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Google is starting a service, which will provide more storage for different Google services, including Gmail. So for $20 a year, you’ll get 6 GB that can be used to store photos in Picasa Web Albums and to send or receive messages in Gmail. It’s unclear whether Google intends to add other services, but Google Docs and Page Creator are possible candidates. You can manage your storage options from this page. Here are the current plans for upgrade: * 20 GB ($20.00 per year) * 40 GB ($75.00 per year) * 150 GB ($250.00 per year) * 400 GB ($500.00 per year) (Note: Initially, the price for the 6 GB option was $1, but Google quickly changed it to $20.)

Information search giant Google, Inc. announced Thursday the release of Google Body, a search service aiming to index the internal and external anatomy of every living creature on the planet. "Google has long been dedicated to making information both useful and universally accessible," notes Google VP of Product Development Eric Hind. "We're happy now to extend search to information about human bodies, mine and yours, inside and out, from the number of follicles on my head to the length of the President's toenails." The project, known as Google Body, sees the company partnering with public transportation systems, libraries, and motor vehicle departments to place scanning equipment in high-traffic doorways and public thoroughfares. Though details of the agreements are scarce and reportedly subject participating city and state officials to strict non-disclosure terms, Google's announcement confirmed that the project is active in several major U.S. populati...

"A software is able to monitor multiple Voice-over-IP (VoIP) call streams, listening in and recording them for remote inspection as .wav files. All that the criminal would need would be to infect a single PC inside the network with a Trojan incorporating these functions, although the hack would work at ISP level as well. The program can index 'IP-tapped' calls by caller - using SIP identity information - and by recipient, and even by date." Software is Called SIPTAP link h3r3 The program can index 'IP-tapped' calls by caller - using SIP identity information - and by recipient, and even by date. Running from August this year until the most recent tap on November 21st, SIPtap had no problems in extracting enough information on the test network to prove that call recording of any and every VoIP call at a hypothetical company was now a trivial exercise. SIPtap demonstrates that the worst-case nightmares of VoIP vulnerability are now well within the capabilities of...

This is a list of Security related/specific Linux Distros /Distributions that I have been through. I did not try all of them, but I'm trying them more extensively these days, as currently participating in on of this as maintainer and wanted conduct a research on the features of every one of them to polish harden the one I'm working on it currently. Please add your comments and any distro that you know about They are 29 Distributions in count 1) Knoppix STD --> link is h3r3 2) BackTrack --> link is h3r3 3) Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) --> link is h3r3 4) DEF (Digital Evidence & Forensic Toolkit) --> link is h3r3 5) grml --> link is h3r3 6) Hakin9 --> link is h3r3 7) Helix --> link is h3r3 8) KCPentrix --> link is h3r3 9) Knoppix-NSM --> link is h3r3 10) nUbuntu --> link is h3r3 11) NST (Network Security Toolkit) --> link is h3r3 12) OWASP LabRat --> link is h3r3 13) Protech --> link is h3r3 14) Arudius --> link is h3r3 1...

Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now available for download . This is the ninth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center , as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso. New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include: Improved security features such as: better presentation of website identity and security, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager, and version checking for insecure plugins. Improved ease of use through: better password management, easier add-on installation, new download manager with resumable downloading, full page zoom, animated tab strip, and better integration with Windows Vista and Mac OS X. Richer personalization through: one-click bookmarking, smart search bookmark folders, direct typin...

It is super, Amazon Released ebook reader in a press conference.. It will hold up to 200 books for a price of $399. It comes ready for wireless downloads and uses a cellular connection rather than WiFi and can download Amazon’s version of WiFi feeds (for a charge). Original Post h3r3

Using this Project FreeNAS you can build your own storage box at Work or home easily, realiably. FreeNAS is a free NAS ( Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key. You can run it from USB key and leave your hard drives to be used as NAS, nevertheless you can make a partition dedicated to FreeNAS OS and application and use the rest as NAS. I did not have the chance to test it , but last time it was good enough to use it. The minimal FreeBSD distribution, Web interface, PHP scripts and documentation are based on M0nowall. FreeNAS project caould be found h3r3

