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The discussion about Dan Kaminsky's discovery of the DNS vulnerability just made a new twist and the vulnerability became more scary. Previously it was agreed upon that we (the internet) are given one month time to patch our DNS servers. That went down to "now" when Matasano leaked the attack and thus the public knew.

Jutros smo Kaddy i ja Sadistiko stavili novu ploču i napajanje na Plani na južni dio. Bilo je vode unutra pa smo našli rupicu i zasilikonizirali je. Radili smo pod kišom, sreća pa nije bila tako jaka da smo uspjeli osposobiti to govno koje nas zeza već tjednima.

Popodne su Omron i Dina išli na Silos i sredili Silos. Nažalost i tamo je bilo vode u kutiji gdje je UPS koji izgleda nije preživio. Tako to ide kad se oprema ostavi gore na mislot i nemilost vremenu. Uglavnom dečki su sve pripasali i popalili ali rezultata nažalost nema. Silos se ne vidi od nikuda (probali smo sa siska, pigika, plane i ništa). Sutra ću izgleda ipak ja morati gore i spojit se direkt laptopom i vidit di je kvaka. Samo ako nije sve ošlo u K.

Now this is cool!

Yesterday I learned about a club in my city that exclusivly plays CreativeCommons-licensed music. According to their website they also make sure that only those variants of the CC-licenses are used that free software people would identify as 'free' :-)

Tommorrow there will be a party where they celebrate the adaption of the latest CC-BY-SA (version 3.0) to the German jurisdiction. They use a CC-BY-SA licensed excerpt from OpenStreetMap on their flyer:

 

L’avete cercato, sognato, desiderato…eccolo! il video della notta bianca a zagarolo, un’altra impresa firmata ninux.org Ninux alla notte bianca a Zagarolo from OrazioPirataDelloSpazio on Vimeo.

Örömmel jelentjük, hogy tegnap az ELMŰ Pólus Centerben található ügyfélszolgálati irodájában ingyenes vezetéknélküli hotspotot építettünk ki. Így várakozás közben ingyenesen internetezhettek már itt is.

SSID: huwico@ELMU
Protokoll: 802.11b/g

Breaking news: Hamarosan a nagyobb Elektromos Művek ügyfélszolgálatokon lesz elérhető ingyenes WiFi!

Après Le Printemps du Wifi, qui s'est déroulé dans les Cevennes en France, et le CCC camp en Allemagne , un autre rassemblement à lieu depuis quelques années au pays du Gouda et de la Heineken.
Photo by melnikovi
OCC ( Open Community Camp anciennement Wireless Community camp) est un rendez vous sur plusieurs jours ou chacun viens camper avec sa tente et présenter un peu de ses connaissances dans une ambiance bonne enfant propre au Hacking et autres meshing.
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Dnsmasq, the DNS/DHCP server used by most embedded Linux devices has been updated to protect against the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability released earlier this month. Secunia has detailed information on the exploits. There is also an article on Slashdot regarding the issue.

For users of OpenWrt? based firmware, X-Wrt? has released the 2.45 version of Dnsmasq as an ipkg here.

According to reports here

and here I had the honor of being the recipient of one of the the 2008 Google+O'Reilly Open Source Awards entitled Defender of Rights", presented by Google and O'Reilly.

I'm obviously very happy to see that my work has been recognized this way. Following the FSF Award in March, this is definitely a big honor. Did anyone else receive both awards in the same year so far? ;)

Thanks to the committee for the trust they put in my work. I'd also like to use this opportunity to thank again my lawyer Dr. Till Jaeger and his law firm JBB, as well as Armijn Hemel, who has been running the day-to-day gpl-violations.org operations for quite some time now.

Ieri in Mailing List di Ninux.org è arrivata un email di Dario. Anche se OT rispetto alla lista, l’email portava buone notizie ! Una festa ! Il nome è un Tuffo per Fusolab! Non si può mancare! Proprio una bella idea fare una festa in piscina per la campagna di autofinanziamento E poi a me piace [...]

