ISO members reject OOXML format ... Oracle to buy Netsure ... 'Stupid' vulnerabilities found in Oracle 11g

In this issue:

* ISO votes to reject Microsoft's OOXML as standard

* E-mail system attack caused no damage, DOD says

* Oracle to buy network intelligence company Netsure

* DRAM finally finds a home in mobile phones

* HITB: Expert finds 'stupid' vulnerabilities in Oracle 11g

* Free gift offers dupe users into giving personal data

* Second Life gold rush hits a few snags

* Poll: What was the first computer you ever owned?


TODAY'S TOP STORY
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ISO votes to reject Microsoft's OOXML as standard

Microsoft Corp. has failed in its attempt to have its Office Open XML document format fast-tracked straight to the status of an international standard by the International Organization for Standardization.


NEWS
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E-mail system attack caused no damage, DOD says

Oracle to buy network intelligence company Netsure

DRAM finally finds a home in mobile phones

HITB: Expert finds 'stupid' vulnerabilities in Oracle 11g

Free gift offers dupe users into giving personal data


OPINION
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YouTube and advertising: Accepting the inevitable
By Dan Blacharski, ITworld.com

You wanna play, you gotta pay. YouTube has ads on videos now, a common-sense move that long-term is the only way for sites like these to survive. Fortunately for YouTube users, the “pay” end of the deal is that you have to give YouTube advertisers your eyeballs for a few seconds.


UNIX TIP
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Using netgroups to share files
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com

Solaris and other SVR4 versions of Unix provide file sharing through
NFS and the /etc/dfs/dfstab file. The syntax of this particular file
permits you to restrict file system sharing to a limited number of
hosts or to share file systems with no restrictions whatsoever.
Restricting file systems to a select set of hosts is particularly
important if you are permitting the client hosts to access the file
systems read/write and even more important if root on the clients will
have the authority of root on your NFS server.

You can specify the hosts that are permitted to mount file systems by
stringing them together in a colon-separated format with the share
command, such as this command which can be issued on the command line
or included in the dfstab file for a more or less permanent setup:


PODCAST
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ISO members reject OOXML format

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ITWHIRLED
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Teen trades hacked iPhone for sports car, more iPhones

Everybody knew that George Hotz, the 17-year-old who managed to unlock an Apple iPhone so it could be used with carriers other than AT&T would do well for himself, but did anyone guess he'd do so well, so quickly? He traded the unlocked iPhone for a $38,000 Nissan 350Z - and, in case he regretted giving up the phone, he got three more of them to boot.

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TODAY'S POLL
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The first computer I ever owned...

* Ran Windows XP/Vista
* Ran Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000
* Ran Windows 3.x
* Ran DOS
* Ran OS X
* Ran the Classic Mac OS
* Was made by Commodore
* Was made by Atari
* Took up the better part of a room

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