Sean Michael Kerner

JavaScript has proven to be a very useful tool for Web developers. From ad server code to all manner of widgets, JavaScript can be found in many third party applications and services that find there way onto a wide mixture of websites. But as DevX details, a new report says websites running third party JavaScript […]

Mozilla wasted little time fixing a mistake to its latest update, essentially recalling the 3.6.7 update issued early last week with a Firefox 3.6.8 update on Friday that fixed at least one serious problem that adversely affected some pages with embedded plugins. As eSecurity Planet reports, this isn’t the first time Mozilla has had to […]

From the ‘So Long and Farewell‘ files: What’s the life span of a Novell openSUSE Linux release? In the case of openSUSE 11.0, it’s two year and one month (25 months). The openSUSE 11.0 release debuted in June of 2008 and has since been replaced by more recent releases – with the most recent release […]

Like many software projects, the FreeBSD open source Unix effort is marked by major updates in the dot-zero release, and then minor, incremental updates come later. So it is with FreeBSD 8.1, which has just been released. It sports performance improvements, incremental fixes and some bug fixes over 8.0, which shipped last year. ServerWatch takes […]

From the ‘Open Source Licensing” files: Google’s open source programs manager Chris DiBona (pic left) took the stage at OSCON today and he had some interesting things to say, about licensing. I’ve heard DiBona speak on open source licensing several times over the years. This time his talk wasn’t about licensing specifics, but rather about […]

It is a dubious distinction indeed. In its annual mid-year security report, Cisco has labeled the United States as the most prolific originator of spam e-mail. Additionally, Cisco found that an alarming number of respondents to the survey said that they don’t respect their companies’ security policies concerning the use of social media. eSecurity Planet […]

Google has already set up an aggressive release cycle for its Chrome browser, releasing a stable update every 12 weeks, faster than any of its major competitors. Now, it’s planning to double that pace. In addition to the accelerated release cycle, Google is also stepping up its efforts to identify and patch security vulnerabilities. Datamation […]

When Riverbed’s Virtual Steelhead suite hits the market later this year, the company will become the latest player in the WAN virtualization market. The new portfolio, set to hit the market in the third quarter, will bring the features included in the latest release of Riverbed’s 6.1 operating system for physical appliances to virtual environments. […]

If anyone tells you open source can’t run a large business or scale, remind them that Facebook is serving a half billion people with a network built on open source code. Quite a bit of it, as Developer.com notes, much of what runs Facebook is open source languages and software. At an open source conference, […]

Ubuntu Linux’s chief backer, Canonical, is pressing ahead with a new way for enterprises to tap into the cloud to meet their computing needs. This time around, Ubuntu is powering a virtual “appliance” running IBM’s DB2 database and hosted on either Amazon’s cloud or on a public or private Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. The idea is […]

From the ‘MySQL Magic‘ files: Marten Mickos (pic left) is perhaps best known as the former CEO of open source database vendor MySQL. Mickos is currently the CEO of open source cloud vendor Eucalyptus and he’s trying to mimic the success that MySQL had with his new company. So how does an open source company […]

From the ‘Creative Keynote Title‘ files: Stormy Peters (pic left) is the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation and she’s got a message for open source devs and users : Pick Up the Poop. No I’m not making that up. That was the title of her OSCON keynote on Wednesday in which she encouraged attendees […]