Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical/Ubuntu has announced Ubuntu’s new trademark policy. Shuttleworth wrote on his blog:
Classically, “software freedom” was about the copyright license associated with the code. But patents and trademarks are now being brought into the mix. For example, the discussion around Mozilla’s trademark policy was directly linking the concept of “freedom” to trademark policy [...]
John Gruber has posted an e-mail interview of Dino Dai Zovi, the hacker who cracked a Mac at CanSecWest. He exploited a Java-based vulnerability in QuickTime, which he says is accessible via Firefox (including the Windows version) and Safari.
From the interview:
Gruber: I suspect some people might read this and think it’s good news that your [...]
No sooner did I post about Sophos’ report on web-based malware that I was forwarded the following:
A simple Google search may not always return peaches n’ cream; in fact, even clicking one of Google’s own sponsored ads may result in malicious code being installed on your machine and stolen e-mail and bank account passwords, according [...]
IT security firm Sophos announced a doubling of web-based malware in the first quarter of this year over the same period last year and total spam relay 4.2% higher as well. Sophos also reports that China is a big culprit in hosting (41.1%) and infections. According to this article, Symantec reported last year that Beijing [...]
A new survey by PGP Corporation finds that 9% of UK corporations have enterprise-wide data encryption policies, while 55% of respondents have some form of encryption strategy in their companies. The survey also found that just over half of respondents said that protecting their own brand — not protecting consumer privacy — is the most [...]
I may as well go scorched-earth since nobody has appreciated my positive comments about HaikuOS. Here are some ideas for peddling your little piece of BeOS.
Haiku - Insecure by Default!
Haiku - Almost as Safe and Stable as Win95!
Haiku - Sure, It Reboots Often — But It Reboots Quickly!
Haiku - So Easy to Crash a Kid [...]
Two Apple executives, former CFO Fred Anderson and former general counsel Nancy Heinen, have been charged in the options backdating scandal. Anderson has reached an agreement with the SEC in which he doesn’t admit or deny guilt and only returns $3.5 million he profited by from the options backdating. Anderson’s lawyer suggests he’s not only [...]
There’s nothing unpleasant about the default Rox icons, but I decided to freshen things up a little and scale the icons to the same size. The top image is a look inside a folder.
The second shows some folders on the pinboard.
I chose the folder icon for my base because it looks equally good on [...]
I shouldn’t have wasted my time responding to one of the true believers at OSNews. My previous remarks about BeOS, Zeta, and Haiku aren’t personal — they’re specifically aimed at a handful of issues I think are relevant to the present and future of computing:
user adoption
application availability
technological relevance
Novelty may appeal to a certain breed of [...]
The third annual Semantic Technology Conference will be 20-24 May 2007 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. The conference will have 130 expert speakers, 24 case study presentations, three keynote panels, and is expected to draw more than 600 in attendance.
Along the same lines of the earlier post about Cyberstates 2007, “Semantics is [...]
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