Additional Security Layers Include:
Anti-spam, parental controls, and privacy to deliver comprehensive computer security.

Fast, Safe, and Easy to use for novices with our new One-Click Fix It interface, yet powerful and customizable for more advanced users.

http://rapidshare.com/files/147021708/Hime.DotNXT.ZAISS.8.0.020_XP_.rar
Or,
http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=O0JRURVF
Pass : Hime@DotNXT

LimeWire - The Fastest P2P File Sharing Program on the Planet, running on the Gnutella Network. It is open standard software running on an open protocol, free for the public to use. LimeWire allows you to share any file such as.mp3s, .avis, jpgs, tiffs, etc., allows you to search for multiple files at the same time, available in several different languages, and is most famous for its ease-of-use and cross-platform compatibility. Limewire is written in Java, and will run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, and other computing platforms.

2. Firewall to Firewall Transfers. Since about 60% of users are currently firewalled, this feature greatly increases the amount of content on the network.
3. Faster network connections. Using new "UDP Host Caches", LimeWire starts up and connects faster then ever before!
4. Universal Plug 'N Play. UPnP support allows LimeWire to find more search results and have faster downloads.
5. iTunes Integration. Windows users can now take advantage of LimeWire's iTunes integration.
6. Creative Commons Integration. LimeWire now recognizes OGGs and MP3s licensed under a Creative Commons License.
7. "What's New?" feature. Users can browse the network for the most recent content additions.
8. Search drill down results. Searches in LimeWire now immediately display the artists, albums and other information that fully describes files.
9. **** support. Users can now use web proxies to route their to protect their identity.
10. Support for International searches and International groups. Users can now search in any language, and LimeWire ensures that a user will be connected to other users with their own language to aide international users to receive search results in their native language and to find content from sources that are close to home.

LimeWire still has the following great features:
- Ease of use - just install, run, and search
- Ability to search by artist, title, genre, or other metainformation
- Elegant multiple search tabbed interface
- "Swarm" downloads from multiple hosts help you get files faster
- iTunes integration for Mac and Windows users
- Unique "ultrapeer" technology reduces bandwidth requirements for most users
- Integrated chat
- Directly connect to a computer
- Browse host feature--even works through firewalls
- Added Bitzi metadata lookup
- International versions: Now available in many new languages
- Connects to the network using GWebCache, a distributed connection system
- Automatic local network searches for lightning-fast downloads
- Support for MAGNET links that allow you to click on web page links that access Gnutella
Download : http://rapidshare.com/files/146254927/Portable_LimeWire_Pro_4.18.5.1-www.dotnxt.com.rar
pass : razor@DotNXT.com

Windows Xp Pro Sp3 Final - Gold Cobra
Windows XP Pro SP3 Gold Cobra Loaded | RAR | 697MB
A professional version SP3 for 32 Bit Custom O/S - msdn sp3 final iso used as source disk. A lots of Applications installed like: Windows Blind 6, Icon Packager, WinRAR 3.71, VistaRTMFonts v1.1, …
No languages touched | No serials needed | Passed all MS Validation Checks | Obtain MS updates without concern | Burn ISO to bootable CD or DVD at slow sped (suggest X1) | And Install from boot; Choosing Full format option
Screenshots:
http://i38.tinypic.com/2i24g7n.jpg
http://i35.tinypic.com/2nby93m.jpg
http://i35.tinypic.com/2r553jc.jpg
http://i35.tinypic.com/nqd05f.jpg
SPECIAL FEATURES:
WINDOWBLINDS v.6.1 ENHANCED PRE-PATCHED (Added Xp Transparent Skin) - (just save license)
ICONPACKAGER v.3.2 (REGISTERED)
CUSTOM GLASS CURSERS AND VISTA SOUNDS BY DEFAULT
WMP11 VISTA CUSTOMIZED SKIN BY DEFAULT
LCLOCK CUSTOMIZED SETTINGS/CUSTOMIZED CALENDAR BY DEFAULT
VISTA CUSTOMIZED ROCKET DOCK
VISTA SIDEBAR CUSTOMIZED GADGETS
CUSTOMIZED PROPERTY BOXES
CUSTOMIZED INSTALLATION/BOOT/LOGON/LOGOFF SCREENS
GOLD THEME (WITH DEFAULT SETTINGS)
BLACK THEME (WITH DEFAULT SETTINGS)

SPECIAL ADDITIONS:
SATA SUPPORT
(DRIVER PACKS)
CHIPSET V.8.03
LAN V.8.052
M.SGE V.8.04
WLAN V.8.03
NETFRAME 2SP1
NETFRAME 3SP1
NETFRAME 3.5
VISUAL C 2005 SP1
VISUAL C 2008
DIRECT 9X RUNTIMES (MARCH 200
KLITE CODEC PACK V.3.9.0

PATCHES:
TcpIp - increased from 10 to 100
UxTheme - patch enabled
Sys.File Protection - disabled

