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With the next release of Ubuntu - version 10.4, dubbed Lucid Lynx and due in April - Yahoo! will be the default engine in the search box in the top right-hand corner of the Firefox browser bundled with the OS, and Yahoo! search will be the browser's default homepage. Thanks to a new revenue-sharing deal between Yahoo! and commercial Ubuntu backer Canonical! With regulators set to approve Yahoo!'s search pact with Microsoft, this means that Redmond will power the future of Firefox on Ubuntu, a combination with decidedly anti-Redmond connotations. The ultimate irony is that Microsoft will essentially be paying people to build a Linux distro. As is typical with Firefox, users will have the option of changing the search box default. This means they can change it back to Google, and thanks to another Lucid Lynx change announced by Spencer, doing so will also switch the browser's homepage to Google. If you choose a search provider other than Google or Yahoo!, Lynx may or may ...

Apple is releasing IPAD, the Pic tells it all , but I see it like a huge Screen Apple IPOD with more features! Specifications : * 1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip *  9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology * 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi) * Capacity 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drive * Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating * Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously * Accelerometer * Ambient light sensor *  Built-in 25Whr rechargeable lithium-polymer battery * Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music * Charging via power adapter or USB to computer system Wi-Fi model     * Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)     * Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology Wi-Fi + 3G model     * UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)     * GSM/EDGE (8...

WikiPedia foundation just released annual report for the period of July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009 Link to Wikipedia Annual Report could be found h3r3 Wikipedia Financial Report Could be found h3r3

NMAP 5.2 released , list of new features and improvements below It offers more than 150 significant improvements, including:  o 30+ new Nmap Scripting Engine scripts  o enhanced performance and reduced memory consumption  o protocol-specific payloads for more effectie UDP scanning  o a completely rewritten traceroute engine  o massive OS and version detection DB updates (10,000+ signatures) The Nmap 5.00 source code and packages for Linux, Mac, and Windows are available for download at the usual place: http://nmap.org/download.html Go give it a try!  And if you find any bugs, let us know on nmap-dev ( http://nmap.org/book/man- bugs.html ). Here are the CHANGELOG entries since 5.00: o Added 31 new Nmap Scripting Engine scripts for a grand total of 80!  They new ones are summarized in this release (tagged [NSE SCRIPT]),  but you can learn much more about them all at   http://nmap.org/nsedoc/ . o [Zenmap] After performi...

Shorewall 4.4.5 has been released , Official Announcement below: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- K N O W N P R O B L E M S R E M A I N I N G - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- None. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- N E W F E A T U R E S I N 4 . 4 . 6 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) In kernel 2.6.31, the handling of the rp_filter interface option was changed incompatibly. Previously, the effective value was determined by the setting of net.ipv4.config.dev.rp_filter logically ANDed with the setting of net.ipv4.config.all.rp_filter. Beginning with kernel 2.6.31, the value is the arithmetic MAX of those two values. Given that Shorewall sets net.ipv4.config.all.rp_filter to 1 if there are any interfaces specifying 'routefilter...

A per the message from Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Foundation succeeded to raise 7.5 million USD in less than 8 weeks. People know what is Wikipedia make it happen Quoted " Thank You from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales Wow. What can I say? Thank you. We’ve just ended the most successful fundraiser in our history, $7.5 million USD raised in less than 8 weeks. Incredible. But I’m not surprised. In 2001, I took a bet on people, and you’ve never let me down. You have created the largest collection of human knowledge ever assembled: 14 million encyclopedia articles in 270 languages, still growing and getting better every day. You have supported, funded and protected it. Advertising doesn’t pay for Wikipedia. You do. Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website on earth – 340 million people last month – and we run our servers and pay our lean staff entirely with donations. Your donations keep Wikipedia free to use and free of ads. Your donations keep spreading free ac...