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Tent want anyone in a position, his own tent set up (a tent-server), and to invite others to communicate with other tents.

Tent is an open source platform for the networking of different social networks that allows the user full control of their data and posts. The currently visible part of Tent is Tent.is . This is the first application that is built on Tent.io. The latter is the protocol behind Tent, is based on HTTP (S) and uses JSON as the data format.
Tent.is is the first of many possible Tent servers. These servers can run either the users themselves or you can use an existing server (as Tent.is). The Tent server can communicate. Users can take their identity at any time to another server, including its streams and the followers. Even when changing the identity of the data remains with the user, they belong to him fully. The identity follows the scheme https://gewählter_Name.tent.is/. Only the extension. Changes is the use of another application.
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A download mirror of SourceForge network has in recent days distributes software PhpMyAdmin in a version equipped with a backdoor.

This is the archive “phpMyAdmin-3.5.2.2-all-languages.zip”, the 22nd probably around 400 users since Have downloaded September. The affected server is located in Korea and has the hostname “CDNetworks-kr-1″, Sourceforge removed him from the mirror network.

The compromised version of the software contains the file “server_sync.php” additional PHP code that evaluates HTTP post data and an installation so vulnerable from the outside. Additional Javascript code is possibly the attacker to detect vulnerable installations, such as the developer Michal Čihař writes in a blog entry.
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After six months of waiting out the next version of the manager of network connections Arch Linux.

The author of this article discusses some ways to create applications TCP / IP servers are extremely rare, unfortunately, used in application programming, which require almost no coding. The reason for the occurrence of these short notes, the intention was to remind that sometimes in order to describe something in the program, by its very nature is complex, there may be ways to express the same things a lot easier.

Google has released a new version of Android software development kit for r17 brings among other things, a much faster emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X as well as real-time network statistics.

The new SDK puts an end to the rather sluggish Android emulator and emulation now supports hardware-accelerated on computers with a corresponding CPU. Supports are Windows, Mac and Linux for Intel CPUs with Intel VT extension. The virtualization technology from AMD processors (AMD-V, SVM) can currently only use Linux for the optimization of the Android emulator. The setup is quite complicated, but on developer.android.com described in great detail . Also note that the acceleration only for machines with Android 2.3 or later works, but not for version 2.2 or older.
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Untangle has released his eponymous firewall and gateway distribution in version 9.1. Untangle is gadacht want to organizations that protect their network with an easily configurable solution from unwanted external access and control network traffic and filter.

Untangle offers in the free Lite version many basic functions. Users, which does need to be protected can subscribe to additional fee-based modules at Untangle. Untangle 9.1 can be installed and configured according to the developers more easily. Events are logged clearer and many setting options for individual applications are no longer stored in a PostgreSQL database, but stored in files. This simplifies the configuration and the applications to retrieve their settings quickly.

The distribution also goes up faster.

The anti-virus programs Virus Blocker and Kaspersky Virus Blocker has been renamed. The previous Virus Blocker is now called “Virus Blocker Lite” and the paid Kaspersky Virus Blocker only “Virus Blocker” means.
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The developers of Systemd have presented a new Linux system log, which is closely linked with Systemd. The new Journald to save the log messages more efficient and safe from tampering and make analysis more efficient.

Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers, the developer of Systemd keep the current system log on Linux and other Unix systems to be effective for more than 30 years, but it also has fundamental drawbacks. These disadvantages were particularly clearly in an attempt to better integrate with Systemd logs. They now make the proposal to create a new log for Systemd implementation that can be used in parallel to the existing syslog, replace the old system over time, but should.
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A survey of BITKOM According to Google + has established itself a few months after its introduction in Germany in the top ten social networks.

The ranking list of social networks in this country leads Facebook by a wide margin: 51 percent of all German Internet users are members of the community. 2nd place followed by Stay Friends (29 percent) from the VZ networks and who-knows-who. The mainly used for professional purposes Xing network with a share of 9 percent in fifth place. Six percent of online users are now members of the new Google Network, which lands at number six and before Twitter (also 6 percent).
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The Russian manufacturer Iconbit has introduced a full HD media player based on Android 2.2.

The aim of the objects that come with a remote player are modern high-definition TV sets, where he serves as a media player device. The user has the Toucan W also have access to the Android Market. With the motion-sensitive remote controller can control a cursor on the TV, which convenient and sounds to make the box is also suitable for gaming. Social networks, browser-based application and multimedia files are the specialty of this versatile instrument.
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Oracle released version 11 of Solaris and marketed it as the “first cloud OS.”

Oracle has announced the immediate availability of the Solaris version 11 is known. Oracle confident as the “first cloud OS” markets are the focus of the new release supports virtualization and scaling capabilities of technologies such as Solaris Zones, resource control and bandwidth control.

“Unsurpassed cloud security” of the entire application stack is a feature of the new version of Solaris, for example, realized by means of role-based administration, hardware-based encryption and other measures. Even high-availability features to help to the cloud, “to keep it going.”
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