Do you Want to Buy a Hundred Linux Laptop?
One Laptop Per Child, a.k.a. OLPC, hopes to bring inexpensive laptops to poor kids around the world. And guess what? They are now considering the possibility of allowing these $100 machines to be purchased by the general public. And yes that means you! For them, it's not about the money, but rather hopes of bringing inexpensive laptops to poor kids around the world.
OLPC is considering the plan that the computers would be offered to customers who would have to purchase a minimum of two laptops at a time -- with the second going to the developing world.
So, you might be wondering what the specs are right?
-500MHz processor
-128MB of DRAM
-500MB of Flash memory (no hard disk)
-four USB ports
-wireless broadband
-Linux-based Operating System
-dual-mode display (both a full-color, transmissive DVD mode, and a second display option that is black and white reflective and sunlight-readable at 3× the resolution)
not bad for 100$.. i wouldn't mind getting one..
TIME magazine’s Person of the Year is…….. ME!!
Time magazine has chosen YOU and ME, the web users, as the “Person Of The Year” (2006).
The official magazine cover of the issue looks like this:
Who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I'm not going to watch Lost tonight. I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals? I'm going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?The answer is, you do. And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME's Person of the Year for 2006 is you.
Firefox 2: The Password Flaw
Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 has long been considered a safer Web browser than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but a flaw in the Firefox Password Manager could enable hackers steal your login data.
The problem, known as a reverse cross-site request (RCSR)was first discovered by Robert Chapin, a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and I.T, consultant. The RCSR appears on blogs, message boards, or group forums that let users add comments with embedded HTML code.
On sites that allow users to enter code, a hacker can embed a form that tricks the user's browser into sending its username and password information to the hacker's computer. Because the form is embedded on a trusted Web site, the browser's built-in antiphishing protection, which is designed to alert users to fraudulent Web sites, does not detect the problem.
Even worse, hackers can make the deceptive form invisible, meaning users can transmit their private data without even knowing it.
Bug #360493
The Mozilla Foundation has acknowledged the problem and named it bug #360493. Microsoft has also admitted that RCSR attacks can affect Internet Explorer, but most reports indicate that Firefox is the more likely target because of the way it stores usernames and passwords.
No patch has yet been released for the problem, but you can avoid reverse cross-site request attacks by simpy disabling your Firefox 2.0 autosave features for usernames and passwords. This feature is found in the "Options" window under the "Tools" menu.
Mozilla has indicated that it plans a fix in Firefox version 2.0.0.1 or 2.0.0.2.
