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frisket wrote The JIRA issue tracking system has been around for seven years and has proven popular commercial and open source environments because of its licensing agreements (free to certain categories of organizations, and the source code available developers). The release of v.4 in 2009 (currently 4.4) made some major changes to the user interface and research, a new plugin architecture and the ability to share dashboards projects outside the system. Patrick Li JIRA 4 Essentials is a comprehensive guide interface and facilities that both present the material simply and avoids the trap of simply being a guide to the menus. Although it is primarily for the administrator, it will also be useful for the desktop user who want an autonomous system. Read on for the rest of the review of Peter.

We have seen before , cigarettes electric Blu Cig is designed to provide users with a  healthy way to get their daily dose of nicotine without the use of conventional cancer stick. These fumes can now be found in a sophisticated intelligent pack that alerts you to other users in the 50-foot, perhaps talk to some illuminating small wrinkles, but the ashes of induction. This week the smoke got an upgrade with a strong battery and a cartomizer practice that allows you to adjust the level of nicotine and flavor depends on how hard you’re fiending. Do not worry miss, as the Smart Pack will automatically rearrange your smoke when supply dips – how kind. In the future, the company hopes to integrate social networking features to like-minded e-smokers can build relationships of their habits. But honestly, what is more addictive – nicotine or Facebook? Check the PR after the break.

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snydeq writes InfoWorld Peter Wayner provides an in-depth look on the status of open source software and an overview of the best open source software of the year. ‘It is easy to find hundreds of other positive signs of open source domination . If the mere existence of a tar file full of code from the lower regions of a device that beeps buried deep in someone’s pocket is all you need to feel warm and fuzzy of open source, one might conclude that the open source development is the most dominant platform in the increasingly dominant in the future, Wayner writes. But anyone who digs a little further it is not so simple. Although the label open source is becoming more pervasive, the company is still a long way from the vision of Richard Stallman of a world where anyone could reprogram anything at any time. patents, copyrights, and the plot of corporate issues are more important than ever for the community, and more to find the words open source are no guarantee of freedom to tinker and improve. Some cynics even suggest that the bright, open future back as Linux and other open source tools grow more dominant. Included in the writeup are the best open source applications, the best open source desktop and mobile offerings, the best open source development tools, and best open source software for data centers and clouds.

spagiola writes Last week, a military transport plane with 17 people aboard disappeared in the vicinity of Robinson Crusoe, Chile. The parents of the victims of a crash recorded in Find My iPhone and were able to isolate the coordinates the last known location of the aircraft before it crashed Extract from the article. Admiral Francisco García-Huidobro said the foundation has received much attention today, and that it has to do with an iPhone owned by one of the victims of the accident Aereal of Juan Fernandez, in a range of Bahia Carvajal. The phone signal can be captured using the GPS system, however, the water eventually stop it. Nevertheless, García Huidoro said they were able to trace the last position where the signal of the last generation, which will be released tomorrow.

astroengine writes While the idea of infect the red planet with our germs is not new, a microbiologist believes the next Mars rover may be more likely to become a lifeboat microbe. Andrew C. Schuerger of the University of Florida and Life Sciences Lab at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, believes the problem may lie in the way NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) will land on Mars -. first previous Mars rovers wheels sat on top of a lander platform for at least two Martian days (sols) before venturing into the regolith;. any surviving bacteria attached to their wheels have been killed by the harsh UV light that bathes in March as the wheels of the MSL will immediately contact the regolith straight after entry, there may be an increased chance of contaminating Mars with the terrestrial bacteria. But again, as Schuerger admits, the risks are minimal.

MrSeb wrote Invensas, a subsidiary of microelectronic chips Tessera company, has discovered a way to stack multiple DRAM chips on top of each other. This process, called multi-die face-down packing, or for short xfd , massively increases the memory density, reduced power consumption, and should pave the way for memory chips faster and more efficient. Multi-die face-down packing is exactly what it sounds like, a stacked memory dies each other like tiles. Much like a normal desktop and a laptop DIMM SO-DIMM, each of the stacked die is connected to another series -. but in this case, connections are much shorter, as they can just throw a few micrometers below the chip is where all the improvements in power and speed come from: short interconnections means less power is needed (and therefore less heat is dissipated ) and the signals propagate faster.

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Trailrunner7 wrote In the wake of revelations this weekend on the severity of the attack on the certificate of authority DigiNotar, security experts have renewed criticism of the infrastructure of the Internet’s digital certificate, with wondering if some certificate authorities (CAs) may be too big to fail. Is Mozilla and Microsoft and Google have canceled trust root certificates from VeriSign or Thawte, had they been compromised? Improbable. This n is not a simple matter to remove the certificates from a database because they are not at all bases, said Moxie Marlinspike researcher, who presented an alternative approach to existing infrastructure SSL DEFCON last month. We can never keep them all.

Interlagos AMD’s server-style bulldozer chip – Mr. Opteron 6200 to you and me – is pushed to retailers and manufacturers ready for launch in October. AMD is calling the first 16-core x86 processor, although we know of required reading , it was eight to two core modules common rather than the 16 independents. The chips are compatible with Socket G34 motherboards, but most of this first production run will go directly into projects supercomputer. AMD is silent on the progress of the Zambezi consumer level, but rumors are that the company can not clock fast enough to compete with Intel Core i7 – the very class that was designed bulldozer to bury.