TWEAKS FOR LOOKS AND SPEED:
Explorer-Add ‘Command Prompt’ to folder context menu
Explorer-Disable shortcut arrow
Explorer-Recycle Bin: allow to rename and delete
Explorer-Show Drive Letters in front of Drive Names
Internet Explorer-Set Homepage-www.google.com
Internet Explorer-Set Internet Explorer to accept 10 connects at a time
Performance-Disable Warn on low disk space
Start Menu-Reduce popup delay
Start Menu-Remove Windows Catalog shortcut
Start Menu-Remove Windows Update shortcut
Taskbar-Disable Balloon Tips
Taskbar-Disable Language-Bar
Taskbar-Hide Volume Control Icon in System Tray
Visual Effects-Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing-Disable
Visual Effects-Combo box animation-Disable
Visual Effects-Cursor shadow-Disable
Visual Effects-Display mouse pointer trails-Disable
Visual Effects-Fade out selection-Disable
Visual Effects-Gradient captions in windows-Disable
Visual Effects-Menu animation-Disable
Visual Effects-Menu shadows-Disable
Visual Effects-Show translucent selection rectangle-Enable
Visual Effects-Show window contents while dragging-Enable
Visual Effects-Slide taskbar buttons-Disable
Visual Effects-Smooth edges of screen fonts-ClearType
Visual Effects-Smooth-scroll list boxes-Enable
Visual Effects-Tooltip animation-Disable
Visual Effects-Use a background image for each folder type-Disable
Visual Effects-Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop-Enable

ADDED:
Netframe 2 Sp1
Vis.C Redis.2005 Sp1
Vis.C Redis.2008
DirectX 9.0c End-User Runtime
ImageResizer v1.2
WMP11 Vista Customized
BurnCDCC
CabTool v1.8
ClearType v1.1
CPL Bonus v.8.2.2
7-Zip 4.57
7zSplit 0.2.0.740
DAMN NFO Viewer v2.10.0032
CursorsCGlass v1.2
Firefox 2.0.0.14
HashTab v.2
Hunt Virus Utilities (Including HijackThis)
Image Format Cnvtr Shell v.2.0
IZArc 3.81 Build 1550
LClock v.1.62b custom
PowerCmd v.1.9 (registered)
Sysinternals Tools 25.07.2007
AIOVistaAeroCursors v7.07.03
CCleaner2.07.575
Standalone Flash Player (Macromedia)
StylerTB1401
VistaRTMFonts v1.1
VistaSceenSavers v1.1
VistaSoundsReplacement
WindowsSidebarSP3 AlkyXP1.0 (Customized)
WindowBlinds v.6.1 enhanced plus, Xp Transparent Skin (pre-patched - just save license)
IconPackager.v.3.2 (registered)
Klite Codecs v.3.9.0
RocketDock v.1.3.5 (customized)
Unlocker v.1.8.7
uTorrent 1.7.7 (8179) (BLUE) + SBG
WinRAR.v.3.71 (registered)
VistaLoud
SP3UpdPk1.0.9 RepacK
Black Theme (Customized)
Gold Theme (Customized)
IE7
Links:

http://rapidshare.com/files/143666834/xp.pro-sp3-final-GoldCobra_Loaded_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143666825/xp.pro-sp3-final-GoldCobra_Loaded_.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143666757/xp.pro-sp3-final-GoldCobra_Loaded_.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143666648/xp.pro-sp3-final-GoldCobra_Loaded_.part4.rar

Pass: c4links.com

Magic Video Converter can convert and split almost any media format (Look at Supported Files) such as AVI, MPEG, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MPEG 4, VCD, DVD, SVCD, RMVB, RM, and WMV and some new format such as .flv which is used on youtube, h.264, .mkv etc. Besides, it is compatible with DVD burning which is very easy to use. You can also create burning menu with it.

Magic Video Converter is a program that is very easy to use, it's simple and has a great interface. It works great with WIndows Vista.
Version 8.0.2.18 is a bug fixing release.

Advanced features for advanced users
NEW! Integrated anti-virus protection - our powerful anti-spyware software now includes extended anti-virus protection.
NEW! Advanced real-time protection against spyware, viruses, worms, Trojans, password stealers, and other malicious programs
NEW! Enhanced Rootkit removal system
NEW! Extended detection database with detection of more than 1.2 million cyber threats
NEW! Substantially reduced use of computer memory
Web navigation control with the Hosts File Editor
Customizable Scans
Compatible with Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit)
Faster, more efficient, automatic Updates
Free technical support
Ad-Watch Real-Time Monitor - Detect deceptive malware and spyware applications before they integrate into your PC and attack your personal information.
Advanced Code Sequence Identification (CSI) Technology - Ensure your privacy protection with precise detection of embedded malware including Trojans, worms, spyware, and other forms of deceptive malware.
NEW! Enhanced Rootkit Removal System - Rootkit detection technology to find and remove hidden threats.
NEW! Extended Threat Detection - Lavasoft's new extended anti-virus engine boosts detection to include over one million additional virus and malware threats, with continuous updates to guard your privacy against cyber attacks.
TrackSweep - Control your privacy by erasing tracks left behind while surfing the Web on multiple browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera, with one easy click.
System Restore Point - Easily revert to your clean system to recover from a spyware attack.
Ad-Watch RegShield - Improved detection of attempted registry changes, a favorite target for many malware distributors.
Process Watch Module - View an in-depth snapshot of all running processes and quickly stop known offenders.
Ad-Watch Process - Immediately detects all recognized malicious processes to prevent them from further integration in your system.
Hosts File Editor - Take control of your Web navigation by blocking advertisement sites, reversing browser hijack entries, assisting with parental controls, and creating navigation shortcuts.
NEW! Substantially reduced use of computer memory - Significant reduction in resources used while in watchguard mode.
NEW! Faster Updates - Protect against the latest forms of spyware and malware with free software updates throughout the license duration. New download compression results in faster product updates for users on all systems.
NEW! Lavasoft ThreatWork - Directly submit suspicious files for analysis via ThreatWork, an alliance of global anti-spyware security volunteers actively fighting online threats.

http://rapidshare.com/files/146695219/4d4v3r.rar

sxforum.org

Avira presents the Premium Security Suite with Full protection: Includes basic and advanced antivirus protection, email protection, AntiPhishing, Anti-Spyware and Anti-Adware PLUS: Anti-Spam, Firewall, WebGuard (Safe Surfing), Game Mode and more.! Complete security for workstations! The repeatedly awarded and worldwide used virus and malware protection by over 30 million users now also with WebGuard!

