Student’s computer confiscated

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September 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The RIAA has had a student’s computer confiscated at an American university for trading mp3s. The story from CNet.

Open Source Development Labs

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September 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Linux World discusses the advent of the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and what it means.

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Linux

Dow Chemical fires employees over inappropriate email

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September 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

CNet tells us that Dow Chemical has fired two dozen employees from a Texas plant over sexual and violent pictures sent within their email system.

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Open Source

Getting rejected – automatically

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September 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Daily Radar has a silly feature that allows you to be rejected by cheerleaders in a hurry. Perhaps lessons could be learned from such a script.

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Management

Offspring wants to offer music in mp3 format

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September 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Despite their label’s law suit against Napster, punk band ‘Offspring’ is planning to release their next album on line before the CD hits the stores. ZDNet has the story.

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Linux

DLink introduces less-expensive wireless LAN hardware

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September 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

D-Link has introduced a new set of wireless LAN cards and control points, priced lower then other existing wireless LAN hardware. The story at NW Fusion.

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Unix

Community says no to SDMI

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September 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

NW Fusion tells of the internet community’s refusal to participate in SDMI’s encrpytion tests.

Apple moves for control

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September 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet cites a series of moves by Apple Corp lately, accusing the company of trying to gain, as the article says, control.

New round of DDoS attacks could be on horizon

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September 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

MSNBC is reporting on a warning that many computers are compromised and could be used in a new wave of distributed denial of service attacks, similar to what we saw in February.

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Linux

Popular pine programme vulnerability

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September 16, 2000

Author: JT Smith

SecurityFocus is reporting that a common un*x mail client is vulnerable to remote denial of service attacks. The site claims that pine is vulnerable to a malformed-header attack which can render the programme useless until an offending email message is removed.

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Linux