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Shady Microsoft Plugin Pokes "Critical" Hole In Firefox Security

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Microsoft has acknowledged that they slipped the .NET Framework Assistant plugin into Firefox via Windows Update this past February, and that it has poked a “critical” hole in the browser’s security (effectively bringing Firefox down to IE’s level). Microsoft has … Continue reading

SSH Tunnel Manager

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SSH Tunnel Manager allows users to easily manage a configurable list of SSH tunnels and their required keys. The program allows you to maintain a configuration of commonly used dynamic, local, and/or remote SSH port-forwarding tunnels. Once configured, the tunnels … Continue reading

The winner is …. Google Chrome

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A  comparaison has been done between the latest versions of the 5 most popular web browesrs: Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0,  Opera 10.0, Apple Safari 4.0.

Canal+ france available in Moovida

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Canal+ france is now available for Moovida, the plugin was released the 2009-10-02 and allow you to have full access to the un-crypted contents broadcast by canal+. CANAL+ is a French premium pay television channel. So now you can access … Continue reading

OpenOffice boom in Belgium

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The number of public administrations in Belgium that use the open source office productivity suite OpenOffice is rising steadily. And with it the use of the open document format ODF. OVAM, Flanders’ Public Waste Agency, already adapted its back office … Continue reading

Dutch police goes open source

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The Dutch police are going for an open source solution. Today, Red Hat, the leader in open source solutions, announced that the Dutch Police cooperation “voorziening tot samenwerking Politie Nederland” (vtsPN) has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) … Continue reading

17 useful Google Chrome Extensions

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Google Chrome’s support for third party extensions might be still in it’s infancy, but already dozens of different extensions has been written. If you are a regular chrome user, you must try extensions just like you must try extensions in … Continue reading