Globulation 2 An innovative Real-Time Strategy

Globulation 2 An innovative Real-Time Strategy

Extract from Globulation 2 website

http://www.globulation2.org/

Globulation 2 is an innovative Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game which reduces micro-management by automatically assigning tasks to units. Take a look at the screenshots or just download and try it right now. Globulation 2 is Free Software, licensed and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Globulation 2 brings a new type of gameplay to RTS games. The player chooses the number of units to assign to various tasks, and the units do their best to satisfy the requests. This allows players to manage more units and focus on strategy rather than on micro-management. Globulation 2 also features AI, allowing single-player games or any possible combination of human-computer teams. The game also includes a scripting language for versatile gameplay or tutorials and an integrated map editor. You can play Globulation 2 in single player mode, through your local network, or over the Internet with Ysagoon Online Gaming (or YOG for short). -- Globulation 2 team

Eraser An Advanced Security Tool For Windows

Eraser

Extract from Eraser website

http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php

Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.
Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.

The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive.

Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods.

Why use Eraser?
Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others - passwords, personal information, classified documents from work, financial records, self-written poems, the list can be continued forever.

Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data from your hard disk, things get a bit more complicated and maintaining your privacy is not as simple as it may have seemed at first.

Your first thought may be that when you 'delete' the file, the data is gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.

Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk maintenance or an undelete utility.

There are several problems in secure file removal, mostly caused by the use of write cache, construction of the hard disk and the use of data encoding. These problems have been taken into consideration when Eraser was designed, and because of this intuitive design and a simple user interface, you can safely and easily erase private data from your hard drive.

Top reviews from the most popular software sites and magazines confirm that Eraser is one of the best security tools available for Windows.

TALC a Powerful Didactical Tool for Teachers

I've involved with training Linux Desktop and Server to school teachers around Malaysia. This involved trained them how to control student computers from teacher computer. We need to buy that software until I read an articles at http://www.linux.com/

http://italc.sourceforge.net/

iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP (Vista support will come) and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!

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ScriptumLibre.org calls for boycott of Trend Micro

WORKUM, The Netherlands -- Friday, February 8, 2008 -- The ScriptumLibre.org Foundation issued a call today for a worldwide boycott on Trend Micro products. The call comes as a response to the public announcement on January 29th that a lawsuit was filed by Trend Micro in November 2007, which claims that software-security company Barracuda Networks is infringing its U.S.-patent on software that filters out viruses on Internet gateway computers. The claim targets the free and open source (FOSS) software program ClamAV (Clam AntiVirus), and demands that Barracuda either cease distributing it with their web filtering hardware and other products, or pay Trend Micro a licensing fee.

Software vendors that hold software patents tend to wage a "cold war" amongst each other, collecting patents and holding on to them for defensive purposes. Rarely are suits filed against one another aggressively. ScriptumLibre's chairman Wiebe van der Worp claims Trend Micro's aggressive use of litigation to be "well beyond the borders of decency," and points to the company's past history of "extorting organizations such as Symantec and McAfee with similar threats of litigation." However, there are deeper concerns echoed by van der Worp, and others, in the threats this lawsuit holds toward others in the FOSS community. Recognizing this threat, Barracuda CEO, Dean Drako, in a statement to the FOSS community, writes, "Trend Micro’s actions illustrate that ClamAV and other open source projects remain vulnerable to commercial patent holders attempting to unjustly hinder the free and open source community."

As a result, many in the community are banding together, and offering support towards Barracuda, such as Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center, who has stated that the "Collective defense from software patents is a shared responsibility for everyone in the free software ecosystem." ScriptumLibre feels that the patent system is fundamentally broken. But even though the system is broken, this does not mean that companies should be held blameless for abusing that system.The foundation therefore urges the entire IT community, including both the proprietary and FOSS communities, to boycott Trend Micro products.

About ScriptumLibre

ScriptumLibre.org Foundation is the international branch of the Dutch "Stichting Vrijschrift.org". ScriptumLibre creates awareness about the economic and social meaning of free knowledge and culture for our society. The foundation was involved in the successful campaign to keep software patents out of the European Union.

Links and Attachments

http://www.scriptumlibre.org/Press_Release_Boycott_Trend_Micro

http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/legal/

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080125135544713

http://www.linux.com/feature/126851

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/boycottTrendMicro.html

Malaysia Computer and Internet Users please discuss it here

http://www.ittutor.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=35273

Products By Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC) MAMPU Malaysia

Products By Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC) MAMPU Malaysia

Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC) is a reference centre between public sector user community and a Smart Partnership developer community. It operates as a facilitator to ease OSS implementation in the public sector.

OSCC had developed five general application to be used and downloaded by any Government agency of Malaysia and public for free.

1) MyWorkSpace

http://myworkspace.oscc.org.my/

MyWorkSpace which is an email collaboration suite is the latest product by OSCC. Users can read, send and organize email messages and manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks and notes with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project. It can be accessed via browser and client mail such as ThunderBird and Outlook. MySQL database is used for data storage because of its consistent, fast performance, high reliability and ease of use.

2) MySpamGuard

http://myspamguard.oscc.org.my/

MySpamGuard is a product suite by OSCC which is truly open source email security and anti spam system. MySpamGuard scans all e-mail for viruses, spams and attacks against security vulnerabilities, and plays a major part in the security of a network . MySpamGuard Version 2.0 is developed using Bayesian technology which is more effective in identifying spam emails.

MyWorkSpace with the integration of MySpamGuard enhances the email server solution for agencies. The installation of this product can be done easily by downloading through internet accessing the server located at OSCC.

3) MySurfGuard

http://mysurfguard.oscc.org.my/

MySurfGuard is an integrated web content filtering suite that curbs unproductive web browsing activity. It is effective in multiple filtering method and able to control web phishing and security vulnerabilities

4) MyNetwatch

http://mynetwatch.oscc.org.my/

MyNetWatch is a suite of OSS products which monitors host, service and network. Network administrator will be notified via email and sms if there is any service or host problems occur. The monitoring report or log will be kept for future references.

5) Fork By Community SongketMail

http://www.songketmail.org/

Clamwin Free AntiVirus For Windows

ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features:

* High detection rates for viruses and spyware;
* Scanning Scheduler;
* Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database.
* Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer;
* Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically.

http://www.clamwin.com/

Winpooch Windows Watchdog Anti Spyware and Anti Trojan
http://linuxwanita.blogspot.com/2007/09/winpooch-windows-watchdog-anti-spyware.html