhanden ist, wie heise berichtet. Tóth entwickelte das woraauthbf Tool, das zur Zeit seiner Veröffentlichung am schnellsten Oracle-Passwörter knacken konnte.

Mit Auditing werden Datenbankaktionen protokolliert, um im Falle von Manipulationen diese zurückzuverfolgen. Tóth demonstrierte, wie sich mit dem Befehl Poke, das Auditing für System-Benutzer mit Privilegien wie SYSDBA und SYSOPER deaktivieren lässt. Bedingung ist dabei das für einen Datenbank-Admin leicht zugängliche SYSDBA-Privileg.

"Beinahe nutzlos" seien deshalb Oracle-Produkte wie Audit Vault, die auf den Auditing-Funktionen der Datenbank aufsetzen, wie Oracle-Sicherheitsexperte Alexander Kornbrust warnt.

So speziell das Szenario wirken mag, so zeigt es doch: Mit TLS verschlüsselte, sichere Verbindungen können nachträglich unsicher werden. Duong und Rizzo behaupten zudem, nicht nur Bezahldienste attackieren zu können, sondern auch Instant Messenger und als vergleichsweise sicher geltende VPN-Verbindungen (Virtuelle Private Netzwerke). Diese werden vor allem zur Umgehung von Internetzensur und zur Kommunikation etwa von Außendienstmitarbeitern mit ihren Unternehmen verwendet.

.. ein Gegenmittel gibt es zwar schon, doch ein Henne-Ei-Problem verhindert die Verbreitung: Fast alle Internetseiten, die vermeintlich sichere Verbindungen anbieten, setzen auf TLS in der Version 1.0. Die ist anfällig für Attacken wie die mit BEAST. Die Nachfolgerversionen TLS 1.1 und 1.2 sind immun und existieren bereits seit Jahren. Doch die meisten Website-Betreiber nutzen sie nicht, weil beide Versionen diverse Funktionen ihrer Seiten lahmlegen würden.

1. An interface may not injure a user or, through inaction, allow a user to come to harm.
2. An interface must obey any orders given to it by users, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. An interface must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

According to The Economist, IKEA will release a new version of its classic BILLY bookshelf next month, one that's focused less on storing books than storing, well, anything and everything else. The company is finding that customers use their shelves increasingly for “ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome,” and less so for reading material.

Developed by BAE Systems, the Adaptiv technology allows vehicles to mimic the temperature of their surroundings.
It can also make a tank look like other objects, such as a cow or car, when seen through heat-sensitive 'scopes.

This article should give you at least a partial picture of the "Internet of Things" march from its first glimpses into today's trending topic.

Wie können wir uns damit abfinden, dass unsere Schulen zu Produzenten von potemkinschen Informationsdörfern verkommen sind, die in der Folge in der Sonne des Lebens schmelzen; und bestenfalls bleibt das eine oder andere Bruchstück an brauchbarem Wissen und Können zurück? Wie können wir ein so teures, ineffektives System finanzieren?

Und wie können wir es mit unserem Gewissen vereinbaren, dass unsere Kinder in jüngeren Jahren oft Märchen von Autonomie, Demokratie und Selbstbestimmung aufgetischt bekommen, während sie im Heranwachsen dann in ein autoritäres System hineingeschleudert werden, dass sie gnadenlos und unbarmherzig zu belehren trachtet?

I'm going to turn the TV off on September 11th. And close all the web browser tabs I have open on news sites.

This isn't to belittle the events of ten years ago, or to show disrespect for the victims and their bereaved: rather, it's to avoid the narcissistic and indecent media feeding frenzy that battens onto popular sentiment and attempts to jerk every tear from the emotional aftermath of tragedy, the better to milk the advertising revenue stream.

If the media really wanted to mark the occasion respectfully, they'd do so by holding a minutes' silence at 8:46am EST this Sunday.

That's the story of my professional career. Trying to learn things fast enough to create programs to solve problems that go away by themselves or weren't worth spending time on in the first place. Sisyphus had more job satisfaction.

Terence Parr discusses using automation tools including DSLs to automate the software creation process as much as possible in order to increase output, effectiveness, correctness and velocity.

The keyboard is still our main interface to the computer and for many reasons we accept the challenge completely unprepared because we just don't bother to learn the mechanical skill of touch typing. Just think how much more productive you could be if you could simply think your thoughts or your code onto the keyboard as fast as you could think them.

Touch typing is clearly a skill to be valued.

Or is it?

There is a change in the way we interact with computers and it is mostly due to the use of touch screens. You simply cannot touch type on a mobile phone's virtual keyboard. When presented with such a thing your only option is to use one or at most two fingers. Given the way that the unit is held you also can't use the full keyboard style for a two finger peck. It seems that the best you can do is use two thumbs. This is perhaps the biggest change to typing since the introduction of touch typing.

But he has, he admits, always wanted to play a spy – "any actor worth their salt would jump at the chance", he says, "because it's all about mask shifting". His opportunity finally came thanks to Tomas Alfredson, who cast him in his adaptation of John Le Carré's celebrated MI6 thriller – a film that is already being talked about in the industry in hushed, Oscar-worthy tones.

The iconic Cold War spymaster George Smiley is played by Gary Oldman – trading in his usual fire-eating performance for a cloak of impassivity – and Cumberbatch is Peter Guillam, his sidekick in all but name, who puts his own integrity on the line to help him uncover a Russian mole at the heart of the secret service. As eyecatching as the film's 70s aesthetic – gunmetal London skies, stolen documents in buff folders – are the names populating MI6's HQ: Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, John Hurt and Tom Hardy. "That's a call sheet I'm going to frame and keep for ever," says Cumberbatch.

Über Eck erfahre ich gerade von ein paar Holländern, dass deren Zertifikate auch zur Absicherung der "Lawful Interception"-Schnittstellen benutzt wurden, also zum Beschnüffeln der Bürger. Ich denke mal, dass das den Ausschlag gegeben haben wird. Das ist ja seit vielen Jahren eine Warnung aus dem CCC bezüglich Lawful Intercept Schnittstellen, dass man da nicht ausschließen kann, dass sich jemand unbefugtes Zugang verschafft.

Jedenfalls ist es beeindruckend, dass die da nicht "too big to fail" gesagt und sich rauszuwieseln versucht haben. Innerhalb von 5 Tagen nach Herauskommen des Problems ist die CA futsch. Keine schlechte Zeit!