Hi,
at the Journee du Libre 2006, on the evening of octobre 25th,
there will be a round table about the link between FOSS and
security.
A representative of LiLux would be nice to have on that
round table.
Does anyone feel up to the subject?
I have no confirmation as yet on the language that will be
used for the round table, but I strongly suspect it will be
in french.
If anyone's interested, please let me know, I'll pass on
the information to the organisors.
Greetings, Eric
Hi,
according to Heise, Munich has finally started the migration
of desktops to their new Debian-based distribution:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/78453
Greetings, Eric
Hi,
this little email to inform you that the Journee du Libre
will take place on tuesday october 24th, 2006 and wednesday
october 25th, 2006, in Esch at the CRP Henri Tudor (66, rue
de Luxembourg, L-4002 Esch/Alzette). On both days the event
starts at 14h and goes until a drink at 17h resp. 17h30.
If you want to participate, you'll have to register.
A preliminary agenda is available on the Spiral site, best
go through the news item on http://libre.tudor.lu/
Greetings, Eric
P.S. this is in the week right after the FOSS event at
the Centenaire Esch and the hack.lu.
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Hi,
Looks like there's a CMS Award contest...
Check : <http://www.packtpub.com/cms_award_final_five> and vote
As I'm personally looking for a CMS for 2 of my websites, I'm curious
about the result...
and I'm also curious as to which CMS _YOU_ prefer...
and for what reason...
Sergio
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Hi,
according to Heise News (sorry, in german) here:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/77998
the next round in software patents is coming in
form of the EPLA, European Patent Litigation
Agreement.
This would create a cross-EU court on patent
stuff, which would codify the years-old practice
of the EPA of giving out software patents.
Greetings, Eric
Hi,
pst wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 15:22 +0200, Serge Marelli wrote:
>> BTW Pascal,
>>
>> I read that you're going to give a speech in a hacker/pirate conference!?
>
> I think you are talking about the "rencontre SPIRAL"...
Yes, that's the one...
http://www.spiral.lu/SI/Channel/SPIRAL.nsf/w%20Root?OpenFrameSet&Frame=Main…
(why do these URLs have to be so huge ?)
(...)
>> Would you be so kind as to let them know that there is no such thing as
>> a computer pirate ? That is a voluntarily misleading image to confuse
>> people and mix the image of copyright violators with bloodthirsty
>> murderes and criminals.
>> See : http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy
>
> Well here your a miselading something, the hackers we are talking about
> are not the "computer pirates" in a copyright sense, but the real
> computer security folk (be they black hats (bad) or white hats
> (good)) ...
Rest assured, I'm not misleading nor misunderstanding...
The conference's name/title is "S'il te plaît... dessine moi un pirate
informatique !"... so they're using the word _pirate_ !
I simply object to a misleading point of vocabulary and am trying to
make sure people stop confusing ("white hat") hackers and "black hat"
hackers and copyright violators.
As the conference notice says...
"Escroqueries, espionnage, spamming, abus de confiance... Les
différentes formes de délinquance informatique sont devenues une réalité
indéniable."
as well as
"caractériser précisément les différents types de "hackers" et les
menaces qu'ils représentent."
> but rethinking this, it would be a good idea to clarify this point
> during my talk
>
>> It might be interesting to give the message to the organisers of the
>> conference as well...
That was what I was counting on (asking ;) you to do...
I'm not sure yet whether I can attend, I'd like to but the day/time
might not work with my schedule.
yrs
Serge
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Serge Marelli, Luxembourg
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Hello all,
Did you see this in the latest issue of the "La sélection" P&T Lux
newspaper distributed to all households ?
"Microsoft condamné à rembourser 1,1 milliard de dollards
Le numéro un du logiciel va devoir rembourser la modique somme de 1,1
milliard de dollards à des entreprises et à des particuliers de
Californie. reconnu coupable, selon la loi antitrust, d'avoir abusé du
monopole de Windows et facturé le système d'exploitation au prix fort,
Microsoft est condamné à rembourser aux plaignants l'achat de leurs
logiciels Microsoft, soit généralement un peu plus de 100$ chacun, sauf
pour les entreprises, pour lesquelles les montants sont bien plus élevés."
Anybody interested in starting the same case here based on the european
legislation, of course?
Guilain
Nice to know: "Security Engineering - The Book", by Ross Anderson is now
an on-line book
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
>From the webpage :
"My goal in making the book freely available is twofold. First, I want
to reach the widest possible audience, especially among poor students.
Second, I am a pragmatic libertarian on free culture and free software
issues; I think that many publishers (especially of music and software)
are too defensive of copyright. I don't expect to lose money by making
this book available for free: more people will read it, and those of you
who find it useful will hopefully buy a copy. After all, a proper book
is half the size and weight of 300-odd sheets of laser-printed paper in
a ring binder. (My colleague David MacKay found that putting his book on
coding theory online actually helped its sales. Book publishers are
getting the message faster than the music or software folks.)"
Mr Anderson has also some interesting words on TCPA and more... see :
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.htmlhttp://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/#Lib
enjoy
Serge
Eric Dondelinger wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> has the date been fixed for the next meeting?
>
> I'd have a couple of questions to ask to experts ;-)
>
> Greetings, Eric
Due to the few people here in August, I'd say we do the next meeting in
September. 21st would be a logical date.
However, if there is enough interest (please send mail if you are
interested), we can do a restaurant meeting next week (31st)
Regards,
Alain
