Ford compared this scenario to the intertwining, complex relationships and structures that helped contribute to the global financial crisis.
New cloud services may arise that essentially “resell, trade, or speculate on complex cocktails or ‘derivatives’ of more basic cloud resources and services, much like the modern financial and energy trading industries operate,” he wrote.
via Researcher: Interdependencies could lead to cloud ‘meltdowns’.
IN DEPTH: Staying ahead of cloud complexity
Here you can find the information and source code you need to build an Android-compatible device.
Android is an open-source software stack for mobile devices, and a corresponding open-source project led by Google. We created Android in response to our own experiences launching mobile apps. We wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, so that no industry player can restrict or control the innovations of any other. That’s why we created Android, and made its source code open.
Linaro is a not-for-profit engineering organization consolidating and optimizing open source Linux software and tools for the ARM architecture. Find out more…
via Linaro: open source software for ARM SoCs.
From:Android is about to get a lot faster thanks to Linaro
The folks behind the Linaro open source software project have put a little time into tweaking Google Android to use the gcc 4.7 toolchain. The result is a version of Android that can perform many tasks between 30 and 100 percent faster than the version of Android Google 4.0 Google currently offers through the AOSP (Android Open Source Project).
Many of these deals are secret, but Deepfield Networks knows of about 40 companies that are setting up their own content delivery networks with service providers, according to Craig Labovitz. But he’s bound by non-disclosure agreements, and can’t name names.
via Google and Netflix Make Land Grab On Edge Of Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com.
Andy Ellis, a chief security officer with Akamai, agrees. Yes, companies have been moving to cache their content locally with ISPs, but there are still plenty of services — security and analytics, for example — that Akami can sell them. “I don’t think we’re yet seeing a land rush into the ISPs,” he says. “I think you have to be really really big to be interesting enough to the ISPs.”
Of course, five years ago, did anyone really think that Netflix would be responsible for 20 percent of U.S. Internet traffic? Back then, they were just the guys who mailed you CDs.
dd if=/dev/[drive] | gzip -c > zipped_drive_image.bin.gz
Let me walk through the process of password protection and explain why unsalted passwords are only infinitesimally better than plaintext passwords:
via LinkedIn Password Leak: Salt Their Hide – ACM Queue.
Conclusion
LinkedIn is learning fast right now, according to their damage control missives, they have now implemented salting and “better hashing.” But we have yet to find out why nobody objected to them protecting 150+ million user passwords with 1970s methods.
And everybody else should take notice too: Even if you use md5crypt, you should upgrade your password scrambling algorithm. As a rule of thumb: If it does not take a full second to calculate the password hash, it is too weak.
OpenStack is an evolving mountain of Apache 2-licensed code billed as a “cloud operating system” for the data center. At the same time, OpenStack is a movement, confirmed by the high-energy jabber in the air around me. As with the early days of Linux, the buzz around OpenStack has risen to a roar, with thousands of community members flocking to conferences from Paris to Seoul. The level of interest and growth is phenomenal.
via Is OpenStack the new Linux? | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld.
Baresip is a portable and modular SIP User-Agent with audio and video support.
via baresip – Open Source SIP User Agent.
The PBXMate software product from SoliCall is designed to improve voice quality by canceling echo, canceling noise and monitoring quality indicators. This article describes, in details, one option to integrating the PBXMate with FreeSWITCH in which both products are installed on the same Linux machine and a DNS is being used.
The resulting mechanism planned for getting the keys automatically distributed is to utilize Microsoft key signing and registry services. This obviates the need for every customer to have to round up a collection of keys for multiple operating systems and device drivers. Microsoft will provide keys for Windows and Red Hat will provide keys for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora. Similarly other distributions can participate at a nominal cost of $99 USD – allowing them to register their own keys for distribution to system firmware vendors.