活在 Linux 世界，若這樣大力稱讚 Windows ，應該會招來不少毒舌批評。但仍然不可抹滅的是， Windows 在許多地方的確比 Linux 優良，很多不是技術比較的問題，而是歷史演變所造成的既定結果。

相信許多人正在忙著解決 Linux 上，程式視窗太大而超出螢幕的問題。尤於低價電腦的風行，讓螢幕出現了許多不可思議的規格，如 800x480、1024x600 等等。所有的規格硬是比標準的短了點，因此造成許多原本在 800x600、1024x768 下運作正常的程式，都有視窗太大的問題。除了一些 GNOME 設定程式有此類問題之外，其中最嚴重的大概就是 evolution 的對話框。

Microsoft Windows 看起來就沒有這樣的問題，每一個對話框都好好的待在螢幕範圍內，絲毫未超出去。雖然無法保證所有軟體都正常，但至少 Microsoft 自家的程式都是沒問題的，令人不得不去誇讚一下，尤其在改完這麼多 Linux 下軟體的視窗大小之後呀。仔細想想，難道是 Windows 比較聰明？技術比較高超？為什麼可以在事先就想好這問題並避免掉它？

有一個很重要的原因，是因為所有的廠商，都是以 Windows 當基準來設計硬體，當然可以確保 Windows 是正常，而且不會有這種明顯的 Bug 存在。另一方面，是 Windows 打從娘胎起，就是針對 640x480 去設計所有的對話視窗，不僅 Win95 如此，Win98、WinME、WinXP等等皆是如此。當解析度調成 640x480 後，我們可以發現，還是可以正常使用 Windows 的所有功能。

Some time last year I was probing some TV-out issue on OMAP 2430 boards with Steve K. Gerald Coley walked in and started collecting inputs on software requirements for a 99$ board. I had not seen him before, I was wondering how can a board be made at 99$ that too on a processor like OMAP. I just continued with my debugging, when steve K asked me if I have any further inputs. I said, what ever board it is I need a UART port. Gerald nodded his cute head and left the cubicle.

After few months, I was introduced to this board called "Beagle" priced at 149$ by Jason K, then I saw Gerald C explaining about the board with a small printout. I was really amazed... Can you believe this? If I remember I had asked for a UART and look at this 3" by 3" (inch) board... it has DVI, NAND, S-Video, MMC/SD/SDIO, my favourite UART, USB HOST, USB OTG, AUDIO OUT, AUDIO IN, JTAG connector, DDR. More than these, it has OMAP3 on it - which is a beast in processing and a lame lamb in Power requirements.

For a person like me who has seen OMAP on boards like H2, H3, H4, SDPs and innovators this was something that I can ever think of.

I started working on Linux porting for this board, our REV1 was not so sucessful but did work for many devices, Gerald and Jason were confident of making another rev. I was just working on other boards and with in a month or so Gerald comes with the dark orange board, this time the board just worked ... I got wonderful support from Steve K (USB OTG), Jeff (remote debugging) and Daren (for u-boot logo)... this took me into a new world.

July 15-16th Bridgewater hall Bristol Wireless took its new revised LTSP suite for 2 days to the Substance Conference in Manchester. The Dell server laptop has been newly installed and the Evo T20 thin clients have been configured on the server, 7 flat screens and 3 laptops made up a suite of 10 machines: it all [...]

[ August 25, 2008 to August 28, 2008. ] How do we make Community Owned Information Networks work for the poor? The Wireless Africa Outcome Mapping workshop, 25 - 28 August 2008 at the Winneba Open Digital Village in Ghana is designed to promote networking and collaboration amongst potential partners in the Wireless Africa initiative funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Our research focus [...]

Bolloré chercherait à racheter Free ComparaTEL - Il y a 24 minutes L'ambition affichée de Bolloré sur le Wimax, technologie d'accès et de transmission de données Internet en haut débit sans fil, via les fréquences de la ...

Hong Kong will be providing free Wi-Fi service in 2000 hotspots serving 350 government buildings, sports and recreational centers, and three public parks. The local government is working with telecommunications provider, PCCW and equipment provider, Aruba Networks, to offer the service to residents and visitors. The project is called GovWiFi and will take five [...]

E’ finita Etnica, ed abbiamo smontato il link temporaneo montato per l’occasione. Anche se ci abbiamo perso diverso tempo per montare il ponte radio, devo dire che numeri alla mano ne è valsa la pena. Infatti lo abbiamo usato alla grande durante questa settimana: Download: 27,32Gb Upload: 10,58Gb Grazie ancora a tutti i Ninux Members che hanno reso [...]

I have engaged the following FCC contacts

Gary Thayer, Office of Engineering and Technology, (202) 418-2290
Eli Johnson, 418-1395, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.

listed in the Wireless Operations in the 3650-3700 Mhz band document with the following e-mail communication:


Hello. My name is Charles Wyble and I am looking to build out a large private WAN in Southern California utilizing the 3650Mhz band.

Sasha Meinrath ponders about what’s wrong with Meraki: “Black Box Technologies, Lock-In, & Hidden Costs“. Hundreds of projects, organizations, and municipalities are rolling out Meraki-based networks, yet few seem to understand that they’re buying a bundled service not just a piece of hardware. Over time, these initiatives will end up paying an unknown amount of money [...]

Réunion Île Sans Fil le 23 juillet à 19hres à l'Escalier