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H online used to be the one of the best geek news sources around.

Maybe Vice should hire some likeminded people to create a new alternative news source, something where really good computer news is reported, not shitty stories and fake pro-microsoft mastubatory news.

H online's ARCHIVE site remains:

http://www.h-online.com/

Closure note:

http://www.h-online.com/news/i...

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://twitter.com/heiseonlin...

H online used to be the one of the best geek news sources around.

Maybe Vice should hire some likeminded people to create a new alternative news source, something where really good computer news is reported, not shitty stories and fake pro-microsoft mastubatory news.

H online's ARCHIVE site remains:

http://www.h-online.com/

Closure note:

http://www.h-online.com/news/i...

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://twitter.com/heiseonlin...

I found this when I was researching "OMG!#! systemd even includes QR code library." Why would they do that? They are smart guys after all, they don't do things without purpose. Then I found this gem. It is actually used to ensure the system is intact and no one has tampered with logs, etc:

http://www.h-online.com/open/n...

It's called Forward Secure Sealing: http://lwn.net/Articles/512895...

Another small gem is "Why, oh why, they created NTP clone?" There is a very good rationale for that, like having coherent timestamps on embedded device boot:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind...

Naturally these are optional, and not forced upon you.

You conveniently left out this part of the article:

the calculations were based on a five-year period, so they mostly covered migration costs (staff, technical support, retraining users etc.) rather than operational costs (buying new hardware, licence fees and so forth).

In the short term - they would have saved. However over the 10+ years since initial migration, they've saved and estimated 10 million Euros:

Today, over a decade down the line, has LiMux been a good idea in terms of finances? “Yes, it has, depending on the calculation. We did a calculation and we made it publicly available on our information system for the city council. We have the exact same parameters for staying with Windows as with the migration to the Linux platform. Based on those parameters, Linux has saved us €10m.”

  Here is an english article discussing that publicly released report. For the actual german report. see here

You jest, but copying from web pages is indeed not without danger.

And that was just a lame excuse. She obviously had other motives for cancelling telecommuting as there is no need for a VPN for real work. SSH does not require a VPN. Nor do version control systems (git, bzr, svn). Nor do HTTPS for the intranet or IMAPS for the mail. Not even SIP or Skype for calls needs a VPN.

VPNs only add an extra layer of complexity and add little to nothing in return. That goes double for PPTP, which is garbage.

So regardless if her telecommuters were productive or unproductive, VPN use is an irelevant metric.

This is not news, it was published at 29c3 LAST > YEAR.

Everyone should have known about this for over 12 months.

As of Windows 7, Microsoft no longer uses the "flag" as a mark to identify Windows. But what claim would Microsoft still have against the use of the flag?

Except that Chrome phones home the first time you start it up to check for upgrades.

This hasn't been true for more than three years. In fact Google is very transparent about all privacy issues within Chrome.

Does it hurt to be as ignorant as you are, or does the ignorance come with some sort of pain-reducing features of its own?

What is PR.

Some news articles that would probably not exist without PR professionals:
http://www.informationweek.com/global-cio/trends/how-linux-foundation-runs-its-virtual-of/240156624
http://www.eweek.com/servers/ibm-to-support-linux-kvm-virtualization-on-power-systems/
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Linux-Mint-15-A-better-Ubuntu-for-the-desktop-1873682.html

I just randomly picked Linux as a search item in Google News. It could have been anything. Almost everything you read in a publication was "sold" to that publication by a PR professional. Did you think journalists actually spent time researching and finding out stuff on their own? Honestly, if it wasn't sold by a PR agency, you probably never heard about it.

Mark-t hasn't been keeping up to date

There is an english version of the article, so there is no need to Googletranslate the thing

http://www.h-online.com/news/item/Hetzner-web-hosting-service-hacked-customer-data-copied-1884574.html

They've been showing some concerning signs of late, however

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Hole-in-Linux-kernel-provides-root-rights-Update-1081317.html Are you so sure? This article was from 2010

Considering how it looks like MSFT is monitoring everybody's Skype conversations since somebody cooked up some bullshit honeypots to see if anybody was watching and sure enough after talking about it on Skype they get visited? You may be a lot more right than you think, scary shit.

