Author: JT Smith
CNET News reports, high-tech matters such as online privacy, Internet taxes and immigration policy will be among the pressing issues swirling about on Capitol Hill in the next several weeks.
Linux Advisory Watch
Author: JT Smith
LinuxSecurity.com offers the Linux Advisory Watch for the week of September 29th, 2000.
Category:
- Linux
Sun considers ditching Linux
Author: JT Smith
Cobalt appliances could be getting the Solaris treatment from Sun, reports IT Week on ZDNet UK News.
Category:
- Linux
Open CASCADE application framework sample available
Author: JT Smith
OpenCascade.com announces, following numerous requests on the forum and in the mailing lists we have made available an OCAF sample for Open CASCADE version 3.0 on Linux and Windows NT which will help you to understand and use this powerful Open CASCADE functionality.
Xfce: Alternative to GNOME/KDE
Author: JT Smith
Linux Orbit interview with Olivier Fourdan, lead developer of the Xfce desktop environment.
The Gnutella paradox
Author: JT Smith
Salon.com article asks, “If the decentralized Gnutella can’t handle the legal and technical
threats that come from mass usage, what system can?”
threats that come from mass usage, what system can?”
Category:
- Linux
Jupiter Systems announces Linux support
Author: JT Smith
With expansion capability to 124 screens and support for both live video input and analog RGB input, Linux PR reports, the Jupiter 870 series display wall controller takes the Linux operating system to new heights of visual performance.
Slashdot database compromised
Author: JT Smith
Two crackers from the Netherlands broke in to the Slashdot backend. You could say the popular discussion site got the ‘shaft.’ Read the story, posted by the crackers themselves, at Slashdot.CNet also has a story.
Category:
- Linux
Ex-cracker slams UK cybercrime law
Author: JT Smith
Herbless says that the British
government’s oft-criticised Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
(RIPA) will be completely ineffectual for catching petty criminals
such as Web page defacers and even less useful when it comes to
hunting professional computer criminals. From a report at ZDCOUK.
government’s oft-criticised Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
(RIPA) will be completely ineffectual for catching petty criminals
such as Web page defacers and even less useful when it comes to
hunting professional computer criminals. From a report at ZDCOUK.
Category:
- Linux
Don’t deal with the RIAA, they’re a cartel
Author: JT Smith
Broadcast.com founder Mark Cuban lays out the skinny on the licensing deal the RIAA offers webcasters in a story at Wired.com.