Technocrat asked the question: How do we get non-geeks thinking about DeCSS? “Few weeks ago I was invited to a birthday party. The present we brought with us was a movie on a DVD disc. Because of my views on the DeCSS case I decided to use the opportunity to get the non-geeks at the party (everyone except me) to think about the free-speech issues related to DVD and the DeCSS case. “

This article (at net-security.org) is written for a linux newbie or anybody who cares, at least a bit about the data stored on his hard drive. You’ll notice that it’s aimed mainly for home-users, not for large network administrators or similar. All procedures have been done and checked on an installed SuSE 6.4 linux distribution. –Mirko Zorz

In the vein of sites like QuestionExchange and Expert Central, there’s a new site called IdeaExchange that lets people sell their intellectual property to the highest bidder. From ZDNET.

Linux4us has started its RealTimeBattle contest. From now on, you are able to subscribe, and a RTB league is planned. Every team gets its own little information page. The winners get prizes. To subscribe, visit Linux4us (it’s near the middle of the page). And to get more information, visit RTB— Submitted by an Anonymous Reader

LWN has posted the announcement about the recent update of Linux-Mandrake’s tmpwatch package. It is a recommended update that fixes a local denial of service attack.

ANNAPOLIS, MD (October 6, 2000)- Scyld Computing Corporation today released the Scyld Beowulf Scalable Computing software. Read more on prweb.

In the latest installment of the BOFH, our friendly operator shows the new ex-military boss the ropes.

Another help question on Slashdot is asked. “Are there places that hire UNIX interns?“

In this Slashdot discussion, cluge asks if the community should re-evaluate the performance of Linux, to show people the changes that have occurred since the MS Linux Myths page was produced.

The GCC steering committee has issued a statement about Red Hat (and others) including alpha development code in their distributions. Slashdot has a discussion of the issue.