And it looks like what they're doing DOESN'T help detect malware... http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-Microsoft-is-reading-everything-you-write-1862870.html >>>>>> "Skype may use automated scanning within Instant Messages and SMS to (a) identify suspected spam and/or (b) identify URLs that have been previously flagged as spam, fraud, or phishing links." A spokesman for the company confirmed that it scans messages to filter out spam and phishing websites. This explanation does not appear to fit the facts, however. Spam and phishing sites are not usually found on HTTPS pages. By contrast, Skype leaves the more commonly affected HTTP URLs, containing no information on ownership, untouched. Skype also sends head requests which merely fetches administrative information relating to the server. To check a site for spam or phishing, Skype would need to examine its content.

Why bother with a Google translation when the original article has a link to the English version?
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-Microsoft-is-reading-everything-you-write-1862870.html

http://h-online.com/-1862870

Amusingly, following this article saying Microsoft automatically scans URLs on Skype instant messaging to check for malware and spam, the next article down in the same newssource is "Trojans conceal themselves using instant messaging protocols" http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Trojans-conceal-themselves-using-instant-messaging-protocols-1789045.html

http://h-online.com/-1862870

Amusingly, following this article saying Microsoft automatically scans URLs on Skype instant messaging to check for malware and spam, the next article down in the same newssource is "Trojans conceal themselves using instant messaging protocols" http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Trojans-conceal-themselves-using-instant-messaging-protocols-1789045.html

http://h-online.com/-1862870

Like Munich?
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Comment-OpenOffice-s-Tale-of-Two-Cities-1760502.html

The Gimp is software that I am now happily familiar with, and want to improve my knowledge of.

I buy books to learn more about how to do things I want to do with the Gimp.

My hope is that money will become available to pay Gimp developers to more rapidly produce such wonderful things as the GEKL support and make the Gimp more useful to professionals as well as people like me.

the most advanced open 3D drivers are from intel.
AMD takes the common parts (like most of the mesa code) from intel and add support for radeon GPUs. This helps a lot the driver development.
Nouveau people have to that also, but they have first to do guess work to enable the features.

So you are saying that nouveau, with years of missing work and many missing features, compared to the other two GPUs will have more and better features in a few months/years? are you on drugs? :)
the other drivers will not stop waiting for nouveau, but any advance by then will help nouveau sooner or later.

also, all drivers support the older card versions, thanks to mesa, that is not a nouveau only feature. Where the hardware is lacking, mesa fallback to software, LLVM or simply optimize it out, sacrificing image quality

i dont know if nouveau will be faster or slower than intel or radeon drivers when they reach the same feature level, but i'm sure that nouveau will be the last of the big three to have most features. that will not change unless nvidia really supports nouveau and mesa to catchup the lost years... looking to their past record and even recent events, that will probably not happen.

i give my kudos to nouveau people for their work, but i prefer to support intel and amd got their work with the community than to support some company that really don't understand linux, the free software ideals and long term support for their hardware.
 

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Comment-OpenOffice-s-Tale-of-Two-Cities-1760502.html

See here for an overview of changes. http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-9-1845705.html

Glad I could help:
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-9-1845705.html

KernelNewbies isn't reachable at this time so a nice review of cool new features in Linux 3.9 is available at The H Open.

What's new in Linux 3.9

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-9-1845705.html

Among other things 3.9 includes experimental kernel-level Raid 5 and 6, caching slow of storage devices by fast ones, support for more graphics cards and audio devices, as well as improved power management.

From the almighty google (but yeah a link in theTFS would be the least you'd expect)
 
  What's new in Linux 3.9

C't is the top computer magazine in Germany. Their online newsticker is among the most visited German web sites and they make the tool which is used for testing the integrity of USB thumbdrives all over the world: h2testw. It is available in print and online with the same content.

