Reuters on TechWeb: The Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) said Tuesday that in the
first half of 2000, it had notified more than 4,500 music
websites in the U.S. that it identified as illegally offering
copyrighted material via commercial Internet service
providers.

After being stagnant for a few months LinuxMonth is please to present the third issue of LinuxMonth.

Apache Today article covers all of the basic concepts for writing filters.

Secure e-business pioneer Cylink Corporation today announced on Cylink.com that its SAFER+ encryption algorithm is being used for user authentication within Bluetooth, a protocol that is rapidly growing in use for wireless communications.

The Boston Globe poses the question, “In the age of the Internet, can anyone actually control the dissemination of creative content —
let alone get paid for it?” to a panel of six experts from varied backrounds.

“Visual WebTools V4 software has been engineered under Linux and
Oracle technologies allowing the company to stay on the cutting edge of the industry,” states Christian Larsen, President and CEO of Pacific WebWorks, Inc., from BusinessWire on NewsAlert.

PRNewswire: Young Minds, Inc. (YMi) of
Redlands, California announced today that it is now shipping PowerDVD Studio,
an automated DVD-Recording system for Unix, Linux, and Windows NT.

CYRANO today confirmed the availability of OpenSTA (Open System Testing Architecture) on 27 September 2000, and disclosed information on the pre-subscription program to ease the implementation of the product for the Open Source community of developers.
Paris, France & Newburyport, USA – 20 September 2000

CYRANO today confirmed the availability of OpenSTAâ„¢ (Open System Testing Architecture) on
27 September 2000, and disclosed information on the pre-subscription program to ease the
implementation of the product for the Open Source community of developers.

“E-commerce sites need to be able to predict how their systems will behave under load, giving them
the ability to ensure that their systems are reliable and stable enough to meet established timelines
for deployment and produce expected revenue.”

“Almost every month new Web development tools and techniques are released allowing users to
create more attractive, and therefore more visited, web sites. Because the CIOs cannot be sure that
these new features or hardware changes are not slowing down their site’s performance, they need to
test the site after each change.”

“Investing in a proprietary capture and replay tool to simulate realistic load of thousands of virtual
users may be wasting money if the evolution of such a tool is not fast enough. This certainly can
dramatically increase the Total Cost of Ownership of such a tool.”, said Noelle Beaudin, Marketing
Product Manager for OpenSTA.

OpenSTAâ„¢ Capabilities

OpenSTAâ„¢ (Open System Testing Architecture) is a distributed software testing architecture based
on CORBA. OpenSTAâ„¢ is designed to be used by Performance Testing Consultants or other
technically proficient individuals. Using OpenSTAâ„¢ a user can generate realistic heavy loads
simulating the activity of hundreds to thousands of virtual users, whatever the development
languages used. This capability is fully realized through OpenSTAâ„¢’s distributed testing
architecture.

Project managers will benefit from precise performance measurement and analysis which can be
gathered during load tests. OpenSTAâ„¢ graphs both virtual user response times and resource
utilization information from all Web Servers, Application Servers, database servers and Operating
Platforms under test. Consequently they can be sure that the company’s Web site will accommodate
the expected growth in customer load.

Release Date and Source code availability

In its first release the product toolset will have the capability of performing HTTP and HTTPS load
tests with performance measurement. The source code will be maintained on Sourceforge.net,
beginning with the 0.9.0 developer release, on 27 September 2000.

The OpenSTAâ„¢ source code and installable have been prepared to operate in a Windows NT 4 or
Windows 2000 environment. Plans for porting to all major platforms are in the works.

Open Source developers that are interested in participating in the OpenSTAâ„¢ project can find the
source hosted at link as of 27 September 2000. SourceForge is the premier provider of hosting
services for on-line Open Source projects.

CYRANO will offer services around OpenSTA

Around the OpenSTAâ„¢ project, CYRANO will be offering support, consulting and training services,
bespoke feature enhancements, and printed documentation and CD sets. OpenSTAâ„¢ software will
remain free and open, while services and product associated with the software can be acquired for a
fee.

“Until recently, companies have made objections about implementing Open Source due to the lack of
any organized support model. CYRANO will be offering full support, consulting and training services
specifically for OpenSTAâ„¢” said Noelle Beaudin, Marketing Product Manager for OpenSTA. “So
that you not only get use of a completely open and aggressively evolving tool, you also get access
to a dedicated team to help you support it in your environment.”

