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Believe it or not, PHP4 has been around since 22 May 2000. Over seven years of providing web developers with a robust development language. However, 2007 is the final year that PHP4 will be supported.

Personally, I have no qualms about this. PHP5 is stable enough (at least I think it is) and has already been deployed on a lot of public servers. Even HTNet runs on PHP5; in fact, we’ve been running it since 2005.

However, my main concern is with the CMS platform being used by my company; XOOPS. I’ve played around with XOOPS on a PHP5 setup previously but it didn’t turn out too well.

A couple of important modules just simply won’t work at all. I know that I’ll be in for a hard time if I were to manually fix all the kinks. Nevertheless, I know that in reality I have these choices:

1. Find a more modern open source CMS to migrate over
2. Continue running XOOPS on the PHP4 platform
3. Code a custom CMS with all the necessary features

Now what features do I need in a replacement CMS? Well, here are the key things I need:

• Customisable user access control (using groups or similar)
• Has task management features (currently using a hacked version of wsProject)
• Has document management features
• Has event management/calendaring

I’ve scoured OpenSourceCMS.com but have yet to find something I like. Do you have a CMS you’d like to recommend? I’d love to hear from you.

Now, you can auction your 0-day exploits online!

WabiSabiLabi (or WSLabi for short) has the following introduction paragraph on its web site:

WabiSabiLabi is aiming to a single moving target: to bring the world closer to zero risk. If the world must become a safer place, the first part of the recipe is simple: to provide a better rewarding for the security researchers, organising an efficient and transparent marketplace, here to maximise the results of their efforts.

Well, the recipe may be simple; but I doubt that the chosen method of cooking can indeed make the world a safer place. At best, it might make the computing world a safer place for the rich.

The BBC has a published piece on WSLabi here.

So what do you think? Should exploits be auctioned off to the highest bidder?

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Friday, June 29, 2007 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), the world’s most popular free software license.

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Google has finally released Google Desktop for Linux, with binaries in RPM (for Red Hat/Fedora/Suse/Mandriva x86) as well as DEB (for Debian/Ubuntu x86) formats.

Obviously the target audience are those who are using Linux as a desktop OS and want a GUI tool to help them locate specific files on their system. I welcome this move by Google as it’ll indirectly encourage more people to hop on the Linux train now that the complications of using find and locate from the command line would be reduced.

More related news can be read from the Official Google Blog and Inside Google Desktop.

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