Once businesses start going the way of Munich, , they are done.

Why not continue this story with further 'count down' stories?

ANYTHING to push another MS related post to the FP. Every day/week. We can't live here at /. without MS stories!

Has there been a new Microsoft related post today?

Of course!

Let's all celebrate proprietary monopolies!

Let's replace the Microsoft logo, which used to be a Borg logo, with a friendly Care Bear with the Windows logo on his chest! Let's market these toys so we all have Microsoft Care Bears on us all of the time - with bluetooth! When we rub his belly a beam shoots across the room to the latest Slashdot story about another Microsoft news or not news happening!

Dell and HP should sell out to MS: Why not own the OEMs?

Finally:

Spanish Linux users launch legal challenge to Microsoftâ(TM)s secure boot

@ http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/31499/spanish-linux-users-launch-legal-challenge-to-microsofts-secure-boot/
@@ http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/24199/rsa-2012-malware-gets-the-boot-in-windows-8-notes-charney
@@ http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/26/us-microsoft-eu-idUSBRE92P0E120130326
@@ http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Secure-Boot-complaint-filed-against-Microsoft-1830714.html
@@ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2013-000162&language=EN
@@ http://www.hispalinux.es/node/758
@@@ http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51329950/ns/business-us_business/t/exclusive-open-software-group-files-complaint-eu-against-microsoft/
@@@ http://newyork.newsday.com/business/technology/microsoft-target-of-hispalinux-open-source-software-users-in-complaint-to-eu-1.4909950
@@@ http://www.mobilenapps.com/articles/8058/20130327/linux-users-file-complaint-against-microsoft-over-secure-boot-windows.htm
@@@ http://rcpmag.com/articles/2013/04/01/spanish-complaint-windows-8-secure-boot.aspx
@@@ http://www.eitb.com/en/news/technology/detail/1297786/hispalinux-microsoft--hispalinux-files-complaint-microsoft/

Lock yourself in, boys! (At the BIOS level) We're in for a heck of a ride!

Mark me troll because you know it's true and you enjoy lying to yourself.

"LOOKS LIKE MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS!"

The logo for MS should be a plate of Soylent Green and a rainbow behind it.

The H Security: Treacherous backdoor found in TP-Link routers

For everyone bitching about Wayland vs X11 and network transparency, you need to watch this talk by Kristian Høgsberg. Keith and the rest of the devs have always said that remoting would eventually come down the pipeline.

And for everyone else talking about efficiency of sending pixmaps via the network, you should learn how your current stack actually works. It will be much better with Wayland.

I've used X11 since 1995, I'm very fond of it. But I also realize it needs to go...

Firefox states that the browser javascript plugin is vulnerable and automatically turns it off.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/New-holes-discovered-in-latest-Java-versions-1810990.html

firefox now default turns off javascript in the browser unless you specifically tell it to accept, similar to noscript.

which is the same bug as the original article fixes. But firefox is still refusing to allow javascript by default and until further notice all javascript plugins will be disabled by default in firefox.

I was pointing out some people are confusing Java and Javascript, I explained they are 2 totally different creatures.

Android is only "open" in name. Google will put the ban hammer on you if you fork it, just like Microsoft did to squelch BeOS.

http://www.zdnet.com/cn/report-google-stops-acer-from-launching-aliyun-phone-in-china-7000004246/
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-prevents-Acer-from-distributing-phones-with-Aliyun-OS-1709555.html

Also, forking the SDK is now banned. How is Android open again?

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/04/1339206/the-android-sdk-is-no-longer-free-software

I believe you mean bricked Linux machines.

Thjat's what they found out in Munich. http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Comment-OpenOffice-s-Tale-of-Two-Cities-1760502.html

I'm the only Linux (Mint, mostly) nerd in an office of Microsoft (XP, mainly) slaves. We get along just fine. but we don't do macros and wied stuff, just documents and presentations. When I have to send something out, I PDF it or have someone check it for "compatibility to the Standard".

