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Starry Expanse is quite an interesting project indeed as Riven when it was released was a fantastic adventure game.

How much would you pay to free your Android smartphone or tablet from CryptoLocker? How about to get your phone to stop displaying a message that you've been downloading kiddie porn?

OpenStack Horizon did not properly process Heat templates.

1976 was a good year for text editors. At MIT, Richard Stallman and Guy Steele wrote the first version of Emacs. And over at Berkeley, Bill Joy wrote vi. It’s reductionist to say that these two editors were each built around one big idea, but what the hell, let’s be reductionist. Because what stands out in 2014, looking at modern editors like Sublime Text and Atom, is how Emacs’ big idea has been thoroughly learned — and how vi’s big idea hasn’t.

LibTIFF could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened aspecially crafted file.

In today's open source roundup: DuckDuckGo gets video and image search in beta release. Plus: Tails the secure Linux distro, and Raytheon switches from Solaris to Linux for military drones.

Analysis In the 1990s, Intel and Microsoft dominated the "open" PC standard – and it appears that Google now wants to do the same for its Android system, via its Silver programme.

Eucalyptus 4.0, the latest version of the open source platform for connecting private enterprise clouds to public services like AWS, is now available. Scalable object storage, refined deployment tools and high availability highlight the feature list in Eucalyptus 4.0, the latest version of the open source platform from Eucalyptus Systems for building private and hybrid clouds.

Announcing the Robolinux C: drive to VM support package. This is the single most important Robolinux update in the history of Robolinux as it will significantly increase the world's number of successful Windows XP and 7 migrations to Linux.

In my last article, I looked at NumPY and some of its uses in numerical simulations. Although NumPY does provide some really robust building blocks, it is a bit lacking in more sophisticated tools. SciPY is one of the many Python modules that build on NumPY's.

The Heartbleed bug has cast a bright and not entirely flattering light on the open-source movement's incentive model. When a crucial and ubiquitous piece of security code like OpenSSL - left vulnerable for two years by the Heartbleed flaw - can be accessed by all the world's programming muscle, but only has one full-time developer and generates less than $2,000 in donations a year, clearly something is amiss.

Folder Color is a nautilus file manager extension that allows user easily and fast to change the folder icon color to some predefined colors, the colors available are black, yellow, violet, blue, pink, orange, green, grey or red. With a small tweak, the extension also works with Nemo file manager.

This post is supposed to demonstrate that Neuton DHCP,MetaData,L3 agents (services) and OVS plugin properly configured in RDO IceHouse provide outbound connectivity for cloud instance upon creation without assigning this instance a floating IP.

The open-source OpenSSL cryptographic library is being patched for a pair of security flaws, one of which has been in the code for at least four years.

OpenSSL, of course, is the source of the now infamous Heartbleed vulnerability, first disclosed on April 7. While Heartbleed has had a wide-ranging impact that has left hundreds of millions of users vulnerable, the newly patched issues are not quite as dramatic.

Death from above brought to you by the happy, peaceful world of open source Hey, Linux fans: a high-profile, colossal, global outfit is about to dump a proprietary operating system and replace it with Linux in a very, very, demanding application that literally involves life and death situations.…

When I walked into Carroll Hall, for a moment I felt like I was back in college... and at the World’s Best Slumber Party. There were tables full of salty snacks, stacks of sleeping bags, and the chatter of excited young women. But, unlike the sleepovers of my youth, talk was about Python, HTML, and Ruby. These were young women interested in learning to code.

For years now, every time the net neutrality debate starts getting really confusing, Tim Lee comes along and puts it all into useful perspective. Six years ago, there was his exceptionally useful position paper on net neutrality for the Cato Institute. A couple years ago, he wrote another great piece for National Affairs magazine that deftly explained why the internet wasn't competitive and why that's a problem. Now working for Vox, he's put together a great piece that explains the technical difference between the interconnection fights and the net neutrality battle -- but also explains how the end result is basically the same.

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a versatile disk management system that can easily be used in Linux or similar operating systems. traditional partitions are created in fixed sizes, and resizing them is a tedious process. On the other hand, LVM creates and manages "logical" volumes off of physical hard disks, and provides administrators the flexibility […]Continue reading... The post How to use LVM in Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to create a Linux LVM partition How to build a network attached storage (NAS) server with Openfiler How to run fdisk in non-interactive batch mode How to create an encrypted disk partition on Linux How to change a XenServer’s local storage repository from LVM to EXT

DRM and the laws that back it up actively undermine our computer security. On this Day Against DRM, the first one since we learned about the US government’s efforts to sabotage the integrity of our cryptography and security technology, it's more important than ever to consider how the unintended consequences of copyright enforcement make us all less safe.

I do a lot of work on open source, but my most valuable contributions haven't been code. Writing a patch is the easiest part of open source. The truly hard stuff is all of the rest: bug trackers, mailing lists, documentation, and other management tasks. Here's some things I've learned along the way.