CSS Custom Properties in Microsoft Edge

2017-03-25 KENNETH 0

CSS Custom Properties in Microsoft Edge Beginning with EdgeHTML 15 in the Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft Edge introduces support for CSS Custom Properties, a new primitive value type to fully cascade variables across CSS properties. You can preview CSS Custom Properties in Windows Insider Preview builds beginning with EdgeHTML 15.15061. Check out our Custom Properties Pooch demo to see them in action! Check out our Custom Properties Pooch demo to see CSS Custom Properties in action! What are CSS Custom Properties? SASS/LESS and other pre-processors have been offering variables in CSS for years, which is one of the reasons why, in an informal poll, ~75% of polled web developers incorporate these tools in their day to day workflow. However, the biggest downfall of these tools is that they are effectively a “find & replace” of the specified value. This [ more… ]

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USN-3239-3: GNU C Library regression

2017-03-24 KENNETH 0

USN-3239-3: GNU C Library regression Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3239-3 24th March, 2017 eglibc regression A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary USN-3239-1 introduced a regression in the GNU C Library. Software description eglibc – GNU C Library Details USN-3239-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. Unfortunately,the fix for CVE-2016-3706 introduced a regression that in somecircumstances prevented IPv6 addresses from resolving. This updatereverts the change in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. We apologize for the error. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the strxfrm() function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8982) It was discovered that an integer overflow existed in the _IO_wstr_overflow() function of [ more… ]

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RHBA-2015:2209-8: rrdtool update

2017-03-24 KENNETH 0

RHBA-2015:2209-8: rrdtool update Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated rrdtool packages are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Source: RHBA-2015:2209-8: rrdtool update

NGINX Plus for the IoT: Load Balancing MQTT

2017-03-24 KENNETH 0

NGINX Plus for the IoT: Load Balancing MQTT When it comes to the busiest websites on the Internet, NGINX and NGINX Plus dominate the market. In fact, NGINX powers over 50% of the top 1000, top 10,000, and top 100,000 sites. Its ability to handle over 1 million concurrent connections on a single server has driven its adoption by “hyperscale” sites and apps such as Airbnb, Netflix, and Uber. Although NGINX Plus is most commonly known as a web server, HTTP reverse proxy, and load balancer, it is also a fully featured application delivery controller (ADC) with support for TCP and UDP applications. Its event‑driven architecture and all of the other attributes that have made it successful for HTTP use cases are equally applicable to the Internet of Things (IoT). In this article we show how NGINX Plus can be used to load balance MQTT traffic. MQTT [ more… ]