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  • ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/14/2011

    - by Bob Rhubart
    InfoQ: Developer-Driven Threat Modeling Threat modeling is critical for assessing and mitigating the security risks in software systems. In this IEEE article, author Danny Dhillon discusses a developer-driven threat modeling approach to identify threats using the dataflow diagrams. Managing the Virtual World | Philip J. Gill "The killer app for virtualization has been server consolidation," says Al Gillen, program vice president for systems software at market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). Solaris X86 AESNI OpenSSL Engine | Dan Anderson "Having X86 AESNI hardware crypto instructions is all well and good, but how do we access it? The software is available with Solaris 11 and is used automatically if you are running Solaris x86 on a AESNI-capable processor," says Anderson. WebLogic Access Management | René van Wijk "This post is a continuation of the post WebLogic Identity Management. In this post we will present the steps involved to integrate WebLogic and Oracle Access Manager," says Oracle ACE René van Wijk. OTN Developer Days in the Nordics - Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, and Copenhagen OTN Developer days head for the land of the midnight sun. Podcast: Information Integration Part 2/3 In part two of a three-part program, Oracle Information Integration, Migration, and Consolidation authors Jason Williamson, Tom Laszewsk, and Marc Hebert offer examples of some of the most daunting information integration challenges. Measuring the Human Task activity in Oracle BPM | Leon Smiers Leon Smiers discusses using Oracle BPM to get answer to important questions about what's happening with business process. Architecture all day. Oracle Technology Network Architect Day - Phoenix, AZ- Dec 14 Spend the day with your peers learning from experts in Cloud computing, engineered systems, and Oracle Fusion Middleware. The Heroes of Java: Michael Hüttermann | Markus Eisele Oracle ACE Director Markus Eisele interviews Java Champion Michael Hüttermann on his role, his process, and on why he uses Java.

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  • 2012 Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards for Oracle Exalogic

    - by Sanjeev Sharma
    Companies from around the world were honored for their innovative solutions using Oracle Fusion Middleware. This year’s 27 award winners, representing 11 countries and a wide span of industries, wowed the judges with a range of projects across eight product categories. 4 awards were given out to customers who demonstrated innovative application of Oracle Exalogic for their mission-critical applications.Below is an overview of the 4 businesses that won the Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Award for Oracle Exalogic this year. Company: Netshoes About: Leading online retailer of sporting goods in Latin America.Challenges: Rapid business growth resulted in frequent outages and poor response-time of online store-front Conventional ad-hoc approach to horizontal scaling resulted in high CAPEX and OPEX Poor performance and unavailability of online store-front resulted in revenue loss from purchase abandonment Solution: Consolidated ATG Commerce and Oracle WebLogic running on Oracle Exalogic.Business Impact:Reduced abandonment rates resulting in a two-digit increase in online conversion rates translating directly into revenue up-liftCompany: ClaroAbout: Leading communications services provider in Latin America.Challenges: Support business growth over the next 3  - 5 years while maximizing re-use of existing middleware and application investments with minimal effort and risk Solution: Consolidated Oracle Fusion Middleware components (Oracle WebLogic, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Tuxedo) and JAVA applications onto Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata. Business Impact:Improved partner SLA’s 7x while improving throughput 5X and response-time 35x for  JAVA applicationsCompany: ULAbout: Leading safety testing and certification organization in the world.Challenges: Transition from being a non-profit to a profit oriented enterprise and grow from a $1B to $5B in annual revenues in the next 5 years Undertake a massive business transformation by aligning change strategy with execution Solution: Consolidated Oracle Applications (E-Business Suite, Siebel, BI, Hyperion) and Oracle Fusion Middleware (AIA, SOA Suite) on Oracle Exalogic and Oracle ExadataBusiness Impact:Reduced financial and operating risk in re-architecting IT services to support new business capabilities supporting 87,000 manufacturersCompany: Ingersoll RandAbout: Leading manufacturer of industrial, climate, residential and security solutions.Challenges: Business continuity risks due to complexity in enforcing consistent operational and financial controls; Re-active business decisions reduced ability to offer differentiation and compete Solution: Consolidated Oracle E-business Suite on Oracle Exalogic and Oracle ExadataBusiness Impact:Service differentiation with faster order provisioning and a shorter lead-to-cash cycle translating into higher customer satisfaction and quicker cash-conversionCheck out the winners of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation awards in other categories here.

