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1) The new Ncat tool aims to be your Swiss Army Knife for data transfer, redirection, and debugging. We released a whole users' guide ( http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ index.html ) detailing security testing and network administration tasks it made easy with Ncat. Details: http://nmap.org/5/#changes- ncat 2) The addition of the Ndiff scan comparison tool completes Nmap's growth into a whole suite of applications which work together to serve network administrators and security practitioners. Ndiff makes it easy to automatically scan your network daily and report on any changes (systems coming up or going down or changes to the software services they are running). The other two tools now packaged with Nmap itself are Ncat and the much improved Zenmap GUI and results viewer. Details: http://nmap.org/5/#changes- ndiff 3) Nmap performance has improved dramatically. We spent last summer scanning much of the Internet and merging that data with internal enterprise scan ...

Johannesburg, 14.07.2009 - "How can Southern African IT-businesses make money with Free and Open Source Software?“ - this one of the questions being discussed at the regional course on "Advanced African Business Models with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)“. The two-week event started on July 13 at University of Witwatersrand, (Wits) in Johannesburg and is the first in a series of training-of-trainer (ToT) events in Southern and East Afria. The course is organized by the pan-African Open Source federation FOSSFA as well as the German non-for-profit, "InWEnt – Capacity Building International“. Main training and facilitator partners are the Advanced Information Technology Institute of the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center for Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE) and the United Nations University, UNU-MERIT of The Netherlands. This advanced course brings together over 17 experts from universities, training institutions and private sector in South Africa, Malawi and Zambia. It...

This is to report that finally Maemo PhoneLink 1.4.3 works fine with Nokia E61 Mobile Phones. the tricks to have this to work as follows 1) install Gnokii-Gconf 1.1) Make sure that you are able to detect your phone using Gnokii-Gconf "launched from Control Panel", if it did not work change the "cfcomm" my mobile worked with "rfcomm =2" 2) Now your Phone Link should work with your Nokia E61 , I test calling and Sending SMS and both works just fine

Women Making Airwaves for Peace is a joint project of Min-WoW and Isis International - Manila to promote engendered peace journalism and women's critical role in conflict transformation and peace building. The project consists os Training Workshops and Training Modules. Isis International in partnership with AMARC Asia Pacific Women's International Network are inviting to the seminar "Women Making Airwaves of Peace" on 3 - 7 October in Bangalore, India. Please see the attached call for applications and the application form. You also find the call of application and the application form on the Isis International website under Women Making Airwaves for Peace. Deadline for applications is July 12, 2009 http://www.isiswomen.org/downloads/wmap/WMAP_Call4Applications.pdf http://www.isiswomen.org/downloads/wmap/WMAP_ApplicationForm.doc With best regards Bianca Miglioretto Community Radio Officer Isis International

The Sun-sponsored project " VirtualBox" has released a beta 3.0 version of its x86-oriented virtualization software. The Linux-compatible xVM VirtualBox 3.0 adds support for guest Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) with up to 32 virtual CPUs, as well as support for version 2.0 of the OpenGL graphics acceleration standard.Targeted at server, desktop, and embedded platforms based on x86, VirtualBox lets users run their favorite software, Sun says, while enabling developers convenience when building, testing, and running "cross-platform, multi-tier applications." It does this by enabling development and target systems to share a single physical host. Supported target "platforms" include Linux, OpenSolaris, Solaris, Windows, and Mac OS X. The Beta 1 release of version 3.0 is bleeding edge, caution the project leaders. New features are said to include: Guest SMP support for up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only) Ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications and ...