PCWorld reports that computer hackers with political agendas have become a fast-growing threat to big companies worldwide, according to a corporate intelligence company.

Women technology workers are tired of being put on display at Comdex. This year’s IT Mecca features a forum for females who want to show off their brains. From Wired.com.

MozillaZine has a editorial about Netscape: “I have recently become convinced that Netscape is fighting a losing battle against third-party micro-managing
in their attempt to produce a browser for market.

The first conflict was with the raving loonies of the WSP. The WSP whines and bitches about standards
compliance. They create a petition to convince Netscape to switch to development of their “Gecko”
rendering engine technology, which promises greater standards compliance. They take credit for the Mozilla
project moving to this new technology.”

A small start-up company
called LinuxForce maintains all of the Franklin Institute’s Linux operations. While the
Institute is very well-known and venerable, funds are just as scarce for any other large
educational facility. A very large portion of new additions to the Institute in recent years
have come from patrons and charitable trusts. Rather than hire a full-time Linux
administrator, the Institute hires LinuxForce on a contract basis to perform key
administration tasks. Linux.com reports.

From Linux.com: Welcome to Learning Samba, part 2. If you remember from last time, we learned how to
setup and install Samba. Unless you really know your kung fu, you don’t have a clue on
what to do to get it working! Now, fire up a terminal, warm up a pot of coffee, and make
yourself comfortable, because we’re going to get this baby running.

From BSDToday: tcpdump has several buffer overflows; a remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on the local system.

VA Linux Systems Inc. shares fell 42 percent Monday, after the software and computer maker said its fiscal first-quarter loss was wider than forecast because sales to Internet companies fell, reports the Dallas News. (VA Linux owns Newsforge.)

LinuxWorld Australia reports that Linux will be high on the agenda at Borcon 2000, given the
projected release early next year of project Kylix – the name
given to the Delphi and C++ Builder development tools for
Linux. Otherwise known as Rapid Application Development
(RAD) tools, the Kylix project promises to boost dramatically the
number of applications that are written for Linux and, hence, turn
it into a more mainstream platform.

From OSOpinion: Like everything else the computer industry has turned on its head, age has come to mean the exact opposite of what it does in the rest of society. That 20-something in casual shoes and Bugle Boy pants is jeered at anywhere else. But in the computer industry he (or she!) is often seen as the Second Coming.–Kelly McNeill

Humour site Satire Wire pokes fun at foreign stereotypes of, Americans saying that the proliferation of international news sites on the Internet is showing the rest of the world to the US.