This is a compelling mashup that combines Yahoo Pipes with Google Maps in order to go through Craiglist and show you only ads that come from your local Craiglist community.
pregnantfridge writes “In the ongoing conflict between PRS for Music and YouTube over the takedown of all music related content in the UK, PRS for Music have created a new site, fairplayforcreators.com , exposing the views of the music writers impacted by the YouTube decision. I am not certain if these views have been editorially compromised but by reading a few pages, its clear to me that Music writers represented by PRS for Music are largely clueless about what the Internet and YouTube means to the music industry. Kind of explains why the music industry is in as much decline — and also why so much litigation takes place on the music writers behalf.”
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matt4077 writes “For eight years, several hundred police officers across several European countries have been chasing a phantom woman whose DNA had been found in almost 20 crimes (including two murders) across central Europe. It now turns out that contaminated cotton swabs might be responsible for this highly unusual investigation. After being puzzled by the apparent randomness of the crimes, investigator noticed that all cotton swabs had been sourced from the same company. They also noted that the DNA was never found in crimes in Bavaria, a German state located at the center of the crimes’ locations. It turns out that Bavaria buys its swabs from a different supplier.”
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gardel writes “Google appears to have fixed a significant security hole in its two-week-old Voice calling service though some vulnerabilities remain. Until about 7pm PDT Tuesday, an unauthorized party could use a SIP device to spoof a phone number attached to a Google Voice account to call the Google Voice number, giviing the spoofer access to greetings and voicemail, and the ability to make outbound calls, including expensive international calls. Though spoofing via SIP is no longer possible, continued existence of some vulnerability was still apparent Tuesday night. Voxilla was able to set the caller ID of a PBX extension to a mobile number attached to Google Voice account and call in, using a business VoIP trunk, to gain access.”
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crazipper writes “Tom’s Hardware interviewed Charlie Miller, winner of this year’s Pwn2Own contest and formerly with the NSA. He discusses the effort it took before the contest to be able to take down a MacBook within seconds, sandboxing, and the effectiveness of the NX bit and ASLR. His outlook on end-users protecting themselves against attacks? ‘Users are at the mercy of the products they buy.'”
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Lucas123 writes “The Internet Archive, the non-profit organization that scrapes the Web every two months in order to archive web page images, just cut the ribbon on a new 4.5 petabyte data center housed in a metal shipping container that sits outside. The data center supports the Wayback Machine, the Web site that offers the public a view of the 151 billion Web page images collected since 1997. The new data center houses 63 Sun Fire servers, each with 48 1TB hard drives running in parallel to support both the web crawling application and the 200,000 visitors to the site each day.”
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Wall Street executives feeling harassed by taxpayers outraged at their pay might take note of how Google’s ruling triumvirate fared in 2008: in salary each, no bonus, no stock grants, and no stock options.
An anonymous reader writes “id Software has released a port of the classic Wolfenstein FPS to the iPhone. Some of the coding was done by John Carmack himself, who also used original code combined with new code from Wolf3D Redux. The original code was open sourced years ago, and enthusiasts have been updating it, which made the port considerably easier for id. It’s available in the iTunes App Store, but the source is available for free at id’s website.” Carmack also posted a detailed writeup about the decision to bring Wolf3D to the iPhone, including design notes and a few snippets of code. At the end, he says, “I’m going back to Rage for a while, but I do expect Classic Doom to come fairly soon for the iPhone.” Kotaku got a chance to try the game at GDC: “It’s not just a good reproduction of the original, it seems better.”
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An anonymous reader writes “I am working with a couple of large companies that are purchasing web and collaboration software stacks from Microsoft, IBM and others. These are for thousands of end users and are (supposedly) ready for multiple data center deployment and other big-corp requirements. I have suggested some open source alternatives such as Liferay and Drupal, and the technical people are interested but management types are not. They have given a few reasons, such as concerns over supportability and enterprise-readiness, but my feeling is that they are being won over by FUD from large vendors and the fact that most corps do not have significant deployments of FOSS technologies beyond Linux yet. All this seems to be in line with a survey on Web-app servers by OpenLogic. So my questions are: How have you persuaded larger enterprises to adopt server-side OSS, beyond server-room Linux and a couple of demo JBoss boxes under someone’s desk? And which products are truly ready for enterprise-scale deployment?”
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1sockchuck writes “Making changes to Google’s search infrastructure is akin to ‘changing the tires on a car while you’re going at 60 down the freeway,’ according to Urs Holzle, who oversees the company’s massive data center operations. In a Q-and-A with Data Center Knowledge, Holzle discusses Google’s infrastructure, how it has engineered its system to route around hardware failures, and how it responds when something goes awry. These updates usually go unnoticed, but during system maintenance last month a software bug triggered an outage for Gmail.”
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