Android-x86 2.2 (Froyo-x86) is released!

Android-x86 2.2 (Froyo-x86) is released!

 

The Android-x86 project announced the new stable version 2.2 to the public.

Key Features

The is based on the Android 2.2.1 (Froyo branch). We fixed and added many x86 specified code to let the system runs smoothly on x86 platforms, especially for netbooks or tablets. The key features contain

• Kernel 2.6.35.7 with KMS enabled. Most netbooks can run Android-x86 in the native resolution.
• Hardware OpenGL acceleration for Intel integrated graphic chipsets. It is turned on by default if the i915 driver is available. However, if you have trouble with it, you can disable it by adding HWACCEL=0 to the cmdline. (by olv from 0xlab)
• Wifi and Ethernet support. Both are configured from the GUI.
• Support 3G USB modem with auto-configuration.
• A text based GUI installer which supports ext3/ext2/ntfs/fat32 filesystems.
• The installer is improved to support read-write mode, as well as a tool to create a fake sdcard.
• Bluetooth support for builtin device and external bluetooth dongle.
• Keyboard layout is configurable. To use it, you have to install Android-x86 to harddisk and reboot after changing the setting.
• External usb drive and sdcard are auto mounted on plugging.
• Add touch features to simulate Home/Menu/Back keys, useful for touchscreen only devices.
• Add software mouse cursor. Mouse wheel is also supported.
• Compressed filesystem (squashfs).
• MirBSD Korn Shell (mksh) is added to replace android's dumb sh.
• Touchscreen calibration.
• Battery status percentage.
• AndAppStore client 1.6.8.
• Atom optimization for dalvik and bionic.

Live CD ISOs are available from our sites, as usual 

• http://www.android-x86.org/download
• http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/android-x86/files/

 

 

PiWik 1.1.1 a security update

Below you will find the text of the Piwik site about a security audit an because of that a new update package.

Professional Security Audit for Piwik 1.1

In the past, whenever we received security related questions and suggestions for Piwik, sent to oursecurity@piwik.org address, we quickly reacted and released a fix in a new Piwik release. However, going forward, we want to be proactive, so we requested a professional and thorough review of our code base.

SektionEins, a leading software security company based in Germany, undertook the professional security review of the Piwik source code. Stefan Esser conducted the audit on the Piwik source code for 5 full days. Stefan then sent us all the details about what could be improved in Piwik regarding security (various recommendations, XSS, etc.). Anthon and Matt from the Piwik team then prepared fixes and improvements following the security audit, which were then released in Piwik 1.1.

We would like to give a huge thanks to SektionEins and Stefan Esser for their work and support to Piwik and the open source community. We are very happy with their service, and can only recommend all other open source projects (and of course any closed source softwares) to contract them for security audits, consulting and/or security training.

We also want to give credit to our sponsors who helped us cover the cost of the review.

You can also learn more about our continuous Security efforts in Piwik.

Piwik 1.1 is rated critical. Please update to Piwik 1.1 now.

opera 11

Opera has released a new version of thier webbrowser, this time it is version 11.

Below you find a short video about it:

New version of AWStats it's 7.0

 

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The Advanced Web Log Analyzer AWStats is now available in version 7.0 , it contains new features and bug

fixes.

 

Here is the changelog of version 7.0:

 

New features/improvements:

- Detect Windows 7.

- Can format numbers according to language.

- More mime types.

- Added geoip_asn_maxmind plugin.

- Geoip Maxmind city plugin have now override file capabilities to complete

 missing entries in geoip maxmind database.

- Added graphgooglechartapi to use online Google chart api to build graph.

- Can show map of country to report countries when using

graphgooglechartapi.

- Part of codes was change to use more functions and have a cleaner code.

- Added parameter to ignore missing log files when merging for a site on

 multiple servers where a single server may not have created a log for

a given day.

- Update robots database.

- Added Download tracking where certain mime types are defined as downloads

 and HTTP status 206 is tracked as download continuation

- Can use wrapper with parameters in WrapperScript parameter.

- Change to allow usage of AWStats inside a plugin

 for Opensource Dolibarr ERP & CRM software (http://www.dolibarr.org).

 

Thanks to Chris Larsen (author of most thoses changes).

 

Fixes:

- Webmin module works with new version of webmin.

- Security fix (Traverse directory of LoadPlugin)

- Security fix (Limit config to defined directory to avoid access to

external

 config file via a nfs or webdav link).