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  • Friday Fun: Wake Up the Box

    - by Mysticgeek
    Another Friday and it’s time to waste the rest of your Friday playing a  fun flash game online. Today we take a look at a relaxing physic based puzzle game called Wake Up the Box. Wake Up the Box This goal of this game is to wake up the box character by attaching parts of existing wood objects in each stage. You can start a new game or continue your progress from where you left off. At the beginning you get a tutorial showing what you need to do to wake the box. You get wood parts and can attach them to other wood pieces but not metal or brick. After successfully waking up Mr. Box, you can go to the next level or restart a level at any time if your having problems figuring out the puzzle. Each level gets more difficult and the puzzles are more challenging. Wake Up the Box is a relaxing and challenging game that will allow you to have fun, not working on TPS reports until the whistle blows. Play Wake Up the Box at FreeWebArcade Similar Articles Productive Geek Tips Stop the Mouse From Waking Up Your Computer from Sleep ModeFix "Sleep Mode Randomly Waking Up" Issue in Windows VistaStop Your Mouse from Waking Up Your Windows 7 ComputerPrevent Windows Asking for a Password on Wake Up from Sleep/StandbyUse Sleep.FM to Wake Up with the Web TouchFreeze Alternative in AutoHotkey The Icy Undertow Desktop Windows Home Server – Backup to LAN The Clear & Clean Desktop Use This Bookmarklet to Easily Get Albums Use AutoHotkey to Assign a Hotkey to a Specific Window Latest Software Reviews Tinyhacker Random Tips DVDFab 6 Revo Uninstaller Pro Registry Mechanic 9 for Windows PC Tools Internet Security Suite 2010 Microsoft’s “How Do I ?” Videos Home Networks – How do they look like & the problems they cause Check Your IMAP Mail Offline In Thunderbird Follow Finder Finds You Twitter Users To Follow Combine MP3 Files Easily QuicklyCode Provides Cheatsheets & Other Programming Stuff

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  • New PeopleSoft Applications Search

    - by Matthew Haavisto
    As you may have seen from the PeopleTools 8.52 Release Value Proposition , PeopleTools intends to introduce a new search capability in release 8.52. We believe this feature will not only improve the ability of users to find content, but will fundamentally change the way people navigate around the PeopleSoft ecosystem. PeopleSoft applications will be delivering this new search in coming releases and feature packs. PeopleSoft Application Search is actually a framework—a group of features that provides an improved means of searching for a variety of content across PeopleSoft applications. From a user experience perspective, the new search offers a powerful, keyword-based search presented in a familiar, intuitive user experience. Rather than browsing through long menu hierarchies to find a page, data item, or transaction, users can use PeopleSoft Application Search to directly navigate to desired locations. We envision this to be similar to how people navigate across the internet. This capability may reduce or even eliminate the need to navigate PeopleSoft applications using the existing application menu system (though menus will still be available to people that prefer that method). The new search will be available at any point in an application and can be configured to span multiple PeopleSoft applications. It enables users to initiate transactions or navigate to key information without using the PeopleSoft application menus. In addition, filters and facets will enable people to narrow their search results sets, making it easier to identify and navigate to desired application content. Action menus are embedded directly in the search results, allowing users to navigate straight to specific related transactions – pre-populated with the selected search results data. PeopleSoft Applications Search framework uses Oracle’s Secure Enterprise Search as its search engine. Most Customers will benefit from the new search when it is delivered with applications. However, customers can start deploying it after a Tools-only upgrade. In this case, however, customers would have to create their own indices and implement security.

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  • Thank You MySQL Community! MySQL 5.6.9 Release Candidate Available Now!

    - by Rob Young
    The MySQL Community continues its good work in testing and refining MySQL 5.6, and as such the next iteration of the 5.6 Release Candidate is now available for download.  You can get MySQL 5.6.9 here (look under the "Development Releases" tab).  This version is the result of feedback we have gotten since MySQL 5.6.7 was announced at MySQL Connect in late September. As iron sharpens iron, Community feedback sharpens the quality and performance of MySQL so please download 5.6.9 and let us know how we can improve it as we move toward the production-ready product release in early 2013. MySQL 5.6 is designed to meet the agility demands of the next generation of web apps and services and includes across the board improvements to the Optimizer, InnoDB performance/scale and online DDL operations, self-healing Replication, Performance Schema Instrumentation, Security and developer enabling NoSQL functionality.  You can learn all the details and follow MySQL Engineering blogs on all of the key features in this MySQL DevZone article. On a related note, plan to join this week's live webinars to learn more about MySQL 5.6 Self-Healing Replication Clusters and Building the Next Generation of Web, Cloud, SaaS, Embedded Application and Services with MySQL 5.6.  Hurry!  Seating is limited!  As always, thanks for your continued support of MySQL!

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  • Preventing Users From Accessing wp-admin

    - by Gary Pendergast
    If you have a WordPress site that you allow people to sign up for, you often don’t want them to be able to access wp-admin. It’s not that there are any security issues, you just want to ensure that your users are accessing your site in a predictable manner.To block non-admin users from getting into wp-admin, you just need to add the following code to your functions.php, or somewhere similar:add_action( 'init', 'blockusers_init' );   function blockusers_init() { if ( is_admin() && ! current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) { wp_redirect( home_url() ); exit; } }Ta-da! Now, only administrator users can access wp-admin, everyone else will be re-directed to the homepage.

