This really isn’t very accurate. I don’t know the details of the vulnerability or even if there actually is one, but I question the marketing around the Zero Day Initiatives vulnerability report. The big news seems to be “only 5 hours” after the release.
This isn’t really accurate if you think about it. [...]
Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category
Zero Day Vulnerability
Facebook Open Sources Platform
Facebook today released the code behind their application platform. What that entails:
This release includes the API infrastructure, the FQL parser, the FBML parser, and FBJS, as well as implementations of many common methods and tags. We’ve included samples and some dummy data to help you get started fast.
It’s mostly licensed under Common Public Attribution [...]
Big Buck Bunny
Big Buck Bunny, the new open movie made using Blender is out. It’s rather good, and impressive when you realize it’s made with open source products, meaning the only barrier to making one yourself (assuming you’ve got a rendering farm, or the patience to let your workstation churn out the pixels) is your skills. [...]
MySQL Staying Open
Sun was initially thinking of a commercial fork for MySQL with some enhanced things like encryption and compression backup for commercial users. Obviously this created some outcry. It appears they’ve now reconsidered and those features will be open source. To quote Kaj Arnö:
…expect Sun/MySQL to continue experimenting with the business model, and [...]
Summer Of Code 2008
Google announced the project lists for Summer Of Code 2008. Some of the more interesting projects from my perspective:
Adium
Data Detectors for Adium
Dojo Foundation
Native cryptography API for Google Gears
Dojo-Charting improvements
Dojo GFX Enhancement
FFmpeg
AAC-LC Encoder
MLP/TrueHD encoder
Apple Lossless Encoder for FFmpeg
Gallery
Facebook / Flickr Style Image Region Based Tagging
Inkscape
SVG Fonts
Joomla!
Multi-DB support, and Database abstraction layer implementation for Joomla!
The Mozilla [...]
Self Serving Sausage Fest?
Does that title accurately describe open source? Via Valleywag I found this blog post from Psychology Today which I’d recommend reading. This is really the most interesting part:
First, there’s street cred: People want to garner approval from their peers and build their reputation. Second, there’s self-actualization: Working on these projects is enjoyable in [...]
Bestselling Laptops
Mark Pilgrim has a great picture of the top laptops on Amazon.com right now. What I found interesting is that the first Windows laptop is #6 (and no it’s not running an Intel), The #1 and #2 goes to Mac OS X and Linux.
Apple Macbook 13″ (2.4GHz)
Asus Eee 4G 7″ (900MHz)
Asus Eee 4G [...]
rsnapshot For Mac OS X
Lately I’ve been using rsync to keep two hard drives in sync. I’ve been thinking of switching to rsnapshot since it would give me with incremental backup which is much better. What I’ve yet to figure out is if it can handle resource forks (with Apple’s special flag in rsync), and HTS+’s. [...]
Public Domain vs. Open Source
Ok, I promise to slow down on the use of X vs. Y on this blog, but after this post. CNet has an interesting blog post by Stephen Shankland essentially asking is public domain software open source? A very interesting question.
This little bit of information from Richard Hipp, founder of SQLite, I found [...]
Microsoft’s Open Source Decoy
So Microsoft will open up with information on many protocols/formats, and provide a “covenant” not to sue open source developers. Note the exception. Microsoft reserves the right to sue companies who commercially distribute such implementations. They need to get a license. As Microsoft put it in their principles:
Open Source Compatibility. Microsoft [...]
