Spice-GTK is a set of GObject and Gtk objects for connecting to Spice servers. Spice provides a solution for interacting with virtualized desktop and devices.

Release Notes: This release fixes building with the gtk+ unstable release.

Release Tags: Minor

Tags: GTK+ 2.x, virtualization, protocol

Licenses: LGPL

Transparency? Isn't that a pub in Gibraltar?

A Wikimedia UK board member who had only been in the role for four months resigned late last year after raising conflict-of-interest issues at the organisation, which is one of the 39 local chapters founded to support and promote the projects of the San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation*. But it was only weeks after the resignation, when international press coverage attracted the personal attention of Wikimedia founder Jimmy Wales, that the organisation invited an external review of its work.…

An anonymous reader writes "Finnish copyright lobby TTVK Ry (which earlier ordered the artist promotion site The Promo Bay to be censored as 'thepiratebay subpage' before later admitting that it's legal, and also got the police to confiscate a 9-year-old's Winnie-the-Pooh laptop on suspicion of having illegally downloaded a single album) launched an anti-piracy website: http://piraattilahti.fi./. The site closely resembles The Pirate Bay, and if you take a closer look, you'll notice that CSS has been directly copied from thepiratebay.se, complete with the original site name in comments (http://piraattilahti.fi/css/css.css, pastebin mirror). Of course, one interesting question is: how on Earth did they manage to pirate The Pirate Bay content, considering that they managed to get court orders for major ISPs to censor access to The Pirate Bay?"

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MakeUseOf: If you ask any power user for one good piece of advice that applies to any operating system, it would be to back up your files regularly.

A few weeks ago you had the chance to ask Jack Horner about dinosaurs, science funding, and extinction level events. He's sent back his responses and commented: "Very impressive audience you have!" Read below for more flattery and his answers to your questions.

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eBag is software project focused on company (factory) administration via PHP+MySQL solutions, on the local network, using browsers as terminals to access the company database. The server solution provides platform independence and collaborative work. PHP offers flexibility and the ability to change (or upgrade) the source code to personal needs, and MySQL innoDB provides transactional safe, recoverable tables. Using language files provides easy and quick translation to any language, and MVC with a CSS customizable user interface.

Release Notes: This release fixes a couple of minor bugs.

Tags: Database, business

Licenses: GNU Affero General Public License v3

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Wednesday it had started installing a new generation of machines for enriching uranium, an announcement likely to annoy the West and complicate efforts to resolve a decade-old dispute over its nuclear program.

Sammy Galaxy 'a synonym' for Android mobes

Samsung's soaraway successful Galaxy smartphones are starting to overshadow their Google-built Android operating system. That's in the mind of the public at least, who can't tell the difference between an Android mobe and a Samsung Galaxy, according to Gartner.…

TechRepublic: Learn how to time-shift email processing with a simple shell script.

Bob the Super Hamste writes "On Tuesday Comcast announced that it would accelerate its acquisition of NBCUniversal and purchase the remaining 49% owned by GE for $16.7 billion. Previously GE and Comcast were expected to operate NBCUniversal jointly until mid 2014 with Comcast having the option to extend that out until 2018. So far there are not details on when the deal with be completed but the article indicates that Comcast's complete acquisition of NBCUniversal will be completed years earlier that initially thought."

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Pomm is a lightweight, fast, efficient, and powerful PHP object model manager for the PostgreSQL relational database. Pomm generates code to work with PostgreSQL and benefit from its speed and its rich features set. It uses SQL as the query language because it is often what developers end up using with ORMs and because it is easier to optimize queries directly. This also allows developers to work with user-defined types, namespaces, arrays, key-value stores, table inheritance, window functions, cryptography, stored procedures, triggers, and all the other features PostgreSQL offers. Pomm offers a stand alone library for your plain PHP projects and also Silex and symfony extensions.

Release Notes: This is a maintenance release. It fixes two bugs, one in the dsn parser to allow Pomm to work in Amazon's cloud, and another nasty bug in the maps' remote collection filter.

Release Tags: ORM, PHP, Symfony, silex, postgresql

Tags: php code generation

Licenses: MIT/X

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues: CVE-2013-0169 [More...]

White Space networking takes a spin into silicon

UK White Space pioneer Neul has got its Weightless protocol into silicon, ready for devices which will then drain batteries as slowly as they'd leak energy when not in use.…

Airtime lets you take total control of your radio station via the Web with intelligent archive management, powerful search, an easy playlist builder, a simple scheduling calendar, and rock-solid automated playout. Features include fades, cues, playlists, a programme calendar, Icecast, Shoutcast, and Soundcloud integration, DJ and station manager roles, JQuery widgets, Liquidsoap playout, and a record and rebroadcast functionality. Powerful media archive features 'watch' folders to allow stations to magically synchronize files, auto-import files, and has multiple directory support. Users can interact with it through any Web browser. It comes with an 'easy install' package.

Release Notes: The interface is now available in 11 languages, and there is an option for users to add new translations. Icecast and SHOUTcast listener statistics are available, as are automatically set cue-points and ReplayGain improvements. 250 other bugfixes and minor improvements were also implemented.

Release Tags: Stable, bug-fixes, Improvements

Tags: stream, free, Radio, automation, playout, scheduler, Audio, icecast, shoutcast, broadcast, Calendar, show, media, archive, MP3, Ogg, liquidsoap

Licenses: GPLv3

MOTDstat (Message Of The Day - System Status) will dynamically generate the /etc/motd file with current information about system status and usage. Using crontab, the script will periodically display the status of system resources and services. The original message of the day will be stored in the /etc/motd.orig file. Configuring an email address, you'll receive notifications about the following issues with configurable warning and critical limits: high CPU load, exceeding disk space, intensive usage of swap space, a specific process or network service not running, NTP not synchronized, and too many messages in the mail queue.

Release Notes: This release release introduces new features and two fixes. New features includes custom executable commands for Load, Memory, NTP, and swap thresholds, configurable partition usage (auto-create from /etc/fstab), and logging to local syslog.

Release Tags: Stable

Tags: system monitoring, notifications, Script

Licenses: GPLv3

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues: CVE-2013-0166 [More...]

mask.of.sanity writes "Thousands of New Zealand frontline police will be armed with smartphones and tablets from this year in an efficiency initiative that the force hopes will save millions of dollars. NZ Police say the devices are Apple iPhones and iPads. These will be password protected and can be wiped remotely if lost. Police declined to say if the devices and their communications will be encrypted."

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mask.of.sanity writes "Thousands of New Zealand frontline police will be armed with smartphones and tablets from this year in an efficiency initiative that the force hopes will save millions of dollars. NZ Police say the devices are Apple iPhones and iPads. These will be password protected and can be wiped remotely if lost. Police declined to say if the devices and their communications will be encrypted."

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mask.of.sanity writes "Thousands of New Zealand frontline police will be armed with smartphones and tablets from this year in an efficiency initiative that the force hopes will save millions of dollars. NZ Police say the devices are Apple iPhones and iPads. These will be password protected and can be wiped remotely if lost. Police declined to say if the devices and their communications will be encrypted."

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 Standards Blog: Anyone who reads eBooks is aware that a number of content vendors are using proprietary platforms in an effort to lock you into their content libraries