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  • MTN WMS Implementation Story

    - by aditya.agarkar
    MTN is Africa's largest cellular phone company serving millions of customers across 21 countries. MTN uses Oracle WMS to manage its distribution activities and its sizzling growth. Just for perspective, since 2004, Africa has been the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world. If you want to know more about MTN and the WMS Project at MTN, a summarized view of MTN WMS project is here. The WMS Project at MTN was presented at Oracle Open World in 2007. The extensive automation at MTN includes interface with Conveyor for item transport, High Speed Sorter for item routing, Put to Light for packing accuracy, ASRS Carousel/Lift for inventory Security and Storage Optimization, Check Weight Scale for shipping accuracy, Automated Carton Erectors for package creation and Automated Carton Labeling. Subsequent to this presentation and their go-live in 2007, the MTN warehouse has scaled new heights. The volume has grown manifolds (as can be expected in a fast growing cellular market). Oracle WMS has been able to scale very well to the increase in volume, just as it was designed to do. Here are a couple of videos that highlight the WMS operations at MTN:  1) Video Interview with Margaretha Theart (Warehouse Manager at MTN) 2) Automation Video at MTN (Hat tip: Syed Imran) Enjoy!

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  • SQL Saturday #220 - Atlanta - Pre-Conference Scholarships!

    - by Most Valuable Yak (Rob Volk)
    We Want YOU…To Learn! AtlantaMDF and Idera are teaming up to find a few good people. If you are: A student looking to work in the database or business intelligence fields A database professional who is between jobs or wants a better one A developer looking to step up to something new On a limited budget and can’t afford professional SQL Server training Able to attend training from 9 to 5 on May 17, 2013 AtlantaMDF is presenting 5 Pre-Conference Sessions (pre-cons) for SQL Saturday #220! And thanks to Idera’s sponsorship, we can offer one free ticket to each of these sessions to eligible candidates! That means one scholarship per Pre-Con! One Recipient Each will Attend: Denny Cherry: SQL Server Security http://sqlsecurity.eventbrite.com/ Adam Machanic: Surfing the Multicore Wave: Processors, Parallelism, and Performance http://surfmulticore.eventbrite.com/ Stacia Misner: Languages of BI http://languagesofbi.eventbrite.com/ Bill Pearson: Practical Self-Service BI with PowerPivot for Excel http://selfservicebi.eventbrite.com/ Eddie Wuerch: The DBA Skills Upgrade Toolkit http://dbatoolkit.eventbrite.com/ If you are interested in attending these pre-cons send an email by April 30, 2013 to [email protected] and tell us: Why you are a good candidate to receive this scholarship Which sessions you’d like to attend, and why (list multiple sessions in order of preference) What the session will teach you and how it will help you achieve your goals The emails will be evaluated by the good folks at Midlands PASS in Columbia, SC. The recipients will be notified by email and announcements made on May 6, 2013. GOOD LUCK! P.S. - Don't forget that SQLSaturday #220 offers free* training in addition to the pre-cons! You can find more information about SQL Saturday #220 at http://www.sqlsaturday.com/220/eventhome.aspx. View the scheduled sessions at http://www.sqlsaturday.com/220/schedule.aspx and register for them at http://www.sqlsaturday.com/220/register.aspx. * Registration charges a $10 fee to cover lunch expenses.

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  • Desktop Fun: Gardens Theme Wallpapers

    - by Asian Angel
    Has your desktop been looking “blah” lately? Now you can add a refreshing burst of color to it with our Gardens Theme Wallpapers collection. Note: Click on the picture to see the full-size image—these wallpapers vary in size so you may need to crop, stretch, or place them on a colored background in order to best match them to your screen’s resolution. For more fun wallpapers be certain to visit our new Desktop Fun section. Similar Articles Productive Geek Tips Windows 7 Welcome Screen Taking Forever? Here’s the Fix (Maybe)Desktop Fun: Starship Theme WallpapersDesktop Fun: Underwater Theme WallpapersDesktop Fun: Forest Theme WallpapersDesktop Fun: Fantasy Theme Wallpapers TouchFreeze Alternative in AutoHotkey The Icy Undertow Desktop Windows Home Server – Backup to LAN The Clear & Clean Desktop Use This Bookmarklet to Easily Get Albums Use AutoHotkey to Assign a Hotkey to a Specific Window Latest Software Reviews Tinyhacker Random Tips Revo Uninstaller Pro Registry Mechanic 9 for Windows PC Tools Internet Security Suite 2010 PCmover Professional Windows 7 Easter Theme YoWindoW, a real time weather screensaver Optimize your computer the Microsoft way Stormpulse provides slick, real time weather data Geek Parents – Did you try Parental Controls in Windows 7? Change DNS servers on the fly with DNS Jumper

