Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox browser finished the year with a flourish, a Web measurement firm said Wednesday, and came within half a point of the 10 percent market share that many analysts have set as the bar to long-term success against Microsoft's leading Internet Explorer.

1 In 10 Now Use Mozilla's Firefox

Bosch's adaptive (radar) cruise control system.

Robert Bosch GmbH - Systems and Products for Automobile Manufacturer

Abstract

Recent announcements of better-than-expected collision attacks in
popular hash algorithms have caused some people to question whether
common Internet protocols need to be changed, and if so, how. This
document summarizes the use of hashes in many protocols, discusses
how the collision attacks affect and do not affect the protocols,
shows how to thwart known attacks on digital certificates, and
discusses future directions for protocol designers.

RFC 4270: Attacks on Cryptographic Hashes in Internet Protocols

Xen 3.0.0 offers:

* Support for up to 32-way SMP guest operating systems
* Intel (Physical Addressing Extensions) PAE to support 32-bit servers with more than 4GB physical memory
* x86/64 support (Intel EM64T, AMD Opteron)
* Intel VT-x support to enable the running of unmodified guest operating systems (Windows XP/2003, Legacy Linux)
* Enhanced control tools
* Improved ACPI support
* AGP/DRM graphics

Xen 3.0 features greatly enhanced hardware support, configuration flexibility, usability and a larger complement of supported operating systems. This latest release takes Xen a step closer to being the definitive open source solution for virtualization.

The VT support is huge -- on a new enough CPU, you can run unmodified Windows/... in a Xen domain!

Xen 3.0 Released

Welcome! We're a non-profit that is part of a global movement to provide free, unencumbered Internet services to non-commercial entities. We're wholly donation-based and are fervently free-speech. We've been in operation since 2001 and currently host over 130 not-for-profit servers in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have "sister sites" opening all around the world, including in Seattle, Chicago, Toronto, and Washington, D.C. We also would love to help you start a community colo project wherever you are.

CCCP:: Free Colocation For Individuals & Non-Profits!

But few people used it, and the CueCat became the target of almost universal derision.

Now it's back -- in German mobile phones.

The German branch of Coca-Cola is promoting its CokeFridge portal by encouraging readers of teen magazines Yam!, Starflash and M�edchen, to take pictures of a special logo with their camera phones.

The CueCat Is Back

Decius wrote:

From the beginning, people have talked about building an Internet that wouldn’t depend upon the TLD hierarchy. It doesn’t mean there would be two or three Internets, but that you would have a domain name system that wouldn’t depend upon hierarchical naming. As long as there’s coordination across hierarchies about ownership of domain names, you wouldn’t necessarily produce any destructive results.

Lessig on UN on ICANN: Fragment it!

I actually don't think this sort of technical design is as simple as Lessig thinks. This would involve rewriting DNS and it would result in far slower queries. Furthermore, it wouldn't really eliminate the need for central authorities, as there would need to be some system that determines who gets to be a root and what rules they need to follow in order to claim domains. They aren't going to let just anyone do that. So we're back to where we started, with a bunch of technical bloat to add to our policy bloat.

If we could come up with a way to transition away from all of the non-country-code TLDs, then we might have a way out. Each country's diplomatic mission (to the UN or whatever) would disseminate that country's NS records and glue and the root zone would consist of the concatenation of those records. A federated root zone.

RE: Foreign Policy: Seven Questions: Battling for Control of the Internet

ORSN, European Open Root Server Network
The Independent DNS Solution with IPv6 support for the European Community.

Paul Vixie is involved with this ... I'm not sure what the point is. On that note, I've never understood why recursive nameservers don't just track the root zone and do away with the root servers altogether -- each nameserver would know about all of the TLDs and their authoritative NS.

European Open Root Server Network with IPv6 Support

Liferea is a news aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for GTK/GNOME.

liferea -- RSS Aggregator for GNOME

Rattle wrote:

Behemoth search engine Google signaled an even further climb to the top of the Internet mountain Thursday with its announcement that Vint Cerf, one of the founders of the Internet, is joining the company as its 'chief Internet evangelist.'

This is some kind of milestone.

At this point, Google has more brains in one place than anyone can possibly know what to do with. What are they going to do? I picture a situation where they become so dense they fall in on themselves in some giant think-tank black hole. Unless they can keep all these people busy, they are going to simply be well paid bored people. That might have unintended negative effects. Either that, or Google is on its way to become a monastery like church of technology.

I've heard both good and bad things about their culture. I don't buy fully into either take on it. Its going to be interesting to see what happens. I think they have the integrity to keep trying to follow their "don't be evil" mantra, but can they? Not doing what you are capable of is a form of evil, because you hold the resources back from the rest of the world. Its a page from Microsoft, and hopefully not the one Google is flipping to.

For everyone who hasn't heard otherwise, I'm starting at Google tomorrow. So I'll have the inside story shortly :)

RE: Google says `Cerf`s Up`