Avira is a German antivirus software company. Its antivirus applications are based on the AntiVir antivirus engine, first launched in 1988. It was called "H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH" when it was founded. One of the antivirus software, AntiVir Personal, is free for personal usage.
Avira is launching a new, comprehensive protection package for end-users as well as small offices and home workers: the Avira Premium Security Suite is a combination of Avira’s brand-new firewall and the proven anti-virus software AntiVir Personal Premium. Even less experienced users can cope with the numerous security threats from the Internet with the central, intuitively operated user interface of the Suite.

Premium Security Protection:

* AntiVir
* AntiAd/Spyware
* AntiPhishing
* AntiRootkit
* AntiDrive-by
* AntiBot
* EmailScanner
* WebGuard
* RescueSystem
* BackupSystem
* AntiSpam
* FireWall
* GameMode

Premium Security Suite functions and advantages:

* Protection against viruses, worms and Trojans
* Protection against expensive dialers
* Detects and deletes rootkits
* NEW: Raised scan speed
* NEW: Redesigned visual appearance
* Protection against phishing
* Protection against spyware
* Special protection against email viruses (POP 3)
* Fast updates through Premium Server
* 5 Euro donation to Auerbach Foundation
* Protection against annoying adware
* NEW: System to create a Rescue-CD
* WebGuard to surf and download safely
* Firewall included
* AntiSpam and proactive AntiPhishing
* Game Mode
* NEW: Function for Data BackUp


Highlights from the WebGuard:

* Checks Internet downloads against viruses
* Recognizes defective files before they are loaded on your computer
* Affected websites can be blocked, isolated or ignored
* Specific files and URLs can be excluded from the examination
* Works independently from the browser you are using
Download :
http://rapidshare.com/files/147170303/avirass8.rar


Norton Internet Security 2008
Key Technologies

* Spyware protection
* Anti virus
* Antispam and Parental Controls **
* Two-Way Firewall

* Advanced Phishing Protection
* Intrusion Prevention
* Rootkit Detection


Features
* Spyware protection: detects and eliminates spyware
* Removes viruses and Internet worms automatically
* Anti virus security: protects email and instant messaging from viruses
* Protects against hackers
* Blocks identity theft by phishing Web sites
* Improved performance delivers faster starts and scans. NEW
* One click access to expert support. NEW
* Network security monitoring helps protect your wireless network. NEW
* Norton Identity Safe delivers enhanced identity theft protection. NEW
* Works quietly in the background. NEW
* Prevents virus-infected emails from spreading
* Rootkit detection searches underneath the operating system using patented technology
* Includes protection updates and new product features as available throughout the renewable service period ***
* On-going Protection option automatically renews your subscription ****

Award-Winning Protection

* May 2008 PC World: The 100 Best Products of 2008
* February 2008 Computer Shopper's "Shopper's Choice Awards":
Best Software for Internet Security
* December 2007 PC Magazine: Best Software of the Year
* December 2007 PC World: PC World Best Buy
* September 2007 PC Magazine: Editors' Choice Award *****
* January 2007 LAPTOP Magazine: Editors' Choice Award
* January 2007 Computer Shopper Magazine: Best Internet Security Software
* January 2007 Small Business Computing: Product Excellence Award
* November 2006 PC Magazine: Best of 2006
* October 2006 PC Magazine: Editors' Choice Award *****
* May 2006 RedmondMag.com: Reader’s Choice Award
* May 2006 PC World: Best Buy Award

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Windows Vista® Home Basic/ Home Premium/Business/Ultimate â€*
Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 Home/XP Pro/XP Media Center
Edition
Designed for Windows

* 300MHz or higher processor
* 256MB of RAM
* 350MB of available hard disk space

â€* Must meet minimum Windows Vista operating system requirements.
Email scanning supported for POP3 and SMTP compatible email clients.
Supported instant messenger clients:

* AOL® – 4.7 to 5.9
* Yahoo!® – 5.x and 6.x
* Microsoft® – 6.0 or higher
* Trillian™ – 3.1 or higher

Internet browsers (phishing protection)

* Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 (32-bit only) or higher
* Mozilla® Firefox® 2.0 or higher

Download :

http://rapidshare.com/files/127831322/Sec.zip

http://rapidshare.com/files/127830665/NP.rar

Well, here we are again! For the 3rd year in a row, I've had the honor of designing the DEFCON badge. And, for the 3rd year in a row, DT has been gracious enough to let me host a contest around hacking the badge. This is the first year that it will be an official contest announced in advance, etc., as previously we've kept the whole thing under wraps until the first day of the con.

Here's a little description of the contest...

The DEFCON Badge Hacking Contest awards the top 3 most ingenious, obscure, mischievous, obscene, or technologically astounding badge modifications created over the weekend. No longer just a boring piece of passive material, the badge is now a full-featured, active electronic product, and it exists for your hacking pleasure.

