http://it.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-07-12T16:50:17+00:00 SourceForge, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://s.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://it.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/8UgFsKTygCA/Stealing-Data-Via-Electrical-Outlet Ponca City, We love you writes "NetworkWorld reports that security consultants Andrea Barisani and Daniele Bianco are preparing to unveil their methodology at the Black Hat USA conference for stealing information typed on a computer keyboard using nothing more than the power outlet to which the computer is connected. When you type on a standard computer keyboard, electrical signals run through the cable to the PC. Those cables aren't shielded, so the signal leaks via the ground wire in the cable and into the ground wire on the computer's power supply. The attacker connects a probe to a nearby power socket, detects the ground leakage, and converts the signal back into alphanumeric characters. So far, the attack has proven successful using outlets up to about 15 meters away. The cost of the equipment to carry out the power-line attack could be as little as $500 and while the researchers admit their hacking tools are rudimentary, they believe they could be improved upon with a little time, effort and backing. 'If our small research was able to accomplish acceptable results in a brief development time (approximately a week of work) and with cheap hardware,' they say, 'Consider what a dedicated team or government agency can accomplish with more expensive equipment and effort.'"<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/12/0259246/Stealing-Data-Via-Electrical-Outlet?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/12/0259246"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/12/0259246/Stealing-Data-Via-Electrical-Outlet?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-_yxxrxQCMtrbTEwhc4KTusU-qo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-_yxxrxQCMtrbTEwhc4KTusU-qo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-_yxxrxQCMtrbTEwhc4KTusU-qo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-_yxxrxQCMtrbTEwhc4KTusU-qo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/8UgFsKTygCA" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-12T08:57:00+00:00 security accidentally-forget-to-label-some-220v-outlets it 136 136,135,104,79,19,12,6 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/12/0259246/Stealing-Data-Via-Electrical-Outlet?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/oT5jmBNUAWs/How-To-Teach-Programming-To-Kids-Via-Xbox An anonymous reader writes "Chris Wilson reviews Kodu, the new XBox game that he calls 'Logo on Steroids.' The game allows you to build a world and program every object in it with an in-house graphical language, making the game a primitive example of 'reactive state machines' in a 'multi-agent concurrent system.' It sounds like what we call 'application specific integrated circuits' in engineering, where every line of code runs in parallel."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/2124218/How-To-Teach-Programming-To-Kids-Via-Xbox?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/11/2124218"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/2124218/How-To-Teach-Programming-To-Kids-Via-Xbox?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vXS1A3ViO6oH_6ARQoERQjvQB54/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vXS1A3ViO6oH_6ARQoERQjvQB54/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vXS1A3ViO6oH_6ARQoERQjvQB54/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vXS1A3ViO6oH_6ARQoERQjvQB54/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/oT5jmBNUAWs" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-11T21:37:00+00:00 education if-it's-fun-it's-educational news 101 101,99,77,55,12,6,4 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/2124218/How-To-Teach-Programming-To-Kids-Via-Xbox?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/4bkzsyweN2E/How-Do-You-Create-Config-Files-Automatically An anonymous reader writes "When deploying new server/servergroup/cluster to your IT infrastructure, deployment (simplified) consist of following steps: OS installation: to do it over network, boot server must be configured for this new server/servergroup/cluster; configuration/package management: configuration server has to be aware of the newcomer(s); monitoring and alerting: monitoring software must be reconfigured; and performance metrics: a tool for collecting data must be reconfigured. There are many excellent software solutions for those particular jobs, say configuration management (Puppet, Chef, cfengine, bcfg2), monitoring hosts and services (Nagios, Zabbix, OpenNMS, Zenoss, etc) and performance metrics (Ganglia, etc). But each of these tools has to be configured independently or at least configuration has to be generated. What tools do you use to achieve this? For example, when you have to deploy a new server, how do you create configs for, let's say, PXE boot server, Puppet, Nagios and Ganglia, at once?"<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/2017214/How-Do-You-Create-Config-Files-Automatically?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/11/2017214"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/2017214/How-Do-You-Create-Config-Files-Automatically?