Over at InfoWorld, Robert McMillan is reporting that Apple patches AirPort wireless bug. “Apple Computer Inc. has fixed a number of flaws in the software that ships with its personal computers, including a bug in its AirPort wireless drivers that was disclosed earlier this month… Apple's Tuesday update also fixes several issues in products that [...]
The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central NH GNHLUG chapter, happens the first Monday of most months on the New Hampshire Institute Campus starting at 7 PM.
Directions and maps are available on the NHTI site at http://www.nhti.edu/welcome/directions.htm. This month, we'll be meeting in the Library/Learning Center/Bookstore, room 146, marked as “I” on that map. The [...]
Columbus Day holiday gave me the chance to set up a MythTV back end. It was a good chance to see how complicated it was to set it up (not hard). But sitting around the office to watch TV was no fun. So, the trick was to cobble together another machine to run the front [...]
A review of the MythTV-enabled distribution KnoppMyth in the article “Linux as a Media Centre:”
“First impressions… Wow… I have played with Windows Media Centre before, concluding that it was an overpriced clunky frontend for Windows Media Player aimed at no market in particular and ultimately doomed for failure. This was another kettle of fish altogether.”
SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green is reporting “Mac OS X Apple UDIF Disk Image Kernel Memory Corruption, (Wed, Nov 22nd). A vulnerability has been reported in the way OS X handles corrupt DMG images…(more)”
Apple did pretty well with their proprietary apps on top of OS X, but one real bozo bit flipped was have [...]
In “A Costly Addiction, ” Lawrence Lessig says the debate over Net Neutrality is a lot deeper than whether the telecoms/videocoms/internetcoms get to deliver whatever kind of service they choose by arbitrarily limiting competition to their monopolized wires:
“Of all the things that have not gone according to the framers' plan, perhaps this is the most [...]
The GNHLUG-discuss mailing list has been abuzz for the last month with disucssions about MythTV. I've learned a lot I had not yet gleaned from the documentation:
I hadn't realized that it was possible to receive and record HDTV-level broadcasts from the analog cable feed for those “broadcast” channels in the local area.
One GNHLUG member posted [...]
There was an great session at the Merrimack Valley Linux User Group meeting on Thursday night. Shawn K. Shea presented VMWare and he had a lot of great pointers — hope to have a link to his slides soon. One that really caught my attention was a trick to run a dual-boot partition as a [...]
The SANS Internet Storm Center lists 6 patches released by Microsoft today, with two earning the “PATCH NOW” status: one for multiple exploits of Internet Explorer and the second an exploit of XML Core Services with exploits known to be out in public. Get patching!
On his blog, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz confirms it's true:
“Few folks, at least outside of Sun, understand how pervasively successful the Java platform, and the community supporting it, have been over the past decade. But Java runs on more devices than Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, Symbian and the Mac combined…”
“And in closing, I want [...]
