A new 10-point guide from ICL shows
how a proactive approach, increased
communication, and better support methods can
help avoid that ‘IT day from Hell’.

The book bills itself as “a comprehensive FreeBSD tutorial and reference” covering the installation and day-to-day use of FreeBSD. In using the book to install FreeBSD, the BSDToday.com reviewer found it to fall short of this billing.

Sony appears to be distancing itself from anti-Napster comments
made by one of its senior US executives last week. From TheRegister.com.

According to Reuters, trade groups representing some technology giants filed briefs to a federal appeals court expressing concerns about an injunction issued
last month by a U.S. District court against song-swap company Napster Inc.

Aiming at the high end audio and video market (read: people who are serious about their home entertainment and have the wallet to match), Sony is about to launch a new combination optical disc player that supports both DVD-Video and the company’s new Super Audio CD format (SACD). From PcWorld.com.

Local users can take advantage of malformed ELF images to cause a system hang, says BSDToday.

Dell will begin offering its computers in almost any combination of operating system and application configuration customers can imagine, says Infoworld.com.

Rep. Stephen Horn, R-Calif., who made a name for himself by grading
government agencies on their Y2K computer readiness in the months leading up
to last year’s millennial date rollover, is at it again, gearing up to release a report
card on government computer security. From ComputerUser.com.

This article by Richard Stallman at FSF.org tells us, “If you know someone who is writing a manual about free software, and looking towards commercial publication, you have a chance to help the Free Software
Movement a great deal with a small amount of work: by suggesting the idea of publishing the manual under the GNU Free Documentation License.”

The Korean Ministry of Information and Communication fell prey to hackers who managed to bring the Web site to a standstill for 10 hours Saturday. From the Korea Herald.