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RVP8LLHI4QkEsXOLX2dZm3b0l1o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RVP8LLHI4QkEsXOLX2dZm3b0l1o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RVP8LLHI4QkEsXOLX2dZm3b0l1o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RVP8LLHI4QkEsXOLX2dZm3b0l1o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/4bkzsyweN2E" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-11T21:03:00+00:00 networking hire-7-new-admins it 89 89,84,69,36,12,5,4 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/2017214/How-Do-You-Create-Config-Files-Automatically?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/_LrSqRSoGE4/Developer-Stigma-After-a-Bad-or-Catastrophic-Release An anonymous reader writes "We hear in the news all the time about how executives can drive a company into the ground and yet somehow become more desirable to other big companies. What we don't hear about are the grunts who implemented those decisions, and whether or not they end up resume-stained or blacklisted. Since we've got so many developers with lots of time in the trenches, I thought I would appeal to their experience. When disaster looms and sales starts pushing development that has little chance but to end in disaster, what happens to the programmer who decides he needs his job enough to follow orders? Have they ever become unhireable?"<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/1555235/Developer-Stigma-After-a-Bad-or-Catastrophic-Release?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/11/1555235"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/1555235/Developer-Stigma-After-a-Bad-or-Catastrophic-Release?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tTfxUX8T-1j_KhEPGJqsR7f5IUQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tTfxUX8T-1j_KhEPGJqsR7f5IUQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tTfxUX8T-1j_KhEPGJqsR7f5IUQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tTfxUX8T-1j_KhEPGJqsR7f5IUQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/_LrSqRSoGE4" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-07-11T16:28:00+00:00 programming don't-call-us-we'll-call-you askslashdot 187 187,183,152,124,41,29,20 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/1555235/Developer-Stigma-After-a-Bad-or-Catastrophic-Release?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/E1dswNESJFA/ImageShack-Hacked-Security-Groups-Threatened revjtanton writes "Last night a group calling themselves 'Anti-Sec' hacked ImageShack, one of the largest image hosting sites on the web, and replaced many of the site's hosted pictures with one of their own, which detailed their manifesto. The group's grievance is against full-disclosure of exploits, an issue that was debated recently after a presentation on an ATM exploit was canceled. Anti-Sec simply wants the practice within security circles to end, and they've promised to cause 'mayhem and destruction' if it doesn't. These people are taking direct aim against a sect of the IT industry who is already armed to fight them ... but they also already know that. It should be interesting to see how this plays out."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/1430249/ImageShack-Hacked-Security-Groups-Threatened?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/11/1430249"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/1430249/ImageShack-Hacked-Security-Groups-Threatened?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9oxkAXh7ABAqNCzIzHql_O45R4c/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9oxkAXh7ABAqNCzIzHql_O45R4c/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9oxkAXh7ABAqNCzIzHql_O45R4c/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9oxkAXh7ABAqNCzIzHql_O45R4c/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/E1dswNESJFA" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-07-11T15:23:00+00:00 security a-picture's-worth-a-couple-hundred-words-or-so it 272 272,265,189,139,44,27,15 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/11/1430249/ImageShack-Hacked-Security-Groups-Threatened?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/t07uMYNkWlY/Bletchley-Park-WWII-Staff-Finally-Recognized 99luftballon writes "Nearly 70 years after Station X (aka the Bletchley Park cryptanalysis unit) was set up, the surviving members are to be honored by the British government. Bletchley was one of the most important computing centers of its time and housed giants of the technology industry (as it was) like Tommy Flowers, who built Colossus, and Dr. Alan Turing. I was lucky enough to meet one of the staff at the site 11 years ago, and she was very bitter that their work was never recognized, and that they were bound by the Official Secrets Act and couldn't talk about it. It's just a shame that so few of the staff are still alive to receive the award."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/2318252/Bletchley-Park-WWII-Staff-Finally-Recognized?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/10/2318252"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/2318252/Bletchley-Park-WWII-Staff-Finally-Recognized?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WkuC5GrGsi1n-mDVprkPymYuiJ0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WkuC5GrGsi1n-mDVprkPymYuiJ0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WkuC5GrGsi1n-mDVprkPymYuiJ0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WkuC5GrGsi1n-mDVprkPymYuiJ0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/t07uMYNkWlY" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-07-11T04:07:00+00:00 encryption what's-a-few-decades-among-friends news 116 116,115,97,74,26,13,13 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/2318252/Bletchley-Park-WWII-Staff-Finally-Recognized?