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Nasa is to make its huge collection of historic photographs, film and video available to the public for the first time. A partnership with the non-profit Internet Archive will see 21 major Nasa imagery collections merged into a single searchable online resource. The Nasa Images website is expected to go live this week. The launch is the first step in a five-year partnership that will add millions of images and thousands of hours of video and audio content, with enhanced search and viewing capabilities and new user features. Over time, the integration of Nasaimages.org will become more seamless and comprehensive with the main Nasa site. "This partnership enables Nasa to provide a vast collection of imagery from one searchable source, unlocking a new treasure trove for students, historians, enthusiasts and researchers," said Nasa deputy administrator Shana Dale. "This new resource also will enable the agency to digitise and preserve historical content now not available o...

As the Title Tells, Ubuntu 8.10 (Interpid Ibex) Alpha 3 is released Download Link and Official Release is h3r3 .

SysAdmin Day , otherwise known System Administrator Appreciation Day . This "holiday" was first celebrated in 2000 and takes place annually on the last Friday in July. The goal, according to the SysAdmin Day website , it to give the guys and gals who maintain your computer network some love... and perhaps some nifty gifts!

What's new in this release (see below for details): - Control panel improvements and new appwiz panel. - Restructurations of state handling in Direct3D. - Support for timer queue functions. - Many MSXML improvements. - Several fixes to Solaris support. - Various bug fixes. The source is available from the following locations: http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.1.2.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.1.2.tar.bz2 Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: http://www.winehq.org/site/download You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/site/git for details. Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bugs fixed in 1.1.2: 1789 msvcrt type conversion...

A New Security flaw in Facebook arised, Details are below : Jul 25 2008 : Social networking site Facebook has experienced a data breach which put millions of users at risk of ID fraud, an IT security firm has revealed. During a public beta test of a new version of the site, Facebook accidentally exposed its members' full date of birth, reports UK-based Sophos . The breach included members who had specified they wanted the information kept secret. Anyone logging on to Facebook during the breach would have been able to see other members' date of birth, regardless of privacy settings in place. Facebook, which has around 80 million active users worldwide, has now fixed the problem, Sophos says. This follows another breach in March 2008, where users' photos could be seen by anyone. These breaches highlight the problems associated with social networking sites, warns fraud prevention firm Equifax . "Access to the date of birth of millions of users provides a golden opportun...

I think this is the First time in Egypt to have an organized RoadShow that was on Saturday 19 July 2008 . Proton Gen-2 Lovers and Myself one of them . Had a nice RoadShow on Cairo-Alex Desert Road with around 30 Proton Gen-2 Cars. The Roadshow of the Proton Gen-2 in Egypt is organized by Proton Gen-2 Enthusiasts in Egypt , which is formed by Individual lovers of Proton Gen-2 and support by Proton Malaysia and Ezz Al Arab - Proton Agent in Egypt- Some pics below

If you want to package an application and run it on any computer without setup, you can do that now by using Vmware ThinApp, some of the features are : Package each application with its own DLL file and registry changes to eliminate installation conflicts Execute applications on locked-down PCs in 100% user mode Run applications from any media without needing admin privileges Link is h3r3

The urgency to patch Dan Kaminsky’s DNS cache poisoning vulnerability just went up a few notches. Exploit code for the flaw, which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target nameserver, has been added to Metasploit, a freely distributed attack/pen-testing tool. According to Metasploit creator HD Moore (left), who teamed up with researcher Druid to create the exploit, a DNS service has also been created to assist with the exploit. We spoke about the DNS patch h3r3

That's the conclusion drawn by writer Frank Ohlhorst, who's been testing a pair of Centrino laptops and found they wouldn't talk to access points from different vendors whenever he set the base-stations to use 64-bit or 128-bit WEP security and keys containing nothing but zeros in hex. Now, you could argue that no one should be using WEP, and certainly not with a 'guessable' key like '0000000000', but there it is. If you set up your access point that way, your Centrino 2 notebook won't be able to use it. That's a bug in anyone's book, even if, as Frank admits, it's "very, very minor". And Centrino 2's barely out the door. It's not a glitch that manifests itself with WPA or with non-zero WEP keys, of whatever key length. It's got nothing to do with the OS - the access points work with older laptops running a range of operating systems. .

In this post, we will share how we can: 1) Synchronize Ipod Touch on Linux in General and Ubuntu in particular 2) Synchronize Iphone Touch on Linux in General and Ubuntu in particular 3) How to Sync your itouch over Wifi (what I call Sync Ipod touch over the Air) Pre-requests: 1) Jail Borken Ipod Touch or Iphone (If you do not have a Jail Borken) please follow the Steps in this post h3r3 Now we start our work to Synchronize our Ipod Touch on Linux over the Air, in ohter words over Wifi 1) Install fuse ( sudo apt-get install fuse) 2) Install sshfs-fuse (sudo apt-get install sshfs-fuse ) 3) sudo mkdir /mnt/ipod; sudo chmod 777 /mnt/ipod 4) Mount the iPod's media area with "sshfs root@your.ipod.ip.address:/var/root/Media /mnt/ipod" 5) cd to /mnt/ipod ---> Just to make sure , that everything is ok 6) Open Amarok, and open the page for configuring media devices (Settings->Configure->Media Devices) 7) Add a new iPod device, at /mnt/ipod 8) to unmount your I...

