TechReport has updated its detailed system configurations just in time for Christmas shopping for yourself or for a friend.

Read the configurations and recommendations at TechReport’s fall 2013 system guide.

 

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society is pleased to announce the release of the TTCS OSSWIN DVD v1.1, a collection of Free and Open Source Software for Windows

You can use your web browser to read detailed information about each program in this compilation : what the program does, its key features, useful related websites, view a screenshot, find links to the program’s website and to download/install the program from the TTCS OSSWIN DVD.

The web-based interface allows you to quickly browse the variety of software organised  into the following categories:

• Desktop Applications
• Educational
• Games
• Graphics
• Internet
• Server
• Sound and Video
• Utilities

The changes to this version adds two new programs (replacing two) and number of software updates.

See the TTCS OSSWIN DVD page at http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-dvd/ for more details, including a complete listing of programs included on the DVD, download links and checksum information to verify the download.

 

According to the Trinidad and Tobago’s Newsday article dated October 31 2013, Bmobile/TSTT has supplied 300 officers of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service with Blackberry Q5 phones.

 

 

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is being held in Bali, Indonesia on 22-25 October 2013. The overarching theme for the 2013 IGF meeting is: “Building Bridges”- Enhancing Multistakeholder Cooperation for Growth and Sustainable Development”.

IGF 2013 draft schedule . Note that the times are local to Indonesia which is 12 hours ahead of Trinidad and Tobago.

One of the sessions at the IGF 2013 is organised by the Internet Society chapter of Trinidad and Tobago is

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Roundtable – The Broadband (Access) Dilemma which is 08:00 – 09:00 Oct 23 2013 Indonesian time which is 8pm October 22 2013 local time (Trinidad and Tobago).

Remote participation link for SIDS Roundtable

 

 

 

 

 

Ars Technica runs through some of the rumored things that would be shown, introduced at Apple’s October 22 event scheduled for 1pm (local time in Trinidad and Tobago)

 

Prepare your wallets: What to expect from Apple’s October 22 event | Ars Technica.

Apple has announced a special event to be held next week on October 22 2013. Apple says only in the invite to the press “We still have a lot to cover”. See Apple’s October 22 iPad And Mac Event Now Official As Press Receive Invites | TechCrunch.

Oracle has released Java 7 Update 45. The Oracle blog post about the release of Java 7 Update 45 mentions security updates and according to the Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory  for October 2013 mentions up to 51 security fixes.

So, if you’re using Java, you should probably update. ASAP.

You can download Java at http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp or if you want to manually download Java for Windows, Mac, Linux, see
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre7-downloads-1880261.html

If you have older versions of Java, you should remove them as soon as possible. The http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/remove_olderversions.xml page has more information and tools on how to remove older versions of Java.

As a additional security precaution, you can disable the execution of Java content in your browser.

 

Read the bulletin in full at
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-oct

Listed in the bulletin are

• critical security update to Internet Explorer versions 6 to 10
• critical and important updates to .NET framework
• critical updates to 64 bit versions of Windows
• important updates to Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010