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/7HPHJKjbGIg/Retired-Mainframe-Pros-Lured-Back-Into-Workforce itwbennett writes "Businesses that cut experienced mainframe administrators in an effort to cut costs inadvertently created a skills shortage that is coming back to bite them. Chris O'Malley, CA's mainframe business executive VP, says that mainframe workers were let go because 'it had no immediate effect and the organizations didn't expect to keep mainframes around.' But businesses have kept mainframes around and now they are struggling to find engineers. Prycroft Six managing director Greg Price, a mainframe veteran of some 45 years, put it this way: 'Mainframes are expensive, ergo businesses want to go to cheaper platforms, but [those platforms] have a lot of packaged overheads. If you do a total cost of ownership, the mainframe comes out cheaper, but since the costs of a mainframe are immediately obvious, it is hard to get it past the bean-counters of an organization.'"<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/200204/Retired-Mainframe-Pros-Lured-Back-Into-Workforce?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/10/200204"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/200204/Retired-Mainframe-Pros-Lured-Back-Into-Workforce?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Mk-s3W1K_w6mI7ACivvMGsAVB6o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Mk-s3W1K_w6mI7ACivvMGsAVB6o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Mk-s3W1K_w6mI7ACivvMGsAVB6o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Mk-s3W1K_w6mI7ACivvMGsAVB6o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/7HPHJKjbGIg" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-07-10T22:22:00+00:00 business come-back-so-we-can-fire-you-again it 216 216,211,171,139,42,22,10 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/200204/Retired-Mainframe-Pros-Lured-Back-Into-Workforce?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/nEw1jU6pWto/Beware-the-Airport-Wireless schwit1 writes to tell us that a recent study by a Silicon Valley-based security company shows that black-hats have been ramping up their use of tempting free or unsecured wireless access points in high travel areas like airports and hotels. "According to their study, even the 'secure' networks weren't all too safe. Eighty percent of the private Wi-Fi networks at airports surveyed by Airtight were secured by the aging Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol, which was cracked back in 2001. Almost as many &mdash; 77 percent &mdash; of the networks they surveyed were actually private, peer-to-peer networks, meaning they weren't official hotspots. Instead, they were running off someone else's computer."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1856200/Beware-the-Airport-Wireless?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/10/1856200"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1856200/Beware-the-Airport-Wireless?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Zm7LWSGy8HIO99BgOXjf0zC-4Uc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Zm7LWSGy8HIO99BgOXjf0zC-4Uc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Zm7LWSGy8HIO99BgOXjf0zC-4Uc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Zm7LWSGy8HIO99BgOXjf0zC-4Uc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/nEw1jU6pWto" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-07-10T21:01:00+00:00 wireless far-too-trusting hardware 111 111,109,97,77,31,16,11 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1856200/Beware-the-Airport-Wireless?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/ON6BX-qYz7c/What-Open-Source-Can-Learn-From-Apple Linux and open source have long struggled to gain acceptance from the wider (read: non-technical) audience. This has improved in recent years, but still has a long way to go. Columnist Matt Asay suggests that perhaps open source projects should attempt to emulate Apple's design philosophy, with whoever succeeds becoming the "winner" of the hearts and minds of the vast majority of users. "Some projects already accomplish this to some extent. The strength of Mozilla, for example, is that it has figured out how to enable 40 percent of its development to be done by outside contributors, as BusinessWeek recently wrote. The downside is that these contributors are techies, but the upside is that they're techies who add language packs, accessibility features, and other "niche" areas that Mozilla might otherwise struggle to deliver. This suggests a start: enable your open-source project to accept meaningful outside contributions that make the project reflective of a wider development community. But the real goldmine is broadening the definition of "developer" to include lay users of your software. The day that I, as a nontechnical software user, can meaningfully participate in an open-source project is the day that open source will truly have won."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1539206/What-Open-Source-Can-Learn-From-Apple?