At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc
Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight. We have a lively show
lined up for tonight.
Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the
week including: Microsoft lies, The Sun goes Down, Linux Games, Virus, spam, a clueless
pundit or two…….. and way more.
Story Links
- The News This Weeks
- Security Focus and Virus Bulletin battle over Viruses
in Linux: - Linux CD turns Athlon 64 PC into “gaming console on steroids”– Linuxdevices.com
- Linux Cost Savings Add Up–
- SGI: Letter to the Linux Community– Get bit SCO
- Eric On the possible fall of Sun-By Eric S. Raymond President, Open Source Initiative
- Open Source Needs Long-Range Plans-By Brian Proffitt Linux Today Managing Editor
- Mass. official: “Open source” reports overstated
State secretary denies existence of “Freeware Initiative” -By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service - Microsoft report prompts Forrester policy change– Robert McMillan, IDG News Service, San Francisco Bureau About “F”ing time huh???
- Why Open Source May Be Doomed-By Megan McArdle Nominated for clueless pundit
- SuSE To Launch $449 Linux Server For SMB Market in November-By Paula Rooney, CRN
- Security Focus and Virus Bulletin battle over Viruses
- Old SCO
- Halloween IX: It Ain’t Necessarily SCO–
- An Open Letter to Darl-Newsforge good thoughts by ESR
- ‘SCO’ code could be written out of Linux–
- Red Hat Files Complaint Over SCO’s Linux Claims –
- CALDERA Employess work on Kernel– Jeff:I told you so
- Torvalds Speaks Out on SCO, Linux– from e-week
- SCO Owns Your Computer– Byte (how appropriate)
- OSI Position Paper
on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint– - Eric Raymond’s attempt
to find holes in SCO’s claim–
SCO’s CEO says buyout could end Linux fight– by TODD R. WEISS of
Computer World
This may be the defining story of the entire SCO situation- SCO v.
IBM satire. A Defining Moment– by Ed Foster - Warning: You
may want to consider speaking a new language
- The SCO/Microsoft Connection
- The
Linux and Main Summary– has to be good, quoted jeff….. - Linux
& Main editorial citing Microsoft– By Dennis Powell - “SCO ANNOUNCES
UNIX LICENSING DEAL WITH MICROSOFT” – the official press release - If it Look like a
duck, smells like a duck, walks like a duck? Its a duck HEY DOJ
WAKE UP!!!!!!! - OK, So
Why Did Microsoft Buy That SCO License?– by Maureen O’Gara of
LinuxGram
- The
Segment Two- SPAM SUCKS– and what to do about it
Tonight we had a guest cancel on us. So in light of that we are going to address a
topic that was high on the agenda of TLS this past week, and that is dealing with the
explosion of spam.
A couple days before our show last week, a SPAM program being distributed on the Internet
had our domain (thelinuxshow.com) in its database of suggested outgoing domains to use
with a bulk email list. This file could also be used with a Trojan that can co-opt
other computers and convert them into SMTP relay boxes all with spoofed outgoing domains.
Within short order there were dozens of (primarily newbies) of people out there on the
Internet, that were using our domain, and dozens more that were being used as a relay.
During the course of last week we spent 16 man hours contacting ISPs round the world
using standard abuse methods and in some cases a threat of retribution. In 10 cases
we also contacted the FBI for fraud. I want to thank all those ISPs around the world
that helped to plug up the holes in the dam.
So, tonight we thought we would relate the story to you, the techniques we used to
solve the issue, and an open discussion on our favorite Spam tools.
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