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  • Get Proactive: automatischer Support bietet Vorteile

    - by A&C Redaktion
    „Proaktiv“, das bedeutet soviel wie: handeln statt abwarten, Initiative statt Reaktion. So möchte auch die Aktion „Get Proactive“ für Oracle Premier Support Kunden einen vorausschauenden, offensiven Umgang mit Support-Fällen fördern. Die automatisierte Unterstützung der Systeme, die Oracle Partner und Kunden einen deutlichen Vorsprung vor der Konkurrenz verschaffen kann, umfasst drei Bereiche: Sie heißen Prevent, Resolve und Upgrade. „Prevent“ umfasst alle Maßnahmen der Vorsorge: Deren Ziel ist es, ein mögliches Problem aufzudecken und zu lösen, noch bevor es es sich negativ auswirkt. So können beispielsweise produktbezogene Security Alerts zugeschickt werden, ebenso auf das jeweilige System zugeschnittene Patch-Empfehlungen und Risiko-Warnungen. „Resolve“ steht für den Anspruch, auftretende Probleme schneller und zielgerichtet zu lösen. Notwendig sind dafür die passenden Diagnosetools und -maßnahmen. Spezifische Informationen für individuelle Systeme stehen im Product Information Center zur Verfügung. Zudem helfen Auto-Detect-Werkzeuge dabei, Lösungen für bekannte Probleme zu finden. Wertvolle Hinweise bieten auch die Partner und User in der Online Support Community und natürlich die umfangreiche Wissensbasis in MOS. „Upgrade“ bündelt, wie der Name schon sagt, Schritte zur Risikominimierung durch Unterstützung beim Upgrade. Jeder kann dabei selbst die jeweilige Umgebung auf zertifizierte Produkte prüfen. Tipps und Tricks verrät der Upgrade Advisor mit Best Practices für verschiedenste Produkte, Prozesse und Versionen. Der Patch- und Upgrade-Plan erleichtert die Systemupgrade-Planung. Detaillierte Informationen finden Sie auf den Oracle-Support-Webseiten – geben Sie einfach „Get Proactive“ in die Suchmaske ein.

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  • Get Proactive: automatischer Support bietet Vorteile

    - by A&C Redaktion
    „Proaktiv“, das bedeutet soviel wie: handeln statt abwarten, Initiative statt Reaktion. So möchte auch die Aktion „Get Proactive“ für Oracle Premier Support Kunden einen vorausschauenden, offensiven Umgang mit Support-Fällen fördern. Die automatisierte Unterstützung der Systeme, die Oracle Partner und Kunden einen deutlichen Vorsprung vor der Konkurrenz verschaffen kann, umfasst drei Bereiche: Sie heißen Prevent, Resolve und Upgrade. „Prevent“ umfasst alle Maßnahmen der Vorsorge: Deren Ziel ist es, ein mögliches Problem aufzudecken und zu lösen, noch bevor es es sich negativ auswirkt. So können beispielsweise produktbezogene Security Alerts zugeschickt werden, ebenso auf das jeweilige System zugeschnittene Patch-Empfehlungen und Risiko-Warnungen. „Resolve“ steht für den Anspruch, auftretende Probleme schneller und zielgerichtet zu lösen. Notwendig sind dafür die passenden Diagnosetools und -maßnahmen. Spezifische Informationen für individuelle Systeme stehen im Product Information Center zur Verfügung. Zudem helfen Auto-Detect-Werkzeuge dabei, Lösungen für bekannte Probleme zu finden. Wertvolle Hinweise bieten auch die Partner und User in der Online Support Community und natürlich die umfangreiche Wissensbasis in MOS. „Upgrade“ bündelt, wie der Name schon sagt, Schritte zur Risikominimierung durch Unterstützung beim Upgrade. Jeder kann dabei selbst die jeweilige Umgebung auf zertifizierte Produkte prüfen. Tipps und Tricks verrät der Upgrade Advisor mit Best Practices für verschiedenste Produkte, Prozesse und Versionen. Der Patch- und Upgrade-Plan erleichtert die Systemupgrade-Planung. Detaillierte Informationen finden Sie auf den Oracle-Support-Webseiten – geben Sie einfach „Get Proactive“ in die Suchmaske ein.