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/10/1539206"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1539206/What-Open-Source-Can-Learn-From-Apple?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/60BCpAcqRU8dGUyqGKXoCqZKcuE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/60BCpAcqRU8dGUyqGKXoCqZKcuE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/60BCpAcqRU8dGUyqGKXoCqZKcuE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/60BCpAcqRU8dGUyqGKXoCqZKcuE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/ON6BX-qYz7c" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-07-10T18:03:00+00:00 programming good-design-always-a-good-idea tech 284 284,277,229,190,52,24,15 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1539206/What-Open-Source-Can-Learn-From-Apple?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/IdbHQdqLZK4/Researcher-Discovers-ATM-Hack-Gets-Silenced Al writes "A researcher working for networking company Juniper has been forced to cancel a Black Hat presentation that would have revealed a way to hack into ATMs. The presentation focused on exploiting vulnerabilities in devices running the Windows CE operating system, including some ATMs. The decision to cancel was made to give the vendor concerned time to patch the problem, although the company was notified 8 months ago. The article mentions a growing trend in ATM hacking: In November 2008 thieves stole nearly $9 million from more than 130 cash machines in 49 cities worldwide. And earlier this year, the second biggest maker of ATMs, Diebold, warned customers in an advisory that certain cash machines in Eastern Europe had been loaded with malicious software capable of stealing financial information and the secret PINs from customers performing ATM transactions."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/145202/Researcher-Discovers-ATM-Hack-Gets-Silenced?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/10/145202"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/145202/Researcher-Discovers-ATM-Hack-Gets-Silenced?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/07Sp1iy3SAatk1TxJQ75IXd9i_Y/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/07Sp1iy3SAatk1TxJQ75IXd9i_Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/07Sp1iy3SAatk1TxJQ75IXd9i_Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/07Sp1iy3SAatk1TxJQ75IXd9i_Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/IdbHQdqLZK4" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-07-10T15:00:00+00:00 security wait-wait-not-yet it 224 224,218,176,144,47,29,19 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/145202/Researcher-Discovers-ATM-Hack-Gets-Silenced?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/Qm7VI6IEXHg/Korean-DDoS-Bots-To-Self-Destruct tsu doh nimh writes "Several news sources are reporting that the tens of thousands of Microsoft Windows systems infected with the Mydoom worm and being used in an ongoing denial of service attack against US and S. Korean government Web sites will likely have their hard drives wiped of data come Friday. From The Washington Post's Security Fix blog, the malware is 'designed to download a payload from a set of Web servers. Included in that payload is a Trojan horse program that overwrites the data on the hard drive with a message that reads "memory of the independence day," followed by as many "u" characters as it takes to write over every sector of every physical drive attached to the compromised system.' ChannelNews Asia carries similar information."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/0452256/Korean-DDoS-Bots-To-Self-Destruct?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/10/0452256"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/0452256/Korean-DDoS-Bots-To-Self-Destruct?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QwL_YTH6HT0ivigZnLOA1AjFFVY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QwL_YTH6HT0ivigZnLOA1AjFFVY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QwL_YTH6HT0ivigZnLOA1AjFFVY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QwL_YTH6HT0ivigZnLOA1AjFFVY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/Qm7VI6IEXHg" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-10T05:41:00+00:00 security someone-needs-a-little-hanging-before-bed it 494 494,488,379,302,87,56,43 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/0452256/Korean-DDoS-Bots-To-Self-Destruct?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/lsWdptApjLs/Mono-Outpaces-Java-In-Linux-Desktop-Development dp619 writes "Mono, a framework based on Microsoft technology, has become more popular for Linux desktop applications than Java, but recent changes could strengthen Java's hand, SD Times is reporting. The story also touches on the failure of Linux distros to keep pace with Eclipse."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2131245/Mono-Outpaces-Java-In-Linux-Desktop-Development?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/2131245"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2131245/Mono-Outpaces-Java-In-Linux-Desktop-Development?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hAqnN0hIGhe0OmLI-2bpQTqi9gY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hAqnN0hIGhe0OmLI-2bpQTqi9gY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hAqnN0hIGhe0OmLI-2bpQTqi9gY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hAqnN0hIGhe0OmLI-2bpQTqi9gY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/lsWdptApjLs" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-09T21:42:00+00:00 programming statistical-manipulation-more-popular-than-ever tech 579 579,559,458,363,83,42,29 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2131245/Mono-Outpaces-Java-In-Linux-Desktop-Development?