SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA42317

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RELEASE DATE: 2010-11-24

CRITICALITY: Highly Critical

DESCRIPTION: Apple has acknowledged multiple vulnerabilities in Apple TV, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable device. The vulnerabilities exist in the bundled versions of FreeType and libpng libraries. Read More...

pcnuke writes:  

Pc-Nuke! develops the eBuddy Multi-Network chatting system for nuke based distros, soon to be released... Come try it on the left side of our website, or check out the module here:

eBuddy Chat Module

Welcome to eBuddy, your online messenger for MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, Facebook, ICQ, MySpace and AIM (AOL). Whether you're at home, school, work or traveling; with eBuddy you can chat online everywhere anytime. eBuddy is available as a web based and mobile version. eBuddy provides instant messaging on every computer, it even works when you are behind a firewall! eBuddy means no downloads, no installation of software or upgrades and no registration. Best of all it's free .. enjoy :-)

Come check out our many new & updated nuke files at Pc-Nuke! - Visit the estore, or show your support and make a donation to the PCN website, and get a full run of the site for that specific month, where you can download as many files as you like or view a lot of technical posts in our forums areas, etc... Read More...

Southern writes:  

In recent weeks and months there has been quite a bit of work towards improving the responsiveness of the Linux desktop with some very significant milestones building up recently and new patches continuing to come. This work is greatly improving the experience of the Linux desktop when the computer is withstanding a great deal of CPU load and memory strain. Fortunately, the exciting improvements are far from over. There is a new patch that has not yet been merged but has undergone a few revisions over the past several weeks and it is quite small -- just over 200 lines of code -- but it does wonders for the Linux desktop.

The patch being talked about is designed to automatically create task groups per TTY in an effort to improve the desktop interactivity under system strain. Mike Galbraith wrote the patch, which is currently in its third version in recent weeks, after Linus Torvalds inspired this idea. In its third form (patch), this patch only adds 224 lines of code to the kernel's scheduler while stripping away nine lines of code, thus only 233 lines of code are in play.

Tests done by Mike show the maximum latency dropping by over ten times and the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times. Linus Torvalds has already heavily praised (in an email) this miracle patch.

more: phoronix

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA42091

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Criticality: Highly Critical

DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code. NOTE: The vulnerability is currently being actively exploited.
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Southern writes:  

You can think of PHP as a general purpose computing language if you want to, but it was designed with one task in mind and it is almost exclusively used for that task - generating web pages. So while it might be more flattering to PHP to introduce it in the widest possible context this would be misleading and it would make the job of learning how to use it harder than it needs to be.

So let's say the obvious to make it 100% clear.

* PHP is a language that creates web pages.

What this means in practice is that a PHP program's objective in life is to generate HTML or Javascript or anything else that you might find in a web page. In most cases and certainly when you are first learning PHP the web technology that is used is HTML.

Again to state the obvious:

* The output of a typical PHP program is HTML

This means that to make any sense of PHP you also have to know about the web technology that the program is generating, and in particular HTML. In practice this shouldn't be a huge problem because HTML isn't difficult and mostly the way that PHP makes use of it is fairly simple. However, it is important to know that it is possible that you could have a problem with understanding a PHP program simply because you can't understand the HTML it is generating.

more: i-programmer

Southern writes:  

Most commercial products run a fairly set course; you get Microsoft Office 1.5, then 1.6, 3.0, 4.0, all the way up to office 2010 (For Windows, at least). It's a fairly orderly progression, with version numbers rising over time – pretty easy to follow.

Open-source projects are a different beast, however. When enough developers don't like the direction a project is going, they sometimes just create a fork and go on developing their own product. Sometimes projects have to fork for legal reasons, and sometimes it's a business decision, too.

The bottom line is that if you could plot the Linux timeline, it would look more like a crazy family tree than like an orderly progression of versions. And what do you know, one Donjan Rodic has gone and done just that, in the form of the GNU/Linux distro timeline.

More: DownloadSquad