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  • Solaris Tech Day mit Engineering 3.12. Frankfurt

    - by Franz Haberhauer
    Am Dienstag, den 3. Dezember 2013 haben wir den Chef des Solaris Engineering Markus Flierl mit einigen seiner Engineers und Joost Pronk vom Produkt Management zu Gast in unserer Geschäftstelle in Dreieich (Frankfurt). Wir nutzen diese Gelegenheit, Ihnen bei einem Solaris Tech Day direkt von der Quelle tiefe Einblicke in Solaris-Technologien zu geben: Agenda Time Session Speaker 09:00 Registration and Breakfast 09:45 Oracle Solaris - Strategy, Engineering Insights, Roadmap, and a Glimpse on Solaris in Oracle's IT Markus Flierl 11:15 Coffee 11:35 Oracle Solaris 11.1: The Best Platform for Oracle - The Technologies Behind the Scenes Bart Smaalders 12:35 Lunch 13:25 Solaris Security: Reduce Risk , Deliver Secure Services, and Monitor Compliance Darren Moffat 14:10 Solaris 11 Provisioning and SMF - Insights from the Lead Engineers Bart Smaalders & Liane Praza 14:55 Solaris Data Management - ZFS, NFS, dNFS, ASM, and OISP Integration with the Oracle DB Darren Moffat 15:25 Coffee 15:45 Solaris 10 Patches and Solaris SRUs - News and Best Practices Gerry Haskins 16:30 Cloud Formation: Implementing IaaS in Practice with Oracle Solaris Joost Pronk 17:00 Q&A panel - All presenters and Solaris engineers Bitte registrieren Sie sich hier, um sich einen Platz bei dieser außergewöhnlichen Veranstaltung zu sichern. Es lohnt sich übrigens auch mal in die Blogs von  Markus Flierl mit einem interessanten Beitrag zu Eindrücken und Ausblicken von der Oracle Open World 2013 oder den von  Darren Moffat zu schauen. Gerry Haskins schreibt als Director Solaris Lifecycle Engineering gleich in zwei Blogs - der Patch Corner mit Schwerpunkt Solaris 10 und dem Solaris 11 Maintenance Lifecycle. Bereits in der kommenden Woche findet in Nürnberg die DOAG 2013 Konferenz und Ausstellung mit einem breiten Spektrum an Vorträgen rund um Solaris statt - insbesondere auch mit vielen Erfahrungsberichten aus der Praxis.

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  • Oracle Managed Cloud Services - gain more from your Oracle investments

    - by yaldahhakim
    Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} Oracle Managed Cloud Services delivers enterprise-grade, end-to-end managed cloud services across Oracle's portfolio of business applications, middleware, database, and hardware technologies. Organizations can deploy solutions according to their own specific needs and budget, and decide where applications are hosted. Oracle can manage applications at customer sites, through Oracle's partners, or at one of Oracle’s data centers. Organizations can also choose a hybrid model for different elements of the IT environment, and move back and forth over time as strategy or requirements change. Options include Oracle Applications on demand. Leverage any Oracle application, hosted and managed by Oracle. Oracle Technology on demand. A set of end-to-end managed services for Oracle Engineered Systems and Oracle’s technology platform, including infrastructure (servers and storage), database, virtualization, operating system, and middleware. In addition, with Oracle managed cloud services, your systems and data are secure and protected at every layer. Managed Cloud Services has extensive global expertise, best practice security and regulatory compliance , and standard operating processes that will ensure your data and business critical information is safe. Oracle Managed Cloud Services helps you leverage Oracle’s years of experience so you can better focus and direct your resources. Let Oracle Cloud Services build and manage your cloud for you while you focus on driving your business forward. Learn more at: www.Oracle.com/managedcloudservices

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  • 5 Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

    - by Jason Fitzpatrick
    If you feel like Facebook increasingly has fewer and fewer options to reject applications and organization access to your private information, you’re not imagining it. Here are five ways Facebook’s design choices in the App Center have minimized your choices over time. Over at TechCrunch they have a guest post by Avi Charkham highlighting five ways recent changes to the Facebook App Center put privacy settings on the back burner. In regard to the comparison seen in the image above, for example, he writes: #1: The Single Button Trick In the old design Facebook used two buttons – “Allow” and “Don’t Allow” – which automatically led you to make a decision. In the new App Center Facebook chose to use a single button. No confirmation, no decisions to make. One click and, boom, your done! Your information was passed on to the app developers and you never even notice it. Hit up the link below to check out the other four redesign choices that minimize the information about privacy and data usage you see and maximize the click-through and acceptance rate for apps. How To Switch Webmail Providers Without Losing All Your Email How To Force Windows Applications to Use a Specific CPU HTG Explains: Is UPnP a Security Risk?