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/EseI_MdkBb0/Best-Mouse-For-Programming LosManos writes "Which is the best programming mouse? Mandatory musts are wireless, and that it doesn't clog up like old mechanical mice. Present personal preferences are for: lots of buttons, since if I have moved my hand away from the keyboard I can at least do something more than move the pointer; sturdy feeling; not too light, so it doesn't move around by me accidentally looking at it." What would you recommend?<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/215228/Best-Mouse-For-Programming?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/215228"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/215228/Best-Mouse-For-Programming?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Lfzxn_R8eNL1fffxMC33SX5ZQJk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Lfzxn_R8eNL1fffxMC33SX5ZQJk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Lfzxn_R8eNL1fffxMC33SX5ZQJk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Lfzxn_R8eNL1fffxMC33SX5ZQJk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/EseI_MdkBb0" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-09T21:14:00+00:00 inputdev keep-it-away-from-cigarettes-and-drugs askslashdot 557 557,554,403,282,53,34,19 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/215228/Best-Mouse-For-Programming?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/9hD8Zh8cQYs/Moblin-Will-Run-X-Server-As-Logged-In-User-Not-Root nerdyH writes "An architect of the Moblin Project has announced that Moblin 2.0 for netbooks and nettops is the first Linux distribution to run the X server as the logged-in user, rather than SUID'd to root. The fix to this decades-old security liability comes thanks to 'NRX' (No-root X) technology reportedly developed by Intel, Red Hat, and others in the X community, and the Moblin-sponsored 'Secure X' project. Besides making Linux netbooks a lot more snoop-proof, it seems like this could lead to an X-hosting renaissance of sorts, since you wouldn't be risking the whole system just to open up a specific user's account to remote X servers."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2050226/Moblin-Will-Run-X-Server-As-Logged-In-User-Not-Root?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/2050226"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2050226/Moblin-Will-Run-X-Server-As-Logged-In-User-Not-Root?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/14mfhDjXJwvF7cMYDk4YgZCbYA0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/14mfhDjXJwvF7cMYDk4YgZCbYA0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/14mfhDjXJwvF7cMYDk4YgZCbYA0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/14mfhDjXJwvF7cMYDk4YgZCbYA0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/9hD8Zh8cQYs" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-09T20:54:00+00:00 xwindows such-a-little-thing-makes-such-a-big-difference tech 200 200,197,156,115,42,26,16 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2050226/Moblin-Will-Run-X-Server-As-Logged-In-User-Not-Root?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~3/Mkct2s_-myc/US-Seeks-Volunteers-To-Review-Broadband-Grant-Applications BobB-nw writes with this excerpt from Network World: "The US National Telecommunications and Information Administration, scheduled to distribute $4.7 billion in broadband deployment grants over the next 15 months, will count on volunteers to review grant applications. The NTIA, in a document released this week, asks for people to apply to become volunteer reviewers of the broadband grants. The NTIA's broadband grant program is part of $7.2 billion that the US Congress approved for broadband in a huge economic stimulus package approved earlier this year. ... It's 'a little scary' that volunteers will have the power to accept and reject broadband applications, said Craig Settles, an analyst and president of consulting firm Successful.com. Volunteers may have limited expertise, or they may have biases that aren't evident to the NTIA, he said."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1952252/US-Seeks-Volunteers-To-Review-Broadband-Grant-Applications?from=rss"><img src="http://it.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/1952252"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1952252/US-Seeks-Volunteers-To-Review-Broadband-Grant-Applications?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-_nrZjuMY3_Bym7wWc_RVsNsngc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-_nrZjuMY3_Bym7wWc_RVsNsngc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-_nrZjuMY3_Bym7wWc_RVsNsngc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-_nrZjuMY3_Bym7wWc_RVsNsngc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotIt/~4/Mkct2s_-myc" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-09T20:07:00+00:00 networking low-expertise-worries-me-less-than-poor-incentives tech 121 121,120,106,86,25,10,6 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1952252/US-Seeks-Volunteers-To-Review-Broadband-Grant-Applications?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://it.slashdot.org/search.pl