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C++ Tutorial 01 (DraftJoker)

AndyB — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:17:44 +0000

Draftjoker has been working on some tutorials, heres part one

Enjoy.

Spanish Police Foil Remote-Controlled Zeppelin Jailbreak

AndyB — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:23:11 +0000

In a plot that’s crazy enough to be from James Bond, three people have been arrested after police discovered their plan to free a drug trafficker from an island prison using a 13-foot airship carrying night goggles, climbing gear and camouflage paint.

It’s believed that the inmate (of the Salto del Negro prison on the Canary Island of Las Palmas) was to scale the prison wall and speed off in a waiting car.

The arrested men had setup an elaborate surveillance operation of the prison that involved a camouflaged tent, powerful binoculars, telephoto lenses, and motion detection sensors. But authorities caught wind of the plan when they intercepted the inflatable zeppelin as it arrived from the Italian town of Bergamo.

Holy crap, I almost wish they got away with it.

Debian rejects open-source .NET threat claim

AndyB — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:27:09 +0000

Debian, the foundation of Ubuntu, has rejected claims that it is potentially holding Linux’s future hostage to Microsoft by including an open-source implementation of .NET in its code.

A project spokesman has said GPL daddy Richard Stallman was wrong to say Mono will be featured in Debian’s default installation, adding Mono would be used by just a small number of users.

Installations affected will be those that implement the Gnome desktop using a meta package with a dependency on Tomboy. These installations will need to pull in Mono, the long-running open-source implementation of .NET now sponsored by Novell.

Tomboy is a note-taking application for Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X available under the LGPL.

Debian developer and spokesman Alexander Reichle-Schmehl has written: “The default installation - or to be more precise: The default GNOME installation (there are installation media which install an KDE, Xfce or LXDE desktop by default, too) - hasn’t changed. It still installs a more or less minimal Gnome Desktop without tomboy and without mono.”

The reply came after Stallman, founder of the GNU project and a General Public License author, said the inclusion of Mono in Debian’s default installation posed a “dangerous” risk to the open-source community.

Stallman predicted Microsoft would challenge free and open-source implementations of C#, part of .NET and therefore Mono, using the threat of patents.

In answer to Stallman, Reichle-Schmehl said Debian: “Has not [sic] ‘to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy.’” ®

Welcome to the Blog.

AndyB — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:14:01 +0000

Hello and Welcome users.
Lets give this another go. ReconNetworks has again been divided into two sections, the support forums and the development blog.
As you may know from discussions on the forum, many of us users have finished exams for the summer and now have time to maintain the site fully. With this we hope to be posting new tutorials, some youtube videos and text tutorials are already on the way.
Keep an eye on the development blog for tech updates and continue to remain active on the forums. Hopefully we can return ReconNetworks to its original glory.

The Development Team.