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  • Inevitable Corporate Bureaucracy

    - by Ahsan Alam
    Top executives of most smaller organizations want their companies to be different from the larger corporations. They want their organizations smaller in size; but bigger in productivity by eliminating red tapes and corporate bureaucracy. When the company is smaller, people often work like firefighters – taking on new business and technology challenges without thinking about any procedures and guidelines. People also tend to wear many hats to accomplish tasks quickly in order to integrate new businesses. For example, software developers in smaller organizations may take on responsibilities of client interactions, requirements gathering, design and development, code deployment, production support, network infrastructure support, database design and maintenance along with countless other duties. In addition, systems in smaller organizations tend to be loosely guarded. So, people often don't follow many procedures in order to setup environments and implement technical projects. It's not uncommon to change code and deploy without anyone realizing. Similarly, business requirements may also get defined in an informal manner without any type of documentation. As the company grows, everything starts to change significantly impacting people and the overall business process. Suddenly, following procedures become extremely important. Consequently, new roles, guidelines and procedures start to emerge. Everything from business process to technology implementation start to become more and more process oriented. Organizations start to define and document steps, invent procedure to track process and systems level changes, and start restricting access to various systems for security reasons. At the same time, as a growing company start doing businesses with larger clienteles, they are automatically forced to abide by all sorts of industry compliance laws. Moreover, growing companies tend to recruit experienced individuals to fill new roles who usually bring their expertise from larger and more bureaucratic organizations.   Despite the best efforts from the top executives, it seems increased number of procedures and guidelines as well as new recruits automatically contribute to the evolution of corporate bureaucracy. Maybe, corporate bureaucracy is an inevitable side effect of a growing organization.

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  • Performance Overhead of Encrypted /home

    - by SabreWolfy
    I have a netbook with Windows on the second partition and Xubuntu (/ and /home) on the third partition. I selected to encrypt my home folder during installation. The performance of the netbook is adequate for the small machine that it is, but I'm looking to improve performance. I could not find much information about the overhead (CPU or drive) associated with home partition encryption. I ran the following, writing to my home partition as well as the the mounted Windows partition: dd if=/dev/zero of=~/dummy bs=512 count=10240 dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/Windows/dummy bs=512 count=10240 The first returned 2.4MB/s and the second returned 2.5MB/s. Can I therefore deduce that there is very little overhead to home folder encryption? I'm not sure if the different filesystems will make any difference (/ and /home are ext3). Update 1 I don't know why I didn't use /tmp instead of the mounted Windows folder. Only /home is encrypted, so /tmp is unencrypted ext3. The results of the dd as above are astounding: ~: 2.4 MB/s /tmp: 42.6 MB/s Comments please? The reason I am asking this is that disk access on the netbook is noticeably slow. Update 2 I timed each of the dd operations with time: ~: real 0m2.217s user 0m0.028s sys 0m2.176s /tmp: real 0m0.152s user 0m0.012s sys 0m0.136s See also: discussion on UbuntuForums.org and bug report Edit: Output of mount: /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,commit=600) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/USER/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=USER) `

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  • Error while running Jetty Server on port 80 as non root user

    - by user75016
    All, I was trying to setup jetty on port 80 but its giving exception saying permission denied as below. I have setup jetty to work with setuid and configured start.ini as follows: OPTIONS=Server,jsp,jmx,resources,websocket,ext,plus,annotations,jta,jdbc,setuid (below as first configuration file in start.ini) etc/jetty-setuid.xml and jetty-setuid.xml file with username and group name of non root user. 2012-07-03 15:29:02.411:INFO:oejdp.ScanningAppProvider:Deployment monitor /opt/jetty-hightide-8.1.3.v20120416/contexts at interval 1 2012-07-03 15:29:02.454:WARN:oejuc.AbstractLifeCycle:FAILED [email protected]:80: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied java.net.SocketException: Permission denied at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:126) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:59) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector.open(SelectChannelConnector.java:182) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractConnector.doStart(AbstractConnector.java:311) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector.doStart(SelectChannelConnector.java:260) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:59) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:273) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:59) at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration$1.run(XmlConfiguration.java:1215) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:1138) 2012-07-03 15:29:02.455:WARN:oejuc.AbstractLifeCycle:FAILED org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server@66da9ea4: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied java.net.SocketException: Permission denied

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  • Sharing authentication methods across API and web app

