Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Slashdot | Helix Player and RealPlayer 10 Released  Helix Player and RealPlayer 10 Released Posted by michael on Tuesday August 03, @12:05PM from the get-your-drm-on dept. kforeman writes "The RealPlayer 10 for Linux and its underlying 100% open source Helix Player are now both finalized. The RealPlayer 10 for Linux has many new features including a Mozilla plug-in, so you can now enjoy all those embedded media clips, as well as the latest RealAudio 10, RealVideo 10, MP3, Flash, and Ogg Vorbis and Theora support. The Helix Player is 100% open source, (now including the GPL!) and includes support for SMIL 2.0 and open source codecs Ogg Vorbis and Theora. Our goal is to make the Linux desktop a first class citizen and we think today's releases are a good first step in that direction." 1:56:55 PM

Slashdot | P2P Bibliographies with Bibster: P2P Bibliographies with Bibster Posted by simoniker on Monday August 02, @06:10PM from the it's-a-monster dept. Noksagt writes "P2P isn't just for government documents anymore! Bibster assists researchers in managing, searching, and sharing bibliographic data in a peer-to-peer network. This project shows great promise to researchers who currently search for citations through centralized servers (Google, Scirus, CiteSeer, ISI. and many others). By making it decentralized, researchers can share bibliographic data with no subscription costs and avoid typing this data in by hand. It can import and export citations using bibtex. The project is GPLed and free clients for windows and Linux are available. There's also a Sourceforge page for Bibster, so you can checkout from the CVS if the Bibster site is slow." 9:38:45 AM

The New York Times > Technology > In Competitive Move, I.B.M. Puts Code in Public Domain - "I.B.M. is handing over the code for Cloudscape, a database written in Java, to an open source group, the Apache Software Foundation. Within the open source group, the database will be called Derby. " Code is valued at $85 million. 9:25:24 AM

Securing Web services: PKI basics NewsForge by StoneLion on security at August 3, 2004, 4:00 am (cached at August 3, 2004, 5:40 am) Developers of Web services and enterprise applications must make their software secure. While cryptography alone does not a secure system make, it's important for developers to have a firm grasp of the basic theory and technologies behind encryption, so they can make informed decisions about whether to apply cryptographic technology, and if so, how. 9:18:51 AM