OSX has gone from no known virus threats on Friday morning, to two threats on Monday morning. What a weekend!
From the Symantec Anti-Virus Research Center:
OSX.Leap.A
OSX.Inqtana.A
Both are low risk viruii. OSX.Leap.A is a worm that spreads through iChat. OSX.Inqtana.A is a worm that spreads through the BlueTooth system. At this time, OSX.Inqtana.A is only a proof of concept.
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Scan all reserved TCP ports on ip address
Scan all reserved TCP ports on ip address and try to detect software and version listening on open ports
Default is to output to stdout. You can pipe to a file with:
or by using one of the output parameters.
Output in normal human readable format.
Output in XML format. This is useful for passing to other applications for further processing or converting to HTML.
Output in grepable format. This option provides all of the information on one line so it can easily be found using the grep command.
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Oracle recently bought out Sleepycat Software, the creators of the Berkley DB. Berkley DB is the most widely used open source database engine. Last October, Oracle acquired InnoDB another major database engine.
The MySQL server application supports several different database engines. Two of these being Berkley DB and InnoDB. MySQL was also recently working with Sleepycat to create a new transactional database engine to replace InnoDB. MySQL’s latest release, MySQL 5.0, was built around the InnoDB transactional engine. MySQL may be starved for alternative database engines shortly. Building a new engine from scratch will be costly.
So who’s next on Oracle’s radar? Current reports list JBoss and Zend.
What will that mean for the PHP community? Traditional open source community thinking views the corporate software world as the enemy. At the top of that list of software dictators are Microsoft and Oracle. A fortune 100 corporation owning the product one of the largest open source communities will not sit well with a large percentage of the community. I have myself have been nonplussed at the corporatization of PHP to Zend. That is bound to happen when a community expands from not-for-profit to corporate entity. Everybody has to find a way to make a living though.
More news on the Oracle Sleepycat deal
More news on Oracle and Zend
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I have received several mails recently inquiring how I have so many pages listed highly in Google, especially for tweaks, hacks and fixes for PHP and server related issues.
The key is the keywords used in the post title and body.
The keywords for any issue specific post, such as a bug or error message are easy. Portions of the actual error message should be used. Ask yourself, 'If I had this problem, what would I search for to find the solution?'
Take for instance a recent post regarding an error I encountered after installing the Zend Optimizer for a client. The error message was:
Failed loading /usr/local/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so: /usr/local/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so: undefined symbol: zend_extensions
The post was titled: Undefined Symbol Error After Installing Zend Optimizer.
Checkout these Google results. Three top five links on a post that is less than two weeks old. Yes, those are some specific searches, but they were pulled from the server logs.
Some general guidelines:
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I bet that makes for some interesting demographical datamining.
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