    - by Snixtor
    I'm wanting to share an authentication implementation across a web application, and web API. The web application will be ASP.NET (mostly MVC 4), the API will be mostly ASP.NET WEB API, though I anticipate it will also have a few custom modules or handlers. I want to: Share as much authentication implementation between the app and API as possible. Have the web application behave like forms authentication (attractive log-in page, logout option, redirect to / from login page when a request requires authentication / authorisation). Have API callers use something closer to standard HTTP (401 - Unauthorized, not 302 - Redirect). Provide client and server side logout mechanisms that don't require a change of password (so HTTP basic is out, since clients typically cache their credentials). The way I'm thinking of implementing this is using plain old ASP.NET forms authentication for the web application, and pushing another module into the stack (much like MADAM - Mixed Authentication Disposition ASP.NET Module). This module will look for some HTTP header (implementation specific) which indicates "caller is API". If the header "caller is API" is set, then the service will respond differently than standard ASP.NET forms authentication, it will: 401 instead of 302 on a request lacking authentication. Look for username + pass in a custom "Login" HTTP header, and return a FormsAuthentication ticket in a custom "FormsAuth" header. Look for FormsAuthentication ticket in a custom "FormsAuth" header. My question(s) are: Is there a framework for ASP.NET that already covers this scenario? Are there any glaring holes in this proposed implementation? My primary fear is a security risk that I can't see, but I'm similarly concerned that there may be something about such an implementation that will make it overly restrictive or clumsy to work with.

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  • How to diagnose and fix Kernel Panic Fatal Machine Check error?

    - by 0x4a6f4672
    I have got a new Samsung Series 7 laptop with dual boot setup for Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10. A fine machine comparable to a Macbook Pro. The Ubuntu installation was quite a hassle, but with the help of Boot Repair finally it seemed to work. Or so I thought. Windows 8 starts fine, but if I want to start Ubuntu regularly the following Machine Check Exception error occurs, quite similar to this one [Hardware Error] CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 5 Bank 6 [Hardware Error] RIP !inexact! 33 <00007fab2074598a> [Hardware Error] TSC 95b623464c ADDR fe400 MISC 3880000086 .. [similar messages for CPU 2,3 and 0] .. [Hardware Error] Machine Check: Processor context corrupt Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal Machine Check Rebooting in 30 seconds Kernel panic does not sound good. Then it starts to reboot, and the second boot trial often works. Is it a Kernel or driver problem? The laptop has an Intel Core i7 processor. I already deactivated Hyperthreading in the BIOS, but it does not seem to help :-( I also disabled the Execute Disable Bit (EDB) flag in the BIOS. EDB is an Intel hardware-based security feature that can help reduce system exposure to viruses and malicious code. Since I disabled it, the error did occur less frequently, but it still appears occasionally :-( It seems to be the same error as described here and here. Maybe a Samsung specific Kernel problem? A similar error also happens on a Samsung Ultrabook Series 9 (which seems to be kernel bugs 49161 and 47121). At my Samsung Series 7, it still occurs for instance during booting on battery after "Checking battery state". Perhaps anyone else has an idea? These Kernel Panic errors are reallly annoying..

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  • Do we really need a thousand Linux distributions?

    - by nebukadnezzar
    Pointed from an answer to a (possibly related) question, I came across this graphic, and I'm shocked how many linux distributions currently exist. However, it seems that most of these distributions are forks of already popular distributions with minimal changes, usually limited to themes, wallpapers, buttons, the kind of stuff most people probably wouldn't see as a reason to fork a Linux distribution. Of course, someone will always say "Opensource is also about the freedom of choice", and while I wholeheartedly agree, I do not believe that this is a valid reason to fork an already perfectly working Distribution into a new one, which might possibly result in less security/stability due to smaller group of developers. There's another problem: Those, who want to switch to Linux, are confronted with a neverending list of Linux distributions, and wonder rightfully which they're supposed to chose (infact, I was facing that problem before I've discovered Ubuntu). There might be (very few) valid reasons to fork a distribution: Specializing on a particular topic (FOSS Only, work-related topic (i.e., for a Hospital), etc) An exceptional architecture, that requires a special set of software Use of non-FOSS, propietary technology, and such But even with these points in mind, it would still seem easier to create a subdistribution with the required changes, such as XUbuntu with XFCE4, KUbuntu with KDE4, Fluxbuntu with Fluxbox, etc. So, why exactly do we need so many distributions?

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  • Cloud Computing and Data Utilization

    - by Ahsan Alam
    Someone recently asked me “is cloud computing going to change the way we perceive data?”. My first instinct was “off course”; but I restrained myself and thought for a moment. Then my answer was “no”. Why do I feel that way? Technology and business have evolved quite a bit in the past few decades; however, the need to effectively view and utilize data hasn't changed. It is not uncommon to see many organization to rely on multiple database management systems (DBMS). Applications and systems are often built to utilize information from all these data sources, and effectively present them to users. In addition to multiple DBMS, corporations are also housing their systems across numerous data centers. In fact, systems and data can reside anywhere around the world with the advent of globalization. Cloud based systems have simply provided us a different place to maintain our data, nothing more. Hosting costs, security and accessibility are different issues; however, the way we utilize and view these data remains the same.

