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Article on DNS cache poisoning and how to protect yourself from it

Have you heard of Drizzle? As detailed here, it's a lightweight, open source SQL database for the cloud and the web, being designed for massive concurrency on multi-CPU/core architecture. If that sounds a lot like MySQL, it should. Drizzle's code is derived from MySQL--basically a fork of the MySQL 6.0 source code.

The 2nd international Subversion Conference will take place in the Munich (Germany). The SubConf is the premier event designed to explore, share, and collaborate on the latest ideas and information about Subversion for the community. Presenters who like to participate should send their abstract for a speech to a.bleicher@hlmc.de

A pixel that uses a pair of mirrors to block or transmit light could lead to displays that are faster, brighter, and more power efficient than liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Researchers at Microsoft Research who published their novel pixel design in Nature Photonics say that their design is also simpler and easier to fabricate, which should make it cheaper.

The Smooks for Mule Project has released a 1.0 Beta of the Smooks for Mule module. Mule is a popular open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Smooks is a Java Framework/Engine for processing XML and non XML data (CSV, EDI, Java etc). Smooks for Mule enables Complex Message Transformation, Splitting and Routing using the Smooks Engine. The module has a Mule 1.x and Mule 2.x compatible version. Several examples are provided to demonstrate the module. Take a look at the release notes for a feature overview.

Canonical has been in talks with Sun Microsystems and SpringSource to support one of their open source Java application server stacks in the Ubuntu core, to increase Ubuntu's enterprise adoption.

Yacrosoft or Michoo – too Icahnish? When America was once prosperous, not too long ago and most U.S. industries had at least a bright near-term economic future, the greedy class of American could enrich themselves privately, away from the media and general public – but, those times have changed. This recent statement in The Washington Post article says it all - “Icahn, who owns a 5 percent stake in Yahoo, emphasized he still believes a sale of all or part of Yahoo may still be the best way for the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company to lift its sagging stock price.” No mention whatsoever has been discussed publicly of what to fix that people don’t like about Yahoo that may be causing the lack of financial windfall that Carl Icahn believes he should benefit from by investing in Yahoo, the well liked consumer based Internet icon stock.

Solid reaction to FSF rant on iPhone

This morning I sat back and noticed the increasing rate at which I am getting notices about open source software making big headway in the trading and financial services industries. For example, the folks at GroundWork Open Source--which does commercial open source and network management software--sent me notice of these brand new customers of theirs: Prager Sealy, Commonwealth Financial, National Australia Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Stark Investments and Sterling Savings Bank.

A collection of blog posts from Archimedius about the smack down between VMware and Microsoft as analysts prepare for VMware's upcoming earnings announcement Tuesday July 22.

Ounce Labs recently discovered two vulnerabilities that can affect Java Web applications that use the Spring Framework. The company is working with SpringSource to ensure developers know how to protect against these security issues.

Firefox 3.0 was released with much funfare and with lots of testing. But it turns out a lot of people have problems with the latest version of Firefox, when starting and installing addons. Most perpetual problems are related to hanging up of the GUI when Firefox starts and those missing their old addons that are not working in version 3.0... Important security fixes were released today in v3.0.1

Discover Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer, a tool that analyzes javacore and diagnoses monitor locks and thread activities. Using updated Version 2.8, learn to identify the root cause of hangs, deadlocks, resource contention, and bottlenecks in Java threads.

Servers with open SSH ports have recently begun to come under hacker attack, which seems to be coordinated, although it is not automatically reported because the hackers employ a brute force attack from more than one machine. Nazar Aziz, IT consultant and developer, has been vigilant enough to detect the attack, which started at the beginning of this month.

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