Support Agreement Pre-subscription sign up

As part of an incentive to register users for OpenSTAâ„¢ 1.0.0, which is expected some time in
December 2000, CYRANO will offer a pre-subscription sign up. Users will be able to receive
OpenSTAâ„¢ 1.0.0 printed documentation and CD set, one week consulting and training, and a year’s
Support license by pre-subscribing during the release of 0.9.0. The pre-subscription sign up will be
heavily discounted. To find out more about the pre-subscription, please visit opensta.com. The
definitive terms and conditions will be disclosed on 27 September 2000.

CYRANO and Open Source

“Open Source software has a proven reliability track record and this is something CYRANO was
keenly interested in capturing,”, concluded Robert Ernens, Chairman and CEO of CYRANO, “It’s
much more effective to market any product on the basis of reliability. As an executive in control of
my company I am keenly aware of the fact that reliability reduces total cost of ownership and
business risk. Open Source provides the capability for the executive to be in control of these two
critical business issues. Dotcom and Dotcorp organizations are facing the same challenges and
OpenSTAâ„¢ is the unique answer for them.”

About CYRANO

CYRANO is a public company listed on the EuroNM of the Paris Bourse (Reuters: CYRA.LN,
Sicovam 3922). Formed in 1989, CYRANO is headquartered in Paris, France, with regional
headquarters in the UK and USA.

CYRANO, is one of the world leaders in Web performance, security and application management.
CYRANO competes with ISS (Nasdaq: ISSX), Axent (Nasdaq: AXNT), and Networks Associates Inc.
(Nasdaq: NETA) for vulnerability assessment tools and services.

OpenSTA is a trademark of CYRANO
Other trademarks, service marks and company names are the property of their respective owners

Contacts
In Paris, France:
Philippe de La Gardette
+ 33 1 5633 4000
pdlg@cyrano.com

In Newburyport, MA:
Noelle Beaudin
+ 1 800 714 4900
+ 1 978 462 4755
nobeau@cyrano.com

By Grant Gross
Managing Editor

Beyond a certain bird mascot, it’d seem that Open Source software and Antarctica don’t have much in common.

But the technology movement and the continent — at least the science that’s practiced there — operate by some of the same principals, and Brendon Grunewald has merged his interest in both topics on a Linux-run, Antarctica news Web site called 70South.

It’s a fitting combination, he says. Scientists at the South Pole have to cooperate, because equipment and bodies are often scarce, says Grunewald, who worked as a physicist in Antarctica between November 1992 and February 1994. “You share information — you collaborate,” he adds. “You have 10% of the picture, and you add three or four other people’s measuring equipment; suddenly you get to 150% of the picture.”

70South includes headlines, such as “The warming debate heats up” and “Whaling sanctions ordered’ as well as general information about the South Pole and a weather report. Wednesday’s weather at Vostok, one of the few stations open year round: minus 93F.

“It’s an incredibly beautiful and dangerous continent; it’s almost like it’s a different planet,” Grunewald says. “Antarctica is a pristine, or near pristine, environment, and it’s a great place to understand our world.”

Grunewald, who says he’s been using Linux for “I don’t know how many years,” launched the site in July 1999. He just recently added WAP capabilities to 70South, using the Open Source Zope; he’s been attracted to Open Source products because he can “fiddle and play and learn.”

The site, a sideline to Grunewald’s full-time job as business development director of a Chicago technology company, keeps his tech skills current and allows him to experiment with software that he can use in his day job.

“A lot of what I play with there, we get the benefit in my company,” he says. “There’s no better way to establish your technical skills than by actually doing it.”

The site, which gets several thousand page views a month, has linked Grunewald with hundreds of people interested in Antarctica. He gets 50 to 60 emails a month from students researching Antarctica or wanting to work there. (There are occasionally tech jobs.) He’s also offered advice to people planning expeditions to Antarctica.

He’s hoping to round up sponsors for contests on research-paper writing, and he’d like to publish articles from anyone ranging from grade-school students to college professors. “I’d like the site to become very much like the Open Source model — where people can contribute and take from it what they see fit,” he says. “I want the site to be one that mirrors both Antarctica and Open Source.”

RedHat.com announces, the companies plan to demonstrate the first product to combine Red Hat Open Source Linux leadership with the NET+ARM family of networked microprocessors at the Embedded Systems Conference, West in San Jose, CA. Here’s a story from CNet.