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  • eSTEP TechCast - December 2011 - Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

    - by uwes
    Dear partner, we are pleased to announce our next eSTEP TechCast on Thursday 1st December and would be happy if you could join. Please see below the details for the next TechCast. Date and time: Thursday, 01. December 2011, 11:00 - 12:00 GMT (12:00 - 13:00 CET) Abstract: Solaris 11 contains many new features, particularly around improved virtualisation and network performance. Additionally, new software packaging for fool-proof upgrades, higher availability and reduced maintenance windows replace the former SRV4 packaging and upgrade/patching methods. Target audience: Tech Presales Speaker: Andrew Gabriel Call Info: Call-in-toll-free number: 08006948154 (United Kingdom) Call-in-toll-free number: +44-2081181001 (United Kingdom) Show global numbers Conference Code: 803 594 3 Security Passcode: 9876 Webex Info (Oracle Web Conference) Meeting Number: 597 686 322Meeting Password: tech2011 Playback / Recording / Archive: The webcasts will be recorded and will be available shortly after the event in the eSTEP portal under the Events tab, where you could find also material from already delivered eSTEP TechCasts. Use your email-adress and PIN: eSTEP_2011 to get access. Feel free to have a look. We are happy to get your comments and feedback. Thanks and best regards, Partner HW Enablement EMEA

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  • The Inebriator: A DIY Arduino-powered Cocktail Machine [Video]

    - by Jason Fitzpatrick
    We’ve seen our fair share of geeky alcohol-related projects over the years but this, this, is something to see. The Inebriator is the slickest automated drink machine we’ve laid eyes on. Before we even start talking specs, check out the video above–don’t forget to first assure your liver that you don’t actually have access to such a magnificent device and it can remain calm. As dazzled as we were? The whole thing is powered by an Arduino Mega 2560, sports a cooler with nitrogen pressurization of drink mix bottles, and relies on a rather ingenious and elegantly simple 12v valve system. It even has an RFID security system to prevent party goers with a few drinks in them from messing up the custom drink menu. Hit up the link below for more information, including photos of the guts and technical specs. The Inebriator [via Hack A Day] Java is Insecure and Awful, It’s Time to Disable It, and Here’s How What Are the Windows A: and B: Drives Used For? HTG Explains: What is DNS?

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  • Permission based Authorization vs. Role based Authorization - Best Practices - 11g

    - by Prakash Yamuna
    In previous blog posts here and here I have alluded to the support in OWSM for Permission based authorization and Role based authorization support. Recently I was having a conversation with an internal team in Oracle looking to use OWSM for their Web Services security needs and one of the topics was around - When to use permission based authorization vs. role based authorization? As in most scenarios the answer is it depends! There are trade-offs involved in using the two approaches and you need to understand the trade-offs and you need to understand which trade-offs are better for your scenario. Role based Authorization: Simple to use. Just create a new custom OWSM policy and specify the role in the policy (using EM Fusion Middleware Control). Inconsistent if you have multiple type of resources in an application (ex: EJBs, Web Apps, Web Services) - ex: the model for securing EJBs with roles or the model for securing Web App roles - is inconsistent. Since the model is inconsistent, tooling is also fairly inconsistent. Achieving this use-case using JDeveloper is slightly complex - since JDeveloper does not directly support creating OWSM custom policies. Permission based Authorization: More complex. You need to attach both an OWSM policy and create OPSS Permission authorization policies. (Note: OWSM leverages OPSS Permission based Authorization support). More appropriate if you have multiple type of resources in an application (ex: EJBs, Web Apps, Web Services) and want a consistent authorization model. Consistent Tooling for managing authorization across different resources (ex: EM Fusion Middleware Control). Better Lifecycle support in terms of T2P, etc. Achieving this use-case using JDeveloper is slightly complex - since JDeveloper does not directly support creating/editing OPSS Permission based authorization policies.

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  • Adding a CMS to an existing Magento shop

    - by user6341
    I am working on a project for 3 niche stores built on magento (using magento's multi-store function) that each get roughly 50k unique visitors a day. The sites don't currently have a blog or forum or any social networking aspects. Would like to add a cms to each site that can be centrally run and would like it to take over the front end content from Magento. Also would like it to maintain an online blog/publication of sorts with videos, articles, and the like with privileges to edit the content given to a dozen or so people with different privileges. Want to add a forum to each site that is fairly robust and to possibly add some social networking aspects down the road, so extandability and available plugins/mods in each cms is important. Other than shared login between the forums,blog/publication and store, would like to be able to integrate some content from the forums and blog/publication into the store as well. After researching this a bit, I am inclined towards Drupal, but I haven't found any modules to integrate it with Magento. Also, since the blog content will be done by about a dozen nontechnical people, I want something that is very easy to work with. Lastly, since the site gets a good amount of traffic, speed and security are very important. What CMS would you recommend integrating in this context? Deciding between Drupal, Wordpress and ModX. Also Plone as well. Thanks.

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