OpenSSH 5.1 released

OpenSSH 5.1 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.

DragonFly BSD 2.0

Matthew Dillon announced the availability of DragonFlyBSD 2.0.

15 Resources To Get You Started With jQuery From Scratch

In this industry - now more than ever - designers are becoming coders, and coders are becoming designers. The idea of a developer ONLY performing frontend or backend work is quickly becoming a dated concept. jQuery will help to bridge the gap. Javascript is not an unattainable skill. In this article, we'll detail fifteen resources to get you started with jQuery from the absolute beginning. If you've been avoiding this library out of some silly sense of fear, now is the time to dive in. You'll be amazed at how simple it can be.

Build Web services with PHP in Eclipse

Learn how to build Web services in PHP using the PHP Development Tools (PDT) plug-in in Eclipse in three easy steps. First, become familiar with the PDT project, and learn how to create and deploy useful PHP projects. Second, learn the philosophy behind contract-first development. Finally, get an informative overview of the basic parts that make up a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file.

TrueCrypt 6.0 Released

"The new version touts two major upgrades. 'First, TrueCrypt now performs parallel encryption and decryption operations on multi-core systems, giving you a phenomenal speedup if you have more than one processor available. Second, it now has the ability to hide an entire operating system, so even if you're forced to reveal your pre-boot password to an adversary, you can give them one that boots into a plausible decoy operating system, with your hidden operating system remaining completely undetectable.'"

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ezjail - A jail administration framework

I want to set up some jails. They will each be very similar. They will each be used to test a slightly different configuration of Bacula. My tool of choice is ezjail, available in the ports tree.

With ezjail, I can:

* create a jail flavour, upon which the creation of other jails can be based
* centrally update the jail's ports tree

The above does not fully describe the neat things you can do with ezjail. Read below to discover more fun and interesting things.

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FreeBSD-SA-08:06.bind

Topic:      DNS cache poisoning

Category:   contrib
Module:     bind
Announced:  2008-07-13
Credits:    Dan Kaminsky
Affects:    All supported FreeBSD versions.
Corrected:  2008-07-12 10:07:33 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.3-STABLE)
            2008-07-13 18:42:38 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p3)
            2008-07-13 18:42:38 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.0-STABLE)
            2008-07-13 18:42:38 UTC (RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p3)
CVE Name:   CVE-2008-1447

For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, 
including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, 
and the following sections, please visit 
http://security.FreeBSD.org/.

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Managing Jails

This document is an introduction to basic FreeBSD jails also called ‘fat jails’. We discuss an easy jail installation process. We will do some basic jail configuration and show you how to manage the jail environment. This document wil not cover building ‘chroot jails’ in a jail.

Tips for MySQL to PostgreSQL Switch

If you’ve decided to move a few tables from MySQL to PostgreSQL, these few tips might help.

A slightly advanced Introduction to Vim

This introduction is about the little things. Things that help ease everyday tasks but go a long way into making you a better user, editor, programmer - a better computer user.

Firefox 3 available for FreeBSD

Firefox 3 is now available for FreeBSD.

FreeBSD Technologies in New Firefox 3 Browser

The FreeBSD Project congratulates the Mozilla project on a multi-year effort that culminated in a product that is both faster and more secure than its predecessors, with innovative new features. Several important features of the Firefox browser were incorporated from technologies adopted from the FreeBSD project. Technology from the FreeBSD project has a long history of being used inside other open source projects such as Firefox.

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Anatomy of an Ajax Application

This chapter covers the shortcomings of the traditional web interface, identifying specific problems to be overcome. It also introduces the various building blocks of an Ajax application and discusses how they work together.

What You'll Learn in This Chapter:

* The Need for Ajax
* Introducing Ajax
* The Constituent Parts of Ajax
* Putting It All Together

In this chapter you will learn about the individual building blocks of Ajax and how they fit together to form the architecture of an Ajax application. Subsequent chapters will examine these components in more detail, finally assembling them into a working Ajax application.

Manipulate Excel Spreadsheets with PHP on Linux

Have you ever faced a situation when you need to manipulate Excel spreadsheets with PHP on the server that is running Linux? If you had a Windows Server you could use PHP COM extensions. However they are unavailable on Linux.

Hopefully, there is a solution. It is called Open XML. It’s a new format of Microsoft Office documents introduced in Microsoft Office 2007. Basically, an Open XML file is a ZIP archive that contains XML files that represent the document mark-up. You can view it yourself or read some documentation, my article isn’t about Open XML, but about the PHP library for working with Excel 2007 files. It also supports Excel 97 format by incorporating a PEAR library.

The library is called PHPExcel. It allows you to read/write Excel spreadsheets, save them in many formats including PDF and HTML. It supports formulas,styles and etc.

It requires:

• PHP 5.2+
• GD extension
• XML extension
• ZIP extension

I have these two simple examples that show you how to create an Excel spreadsheet and save it in several formats and how to read a spreadsheet and display it on the HTML page.

Adobe Makes Flash Crawlable

"Today Adobe systems made an announcement that it has provided technology and information to Google and Yahoo! to help the two search engine rivals index Shockwave Flash (SWF) file formats."

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Samba 3.2 Has Been Released!

The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.2, a major new release of the award-winning Free Software file and print server suite for Microsoft Windows ® clients.