October 2011
2 posts
Whoohoo - OWMX-3 - http://t.co/9QjWWA1C - is now available as #Tumblr #Theme - http://t.co/I6LcYFz4
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache... →
Groundbreaking,
lightweight, scalable, all-Apache stack ideal for use in
enterprise-grade Cloud applications The
Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers,
stewards,…
September 2011
10 posts
Hi @rcconsultancy did they get back to you? I told them to contact you.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces 10th... →
Powers
smart search and indexing solutions for AOL, Apple, Comcast, Disney,
IBM, LinkedIn, Twitter, Wikipedia, and more. Forest
Hill, MD – 27 September 2011 –
The Apache Software…
#MySQL.com Sold for $3k, Serves #Malware - http://t.co/ohH95KHE #security #hacking
RT @tobyink Released HTML-HTML5-Parser #perl #html5 parser. http://t.co/2bS9NoM9
Ooooh: #W3C publishes the first draft for #CSS device adaptation features - http://t.co/TWpgVpuy #webdev #webdesign
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Google sells old rel=attributes as an invention to...
Vanessa Fox (Search Engine Land) and Benjia Li & Joachim Kupke (Google Software Engineers, Indexing Team) are selling the rel=attributes “next” and “prev” as an invention to the SEO lamers out there.
Here is the Search Engine Land article.
Here is the Google Webmaster Central Blog post.
THIS IS NOTHING NEW!
This is so old that I had to digg deep for it when I...
In our throw-away society attention for links dies after approximately 3 hours: http://t.co/PZtFooG (bit.ly blog)
#W3C Launches Work on “Do Not Track” Standards for the Web http://t.co/9gNTX8e #webstandards #privacy
RT @bluebomber ♺ @wxl: ♺ @whitone UNIX’ Russian Roulette: sudo [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “You live” #linux #funny #fb
New property introduced - #CSS3 Backgrounds & Borders module: http://t.co/pGOasI2 #webdesign #design #webdev
Why I’m still with #Firefox: http://t.co/vd5r8Aa - No alternative for #chrome - I don’t switch. #privacy #security #chromium
August 2011
12 posts
RT @tomaz: People using #linux should know that it all started with this post by Linus Torvalds http://t.co/rWs19g5 exactly 20 years ago
RT @karlpro: discussing HTTP DELETE, 410 Gone and… Privacy! http://t.co/2tjabCM #opacity
Belated congratulations to the Apache Turbine team... →
The Apache Software Foundation raises a glass to Apache Turbine, the rapid-development Web application framework that’s been a part of the Foundation over the past decade. Originally a…
RT @acathur “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” -Henry Miller #q
StumbleUpon now drives over 50% of all social referral traffic to US websites! http://t.co/Fyj62Yd via @gmc
Hey @netzsooc if you want a stable OS go with #ubuntu LTS or your regular Wintendo / Apple OS. Don’t criticise #FOSS - help fixing it!
Jason Hoffman (Joyent) is open sourcing a version of the #KVM #hypervisor for #SmartOS - http://t.co/oQWche3 #foss #google #freesoftware
RT @schestowitz: ♻ @dkeats: The saddest thing about patents and today’s “intellectual property” is their devastating effect on those who …
It’s a shame I have to repeat myself so many times: http://t.co/TMGnwfO
Just corrected several http://owmx.com/ template HTML5 validation issues. #CSS3 finetuning and some major updates will come next week.
Just revamped the #socialmedia group - http://identi.ca/group/socialmedia - #social0media #smm - Feel free to join the community.
September 2010
4 posts
Announcing The New ASF Executive Officers →
At the Apache Software Foundation Board Meeting held this morning, the following members were elected to serve as the new Executive Officers of the ASF effective immediately: - Doug Cutting,…
The ASF is seeking a part-time Executive Assistant →
Historically, The Apache Software Foundation has relied on volunteer effort to manage its administrative tasks. However, as the ASF has grown, the workload required, as well as our reliance on…
Spring+JPA with MySQL/Oracle configurations →
During development for a solution based on Spring+JPA+MySQL/Oracle we came across two settings to watch for.