We've had some amazing hacks in previous years. For info on the past badges and badge hacking contest entries, check out:

http://www.grandideastudio.com/portf...fcon-15-badge/

and

http://www.grandideastudio.com/portf...fcon-14-badge/

I can't release much information on the particular badge design until the first day of DEFCON, for various security purposes, but I'll be posting some clues and information in this forum every once in a while to make sure you guys (and girls) are prepared for the contest and don't have to waste the weekend installing tools and messing with drivers (like people had to do in previous years).

Unlike last year, where I staged a "badge hacking table" in the corner of the vendor area (complete with a real-life engineer from Freescale providing support), this year people are more than welcome to use the Hardware Hacking Village up in the Skybox area to hack the badges. There will be some equipment there for public use and I'll be spending much of my unused time there hanging out, helping out, etc. So, even if you don't bring your own soldering iron, multimeter, or whatever, lots of tools and resources will be available to you.

As for prizes, no black badges as far as I'm aware, but we'll still have some cool swag that you can't get from any other contest. Plus, bragging rights that can earn you "cool" points all over the world (somehow).

That's it for now. More later.

-Joe Grand (Kingpin)
http://www.kingpinempire.com (will be up by DEFCON)

Source : defcon.org

MIT researchers have designed a new robotic underwater vehicle that can hover in place like a helicopter -- an invaluable tool for deepwater oil explorers, marine archaeologists, oceanographers and others.

The new craft, called Odyssey IV, is the latest in a series of small, inexpensive artificially intelligent submarines developed over the last two decades by the MIT Sea Grant College Program's Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory. The Odyssey series revolutionized underwater research in the 1990s by introducing the thrifty and highly capable underwater robots. But the previous Odyssey vehicles still had one significant limitation: Like sharks, they could only operate while continuously moving forward.

No more. The new Odyssey IV, which has just completed sea trials off Woods Hole, Mass., can move through the deep ocean, up to 6,000 meters down, stopping anywhere in the water column and constantly correcting for currents and obstacles. Navigating to its preprogrammed destination, it can hover in place, making detailed inspections of the footings of an offshore oil platform, or photographing the flora and fauna around an undersea vent.

"Our old subs needed to swim, to go forward, in order to maintain maneuvering capability," says Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis, director of the MIT Sea Grant Program. "People wanted to be able to work in the ocean and stop and hover to do a specific task. In the past, you could only fly over a scene, take a picture, then fly over again and take another picture. Now, I can stop over a scene that's of interest, and stay and make measurements. We'll be able to observe underwater scenes in much more detail."

This summer, this latest-generation craft has been demonstrating its new abilities on its first scientific mission, a study of the George's Bank area of the Gulf of Maine, which is hugely important to the region's commercial fisheries. Odyssey is being deployed in a series of dives to map and observe an invasive species of sea squirt called Didemnum that has been infesting New England waters. MIT Sea Grant's Judy Pederson has been tracking the Didemnum invasion for several years, hoping to prevent it from smothering important native species; Odyssey IV will be her eyes on the seafloor.

And the new craft's unique capabilities go beyond just looking at objects. "Like a giant helicopter, this can pick up cargo underwater," Chryssostomidis says. "Now, we can visit an oil well, pick up a sample and bring it back to shore." With the addition of a mechanical arm, the vessel will be able to do manipulations such as twisting a valve open or closed.

Not only can the craft hover, it can move quickly, up to two meters per second going straight ahead. Both its speed and its ability to stop in place are achieved through the combined action of fins and thrusters on each side, and at the bow and stern of the two-meter-long craft.

The new vehicle may be able to stop in place, but Chryssostomidis and his colleague Franz Hover, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and their team, research engineers Jim Morash, Victor Polidoro, Justin Eskesen and graduate student Dylan Owens, certainly are not. With the initial sea trials of Odyssey IV just completed, they are focused squarely on moving ahead to their goals. They need to develop vastly improved power-storage and communications capabilities, to enable these vehicles to stay underwater longer, cover more terrain, and send back more data to scientists on shore. Ultimately, Chryssostomidis says, he hopes his team will produce an AUV that can spend a full year underwater, collecting data and transmitting it to its home base, without any need to surface at all.

"Once we prove the hovering capability foolproof, as we think it is now, the next challenge for me to worry about is the issue of recharging, so that I can be free of the surface vessel," he says. He also hopes to develop better manipulator arms that will be able to interact more flexibly with the undersea environment, to pick up objects or carry out repairs.

But for now, Chryssostomidis is reveling in the fact that Odyssey IV, after years of development, has passed its initial tests in the ocean with flying colors. No matter how good the design, that's not something you can take for granted, he explains. "The sea is very unforgiving. If there's anything that can go wrong, the sea will find it."

Ubuntu server team wants to know – how do you Ubuntu?

Co-sponsored by Canonical and RedMonk, survey asks community about its server usage

LONDON, September 25, 2008 – Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is asking users of Ubuntu Server edition just exactly how they are using it and in what kind of organisations.

Ubuntu is the popular Linux distribution for the desktop, laptop, thin client and server which brings together the best of open source software every 6 months. Ubuntu is free, and is downloaded from mirror sites around the world.

The Ubuntu Server community wants to ask a broad set of users to share their experiences. A previous shorter survey from Canonical was completed (public results at: www.canonical.com/campaign/server) by those requesting free server CDs, but this is the first time the Ubuntu server team is requesting information from the community worldwide.