The Ubuntu development team has announced the inaugural release of Ubuntu JeOS (pronounced "juice"), a customized Ubuntu operating system layer designed for VMware virtual appliances: "Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced the availability of its Ubuntu JeOS (Just Enough Operating System) edition. Ubuntu JeOS (pronounced "Juice") is an efficient variant of the popular desktop and server operating system, configured specifically for virtual appliances. ISVs looking to develop virtual appliances will have a compelling platform in Ubuntu JeOS, an OS optimised for virtualisation that greatly reduces the complexity and maintenance overhead normally associated with general purpose operating systems. Ubuntu JeOS Edition has been tuned to take advantage of key performance technologies of the latest virtualisation products from VMware." Link at Ubuntu Site h3r3

HTC for retailers is a considerably new name, but for OEM is well known. HTC is hitting the retail market with new devices that are defining a new era of portable devices that can do anything you may imagine. I have been through HTC Advantage X7501, it is a super device,unbelievable fast , even was able to open MS-Office 2007 word document - LOL- The HTC Advantage runs Windows Mobile 6, and glad to tell that there are Ubuntu ports for this device, so you can buy it and through the installed windows and install Ubuntu. There is another model that runs Vista Business edition -;))))))))))!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would rate HTC line as a Mini-Laptop, I find it better and faster than any other wareable computer I have been through or experienced. HTC Advantage comes with a neet keyboard that you use it to type and to position the HTC advantage in a comfort position for reading and writing and they are using magnet to attach the tiny keyboard to the HTC Advantage. still you can use the Keyboard as ...

Japan and Sun build a Datacenter in an old mine to which in return reduced the cost of colling. The report states that is the first Datacenter in a min, but I dont agree , because when I worked with Volvo IT - and their schools project - their datacenters were all in old mine. The coolant will be ground water and the site's temperature is a constant 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit) all year, meaning no air-conditioning will be needed outside the containers. This reduces the energy required for the water chillers, used with surface-level Blackbox containers. The group estimates that up to $9 million of electricity costs could be saved annually if the centre were to run 30,000 server cores. Sun is working with eleven other companies, including Internet Initiative Japan - an ISP, BearingPoint , Itochu Techno-Solutions and NS Solutions . They will form a joint venture with Sun. NTT Communications and Chuo University are also involved. The disused coal mine is located...

Quite an interesting research on TOR (the Anonymizer) Link h3r3

Google has been sued by a university and a start-up company in the U.S. for allegedly infringing on a patented technology to run its online search service. The suit was filed by Boston's Northeastern University and by Jarg, a private company in Waltham, Mass., that specializes in distributed search technologies and one of whose cofounders, Kenneth Baclawski, is an associate professor at Northeastern.The suit accuses Google of using a distributed database technology developed by Baclawski in its online service. The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and an injunction to prevent Google from further infringing on the patent, as well as royalty payments and damages. The patent describes a distributed database system that breaks search queries into fragments and distributes them to multiple computers in a network to get faster results. The patent was assigned to Northeastern University, which licensed it exclusively to Jarg, according to the lawsuit, filed last Tuesday with the U.S. District Co...

Large-capacity hard disks often used by government agencies were found to contain Trojan horse viruses, Investigation Bureau officials warned By Yang Kuo-wen, Lin Ching-chuan and Rich Chang STAFF REPORTERS Sunday, Nov 11, 2007, Page 2 Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said. Around 1,800 of the portable Maxtor hard discs, produced in Thailand, carried two Trojan horse viruses: autorun.inf and ghost.pif, the bureau under the Ministry of Justice said. The tainted portable hard disc uploads any information saved on the computer automatically and without the owner's knowledge to www.nice8.org and www.we168.org, the bureau said. The affected hard discs are Maxtor Basics 500...

Magic-1 is a completely homebuilt minicomputer. It doesn't use an off-the-shelf microprocessor, but instead has a custom CPU made out of 74 Series TTL chips. Altogether there are more than 200 chips in Magic-1 connected together with thousands of individually wrapped wires. And, it works. Not only the hardware, but a full software stack. There's a ANSI C cross-compiler for Magic-1 (retargeted LCC), a fully multi-user, multi-tasking port of the Minix 2 operating system. a TCP/IP stack and hundreds of programs. Except when he is working on it, Magic-1 is connected to the net. It serves web pages at http://www.magic-1.org, and by clicking here you can telnet in and play Original Adventure or run a few other old classics such as Eliza, Conway's Life or Hunt the Wumpus. To log in, use the id "guest" and the password "magic". Before the Minix port was completed, Magic-1 was running a very simple homebrew operating system. It also had a simple guestbook...

