http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/ Netstat -vat - A command line view of IT. en-us Copyright 2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:09:39 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification From the 'Auto-Update' files:Google is updating the stable version of its Chrome browser to version 3.0.195.32.The new release fixes two security issues and addresses a number of stability issues including a top crash condition and a bug that could... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/googles-chrome-browser-updated.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/googles-chrome-browser-updated.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:09:39 -0500 From the 'Quick Fix' files:For the most part, Mozilla issues updates to its open source Firefox browser for both security and stability related issues. That's not the case with the new 3.5.5 update out today.Firefox 3.5.5 has no listed... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/mozilla-update-firefox-355-for.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/mozilla-update-firefox-355-for.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:11:04 -0500 From the 'Open Source Development' files:Google builds a lot of its own tools as part of its development efforts. Sometimes we get all 'get lucky' and the tools become open source and available too.That's what has happened today with... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-bring-closure-to-open-s.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-bring-closure-to-open-s.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:13:23 -0500 http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/ciscos-chambers-and-emcs-tucci.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/ciscos-chambers-and-emcs-tucci.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:24:51 -0500 http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/adobe-updates-shockwave-for-5.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/adobe-updates-shockwave-for-5.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:58:34 -0500 From the 'Still Owned by Sun' files:If you're like 80 percent of all web users, chances are that you're running Java. Have you updated to the latest version yet?Yesterday, Sun released Java 6 Update 17, fixing multiple vulnerabilities. Among the... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/sun-update-java-6-for-the-17th.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/sun-update-java-6-for-the-17th.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:28:22 -0500 From the 'Delicious Feature' files:Google's Chrome 4 web browser is now in Beta. Chrome 4 has been in the dev-channel cycle since August and has one key differentiating feature over its predecessors in the Chrome 3 browser series, bookmark... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-chrome-4-beta-debuts-in.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-chrome-4-beta-debuts-in.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:44:33 -0500 From the 'Codecs, Codecs, Codecs' file:Is Skype going open source? Apparently so."Yes, there's an open source version of Linux client being developed. This will be a part of larger offering, but we can't tell you much more about that... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/open-source-skype-not-yet-but.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/open-source-skype-not-yet-but.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:02:35 -0500 From the 'Code Yellow Alert' Files:Google Chrome development is moving along full speed ahead. Why is this news? Well let me tell you...Early last week, Google developer Anthony LaForge (no not Geordi, he's working on the warp core still...)... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-back-to-full-speed-on-c.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/google-back-to-full-speed-on-c.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:39:36 -0500 From the 'Where Did the Features Go?' files:The first official Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta release is now available, bringing with it a whole bunch of improvements to the open source web browser. It's also (to my naked eye) missing... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/post-3.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/post-3.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:02:22 -0500 From the 'Vaporware Language Release' files:Back in 2005, I wrote a story for InternetNews.com where I wrote that I expected PHP 6 to be out in 2006. Here we are three years later and guess what? No PHP 6.Back... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/10/where-is-php-6.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/10/where-is-php-6.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:24:22 -0500 From the 'Competitive Irony' files:In 2006, networking giant Cisco Systems revamped it's corporate logo and its branding. At the time, rival Juniper Networks, put out its own anti-Cisco branding marketing initiative, printing up T shirts with a press release... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/10/the-irony-of-juniper-networks.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/10/the-irony-of-juniper-networks.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:06:19 -0500 From the 'Rapid Release Cycles' files:Since its first release a year ago, Google's Chrome browser has been updated at a rapid pace -- perhaps too rapid.This week, Chrome developer Anthony Laforge issued a 'Code Yellow' alert and put all... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/10/google-chrome-development-slow.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/10/google-chrome-development-slow.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:47:41 -0500 From the 'Resistance is Futile' files:Microsoft has thousands of developers building code for its platforms using Visual Studio. Thousands more use open source Eclipse based IDEs to develop their code and Microsoft wants them to target Windows platforms too.To... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/10/microsoft-wants-open-source-ec.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/10/microsoft-wants-open-source-ec.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:30:20 -0500 From the 'Do Ask and Do Tell' files:Open Source software has a role to play in the national interest and national security of the United States. That's the gist of a new U.S Department of Defense (DoD) Memorandum providing... http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/10/us-department-of-defense-takes.html http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/10/us-department-of-defense-takes.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:45:24 -0500