1. Database isolation level
The default isolation level in MySQL is REPEATABLE READ,…
How to Send Bulk Email Responsibly →
August 2010
1 post
Registration Opens for ApacheCon North America... →
Open Source Users, Developers, and Members of the Global Apache Community Gather to Share Insight on “Servers, The Cloud, and Innovation” The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and Stone…
April 2010
1 post
The Apache Software Foundation Receives Approval... →
Today, the Apache Software Foundation announced it has agreed to
sell all IP and assets of the foundation to Oracle. The agreement is
a $1.5 billion all cash deal. The ASF board agreed to the…
March 2010
454 posts
ApacheCon NA 2010 Business/Community Track Call... →
ApacheCon North America 2010 Business/Community Track Call For Participation All submissions must be received by Friday, 30 April 2010 at midnight Pacific Time. The official conference,…
Canada's Top Court Quashes Child Porn Warrant →
m.ducharme writes “The CBC is reporting that the Supreme Court of Canada has handed down a decision quashing a search warrant used to obtain the computer of a man accused of possession of child porn….
Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox... →
Trailrunner7 writes “A month after an advisory was published detailing a new vulnerability in Firefox, Mozilla said it has received exploit code for the flaw and is planning to patch the weakness on…
Amazon Battles Apple By Arm-Twisting Publishers →
bizwriter writes “Apple has upset the e-book pricing cart by agreeing to a so-called agency model, where the publisher sets the price and the seller takes a cut. This goes contrary to the degree of…
IRS Security Faults Leave Taxpayer Data At Risk →
coondoggie writes “In this tax season, when billions of dollars and tons of personal information is relayed to and from the government, it’s more than disconcerting to hear that the Internal Revenue…
Madoff's Programmers Indicted →
jason8 writes with news that two programmers who worked at Bernie Madoff’s investment firm have now been indicted on charges of ‘conspiracy, falsifying records of a broker-dealer and falsifying…
Naming and Shaming 'Bad' ISPs →
An anonymous reader writes “Brian Krebs takes a provocative look at ISP reputations, collecting data from 10 different sources that track ‘badness’ from a multitude of angles, from phishing to…
Business-Suitable Document Authentication System? →
ram.loss writes “The company I work for has decided to go paperless for all memos and internal correspondence. In addition to the central administration, the company has three more or less…
Internet Explorer 9 Will Not Support Windows XP →
MojoKid writes “As it turns out, news this week is that the same features that made IE9’s hardware-acceleration possible probably aren’t compatible with Windows XP. Microsoft initially dodged giving…
Google Launches 3D Driver Project For Chrome →
CWmike writes “Google has launched a new project for Chrome that will let the browser run a wider range of 3D graphics content without downloading additional drivers. The open-source project, called…
"Moot" Working On Reboot of 4chan Platform →
Hugh Pickens writes “Nick Bilton has an interesting interview with Christopher Poole, known online as ‘Moot,’ founder 4chan, a jumble of content, hosting anything from pictures of cute kittens to…
ISC Releases the First Look At BIND 10 →
Ethanol writes “Internet Systems Consortium, producers of BIND 9 (the most popular DNS implementation on the internet), have spent the past year working on a successor, BIND 10. It’s entirely new…
Scientists Use Sex-Crazed Bugs As Pesticide →
ByronScott writes “In today’s ‘gross news’ category, some female insects just might be getting lucky. As an alternative to toxic pesticides, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have…
Federal Judge Bars Instant Publishing of Analysts'... →
An anonymous reader writes “Big Banking firms Barclay’s Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch successfully obtained an injunction against theflyonthewall.com, Inc., preventing them from…
YouTube Was Evil, and Google Knew It →
pcause writes “Silicon Alley Insider has the most damning evidence released in the Viacom/YouTube suit. It seems clear from these snippets that YouTube knew it was pirating content, and did it to…
Oracle Shuttering OpenSSO →
mdm42 writes “OpenSSO is one of the best open source web Single Sign On projects out there. Sun Microsystems made OpenSSO open source in 2008, so it’s sad to see how, after absorbing Sun, Oracle is…
Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech →
bdcrazy writes “A man was recently awarded $1.5M in a jury trial after his hand was injured by a Ryobi table saw. The saw did not include the patented ‘Saw Stop’ technology that the plaintiff argued…
Free Software To Save Us From Social Networks →
Glyn Moody writes “Here’s a problem for free software: most social networks are built using it, yet through their constant monitoring of users they do little to promote freedom. Eben Moglen, General…
The Woes of Munich's Linux Migration →
mikrorechner writes “The H Online has a writeup of the problems encountered by LiMux (Wikipedia entry), one of the most prominent Linux migration projects in the world, trying to introduce free…
Memory Cards of 3,000 Phones Infected By Malware →
itwbennett sends us a few links from IT World tracing a story about infected microSD cards in Vodaphone-supplied mobile phones. “The original report came on March 8 after an employee of Panda…