Red Hat has released Enterprise Linux 5.1 with integrated virtualization. This release provides the most compelling platform for customers and software developers ever, with its industry-leading virtualization capabilities complementing Red Hat's newly announced Linux Automation strategy. It offers the industry's broadest deployment ecosystem, covering standalone systems, virtualized systems, appliances and web-scale “cloud” computing environments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux's deployment flexibility uniquely allows customers to deploy a single platform, virtual or physical, small or large, throughout their enterprise. By providing one platform that spans the broadest range of x86, x86-64, POWER, Itanium and mainframe servers, regardless of size, core count or capacity, customers can gain dramatic operational and cost efficiencies when compared to proprietary solutions. And fully integrated virtualization, included at no additional cost, amplifies these benefits. Notably, Red ...

This Post explains how an NGO may benefit and use Open Source blocks easily. it is 8 pages document in PDF format has all the open source applications that an NGO may use from my point of view with the URL of each. Link h3r3

Google and 33 other companies have announced an ambitious industry alliance that will maintain a completely open source mobile phone stack. The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) says phones based on its Linux-based "Android" stack will reach market in as soon as eight months. he Android stack is based on "open Linux kernel," the group says. It also includes a full set of mobile phone application software, in order to "significantly lower the cost of developing and distributing mobile devices and services," OHA said. In taking on not only the Linux kernel and middleware layer, but also the application stack, the OHA appears to have more ambition than earlier industry groups, such as the kernel-oriented LiMo Foundation , and the middleware-oriented LiPS (Linux Phone Standards Forum) and OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) initiatives, among others. In terms of its licensing and scope, the OHA's Android stack may more closely resemble Trolltech's Qtopia Phone Edit...

If you upgraded from Ubuntu 7.0.4 to Ubuntu 7.10 with the upgrade utility like me , you may expect troubles with your Windows WIFI driver loaded through NDISWRAPPER. As the upgrade may cause Ubuntu dropping one or more of your loaded NDISWRAPPER loaded driver although it keeps their modprobe extension. To correct this issue , please use the command Prompt/Shell to remove the current loaded driver and add it again (at least that solved the problem for me), as using the GUI of NDISWRAPPER to remove the driver and adding it again did not work for me. Shell command should loook like that root# ndiswrapper -l the above command lists the loaded drivers root# ndiswrapper -r the above command to remove the listed driver root# ndiswrapper -i the above command to load the Windows driver for your WIFI card again root#ndiswrapper -m to write modprobe module reboot you should be able to use your WIFI again

10 November as Google AdSense Team sent will have couple of hours routine maintenance. The exact mail is below " Tomorrow, November 10th, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance. Although you won't be able to log in to your account between 10 am and 2 pm PST, we'll continue to serve ads to your pages and track all earnings in your account as usual. Our international readers can expect the maintenance to start at the following times: London - 6 pm Saturday Kiev - 8 pm Saturday Chennai - 11:30 pm Saturday Manila - 2 am Sunday Melbourne - 5 am Sunday Some of you have been curious about what our engineers are up to during these maintenance periods. As you can imagine, running the system reliably requires constant nurturing. Some maintenance tasks are more fundamental to the way the system operates and are not easily done on the fly -- as a result, it's most efficient and helpful for us to take the system offline for a few hours. With that in mind, our eng...

The Network Neutrality Squad (NNSquad) is an open-membership, open-source effort, enlisting the Internet's users to help keep the Internet's operations fair and unhindered from unreasonable restrictions. The project's focus includes detection, analysis, and incident reporting of any anticompetitive, discriminatory, or other restrictive actions on the part of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) or affiliated entities, such as the blocking or disruptive manipulation of applications, protocols, transmissions, or bandwidth; or other similar behaviors not specifically requested by their customers. Other key aspects of the project are discussions, technology development and deployment, and associated activities -- fostering cooperation and mutually agreeable methodologies whenever possible -- aimed at keeping the Internet a maximally unhindered, useful, competitive, fair, and open environment for the broadest possible range of applications and services. Link to Internet Neutrality ...

