http://www.opensourcesociety.org Make it Stable. Make it Secure. Make it Free. Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:20:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I posted recently about the release of OpenSuSE 11.1 with KDE 4.1.3, and I can't stop raving to my friends and family how much I love it.  In the spirit of change, I decided to download the new Amarok which has been specifically redesigned for KDE 4.  What I found ... http://www.opensourcesociety.org/2008/12/21/amarok-20-a-step-backwards/ I'll start this post with a confession: I was very skeptical about this release.  I wasn't even going to try and download it except that once again playing around with a dual install of KDE 3 and 4, I broke the sound under KDE3.  Some of you will remember that ... http://www.opensourcesociety.org/2008/12/18/opensuse-111-released-with-kde-413/ According to PC Pro in the UK, Microsoft has announced they will be releasing an update later today to fix a vulnerability they announced earlier last week. The patch will be distributed through Windows Update and should be available this afternoon.  In the meantime, Microsoft has offered several workaround ... http://www.opensourcesociety.org/2008/12/17/follup-ie-vulnerability/ Earlier this week, Microsoft announced it has discovered a flaw in Internet Explorer that leaves all versions of its flagship browser vulnerable to an attack that can completely compromise the end-user's computer.  According to the BBC, this has led many IT experts to recommend switching to alternative browser applications until ... http://www.opensourcesociety.org/2008/12/16/experts-urge-switch-to-ie-alternatives-in-light-of-recent-vulnerability/ Recently there was a firestorm of controversy around the story of the Austin, TX teacher who confiscated Linux CDs from her students and proceeded to accuse a blogger of engaging in illegal behavior by distributing these CDs. Today, after lengthy discussions with the teacher, that blogger has posted a ... http://www.opensourcesociety.org/2008/12/12/linux-is-illegal/ PhpMyAdmin seems to be a controversial topic. Some people love it, some people hate it. I find it easy to use, I'm familiar with it, and it's not at all buggy like the MySQL GUI tools seem to be under Linux. That being said, I do tend ... http://www.opensourcesociety.org/2008/12/11/quick-and-dirty-tutorial-1-foreign-keys-in-phpmyadmin/ A teacher at an undisclosed school recently discovered her students sharing Linux CDs and talking about how cool it was.  She immediately proceeded to confiscate the CDs, and when she determined they had learned about Linux from a blog, she emailed the blog's author and complained about his "illegal activity" ... http://www.opensourcesociety.org/2008/12/10/teacher-tells-students-linux-is-illegal-and-confiscates-their-copies/ IBM has announced the release of the Open Collaboration Client, a business-oriented system utilizing freely available open source technology alongside IBM's own open source Lotus Symphony included. The system is designed to work in corporate networks with a central administration point, and claim to save businesses hundreds of dollars ... http://www.opensourcesociety.org/2008/12/06/ibm-launching-microsoft-free-business-pcs/ I was poking around at riseup.net tonight and I found a page with several great articles on how to secure your online communications. We've done a few articles here at OSS on the subject of internet security, and these folks have written some great material as well. There ... http://www.opensourcesociety.org/2008/11/28/communications-security/ Ruling has always been the business of controlling the way information flows through society. The point of awakening of modern western societies can best be placed in the dark age after the fall of the Roman Empire. Western culture has drawn significantly from the Romans, who in turn modeled their ... http://www.opensourcesociety.org/2008/11/20/ki-is-who-wi/