Friday, May 28, 2010

New Articles coming for next week

Working on a few articles for next week. We've got some Linux, iPhone and Manga info coming your way.

So, make sure to come back or just add the RSS feed to your reader of choice.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Manga: Mouryou no Yurikago


Found a new Manga today "Mouryou no Yurikago", so far the first chapter was really good. I usually wait for a few chapters before rating it on MyAnimeList, but I've decided to give it an 8 out of 10.

Here's the description provided by MyAnimeList:
A group of students find themselves on a sinking capsized ship -- with zombies!

What happened to the ship? Why are there zombies on board?

For the students, it's a race against time and the living dead to save themselves from certain death.

Glad to have found another Zombie Manga to follow besides Highschool of the Dead and Sankarea since it's usually a few months between chapters. The first chapter weighs in at 49 pages and had me interested panel by panel. The character faces remind me a little of kekkaishi.

Linux Distros Released the Week of 2010-05-16

News


Looks like Btrfs could replace Ext4 as the file system in Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat". The new version will also include GNOME 3.0. The release date for Ubuntu 10.10 is scheduled for 10.10.2010. More info at The H

ComputerWorld had an interesting article about the five best things coming in Fedora 13 which should be released tomorrow. The article covers the following 5 features:
  • Professional-level color management
  • Better printer driver support
  • Improved open-source graphic drivers
  • Improved KVM support
  • Easier to use and more stable to boot

I'll try to download Fedora 13 tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

New Distribution Releases


Here are some of the Distributions release last week. List taken from DistroWatch

From the list I'm looking forward to trying out Arch and Chakra (I know Chakra is technically Arch, but it does offer a nice Live CD)

Upcoming Releases and Announcements


List taken from DistroWatch


  • 2010-05-25: Fedora 13
  • 2010-05-28: FreeBSD 8.1-BETA1
  • 2010-05-28: Pardus Linux 2009.2 RC

I will be testing out Fedora 13, and Chakra. If I see anything worth mentioning I'll let you know. If you've tried any of the releases above please leave a comment to let me know what you think.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 2

Been kind of swamped with work lately that I didn't notice the update to Java that Apple released. There is also a release for 10.5.

The update brings Java up to version 1.6.0_20 and weighs in at 81.7 MB. The update claims to fix the following:

Multiple vulnerabilities in Java 1.6.0_17
Description: Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Java 1.6.0_17, the most serious of which may allow an untrusted Java applet to execute arbitrary code outside the Java sandbox. Visiting a web page containing a maliciously crafted untrusted Java applet may lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user. These issues are addressed by updating to Java version 1.6.0_20. Further information is available via the Sun Java website at http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/ReleaseNotes.html

Visiting a web page containing a maliciously crafted untrusted Java applet may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user
Description: An out of bounds memory access issue exists in the handling of mediaLibImage objects. Visiting a web page containing a maliciously crafted untrusted Java applet may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user. This issue is addressed by preventing Java applets from using the com.sun.medialib.mlib package. This issue only affects the Mac OS X implementation of Java. Credit to Marc Schoenefeld of University of Bamberg for reporting this issue.

AND
Description: A signedness issue exists in the handling of window drawing. Visiting a web page containing a maliciously crafted untrusted Java applet may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user. This issue is addressed through improved bounds checking. This issue only affects the Mac OS X implementation of Java. Credit to Jonathan Bringhurst of Northrop Grumman, and Jeffrey Czerniak for reporting this issue.

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