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June 2008 Blog Posts

Extensis Universal Type Server shipping

Roman Marszalek, Jun 27 2008

Extensis has just launched Universal Type Server, the much anticipated font management software and natural upgrade for both Suitcase Server and Font Reserve Server that will help you get the right fonts to the right people fast, eliminate conflicts and ensure consistency. Universal Type Server – available in two versions: Lite (for workgroups up to 10 users) and Professional (our scalable solution for workgroups of any size) – is now shipping.

Multifunction USB Dock

Michael Jin, Jun 27 2008

Here’s a novel idea for people always needing more storage, but running out of plugs and ports for their external hard drives this is the ideal solution for archiving your data onto economical hard drives. A great way to by-pass burning optical discs or buying dearer external drives (we all know internal ones are cheaper!).

It’s a SATA HDDD Multi Function Dock and a USB card reader (for almost every type of memory card out there), in addition to providing additional USB ports for memory stick devices. The device is compatible with both PCs and Mac.

Adobe ships Acrobat 9, CS3 update

Roman Marszalek, Jun 26 2008

Acrobat 9 includes support for built-in Flash animations in PDF documents, and a method of bundling PDFs together, called Portfolios. Full details.

The updated CS3 bundle includes the Acrobat 9.

Mac OS X security exploit

Michael Jin, Jun 25 2008

This particular vulnerability is what we call “local privilege escalation”. It enables a user of a system to escalate their rights to “root”, which allows full control over the system.

Thus, even if you are running as a regular user or in a guest account, exploiting this vulnerability allows you escalate your rights to run without restriction. In this case, the Apple Remote Desktop agent (ARDAgent) uses a technique called SUID to run things as root.

It’s a common programming technique on Unix systems, but one that often creates security problems. In this case, ARDAgent supports AppleScript, including the command to run other programs, which then run as root.

Read the full article here

A Mac music video

Roman Marszalek, Jun 24 2008

Code swarm video

Roman Marszalek, Jun 23 2008

Here is a video, a "code swarm", showing the development of the Python language.


code_swarm - Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.


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