Co-sponsored by RedMonk Research, the survey [http://survey.ubuntu.com/] will gather more detailed knowledge in order to:

* Improve future product releases
* Prioritize feature requests
* Guide partnerships to add technologies
* Drive the focus at the next Ubuntu Developer Summit in December 2008

The anonymous survey takes 10 to 20 minutes to complete and is open to anyone deploying Linux servers today, whether or not they use Ubuntu. The Ubuntu Server Community Team will present the results in the beginning of December.

“Our survey earlier this year provided insight into the diversity and global reach of the Ubuntu Server customer base,” said Nick Barcet, Ubuntu Server product manager at Canonical. “With this survey, we hope to understand more about them – including how they are using our software in their businesses – in order to better serve them in the future.”
About Canonical and Ubuntu

Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is headquartered in Europe and is committed to the development, distribution and support of open source software products and communities. World-class 24x7 commercial support for Ubuntu is available through Canonical's global support team and partners. Since its launch in October 2004, Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users around the world.

Ubuntu will always be free to download, free to use and free to distribute to others. With these goals in mind, Ubuntu aims to be the most widely used Linux system, and is the centre of a global open source software ecosystem. For more information visit www.canonical.com or www.ubuntu.com.


Canonical to Offer Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop through Ubuntu (R) Partner Repository

Ubuntu users now have direct access to Zimbra’s next generation email and calendaring solution

Sunnyvale, Calif., August 7, 2008 – Zimbra has announced that Canonical, sponsors of Ubuntu, the fastest growing Linux distribution, will give users direct access to Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop, which provides a centralized hub to manage multiple e-mail accounts and calendars online and offline, through the Ubuntu Partner Repository. Zimbra, a Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) company, is a leader in open source, next-generation messaging and collaboration software.

“Since we first announced general availability of Zimbra for Ubuntu last year, we have seen incredible adoption within the Ubuntu community,” said Andy Pflaum, senior director of business management, Zimbra Business Unit, Yahoo!. “We are eager to offer our world-class collaboration experience, Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop, to the vibrant community of Ubuntu users worldwide.”

The inclusion of Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop in the Ubuntu Partner Repository provides Ubuntu users with best-of-breed collaboration technology that is built natively for the Linux platform. With Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop, Ubuntu users will have access to Yahoo! Mail, Gmail™, AOL Mail and any IMAP or POP enabled e-mail account, such as work, personal and school accounts, from the same place, even when they are not connected to the Internet. Additionally, Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop allows people to use the iCal standard to take their calendar offline.

Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop provides the same sleek collaboration experience as the Zimbra Web client version including advanced calendaring, self-organizing mailboxes, powerful search, tagging, and mash-ups with Web services including Flickr, Yahoo! Maps and Amazon. In addition, Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop offers a number of features designed to help users stay organized, such as document creation, spreadsheets, task management and document storage, giving users a robust alternative to other desktop applications.

"The addition of Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop to our Partner Repository gives millions of Ubuntu users instant access to best-in-class messaging and collaboration,” said Malcolm Yates, global ISV partner manager at Canonical. "As we broaden the user base of Ubuntu, our users’ needs are becoming more diverse and more complex. Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop is just the type of productivity tool they need, and we look forward to seeing adoption and deployment rates increase for this excellent tool within the Ubuntu community."
Pricing and Availability

Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop Beta Version 3 is available for free download at Zimbra.com/desktop. Anyone with access to Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS), Yahoo! Mail, Gmail™, AOL Mail, or an IMAP/POP enabled server can use Zimbra Desktop (www.zimbra.com/desktop).

Zimbra’s Web client and server, the Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 Open Source Edition is free. The commercially supported ZCS 5.0 Network Edition is available for a 60-day free trial on the Zimbra website. Zimbra's Hosted Demo (www.zimbra.com/demo) is available for an immediate test drive of ZCS.

ZCS Network Edition includes product support as well as software subscriptions to new releases, updates and patches. ZCS is available on-premise or as a hosted service and is available at a significant educational or non-profit discount. Please contact sales@zimbra.com for information. Users can discuss topics related to the Zimbra Collaboration Suite and provide feedback at www.zimbra.com/forums.
About Zimbra

Zimbra, a Yahoo! company, is a leading provider of messaging and collaboration software for universities, businesses and service providers. Zimbra's rich AJAX interface is available on or offline to dramatically improve the collaboration experience. Zimbra is available on-premise or on-demand through our extensive hosted partner program. More information at www.zimbra.com.
About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal.

Source : ubuntu.com

The FreeBSD Project is proud to have taken part in the Google Summer of Code 2008. We received more high quality applications this year than ever before. In the end it was a very tough decision to narrow it down to the 21 students selected for funding by Google. These student projects included security research, improved installation tools, new utilities, and more. Many of the students have continued working on their FreeBSD projects even after the official close of the program.

We are happy to report that the 19 students listed below completed the program successfully.

Information about the student projects is available from our Summer of Code wiki and all of the code is checked into Perforce. The summaries below were submitted by the individual students and their mentors with minor editing for consistency.
2008 Student Projects

* Project: Implementation of MPLS in FreeBSD
Student: Ryan French
Mentor: Andre Oppermann
Summary:

MPLS is a networking protocol used for routing information quickly and efficiently. It is used extensively in the internet's backbone networks. Over the course of the program, code has been ported to FreeBSD from the OpendBSD/NetBSD operating systems. Basic functionality of sending and receiving packets was the main goal of the project, but unfortunately this was not acheived. It is very close to having this functionality, but there are a few minor bugs preventing the code from integrating fully with the FreeBSD networking stack.

