computerworld australia

Computerworld Australia: "After almost a decade of experience working in large law firms, Scott established and heads the Open Source Law legal practice and Web portal to help organisations, particularly in the public sector, use FOSS to better the long term value of their ICT expenditure..."

Computerworld Australia: "A team of experts and students from NICTA and the University of NSW have won first place in a major international technology competition for developing a robotically operated, computer-driven clarinet that runs on Linux..."

Computerworld Australia: "The International Electrotechnical Commission, one of two standards bodies responsible for the committee that approved the standard, is applying a generous interpretation of its rules to accept appeals..."

Computerworld Australia: "Bash, or the Bourne-Again Shell is a Unix shell created in 1987 by Brian Fox. According to Wikipedia, the name is a pun on an earlier Unix shell by Stephen Bourne (called the Bourne shell), which was distributed with Version 7 Unix in 1978..."

Roundup: With the 18-month gap in OpenSSL publicly discovered, already tools built to exploit the not-so-random keys have surfaced.

Computerworld details the threat, and Computerworld Australia gives tips on defending against this and other brute-force attacks.

Computerworld Australia: "The proposed IEEE wireless LAN mesh specification is already getting some traction, though still over 18 months from final ratification, thanks to early experimentation by the One Laptop Per Child Foundation and a recently launched open source project..."

Computerworld Australia: "When the KDE-centric Ubuntu derivation, Kubuntu, was installed on the old gear--a mixture of Acer Veriton 3600s and 2.1Ghz V5100s--the school found it performed just as efficiently as on the newer hardware..."

Computerworld Australia: "...[T]he idea of two kids with laptops sitting under a tree somewhere in Saharan Africa being able to exchange information without any kind of infrastructure or configuration, seems as wild an idea as the land they live in..."

Computerworld Australia: "Following a Computerworld report on the appointment of a Microsoft consultant as part of Standard Australia's delegation for this month's Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva, the organization's CEO has defended the objectivity of the decision..."

Computerworld Australia: "In what may be a perceived threat to the objectivity of the Office Open XML standards process, Standards Australia will include a Microsoft developer and consultant as part of its delegation for this month's Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva..."