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Berita Mr. K3 (22Juni 2005)
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Daftar Isi:
* Kurikulum CE/CS/IS/IT/SE 2005
* The Debian legacy
* Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Research Methods
* Trojan holds PC files for ransom
* RFC-4074:
Common Misbehavior Against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses

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* Kurikulum CE/CS/IS/IT/SE 2005
http://campus.acm.org/public/comments/Draft_5-23-05.pdf

Bagi yang tertarik/terlibat kurikulum bidang:
* Computer Engineering
* Computer Science
* Information Systems
* Information Technology
* Software Engineering
dipersilakan untuk mengintip, mereview, dan mengomentari
''Computing Curricula 2005''

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* The Debian legacy
http://mrk3.blogspot.com/2005/06/debian-legacy.html
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/13/1430228

Debian's popularity has inspired dozens of variants, including many
that circumvent your hard disk and run directly from a combination
of CD-ROM and computer memory. Here's a look at some of the
celebrities in the Debian family tree. Debian is an open source
operating system developed by volunteers and freely available via
the Internet. Capable of running on a variety of hardware platforms,
Debian is also a great representation of the power of open source
software. It offers around 10,000 software packages that are
maintained by about 1,000 developers.

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* Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Research Methods
http://www.academic-conferences.org/ecrm2005/2-proceedings-ecrm2005.htm

The 4th European Conference on Research Methods in Business
and Management was held at the Universite Paris-Dauphine last
month. The conference this year was well received by
participants, many of whom commented on how the quality of
work and presentations continues to develop each year. The
Proceedings are now available and details of how to obtain copies
can be found at the URL above.

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* Trojan holds PC files for ransom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4580389.stm

A unique new kind of malicious threat which locks up files on
a PC then demands money in return for unlocking them has
been identified. The trojan turns files into gobbledegook,
holding them to "ransom"

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* RFC-4074:
Common Misbehavior Against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses
http://komo.padinet.com/bebas/RFC/rfc4074.txt

There is some known misbehavior of DNS authoritative servers when
they are queried for AAAA resource records. Such behavior can block
IPv4 communication that should actually be available, cause a
significant delay in name resolution, or even make a denial of
service attack. This memo describes details of known cases and
discusses their effects.

Many existing DNS clients (resolvers) that support IPv6 first search
for AAAA Resource Records (RRs) of a target host name, and then for A
RRs of the same name. This fallback mechanism is based on the DNS
specifications, which if not obeyed by authoritative servers, can
produce unpleasant results. In some cases, for example, a web
browser fails to connect to a web server it could otherwise reach.
In the following sections, this memo describes some typical cases of
such misbehavior and its (bad) effects.

Note that the misbehavior is not specific to AAAA RRs. In fact, all
known examples also apply to the cases of queries for MX, NS, and SOA
RRs. The authors believe this can be generalized for all types of
queries other than those for A RRs. In this memo, however, we
concentrate on the case for AAAA queries, since the problem is
particularly severe for resolvers that support IPv6, which thus
affects many end users. Resolvers at end users normally send A
and/or AAAA queries only, so the problem for the other cases is
relatively minor.

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