December 28, 2007 - 2:46 pm - Posted by Banana Hammr
Open Source Living is a recently-established directory of open-source software.
Basically it’s stuff you can use without having to pay for it and without worrying about proprietary software issues.
Most of the criteria for inclusion in the Open Source Living revolve around the nature of the licensing for the product — it has to be freely redistributable, not discriminatory in its licensing, with source code available, etc.
To that end, the programs already listed in the Open Source Living Directory are something of a “who’s who” of open-source success stories: Firefox, OpenOffice, 7-Zip, and so on.
A fair number of Mac-specific open-source programs are also featured: Camino, Vienna, and NeoOffice.
The layout and design of the site are friendly and clean; it doesn’t look like something that was thrown together in an afternoon.
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November 27, 2007 - 11:41 am - Posted by Banana Hammr
The development team over at Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0.0.10 and as always, it’s highly recommended that you upgrade your install right away because of the security fixes.
The following security issues were fixed:
- Referer-spoofing via window.location race condition
- Memory corruption vulnerabilities (rv:1.8.1.10)
- jar: URI scheme XSS hazard
Firefox 2.0.0.10 seems to be a lot more stable and not using as much memory. Maybe they’ve finally got the memory leaks under control?
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October 26, 2007 - 5:40 am - Posted by Banana Hammr
WordPress 2.3.1 is now available. 2.3.1 is a bug-fix and security release for the 2.3 series.
2.3.1 fixes over twenty bugs. Some of the notable fixes are:
- Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
- Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
- Link importer fixes
- Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than their WordPress Address
Unfortunately, some security issues were found in 2.3.
There was an XSS problem that can be exploited if your php setup has register_globals enabled. For this reason, upgrading to 2.3.1 is advised.
Get WordPress 2.3.1 from the download page and enjoy.
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October 20, 2007 - 3:29 pm - Posted by Banana Hammr
Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0.0.8 and it’s highly recommended that you upgrade your install right away because of a nice list of security fixes.
The following security issues were fixed:
- URIs with invalid %-encoding mishandled by Windows
- XPCNativeWrapper pollution using Script object
- Possible file stealing through sftp protocol
- XUL pages can hide the window titlebar
- File input focus stealing vulnerability
- Browser digest authentication request splitting
- onUnload Tailgating
- Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.8)
Firefox 2.0.0.8 is also compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), although there are some known issues affecting some media plugins.
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August 18, 2007 - 12:23 pm - Posted by Banana Hammr
Skype is internet communications. Skype is software that lets you use your computer and internet connection to communicate with anyone, anywhere in the world.
The Skype development recently released a new version of Skype with some bug fixes.
Here is the detailed list of what’s new in Skype version 3.5.0.214:
- change: Extras Manager updated to version 1.5.0.3
- bugfix: Skype sometimes crashed on receiving chat message
- bugfix: Skype sometimes crashed when handling mood message
- bugfix: Can’t resume call after putting it on hold in some cases
- bugfix: Video mood and chat messages sometimes displayed wrong thumbnails
- bugfix: On call transfer dialogue blocked and deleted contacts were shown
- bugfix: Phone number on Outlook contacts was not shown
- bugfix: On rare occasions Voice Mail download failed
- bugfix API: Switching to silent mode took too long
Be sure to go grab the latest version of Skype for your Operating System of choice.
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