This project will continue to be worked on until sending, receiving, label swapping, tunnels, and the LDP daemon has been successfully implemented.
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: No.
* Project: TCP/IP regression test suite (tcptest)
Student: Victor Hugo Bilouro
Mentor: George V. Neville-Neil
Summary:

As a testing tool, it can perform regression, protocol conformance, and fuzz tests. The tool may also be employed as an aid to protocol developers and both testing and debugging of firewalls/routers.

It is built on top of PCS(Packet Construction Set) "PCS is a set of Python modules and objects that make building network protocol code easier for the protocol developer. PCS enables testing at OSI layers 3, 4, and 5."

Tcptest mainly is a python module and one script for each test covered (more then one per script often) The module count with methods acting as fasteners, doing things like (a)three way handshake, (b)active/passive close and (c)several createXX and assertXX, where XX=(ip, tcp, rst, urg, fin, syn, psh, so on...) As the tests are being created, the number of 'fasteners' are growing, turning each moment easier to create new tests.

Use of small tests. So we can cover a wide range of traffics, events and transitions predetermined separately. The development would be like a protocol, but without covering all possible events and transitions, only traffic previously determined. Instead of targeting a TCP Finite State Machine (FSM) like the implementation of TCP/IP protocols, the development will be based towards flow of packets, where traffic is composed of packets that are sent and received in a previously registered way.
Links: project wiki FreeBSD Perforce project repository source code download source code documentation Packet Construction Set
* Project: Porting Open Solaris Dtrace Toolkit to FreeBSD
Student: Liqun Li
Mentor: John Birrell
Summary:

Sun Open Solaris Dtrace is pretty useful feature. Users can find performance bottlenecks with Dtrace in real production environment. Since many probes implemented in Open Solaris are not supported in FreeBSD, the Open Solaris Dtrace Toolkit should be ported to FreeBSD. Its main job is to find whether a given probe is supported by FreeBSD, if so, find it; if not, develop one to support this function. This summer, at first, I went throught all DTK script commands, found some of them work directly. But most do not. Under my mentor John Birrell careful help, I retrieved the respective FreeBSD kernel variables, and ended up making system/uname.d work. In addition, I tried to make sar-c.d work under FreeBSD. Since we need to investigate in Sun Open Solaris Kernel how Open Solaris defines the probe and what probes it needs, this work is realy time consuming, and not done yet. From this project, I got to know much about FreeBSD kernel and Dtrace probes. I found kernel hacking/coding pretty interesting.
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: not decided
* Project: Adding .db support to pkg_tools --> pkg_improved
Student: Anders Nore
Mentor: Florent Thoumie
Summary:

This project is a replication of the pkg_install tools with several new features and speed improvements due to the caching of some package-information to a B-Tree Berkeley DB file. Some of the new features is the adding of installtime to the installed packages +CONTENTS file, human-readable size-output in pkg_info(1), progress indication to pkg_add's remote option. Installtime range searches with pkg_info(1) and pkg_delete(1) similar to that of version search is now available using the -M option.

A new tool pkg_convert(1), caches some parts of the existing /var/db/pkg/ flat database into a Berkeley DB file, and the tools check for this file and uses it for speed improvements if it is available and updates it according to pkg_{add|delete}'s. You can also use pkg_convert(1) to view the entries in the cache. The tools will give you an indication if the database is corrupt, and it is fully recoverable by using pkg_convert(1).

Two bugs in the existing pkg_tools have also been discovered and fixed, everything is ofcourse backwards-compatible with the older/original pkg_install tools.
* Project: Porting BSD-licensed text-processing tools from OpenBSD
Student: Gabor Kovesdan
Mentor: Max Khon
Summary:

At the moment, BSD grep seems to be ready and highly compatible with the GNU version. However, there are differences in the regex handling, which is a result of the different interpretations, that the different regex libraries use and thus it is not really possible to fix at the level of grep. As for diff, some progress has been made, but some important features are still missing. The sort utility seemed to be badly constructed concerning the wide character support and the overall implementation. Because of these difficulties, the efforts were prioritized for grep and diff. Probably sort needs a complete rewrite or at least an extreme amount of modifications.
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: If we can accept the regex differencies in grep, it is ready to enter SVN after some thorough testing. As for diff and sort, they can be installed via the Ports Collection.
* Project: Multibyte collation support
Student: Konrad Jankowski
Mentor: Diomidis D. Spinellis
Summary:

Collation is what allows for current language/encoding correct sorting/ordering of strings. This project aimed to add proper collation in UTF-8 encodings for all languages for FreeBSD. This summer I have accomplished:
o imported data from the Unicode Consortium: POSIX locale files and regression test data
o written converter scripts to extract collation data from this files
o ported Apple's version of colldef (which is our version, but much extended by them)
o extended the colldef even more, to work on collation data from the Unicode Consortium
o added some performance improvements, the biggest one not used by default now (no time to test yet) - reading the charmap only once for all languages
o ported Apple version of strcoll, wcscoll, strxfrm, wcsxfrm and locale/collate.c, taking out xlocale (rationale on wiki)
o Written regression test scripts. It appeared that Apple's code doesn't full Unicode Collation Algorithm - the part which deals with expansions. It is needed for half of languages to pass the more advanced regression tests.
o for last few days I am working on implementing expansions, I will not rest until they work
o I was not able to start writing manpages and create a megapatch agains HEAD, I'll do that when the algorithm is 100% correct for all the languages.