Yeah, about all those tremendous high costs to retrain people:
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Comment-OpenOffice-s-Tale-of-Two-Cities-1760502.html

Instead we should develop a simple and robust filesystem that's suitable for embedded systems and have it standardized. Right now there simply isn't an alternative to the FAT filesystems.

It would seem that Samsung has already done just that: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-3-8-Part-1-Filesystems-and-storage-1788524.html

Linux now supports F2fs (Flash-Friendly File System), a filesystem that was introduced by Samsung developers in October. It is designed for flash storage media that uses a more basic Flash Translation Layer (FTL) than SSDs for desktop PCs and servers – for example USB flash drives, memory cards and the storage media that is used in cameras, tablets and smartphones.

the solution is to not use vulnerable crap like windows for

Right. So there would never be any risk when using Linux?

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/USB-driver-bug-exposed-as-Linux-plug-pwn-1203617.html

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Researcher-Demonstrates-USB-Autorun-Attack-on-Linux-183611.shtml

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/02/07/1742246/usb-autorun-attacks-against-linux

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/02/how-usb-autorun-malware-could-easily-infect-linux

You are stupid to think that any OS is free of such problems. Or you are just blind to facts because of Linux fanaticism.

Hasn't Ubuntu made GRUB a SecureBoot boot loader? How isn't this sufficient?

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Strictly-OOXML-for-Office-2013-says-Microsoft-1669264.html

Marshall Kirk says: "Check back on the FreeBSD Foundation web site in the last few days of the year or January of next year to see the final result." (End quote.) But to me it's like a spectator sport!

It's not a "failure" by any stretch of imagination. A lot of fundraising projects set an ambitious goal, and the year is far from over. The current tally is $304,844 - perfectly "on target"!

UPDATE: $319,614 - from 1082 donors!

Maybe the December issue of the BSD Magazine, which just came out yesterday, will remind more people to donate...

Maybe some are waiting for 9.1 release...

And maybe, as feedback for the recent security screw-up, some people have decided to donate to other projects (hopefully copyfree ones) instead...

--libman

UPDATE: $325,359 - from 1102 donors!

Please donate today!

--libman

It's not a "failure" by any stretch of imagination. A lot of fundraising projects set an ambitious goal, and the year is far from over. The current tally is $304,844 - perfectly "on target"!

UPDATE: $319,614 - from 1082 donors!

Maybe the December issue of the BSD Magazine, which just came out yesterday, will remind more people to donate...

Maybe some are waiting for 9.1 release...

And maybe, as feedback for the recent security screw-up, some people have decided to donate to other projects (hopefully copyfree ones) instead...

--libman

It's not a "failure" by any stretch of imagination. A lot of fundraising projects set an ambitious goal, and the year is far from over. The current tally is $304,844 - perfectly "on target"!

I think this story and some of its comments exhibit vindictive pro-copyLEFT bias that is prevalent among the GNU commies...

It should also be noted that the "FreeBSD Foundation Inc" is not FreeBSD - just one supporting pillar. FreeBSD is its code and developer / user community, with most contributors being unpaid volunteers. The ecosystem extends further, with code being shared with many other copyFREE projects in both directions, from other BSD OS'es to Haiku to Golang to Redis to Chromium. Centralization and bureaucracy are not necessary. Even if the Foundation suddenly disappeared tomorrow, the gradual advance of copyFREE software would continue unhindered!

--libman

Not so simple, but they've done it already (made VLC LGPL that is)

h-online.com article with some informative links on how it was done

geek.com article

Three German municipalities (Munich, Jena, Freiburg) and some Swiss authorities just put together €140,000 to fund improved OOXML support in openoffice/libreoffice.
Improved OOXML support for LibreOffice and OpenOffice
Wouldn't it make sense to wait for the results before dropping openoffice?