The social publishing site abandons Adobe's Flash after three years in favor of HTML5, in the latest black eye for Flash since Apple CEO Steve Jobs's criticism of the technology.
<b>Intellectual Property Watch:</b> "“Apple is selling directly to consumers, who aren’t the best guardians of their own self-interest. The open PC model works for knowledgeable users who know what they are doing and how to protect themselves, but not so for 15-year-old fashionistas and techno-phobic geriatrics,” Kahney said."
New research from the Ponemon Institute and Compuware details sloppy data practices that pervade the financial services sector and outlines the potential consequences of a breach.
<b>Tux Radar:</b> "For the tinkerers and testers, 2010 is shaping up to be a perfect year. Almost every desktop and application we can think of is going to have a major release, and while release dates and roadmaps always have to be taken with a pinch of salt, many of these projects have built technology and enhancements you can play with now."
<b>mozilla.dev.security.policy:</b> "That's rather worrying. Do we know for certain that one or other created it originally? Do we know if it's in any other root stores other than our own?"
Microsoft Access has always had one of the most powerful and flexible reporting engines available to database developers. Follow along as Danny Lesandrini shows how to expand the usefulness of your reports by leveraging the WhereCondition property through Dynamic Where Clause generation.
Emery Fletcher doesn't think much of all the overwrought iPad hype, nor the device itself, saying it is not a real computer, but a PAD-- "Passive Amusement Device."
Edubuntu is Ubuntu customized for the classroom, with a wealth of educational applications for different age groups. Eric Geier reveals some of the many treasures in Edubuntu.
<b>LinuxPR:</b> xTuple, the leader in Mac and <a href="http://www.xtuple.com/">open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software</a> for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced its sponsorship of DrupalCon San Francisco, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Moscone Center.
March's patch drop from Microsoft is a rather lean one from the software giant, and a zero-day flaw in the way Windows handles help files and scripting remains unpatched for now.
C++ Programming is having a revitalization of Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) which continues to deliver simple integration with powerful Windows features. In this article, we'll look at Preview and Thumbnail Support, and how these features can be easily implemented in an MFC application.
What happened to the old "sysadmin" of just a few years ago? We've split what used to be the sysadmin into application teams, server teams, storage teams, and network teams. Now look at what we've done -- knowledge is so decentralized we must invent new roles to act as liaisons between all the IT groups.
Patch meant to kill off 17-year-old bug was suspected of causing multiple crashes and continuous reboots, but the problems were traced to a rootkit. But since the patch won't install on infected systems, what will users do now?
Patch meant to kill off 17-year-old bug was suspected of causing multiple crashes and continuous reboots, but the problems were traced to a rootkit. But since the patch won't install on infected systems, what will users do now?
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "This guide explains how to set up mod_chroot with Apache2 on a Fedora 12 system. With mod_chroot, you can run Apache2 in a secure chroot environment and make your server less vulnerable to break-in attempts that try to exploit vulnerabilities in Apache2 or your installed web applications."