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SAFLINK announces support for CDSA, BioAPI

Author: JT Smith

SAFLINK Corporation, a global biometric software
provider, today announced that it plans to incorporate both the Common Data
Security Architecture (CDSA) standard and the BioAPI specification standard in
its expanding product line of multi-biometric software solutions. SAFLINK and
Intel Corporation have been working closely together over the past several
months to test an extension of the CDSA framework to include support for
multiple biometrics technologies. Both CDSA and
BioAPI have been released as cross-platform open-source specifications that
are designed to run on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Unix environments.
The press release is at PR Newswire.

Why Sun really bought Cobalt

Author: JT Smith

From a Linux World column:

“Sun Microsystems’s recent purchase of Cobalt Networks tells me that somebody at Sun has his
or her head screwed on right. Sun has publicly positioned this move as an opportunity to jump
into the low-end server appliance market; buying Cobalt was undoubtedly one of the best possible
ways to do that. And in the long run, Cobalt helps Sun hedge its bets against the probability that its
Solaris- and Sparc-based systems will not forever hold the lead in the high-end Internet server
space.”

Category:

  • Open Source

Apache status report

Author: JT Smith

ApacheWeek has an update on the status of Apache: “Apache 1.3.12 is the current stable release. Users of Apache 1.3.11 and earlier on Unix and
Windows systems should upgrade to this version. Read the Guide to 1.3.12, the Guide to 1.3.11
for information about changes between 1.3.9 and 1.3.11 and the Guide to 1.3.9 for information
about changes between 1.3.6 and 1.3.9.”

eOn Communications inks deal with Reliance

Author: JT Smith

From PR Newswire: eOn Communications Corporation, a provider of
unified voice, e-mail and Internet communications systems, has announced an
expanded partnership with Reliance Telecommunications, one of Northern
California’s premier suppliers of voice and data communications systems.
Reliance Telecommunications will now market, install and service eOn’s newest
line of communications systems, servers and software, including the eNterprise
communications server.
The eOn eNterprise is a next generation private communications exchange
(PCX) platform that enables businesses to consolidate and manage voice, e-mail
and Web applications in a single unified system. The eNterprise is based on
the open standards Linux operating system.

Reality check for Apple

Author: JT Smith

From Maximum Linux: “Apple has spent quite some time in the Linux media lately with its adopting bits of
BSD within OS X. While Apple may be taking a page from Linux and the Open Source community,
they didn’t have to drop its stock prices quite so drastically. Someone should tell Apple this is not what
the Open Source community means by ‘free.’ “

Teaching South Africans to crack

Author: JT Smith

Maximum Linux reports on a seminar in South Africa that teaches IT professionals how to crack both NT and Unix boxes. “The course, slated to last four days, will show security admins just how crackers work in order to help
them understand how they can prevent such a scenario.”

Category:

  • Linux

Visual Basic for Linux is here

Author: JT Smith

From Maximum Linux: “Visual Basic for Linux? No, your eyes do not deceive you. Janus Software has announced the
immediate release of Phoenix Object Basic, a Linux native Rapid Application Development tool, that
combines ‘visual programming’ with the Basic programming language.”

Category:

  • Linux

A guide to using Cron

Author: JT Smith

“Certain processes must be run at specific times, over and over again. An example of this might be a backup process that is launched each night as the rest of the world sleeps, or a log analyzer that must run every minute.” The guide is at LinuxLookup.com. — Submitted by Anonymous Reader

Category:

  • Open Source

Companies, ISP could have DDoS legal liability

Author: JT Smith

InfoWorld reports: “Corporations and ISPs could be held liable for unwittingly allowing computers on their networks to become pawns, or ‘zombie’ machines, in DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks that harm customers or other companies.”

Category:

  • Linux

Linux PPC security notice

Author: JT Smith

“Our first security update for LinuxPPC 2000 has been posted! It is
retroactive — that is, it covers every previous version of LinuxPPC, at
least back to Relase 4, which is almost two years old at this point.” The advisory is posted at LWN.net.

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  • Linux