Current informatin will be available on my wiki: http://wiki.freebsd.org/KonradJankowski/Collation
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: After finishing expansion support and cleanup.
* Project: VM Algorithm Improvement
Student: Mayur Shardul
Mentor: Jeff Roberson
Summary:

A new data structure, viz. radix tree, was implemented and used for management of the resident pages. The objective is efficient use of memory and faster performance. The biggest challenge was to service insert requests on the data structure without blocking. Because of this constraint the memory allocation failures were not acceptable, to solve the problem the required memory was allocated at the boot time. Both the data structures were used in parallel to check the correctness and we also benchmarked the data structures and found that radix trees gave much better performance over splay trees.
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: We will investigate some more approaches to handle allocation failures before the new data structure goes in CVS.
* Project: TCP anomaly detector
Student: Rui Paulo
Mentor: Andre Oppermann
Summary:

The TCP Anomaly Detector (tcpad, for short) project went reasonably well. I am currently tracking some bugs and lowering the number of false positives.

tcpad tries to monitor TCP connections and detect non-conformant hosts. It does this by sniffing packets on the wire and creating, what I would like to call, a virtual TCP stack on each end. When an error is detected, tcpad creates a pcap file with all the packets exchanged between the two hosts and the state of each virtual TCP stack.

tcpad is still being developed, so expect it to "detect" dozens of "problems" after running for some minutes.

I was a bit late developing results because the SoC began before my exams did (I was still having classes), but now, that "damage" is partly fixed. ;-) Overall, this SoC was a really interesting learning experience. I must say that my TCP knowledge has increased a few points. :-)

Andre Oppermann is my mentor. I blogged a bit about this project at my blog. The wiki page is located here.
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: No.
* Project: FreeBSD auditing system testing
Student: Vincenzo Iozzo
Mentor: Attilio Rao
Summary:

The project was focused on testing the audit system. The first part of the project consisted of writing a patch for /dev/auditpipe in order to preselect events by process' pid. The second half was focused on creating a testing framework for audit. Some auxiliary functions and modules were written. What is missing: - More abstraction in the framework - More tests for events
* Project: Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2
Student: Nick Barkas
Mentor: David Malone
Summary:

Modified dirhash code in perforce is now able to free up memory used by older dirhashes when the VM system invokes vm_lowmem events. This will allow the default dirhash_maxmem value to be increased, improving performance on large directory lookups when there is memory to spare on they system. There are versions of the low memory event handling code for both -CURRENT and 7-STABLE. A number of tests have been run showing the new event handler seems to work properly.

I intend to do further testing and benchmarking to find the best default values to use for vfs.ufs.dirhash_reclaimage (the number of seconds a dirhash can sit unused before the dirhash low memeory event handler will unconditionally delete it) and the minimum percentage of memory that will be freed upon vm_lowmem events even if there are not enough hashes older than dirhash_reclaimage (currently this is hard coded to 10%). I would also like to add some code to choose a reasonable new default vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem value based upon the amount of memory in the system, set automatically at boot time and tunable via sysctl. Once these tweaks have been made I plan to ask for testing from more users to shake out any bugs or potential workloads where the new code may hurt overall performance.

Current details about status are on the wiki.
* Project: Reference implementation of the SNTP client
Student: Johannes Maximilian Kohn
Mentor: Harlan Stenn
Summary:

A reference implementation of the SNTP client based on the latest ntpv4 document. SNTP is a lightweight client that enables admins to synchronize with NTP servers. SNTP's networking code is written protocol independent and should work with almost any protocol like IPv4 or IPv6. SNTP supports MD5 authentication to verify the authencity of the queried server.
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: Not determined yet.
* Project: NFSv4 ACLs
Student: Edward Tomasz Napierala
Mentor: Robert Watson
Summary:

The aim of my GSoC project was to implement NFSv4 ACLs in a similar way POSIX.1e ACLs are supported. That was done by extending user utilities (setfacl(1)/getfacl(1)), libc API and adding neccessary kernel stuff, for ACL storage and enforcement on both UFS and ZFS. Regression tests were implemented to ensure correct operation. Semantics is supposed to be identical to the one in SunOS. There is also a wrapper (distributed separately) that implements SunOS-compatible acl(2)/facl(2) API, to make porting applications like Samba easier.
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: not yet
* Project: Enhancing FreeBSD's Libarchive
Student: Anselm Strauss
Mentor: Tim Kientzle
Summary:

The idea was to work on some missing parts of Libarchive. Despite the many goals, only few of them could be implemented. So far the project contributed a ZIP writer with tests. It supports basic functionality, except compression, ZIP64 and some fancy features of the ZIP specification. Work will now continue free from GSOC. It will include finishing the ZIP writer, and working a bit on the other goals, like PAX frontend, and others.
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: not yet
* Project: Allowing for parallel builds in the FreeBSD Ports
Collection Student: David Forsythe
Mentor: Mark Linimon
Summary:

This project added locks to targets taken from bsd.port.mk that could perform conflicting operations if multiple builds were running at the same time. First, fake-pkg was modified to obtain a lock over PKG_DBDIR to prevent clobbering of the database in case more than one port tries to register at a time. Next, a lock called BASE_LOCK was added for every port to obtain at the beginning of a build. This lock is located in a ports directory, and prevents any port from being built by multiple make processes. Locks were then added for other sensitive targets, and the pkg_install tools were modified to honor locks on PKG_DBDIR.

