Parted Magic 4.11: Download Available

Patrick Verner announced on June 14th the immediate availability of a new version of his popular Parted Magic operating system. Parted Magic 4.11 comes now with Linux kernel 2.6.32.15, Partclone 2.3, and many other updated packages, as well as some bug fixes and improvements. Parted Magic is an operating system created to help users easily partition their hard drives or perform various recovery tasks.

Intel® Many Integrated Core: New Way of High-Performance Computing

During the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), Intel Corporation announced plans to deliver new products based on the Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture that will create platforms running at trillions of calculations per second, while also retaining the benefits of standard Intel processors.

NetBeans IDE 6.9, Available for Download

The NetBeans team is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.9!

NetBeans IDE 6.9 introduces the JavaFX Composer, a visual layout tool for building JavaFX GUI applications, similar to the Swing GUI builder for Java SE applications. With the JavaFX Composer, developers can quickly build, visually edit, and debug Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and bind components to various data sources, including Web services.

Kernel v2.6.35-rc3 Release

A good news came from Linux.org. June 11st, Linux Headquaters released Linux Kernel v2.6.35-rc3 with some changes.

Watch FIFA World Cup Soccer Streaming Live

The 2010 World Cup starts on June 11^th, and one of the best ways to keep up on the soccer will be to watch it streaming live. Here's where you can find the World Cup soccer matches streaming online:

Apache Maven 3 Release, Soon

The open source Apache Maven project has been helping software developers for over six years with their project build and reporting management needs. For most of that time, the project has been offering incremental updates to the Apache Maven 2.x product line, but in the next few months, Maven 3 is set to emerge.


Maven 3 will be the first major release for the Apache project since the Maven 2 release in 2005. It also comes at time when the project's lead sponsor, Sonatype, is gearing up new commercially support applications to enhance the Maven ecosystem.

Hacking Lesson from Google, It's Free

Google has created a Web application full of exploitable bugs to help webmasters better understand the most common type of Web attacks and learn how to prevent them. Codenamed Jarlsberg, the project is part of the Google Code University's "Web Application Exploits and Defenses" codelab.

The Jarlsberg application, named after the eponymous cheese brand famous for its holes, is vulnerable to several types of cross-site attack conditions, including cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (XSRF) and cross-site script inclusion (XSSI). The are also bugs that facilitate client-state manipulation, path traversal, information disclosure, denial of service or remote code execution.