Sockstress: A New and Effective DoS Attack Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:33:17 -0000 TechRepublic: "Security researchers Jack C. Louis and Robert E. Lee of Outpost 24 stumbled onto a relatively simple way to implement a Denial of Service (DoS) attack that does not require massive syn floods. The researchers aren't releasing many details about the attack except for those provided in a very interesting interview..." Linux Turns 17 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:03:17 -0000 Linux Journal: "Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? Are you finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more all-nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be just for you :-)" Using Zivios Identity Management Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:33:17 -0000 HowtoForge: "Zivios is an open source web based identity management application featuring single sign on, certificate authority, user, group and computer provisioning with remote management of services." Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:33:17 -0000 Slashdot: ""The Register is reporting that Microsoft is hosting Windows-only projects on its 'open source project hosting site,' CodePlex. Miguel de Icaza caught and criticized Microsoft for doing this..." Alfresco's John Newton Gives His View of the Cloud Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:33:17 -0000 Tech Treasures: "There are security risks and data ownership issues that you have to take into consideration. To get another point of view on the matter, I talked to John Newton, who is the Chairman and CTO at open source content management Alfresco..." 5 Things I Wish Linux Had Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:33:17 -0000 Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "I'm a fairly prominent member of the Linux Community as a writer, contributor, and longtime evangelist for the cause and there are a few things I'd like the Community-at-Large to consider on my behalf. These are five things that I wish Linux had."
Giram Home Page - It is a Persistance Of Vision (POV-Ray) oriented modeller.
GNU-realistic GMAN - GNU GMAN is an implementation of the RenderMan interface specification. It is a high-quality renderer supporting zbuffer, radiosity, distributed raytracing, spatial and temporal anti-aliasing (motion blur), surfaces such as NURBS and patches, and other features.