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  1. Garmin Training Center uses sqlite by chthonicdaemon · · Score: 1 · on Open Access To Exercise Data?

    The Garmin Training Center app uses a sqlite database to store the results, which I use to do some further munging, using some of the code from here as a base.

  2. Glad /. will be discussing this by hrbrmstr · · Score: 1 · on More Mac Vulnerabilities Than Windows In 2007?

    but I'd hate for MacNN to get any ad revenue or new, regular visitors from the traffic this will generate.

    I posted my retort on this just before the /. post : http://www.rudis.net/content/2007/12/18/macnn-editors-egg-nog-consumption-increases-disastrous-results

    I wish non-security folks would stop reporting on security "stuff"... I can't wait for NPR, CNN and Fox to run with this "breaking news!" tonight or tomorrow.

  3. Forget search; focus on centralized administration by hrbrmstr · · Score: 4, Insightful · on What's Next For Mozilla?

    Firefox/Mozilla will not make any headway in large organizations without the ability of admins to centrally control settings, features, etc.

    There needs to be an easy (pref with GUI) way to define and distribute a policy that, for example, sets and locks proxy settings, sets and locks the default web page, "brands" various portions of the browser and that restricts the ability to load extensions at will. This should work cross-platform in order to make it easier to adopt other desktop operating systems.

    It would also make it easer for Windows-based IT shops if patches/updates had an MSI file with just the updated files/settings. If you want widespread adoption, you have to at least make it as easy to deal with as what they have now. Microsoft may issue tons of patches, but they aren't that difficult to get on the boxes.

    There may be ways to do some of this via a prefs.js distribution, but that's not going to fly in the hostile corporate IT environments where the sole admin left (due to outsourcing) is forced to find a way to distribute a prefs.js manually across thousands of diverse desktops.

    IE settings can be managed by the IEAK and various GPO settings under Windows and that is a big sell. Mozilla/Firefox needs an equivalent.

    I'd gladly help but I can barely find the time to work on my own, pathetic, foray in to the open source world, let alone contribute coding time to the best open source browser on the Net today. I'd be glad to share extensive requirements with any folks who have time time/energy to take up this noble effort.