Blender 2.46

yesterday, May 19 Blender 2.46 released.

I'm not here to tell you the new enhancements, that you can find in the official website or in the wiki.I'm here to something more, that we have more one great tool that is open source, and that in nowdays has reached a place that can clearly compete with the commercial tools.Frequently i see people become really the true "tards" when they claim that this kind of project based on these philosophy wont get success, even that this is a blind vision of someone, that's not the only reason people defend it.

I like so much of that philosophy of open source movement;

1.They help students
2.They help the common users discovery a "brand new world"
3.They help with concurrence
4.They help with the transparency
5.They help with the philosophy that there is good people =p
6. ...

That's awesome and always will be, thanks not just to the Blender foundation but for that "big community", Stallman, Torvalds, others that own the concept of "sharing" like Fravia, Kaspersky etc.

i think you have search engines enough to find the website to download the blender.

=p

A new hat released

It's name is Fedora 9, ok great!

:)

Q:What's the difference between Fedora and Ubuntu?

A:Basically Fedora is more complete.

I recommend you use Fedora, i have the 8th version here and it's awesome, easy like Ubuntu but with a bunch of things that almost any developer on nix systems would like to have.

Link
http://fedoraproject.org/

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TouchPad Issue

Its happens because someone disabled some option ;0

in the x server configurations...

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

add this one

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "synaptics"
Identifier "TouchPad"
Option "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
EndSection

and make sure that you have the "Identifiers" name into this section too

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "TouchPad" "CorePointer"#<------ here
EndSection

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Nvidia Drivers Issue

Well another problem i got when i tried compile one module to install one driver from the nvidia website for the x86_64 architecture.

And here we go with the log file generated...

/tmp/selfgz5076/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv-vm.c:364: erro
r: implicit declaration of function ‘global_flush_tlb’
make[4]: *** [/tmp/selfgz5076/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv-
vm.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/tmp/selfgz5076/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
nvidia.ko failed to build!
make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
make: *** [module] Error 2

The problem is into nv-vm.c source file at line 364 when occur one implicit declaration of function, well appears to be simple, but i'll not say anything by now ...

A dilemma in the botnet scene

I'll give you an exciting brief introduction ... =p

by Cody and Pedram Amini

"
...

Cody and I thought it would be interesting to examine Kraken with the specific goal of infiltrating the bot network. We started with a sample from Offensive Computing and working from there eventually concluded that we would indeed be able to infiltrate and take over increasingly larger portions of the Kraken bot net. Cody did most of the manual labor of protocol dissection, reverse engineering the encryption routines and eventually creating a fake Kraken server capable of overtaking a redirected zombie. His detailed write up on the reverse engineering process is available under "Owning Kraken".

..."

The links

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/04/28/kraken-botnet-infiltration

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/04/28/owning-kraken-zombies

Thanks Pedram for posting it on open.rce, some times i forget to check out others sources of information.

I know that is hard choice do what you want, but seems that you guys have doubts about the choice, so keep in secret analyzing... sometimes when you have to do the right thing you can't make it public, you know...

the world in a nutshell...