Archive for October 20th, 2004

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

Grab bag

GeoNiche 1.33

GeoNiche is a GPS enabled PalmOS program for geocaching, hiking, fishing, bicycling, and other outdoor activities. In addition to a whole host of standard features, GeoNiche includes many features not found in other GPS applications.
MSDN: Introducing the ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts Framework

Summary: Web Parts provide you with the infrastructure for creating customizable Web applications. [...]

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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

Got Meat? (freshmeat.net)

Syntax Desktop 1.3

Syntax Desktop is a publishing system used to manage the contents of a Web site. It has an attractive GUI with DHTML elements. You can use it to insert news, photos, documents, and tree data structures into your site. It features easy DB backup and style switching.

BTS BugTrack 1.0

BTS BugTrack is a bug [...]

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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

Slashdot: Whopping-Big Data Theft At U.C.
Berkeleyhttp://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid/10/20/1329217
aceta writes “An intruder penetrated a research computer at
U.C. Berkeley in August and had access to names, social security numbers
and other data for 1.4 million Californians participating in a state
social program. CNET calls it the worst intrusion U.C. Berkeley has
experienced. SecurityFocus additional details: the hacker used a known
vulnerability, and state [...]

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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

I just upgraded my Linux server’s webmail system to SquirrelMail 1.4.3a.
(http://www.squirrelmail.org/) with surprising ease, all over a VNC
session from my Windows box. Apparently, the new version, as is common
with many release-early-release-often open source projects, fixed a
critical memory leak and some security problems.
It was surprising because starting a tech project late in the evening
after work [...]

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