Donate the time your computer is turned on, but is idle, to projects that benefit humanity! They provide the secure software that does it all for free, and you become part of a community that is helping to change the world. Once you install the software, you will be participating in World Community Grid. No other action must be taken; it's that simple! To learn more and join, click h3r3 How Grid Computer works link h3r3 Again, Remember that you can change the world, contribute for You , Me and better human tomorrow. The mission of Help Conquer Cancer is to improve the results of protein X-ray crystallography, which helps researchers not only annotate unknown parts of the human proteome, but importantly improves their understanding of cancer initiation, progression and treatment.

Canadian researchers have promised to squeeze "decades 162 years" of cancer research into just two years by harnessing the power of a global PC grid.. The scientists are the first from Canada to use IBM's World Community Grid network of PCs and laptops with the power equivalent to one of the globe's top five fastest supercomputers. The team will use the grid to analyze the results of experiments on proteins using data collected by scientists at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute in Buffalo, New York. The researchers estimate that this analysis would take conventional computer systems 162 years to complete." Please contribute on World Community Grid Computers link h3r3

The Sixth Floor Labs, LLC is a company devoted to improving the Linux gaming scene through the development of solid, fun, and intriguingly games. the First Project is called A lexandria link h3r3 Project: Alexandria is a top-down shooter with an inertia-based physics model, like Asteroids. The first set of levels is already available on their website. Characters of the Game link h3r3 download Game release version 1.1 h3r3

In General, it is a kinda of multi-purpose toy that rungs Linux and has it own SDK, so you can program it to do anything. It has GPS,Camer,Wifi,USB,Touch Screen,.... To know more and understand how this super toy works , go h3r3 Full Report about Buglabs toy is here

Never get trapped, dont submit your password. I just received the blow mail now. they want to collect as much password as they can The mail was from : Team Team " team.messagedatas1 @ gmail. com" Please Gmail ppl take the necessary actions to suspend this mail account, to avoid trapping ppl Team Team show details 12:58 pm (2 minutes ago) G M A I L BETA VERIFY YOUR FREE G M A I L ACCOUNT NOW !!! Dear G m a i l Account Owner, This message is from Gmail messaging center to all Gmail free account owners and premium account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center. We are deleting all unused Gmail account to create more space for new accounts. To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it below so that we will know that it's a present used account. CONFIRM YOUR IDENTITY BELOW G m a i l ! ID : .......... Password : ........... Date of...

This Post to complete on Ghost Open Source alternate . It is called SNAP Backup, Snap backup makes a complete backup of your HD to a central server, it support incremental,differential. List Of Features One Click to Perform a Backup Configurable Settings Runs on Most Platforms (Including: Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and Windows) Supports Multiple Languages Support all Operating Systems (Linux,Windows , Mac) I may say that is is Aconis Open Source Alternate Screen Shot of the Client is below Link for SNAP Backup Utility h3r3.  .

As we know Ghost is a software used to image your Windows installation, in other words it help you to have a complete backup of a PC for later restore or replication in environment such as School,University, Computer Training lab, and so on. The good thing about "FOG" that it stores the images in a local server that you easily build through the installer with We based Admin Interface to control your backup and restore operations. There is an Open Source Alternative called "FOG" Free Open Source Ghost,FOG is good for anyone running Windows XP and Vista with a single partition. Right now FOG can only handle a single partition on the hard disk. FOG is currently being used by many schools and small businesses who can't afford the licensing of commercial products like Ghost. What makes FOG different? FOG is easy for end user. The end user no longer needs to worry about NIC drivers to image a computer, this is all handled by the kernel. FOG management is done...

List of Linux services/daemons that you can use, with Description and whether it is mandatory or not, and with explanation Alphabetical Listing of Services Service Name Required [Yes/No] Description Comments acon No Language support Specifically for the right to left written languages: Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew acpi No Power Management laptop battery fan monitor acpid No Listening daemon This listens for and dispatches acpi events from the kernel adsl No Internal ADSL switch control Use this only if you have an internal adsl switch for your internet connection. alsa No Advanced Linux Sound Architecture The only sound system actually included in the kernel anacron No Periodic Command Scheduler a task scheduling tool ...