TrueCrypt is a Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux TrueCrypt 6.0 is Released, Details is h3r3 , and Download Link is h3r3 Screenshots: New features: Parallelized encryption/decryption on multi-core processors (or multi-processor systems). Increase in encryption/decryption speed is directly proportional to the number of cores and/or processors. For example, if your computer has a quad-core processor, encryption and decryption will be four times faster than on a single-core processor with equivalent specifications (likewise, it will be twice faster on dual-core processors, etc.) [ View benchmark results ] Ability to create and run an encrypted hidden operating system whose existence is impossible to prove (provided that certain guidelines are followed). For more information, see the section Hidden Operating System . ( Windows Vista/XP/2008/2003 ) For security reasons, when a hidden operating system is running, T...

OpenMoko is available online now,you need to have a PayPal account to be able to pay or do a wiretransfer OpenMoko is Available h3r3 on Koolu for those who don't know what is OpenMoko/FreeRunner , it is an Open Source Phone, that is loaded with Linux and has an SDK with very simple features as it depends on the Open Source community to develop it's application stack OpenMoko Hardware Specification: Processor -- Samsung S3C2442 400MHz (ARM9 core) RAM -- 128MB WSDRAM Flash -- 256MB NAND Display -- 2.8-inch diagonal 640 x 480 VGA Color TFT LCD Graphics -- SMedia 3362-based 3D graphics acceleration MicroSD -- 1 x microSD slot USB -- 1 x version 1.1 (with cable) Cellular -- 2.5G tri-band GPRS/GSM (900MHz or 850MHz) WiFi -- 802.11b/g WiFi Bluetooth -- version 2.0 GPS -- AGPS (assisted global positioning system) receiver Accelerometers -- 2 x 3D accelerometers Other features -- "high-quality" audio codec; laser stylus pen; optional DBoard debug board Dimensions -- 4.75 x 2....

If you are running DNS server , please take the measures to patch it if the patch is relevant - and I think it is already relevant - Link is h3r3 (details on the Exploit) CERT Reference Link is h3r3

Today is a very special day for me, I got one of those mails from my friends at Canonical (Ubuntu Commercial Sponsor) and in that mail , I was called as "open source evangelist in Egypt who I have met and is a great Ubuntu user" I'm so happy that Chris called me an evangelist, and I'm so much honoured. I'm thinking of even changing my nick name to "Samer the evangelist" instead of "kernel the Canine" .

I have been through Google Lively , I'm under the impression that it is a simpler Second Life. I'm still exploring there, You need to download kind of Browser plugin (it works for Firefox on Windows, I will try if there a plug for Linux later when I go home ) Google Lively has rooms, you create your avatar, so let us explore and see whats all about ! Google Lively link is h3r3 .

The Freedom Toaster is both a concept and a physical machine. As a concept, the Freedom Toaster is a bandwidth substitute. It is a way of moving massive amounts of information from a variety of sources, including the Internet, to the remote end user without the infrastructure that is usually required. Currently it is a system for disseminating Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and content (operating systems, productivity and business software, community e-books e-learning packages). In physical form the Freedom Toaster is a low cost computer, with CD/DVD-burning devices and a web browser enabled touch screen interface assembled into wh looks like a vending machine. People are able to use the Freedom Toaster by touching the various menu options on the touch screen, and following the instructions that follow. The name "Freedom Toaster" was chosen because it uses Linux, a free license Operating System, and within the language of Linux users the act of burning a CD is termed ...

Media Centers are the new trend. They’re popping up everywhere and the software companies are doing their best to keep up with the new trend. Enter Google who have released their Google Media Server. Google’s touting it as a way, “to bridge the gap between Google and your TV”. While it might not be a revolutionary idea, Google is doing it a bit differently with the ability to download the program onto any UPnP-enabled device, such as a PlayStation 3. As PCs move from the office to the TV room, expect to see much more of this type of thing from Google and other tech companies trying to be a part of the transition. The tool is a part of the Google Gadgets garage; and works with Google Desktop Search to find all of the media on your computer and put it into one nice browsable place. The one feature that makes it stand out is the ability to view YouTube videos and pictures in Picasa from within the application. It’s still in beta right now, and you might want to wait a little while before ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved what is being seen as the biggest expansion of Internet domains for 40 years. The expansion will allow any combination of letters to be used at the end of a domain name. So, instead of being limited to the current 21 top-level domains such as .com or .org, you will be visiting sites ending in .geek, .nyc, .cola etc. This will also allow for other languages to be used including Chinese, Japanese and Arabic. Paul Twomey, CEO of ICANN said: The Board today accepted a recommendation from its global stakeholders that it is possible to implement many new names to the Internet, paving the way for an expansion of domain name choice and opportunity … The potential here is huge. It represents a whole new way for people to express themselves on the Net … It’s a massive increase in the ‘real estate’ of the Internet. The new domains will not be available to everyone, however, and don’t expect to be buying them ...

The open-source community is booming as always. Hardware manufacturers have seen the potential for growth and profit in releasing products that can be tweaked by the coders among us, and they seem to be committed to releasing more and more as time goes on NETGEAR has announced their new WGR614L model router. Why buy a router without functions and create them yourself when you can buy one that has all of those features built-in? The honest answer is that you’re a geek. The answer those geeks would give you is that they can do it better than NETGEAR can. The router does have a good base to work with, including a 240 MHz MIPS32® CPU core with 16 KB of instruction cache, 16 KB of data cache, 1 KB of pre-fetch cache, and incorporates 4 MB of flash memory and 16 MB of RAM. In addition to an external 2 dBi antenna, the WGR614L integrates a second internal diversity antenna to provide enhanced performance and range. The router supports free open source Linux®-based Tomato and DD-WRT firmware...