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[quote]Mozilla 9.9 is on its way. MozillaQuest Magazine (MozillaQuest.com) reports: “The Mozilla developers cut the 0.9.9 milestone branch yesterday — a week behind schedule. Mozilla 0.9.9 is the last planned milestone before the scheduled April 2002 Mozilla 1.0 release…. The good news of course is … there will be a Mozilla 1.0 soon. However, some in the Mozilla community question whether … Mozilla 1.0 should be released in April 2002. Two major concerns are that there are too many open bugs and that Mozilla lacks some essential features.” … “Not including enhancement-request bugs, the Mozilla bug-targeting schema anticipates leaving some 8,600 unfixed, targeted, problem-bugs in Mozilla 1.0 when it is released… Many … Mozilla bugs are in that underlying application programming framework — the Mozilla APIs if you like. That means that any third party developers that build programs on top of the Mozilla … framework will be building on top of a buggy foundation — not a pretty picture.”
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Oracle en MySQL winnen eWeek database benchmark!
De goede performance van MySQL 4.0.1 was voor een belangrijk deel toe te schrijven aan de nieuwe query cache die in 4.0.1 werd geïntroduceerd. De query cache kan identieke queries direct vanuit geheugen beantwoorden mits de inhoud van de betreffende tabellen niet is gewijzigd sinds de laatste keer dat de query werd uitgevoerd. Versie 4.0.1 heeft overigens nog de alpha status.

[quote]Overall, Oracle9i and MySQL had the best performance and scalability, with Oracle9i just very slightly ahead of MySQL for most of the run. ASE, DB2, Oracle9i and MySQL finished in a dead heat up to about 550 Web users. At this point, ASE’s performance leveled off at 500 pages per second, about 100 pages per second less than Oracle9i’s and MySQL’s leveling-off point of about 600 pages per second. DB2’s performance dropped substantially, leveling off at 200 pages per second under high loads.
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Bron: [url=http://www.php.net]PHP.net[/url]

Er is wegens een security bug een nieuwe release van PHP.
Iedereen wordt aangeraden deze nieuwe versie of de patch te installeren!
[url=http://www.php.net/downloads.php]Downloads[/url]
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Info:
[quote]Due to a security issue found in all versions of PHP (including 3.x and 4.x), a new version of PHP has been released. Details about the security issue are available here. All users of PHP are strongly encouraged to either upgrade to PHP 4.1.2, or install the patch (available for PHP 3.0.18, 4.0.6 and 4.1.0/4.1.1).
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Details:
[quote]PHP supports multipart/form-data POST requests (as described in RFC1867) known as POST fileuploads. Unfourtunately there are several flaws in the php_mime_split function that could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code. During our research we found out that not only PHP4 but also older versions from the PHP3 tree are vulnerable.
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[url=http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012002.html]Lees meer…[/url]

The latest version of CylantSecure adds support for FreeBSD 4.4. CylantSecure is a host-based intrusion detection and prevention system that uses kernel-level behavioral monitoring to detect attacks. The CylantSecure system supports multiple platforms (FreeBSD and Linux at the present).

We have released the kernel level components of CylantSecure into the public domain through the Kernel Instrumentation Project kip.sf.net. The FreeBSD 4.4 patch is at:
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http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/kip/patches/freebsd-4.4-kp.patch

A free evaluation version of CylantSecure can be downloaded at:
http://www.cylant.com/products/cs/eval.html

[url=http://www.cylant.com/news/06.html]Link[/url]

Bij Osnews is een interview verschenen met de FreeBSD maintainer. Dit interview is
opgezet uit een irc log en daarna herschreven.

Er worden vrij diepgaande vragen beantwoord en als je een beetje thuis ben in het OS
is het erg leuk om dit te weten.
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Wat leuke quote’s:
[quote]Jordan Hubbard: I think the coolest feature of 5.0 will be the ferret thread. This is a kernel thread which runs around throughout the system and randomly moves
things around, playfully changes file modes, “bites” through open connections and just generally raises havok. We feel that this feature will make the computer more of a pet
than a simple inanimate object.[/quote]
Hier ben ik het ook wel mee eens:
[quote]How do you feel about X windows ? Would it be feasable to mimick some of the better attributes of the OS X GUI with GNUStep or perhaps a BSD liscensed implementation?

Well, I certainly have been using the X window system for a long time and have written a fair amount of software for it; For what it does, it rocks but for what it doesn’t do, it really sucks.
Don’t even talk to me about font handling or printing. I think that before you’re going to see X really get some decent applications, you’re going to have to finish the missing 5% of X —
the part that was scheduled to take 90% of the time and so nobody got around to it. Plus, the whole UI war thing needs to end — Adobe is never going to port photoshop while nobody can answer “Which
GUI environment is dominant and therefore recommended for use?”. I think X will probably remain the DOS of window systems.[/quote]
Volg deze [url=http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=676&page=all]link[/url] voor het interview.