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Using the GNU FDL

Author: JT Smith

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.”

Category:

  • Open Source

Hackers attack information ministry’s Web site

Author: JT Smith

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.

Category:

  • Linux

PGP – not as pretty good as you might think

Author: JT Smith

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the encryption program created by coding supremo Phil Zimmerman almost a decade ago, may not be as secure as many encryption experts have said, according to this report from ComputerUser.com.

Category:

  • Linux

A boy named IUMA

Author: JT Smith

A hilarious future ditty on Salon, by Iuma Dylan-Lucas Thornhill, whose parents just won $5,000 for naming him after a Web site.

Category:

  • Management

Mike Cassidy: Programmer may be last of a ‘dyeing’ breed

Author: JT Smith

SiliconValley.com says he’s the kind of guy the national news magazines came looking for a few years back
when they decided to show the world what Silicon Valley was all about.

Category:

  • Linux

Surfing the Tsunami

Author: JT Smith

A large Southeastern university IS team fights off a massive
distributed denial of-service attack and lives to tell about it. From NetworkWorld Fusion.

Category:

  • Linux

Xbox, Xbox, über alles

Author: JT Smith

Quit whining. A Microsoft monopoly isn’t always a bad thing, says Salon, — especially if it kicks off a renaissance in gaming creativity.

Palm gets first Trojan horse

Author: JT Smith

Once Liberty Crack executes, it could delete all of the applications on a Palm device. From IDG.net.

Category:

  • Linux

Opinion: Open source software in a different light

Author: JT Smith

“What possibilities exist that the primary proponents of the concept, and thus the
perceptions of Open Source software, haven’t conveyed the essence or its true
meaning?” These deep thoughts and more, from OSOpinion.com.

Category:

  • Open Source

Opinion: They’re coming for your brain next

Author: JT Smith

Back in the bad old days — the Dark Ages — it was common for authorities to
restrict the spread of information. Find out if that is still true today, at OSOpinion.com.