Aug

23

Say bye to SpiderMonkey…

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And welome TraceMonkey - new Mozilla JavaScript engine.

It will be introduced in Firefox 3.1.

It will bring near to native performance for the heart of Web 2.0 - JavaScript.

In tests published in mozilla blogs (Brendan’s blog) it is clear that it will be lighting fast in comparison to FF 3.

Actual numbers vary from 2 to 37 times faster.

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Aug

15

Sumatra 0.9

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New version of popular PDF viewer (alternative to Acrobat Reader) is available.

Changelog:

  • add Ctrl-P as print shortcut
  • add F11 as full-screen shortcut
  • password dialog no longer shows the password
  • support for AES-encrypted PDF files
  • updates to SyncTeX/PdfSync integration (contributed by William Blum)
  • add -nameddest command-line option and DDE commands for jumping to named destination(contributed by Alexander Klenin)
  • add -reuse-instance command-line option (contributed by William Blum)
  • add DDE command to open PDF file (contributed by William Blum)
  • removed poppler rendering engine resulting in smaller program and updated to latest mupdf sources
  • misc bugfixes and translation updates

The program can be downloaded form Sumatra web site.

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Aug

12

OpenSER project forked

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Recently I read a book for VoIP and at some point I found reference to OenSER project.

After visiting the site www.openser.org I was welcomed with the message that OpenSER is now OpenSIPS as you can see from the screenshot.

Why the project forked?

Some answers could be found on the initial post on opensips users mail list:

Hello everybody,

A new project - OpenSIPs (Open SIP Server) - became active today(post is dated Mon Aug 4 11:29:30 CEST 2008), with its first release (OpenSIPS 1.4.0).

What is OpenSIPS about?

OpenSER History:
—————-
Voice System started the OpenSER project with a vision of running an open project that will deliver a professional software. Along the years Voice System was the main contributor and sustainer of the OpenSER
project, organizing conferences, events and tutorials, all aiming to consolidate OpenSER as a top solution for industry VoIP.

OpenSER Issues:
—————

In the past time, several critical problems related to OpenSER project were identified by us:
- the need for a new reliable release - delayed or low-quality releases are affecting the credibility of the project
- degradation of the project quality - testing, performance measurements and code quality control are overlooked
- lack of the control, management and coordination of the project - critical project issues could not be handled or solved

OpenSIPS Solutions:
——————–

OpenSIPS is a continuation of the OpenSER project - we have a moral obligation to develop and deliver the high quality and reliable software we envisioned when starting OpenSER.

1) a 6 months release cycle, but with no compromise for the technical issues
2) extensive testing and performance measurements before each major release
3) contributions are guaranteed to be answered and integrated (if accepted) in less than 1 month
4) code review, architecture control and integrated design for software quality
5) technical management with a strict developer hierarchy and developer cooperation to prevent deadlocks or un-availabilities
6) intellectual honesty by having decisions taken on value-based criteria and arguments.

It seems that the development is sponsored by voice-system.ro?!

And the development of opensips is continued as Kamailio.

Maybe we will see better product development after this fork or … - only time will show.

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Aug

1

Go-OO

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“Go-OO” - what is that?

Actually that was my first reaction when I read about this project.

And the answer pops on the first page of the web site.

“Your office suite. Better, Faster, Freerer.”

Go-OO is based on OpenOffice.org code, but the developpers added:

  • interoperability - better OpenXML support, Works filter, VBA scripting
  • functionality - better Chinese support, interface polishing
  • speed - 20-30% faster

More information could be found on their discover page.

So visit their site and get it…

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Jun

25

CentOS 5.2

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Finally updates are pushing to the mirrors.

Here is official announcement.

For list of updates see this post.

Happy upgrading.

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Mar

25

Sun acquires innotek

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Sun announced agreement to acquire Innotek just after they announced VirtualBox for Open Solaris.

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Jan

10

Say welcome to “Printer” Spam

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Recently a lot of work was done in exploiting browsers cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.

Now research by Aaron Weaver showed the possibility to use browser connected to malicious site to send print jobs to network printers. This may be big problem for companies - usually home users use only locally connected printers.

It is just matter of time to create a tool and sell it to the spammers. Then we can say welcome to “printer” spam.

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Jan

2

RIP: Netscape

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In his blog Tom Drapeau announced that AOL will stop development of their Netscape browser.

Security patches will be released until 1 February 2008.

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Jan

2

Next version of Asus Eee PC

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In the net there are rumors that next version of ASUS Eee PC will have 8.9″ (1024×600) screen and integrated WiMAX and will be based on Intel Menlow platform.

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Dec

19

Windows XP SP 3 RC available for download

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Microsoft release candidate for Windows XP service pack 3 is available for download.

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