 

 

Download links are available on AWStats official web site:

http://awstats.sf.net

Proxmox 1.7 is released

Proxmox 1.7 is released on 30 november 2010, here are the changes in this version:

• libpve-storage-perl (1.0-16)
  • several fixes for multipath

• pve-kernel-2.6.18 (2.6.18-10)
  • update to ovzkernel-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab070.14.src.rpm

• pve-kernel-2.6.32 (2.6.32-28)
  • update to Debian Squeeze kernel 2.6.32-28 (openvz 2.6.32-dzhanibekov)
  • update igb driver to version 2.4.8
  • update ixgbe driver to version 3.0.14

• pve-manager (1.7-10)

• • we only display the warning about missing openvz if we have no kvm.
  • fix config change detection in pvectl
  • on the create VM page, query capabilities of remote host (kvm/openvz enabled?) and select resonable defaults.

• pve-qemu-kvm (0.13.0-2)
  • do not install unnecessary blobs (manually install blobs, use --disable-blobs)
  • update migration and vnc keymap patches for 0.13.0

• vzdump (1.2-9)
  • fix veth numbers when restoring openvz containers (vzrestore)

• qemu-server (1.1-25)
  • new --repeat option for qmrestore
  • use new -netdev syntax for network devices. This enables tcp offload settings, and we can use 'vhost=on' for virtio-net

• Small bug fixes

You can download proxmox 1.7 here:

• Download via http: Proxmox VE 1.7
• Download via bittorrent: Proxmox VE 1.7

Source: proxmox

Music video of Lady Java

Lady Java with JavaZone music video:

How to compare Google Chrome webbrowser with ...

In this short film there are some speed test compared with Googles Chrome webbrowser:

Mac OS X server documentation from Apple

Now that Apple has the option to have an mac mini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server, it is interessting to know for some people to find Apple's free documentation about this.

it includes the following documents:

• Xsan 2  Setup Guide, Migration Guide and Administrator's Guide
• Apple Server Diagnostic - user guide
• Mac OS X Server v10.6 - Getting Started
• Mac OS X Server v10.6 - Installation & Setup Worksheet
• Mac OS X Server v10.6 - Upgrading and Migrating
• Mac OS X Server v10.6 - Advanced Server Administration
• Mac OS X Server v10.6 - Introduction to command line Administration
• Mac OS X Server v10.6 - Address Book Server Administration

These documents are a must for everyone who needs Mac OS X server, ofcourse you can buy other books, but use these first, they are free for download and come from the company who build Mac OS X Server.

Here is the link to the Apple Page

BOINC software client runs faster on a Mac

I did some testing with the BOINC client on two virtual machines.

BOINC is a software product where you give the unused processor cycles of your pc to this program. The program is than getting a piece of work and under takes some calculations on this workunit, when finished it is send to the project where the workunit is from.  I used the BOINC software for http://worldcommunitygrid.org/  and do some work for helping to fight cancer (help to find a way to solve this illness).

 

I made two virtual machine on my iMac, one with windows 2008R2 and 1 cpu with 1488MB of RAM, and one with Mac OS X server (10.6) and 1 cpu with 1024MB of memory. Both the virtual machines ran simulationsely on the same iMac with vmware Fusion!  And where the mac's takes off with some percentage more than minutes, windows losses its % against the minutes.  It looks something like this,  

Minutes passed   % Mac     % Windows

00:01:00              1.028%    0.783%

00:16:00             25.xxx%    14.xxx%

 

And this keeps going on, on one workunit Mac OS X Server just needs one full hour for this, the windows 2008R2 needs at least 1 hour 30 minutes. I liked to have a linux calculation in this short overview, but saddly enough my aptosid installation didn't allow me yet to start the boincmanager, and the commandlines didn't work. I look into this and report back to you about this time.

For now I shutdown the windows client, cause it takes to much time away and let the mac os x client go on with its work. If you are interested in green energy, the clean project part 2 is now also available for Mac OS X and Windows.

But keep in mind the time difference, you really can see here how the os is internally managing its processes and memory calls, I saw it before when I ran seti@home and the difference between linux and windows. Of course I know the workunits aren't the same, and ofcourse I didn't look at one workunit, the above values are also estimated times.

sidux is now aptosid

as you might know the linux distribution sidux is no more, it had some problems with the financial club connected to it, so all the developers went away and made a new distribution called aptosid  which ofcourse has everything to do with debian sid again but now all income is for the developers and thier servers.

I installed aptosid and it works like I'm used to with sidux, it is stable and fast, go try it out at http://aptosid.com/