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Versign is experimenting a new Phone software to gain maximum security.

The software will be able to generate a unique to use to log in your accounts, in a similar way a RSA Key does.

What’s the Password? Only Your iPhone Knows - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com.

Notizie (finte) e simpatiche del primo aprile / Funny April Fools’ news:

• Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink | Media | The Guardian.
• Techcrunch comprehnsive list

Slashdot reported an interactive map of the Linux  kernel:

Interactive map of Linux kernel.

Slashdot comments here

Happy Friday Hacking!

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After about two years with Rimuhosting, I can summarize their feature here:

• They have a very good  entry-price for a virtual hosting
• System aministrator has a very prompt response: on every issue I get support in 24 hours, also on Sunday
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• Java hosting works well, without problems.
• The default Bandwith is very huge (30GB). There is also  an automatic backup and a remote web-based shell out-of-the-box.
• You can choose between high-end Linux distribution  (like Red Hat enterprise) and free one.

The revamp of Jython 2.5, the python interpreter written in Java, is a very good news, because give us the chance to think of a new way of coding. Looking at Google trends,  JRuby and Jython are emerging as key  pieces of a new puzzle.

Hi Sunday!  How are you deare reader? If you are up at 7 o’clock (the publish date of this post), you are probably a very hard rock internet-surfer. And the strong surfer are IT Geeks often.

So we want to give you a small link: a collection of very userful and nice wordpress plugins which should work also for WordPress 2.7. This set is nice because they are small, neat and easy to use, and well organized.

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Take a look to the stealth publish plugin

As you know, U.S.A. is having a very bad time, the resulting effect is a “big credit crunch”. For this reason big company operating in the IT are cutting down their minor services. Google is famous for having pushed a lot of “beta” services, and now the company is reviewing its decisions. Orkut (the Facebook-clone until Facebook acquisition…) is one of the service facing a lack of interest by BigG. We can read below the story of a guy who had its credential stolen by a set of smart hackers:

We are happy to announce we have powered our searche engine, after importing Objectsroot.com blog articles.

Now you can use boolean operator like “AND”, to do complex searches.

The search service is lucene-compatible at syntax level: feel free to play a bit with it… you can find funny things from the past… :)

The 4.x way is to use JDK (>=5) annotation, but if you for some reason have to use the JDK 1.4 you have two solutions. The one I prefer is to use junit 3.8.x but if you cannot tolerate the missing of JUnit 4.x in the attached PDF you’ll find the standard 4.x way (with annotation) and a workaround for using the old JUnit TestSuite syntax.

At Gioorgi.com we do not see the point of using Annotations, anyway, this is JDK 5 babies. So, thank you edivad for your help on finding a way to run junit3 tests on junit4!