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Prying Loose the Grip of Broadband Giants
The Tyee: "Injecting greater competition into that market lies at the heart of last week's CRTC decision to require incumbent telecom companies -- such as Bell, Bell Aliant, and Telus -- to provide independent ISPs with speed-matched open access to their network..."
How Ubuntu is Made
Linux Planet: "Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman gives an inside look at how he works with Ubuntu's engineering teams and the upstream community."
Start of feature cull for Firefox 4
The H Open: "Mozilla has confirmed that it has started culling features for version 4.0 of its open source Firefox web browse"
Android Caution: Stay away from making your app free for a short time
Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "The bad news is, the developer console will not let me change it! I have to pull the app until I can get this resolved."
GRASS GIS 6.4.0 released
GRASS: "GRASS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery."
Bugtraq: [USN-983-1] Sudo vulnerability
[USN-983-1] Sudo vulnerability
Bugtraq: Security problems in Zenphoto version 1.3
Security problems in Zenphoto version 1.3
Bugtraq: [TEHTRI-Security Training + 0days] "Hunting Web Attackers" at HITBSecConf
[TEHTRI-Security Training + 0days] "Hunting Web Attackers" at HITBSecConf
Bugtraq: [ GLSA 201009-03 ] sudo: Privilege Escalation
[ GLSA 201009-03 ] sudo: Privilege Escalation
Manage Linux Downloads with wget
Linux.com: "Firefox, Chrome, and other browsers do an acceptable job of downloading a single file of reasonable size. But I don't like to trust a browser to grab ISO images and other files that are hundreds of megabytes, or larger."
CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project
CodePlex: "The Microsoft CodePlex.com team has donated $25,000 to the Mercurial project, responding to the recent appeal by the project leader, Matt Mackall."