Once these locks were added, a new variable, FAKE_J, to take advantage of makes -j flag. This allows make to fork multiple processes to handle dependencies and fetching, without passing the -j flag onto the actual build of a port.
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: Probably not.
* Project: Ports license auditing infrastructure
Student: Alejandro Pulver
Mentor: Brooks Davis
Summary:

This project is about adding license support to the Ports Collection, so ports with certain licenses can be identified. The ports makefile part is functional (may need some adjustements though): definition of licenses by port, notions of permissions (sell and redistribute, for distfiles and packages) replacing NO_{PACKAGE,CDROM} and RESTRICTED, configuration (one-time, and saved; with checksum in case the license changes), verbose/diagnostic output of the internal processing logic (how it is accepted or rejected, if by the user, by default or by saved configuration), registration of license information and license itself in the package (so that both packages and ports can be searched for properties such as license types or restrictions), and more can be easily added to the current code.

The license database (a list of them and their properties) was going to be mirrored from FOSSology: a tool to analyze software licenses. We are working on getting FOSSology to automatically classify ports (I've sent suggestions and patches to the developers, who accepted them and provided very good support). So for the moment it is not usable (at least licenses/properties are defined manually, and each port is marked manually to indicate its license).

I will continue working on the FOSSology's port, and on the missing features such as multiple licenses support (AND, OR, etc). For more information see the wiki page: Ports license auditing infrastructure
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: not yet
* Project: Improving layer2 filtering
Student: Gleb Kurtsou
Mentor: Andrew Thompson
Summary:

Project aimed to improve layer2 filtering in ipfw and pf. All of the project goals are achieved: pfil framework is extended to handle ethernet packets, ipfw layer2 filtering is greatly simplified, added l2filter and l2tag per interface flags. Both ipfw and pf firewalls support filtering by ethernet addresses, support stateful filtering with ethernet addresses and firewall's lookup tables are extended to contain ethernet addresses.

ipfw was extended to perform arp packet filtering: arp-op, src-arp and dst-arp options added.

Details and usage examples are on my blog.
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: Not yet, diff is submitted to freebsd-net@ for public review.
* Project: Porting FreeBSD to Efika (PPC bring up)
Student: Przemek Witaszczyk (vi0@)
Mentor: Rafal Jaworowski
Summary:

The main aim of the project is to port FreeBSD operating system to MPC5200B evaluation board. Among subleading tasks, there were objectives such as making kernel proceed to device drivers initialization, modelling newbus hierarchy of devices, writing the programmable interrupt controller driver, writing the PCI driver. The ultimate goal is reaching multiuser mode.

As for now, half of the project is realized. After solving a few difficult problems at the basic level (binary interface issues with entry point to the SmartFirmware on the device), the boot procedure reaches the device drivers initialization stage, and hits the PIC driver init. At this point, the driver skeleton is constructed and is called. The driver uses ofwbus bus driver which intermediates between the openfirmware and the FreeBSD newbus devices hierarchy. After completing the PIC driver, I'll be in the position to write the remaining drivers for peripherals integrated on the MPC5200B chip using the newbus architecture.

I am determined to continue the work on the project after the formal GSoC end date in order to bring at least the interrupt controller driver to operation.

More info available at project's wiki : http://wiki.freebsd.org/PrzemekWitaszczyk and at my GSoC 2008 blog: http://bitbay.blogspot.com/
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: not yet, at least PIC driver required.
* Project: Audit Firewall Events from Kernel
Student: Diego Giagio (diego@)
Mentor: Christian S.J. Peron
Summary:

This project is part of TrustedBSD project and aims to provide auditing support to security-related events generated by various firewall implementations on FreeBSD such as IPFW, PF and IPFILTER.

Currently both administrative events (such as add/remove rules) and network events (such as network connection establishment) are being audited on IPFW. This means that all IPFW security-related events are already being audited the way we planned it to. Although PF and IPFILTER auditing support aren't yet finished, all the hard infrastructure work needed to implement that is already committed.

The next step is basically finish implementing PF and IPFILTER's auditing support. On the IPFW side, my research showed that the way it handles statefull connections (even before my work) needs improvement. I will also work on this. I will keep working on this project in order to polish every rough edge we might find. Once this is finished, I'll probably begin working on other interesting TrustedBSD projects.

More information can be found here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/DiegoGiagio/Audit_Firewall_Events_from_Kernel
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: Not determined yet, perhaps parts of it.
* Project: Create a tiny operating system from FreeBSD
Student: James Harrison
Mentor: Warner Losh
Summary:

This project was a success and a failure at the same time. I started work imagining that I would be creating, genuinely creating, a new tiny operating system from FreeBSD. This was to be a worthy goal, a challenging goal, and overall a fun goal. I imagined it would involve making a bunch of shell scripts for stripping out various parts of the OS, integrate a custom kernel, and bob's your mother's brother, everything's done. This was even reflected in the name of the project; it's the same approach as TinyBSD, so I called mine ShinyBSD as a kind of homage.

Instead, I gained respect for TinyBSD, which is a fantastic tool. A truly, truly, fantastic tool. Ultimately, with just a few tweaks, it could do exactly what I needed it to do; building a small OS has been completed for some time.

The second portion was to cross compile and boot an arm device. I had more hardware issues than you can shake a large stick at, so though I can verify that I was working hard on cross compiling, I cannot verify that the cross compiled product I had made sense as a bootable image. I've started configuring qemu now to see if I can verify via that. In discussion with my mentor, I believe a profitable method of applying my knowedge post-GSOC is to get a Makefile prepared for TinyBSD that cross compiles out of the box.
Ready to enter CVS/SVN: Not yet, though when the Makefile is complete it would be good to offer it up for inclusion in base.

Source : freebsd.org