Thirteen participants made it to the May meeting of the Python Special Interest Group of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group, held as usual on the fourth Thursday of the month at 7 PM at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, Manchester, NH.
It was a busy meeting. A quick round of introductions and announcements was followed [...]
Over at his ongoing blog, Tim Bray blogs about Sun’s recent oOpenID Patent Covenant
Sun just announced a Patent Non-assert Covenant on OpenID; chapter and verse and FAQ here. Simon Phipps has a useful write-up. But what really impresses me is the text of the covenant itself; four short paragraphs of simple, almost jargon-free, English. Why [...]
In the on-going battle for the hearts and minds and keyboards of users, OpenOffice.org made a major step forward by becoming more like MS Offices with its first
Cross-Platform OpenOffice Virus Proof of Concept. And it’s cross-platform to boot! Let’s see MS one-up that! Can they get MS Office viruses to run on Office for [...]
Ten attendees made it to the May meeting of the Monadnock Valley Linux User Group, held as usual on the second Thursday of the month at the School Administrative Unit #1 offices, Hancock Road, Peterborough.
Bill Freeman presented his thoughts on the Man Page of the Month: dd. Bill provided two pages of notes. Quite the [...]
WordPress 2.2 has been released, and it looks like it’s got some pretty cool features:
On behalf of the entire WordPress team, I’m proud and excited to announce the immediate availability of version 2.2 “Getz” for download. This version includes a number of new features, most notably Widgets integration, and over two hundred bug fixes. It’s [...]
Seven attendees got to enjoy the last CentraLUG meeting at the New Hampshire Technical Institute Library this academic year. The school will be closing on Friday, and summer hours will not accommodate CentraLUG. Stay tuned on an announcement of a summer location for June, July and August (September will have no meeting due to the [...]
The monthly meeting of the Monadnock region Linux User Group takes place as usual on the second Thursday of the month at the SAU #1 offices in Peterborough. Details and directions here.
Seth Cohn will be presenting Drupal, http://www.drupal.org. I’m looking forward to it. The LUGs have been privileged to see a couple presentations on CMSes: [...]
It’s the nineteeth week of the year, and Microsoft issues fixes #23 through #27, running a bit ahead of the pace from the last couple of years. And “Remote Code Execution” is obviously the goal of the bad guys. Here’s the list:
MS07-023 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (934233)
MS07-024 - Vulnerabilities [...]
At O’Reilly Radar, Tim O’Reilly points to Paul Kedrosky pointing to Lifehacker’s Better Gmail. The FireFox extension looks like it brings some real power and extensibility to already powerful GMail platform. Tim notes:
A really interesting side note: as Better Gmail is a firefox extension, its not available for IE users. Its an interesting twist [...]
