IDE CD-RW (rewritable) installation under Linux

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January 25, 2001

Author: JT Smith

Linux.com reports on the difficulties involved with installing IDE CD-rewritable drives under Linux due to a kernel issue, and details instructions on getting around the kernel problem to get an IDE CD-RW drive to run.

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Linux

SDMI director steps down

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January 25, 2001

Author: JT Smith

The Standard reports that Leonardo Chiariglione is stepping down as head of the Secure Digital Music Initiative after two years. The SDMI has been working to create a secure format for music to get around the trading of mp3 audio files.

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Linux

UK considers Internet chat room controls

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January 25, 2001

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet reports that the British government is considering controls on chat rooms on line to prevent pedophiles from meeting kids on line.

Why music piracy will thrive

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January 25, 2001

Author: JT Smith

MSNBC explains why music piracy will continue to thrive, in spite of recent developments in the movement against unpaid music sharing by companies such as IBM.

VA Linux unveils thin server

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January 25, 2001

Author: JT Smith

Network World Fusion reports that VA Linux (disclosure: VA owns NewsForge) is adding itself to the ranks of companies shipping thin servers.

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Unix

Put the family album online with Linux

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January 25, 2001

Author: JT Smith

Linux World discusses putting photo albums on line under Linux stating that it is so easy, “even a dweeb journalist” can do it.

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Linux

IBM will release source code of UDDI4J

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January 25, 2001

Author: JT Smith

Tech Web reports that IBM is planning to release the source to its Universal Discovery Description and Integrity for Java (UDDI4J) software under IBM’s public license.

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Open Source

Microsoft sites come back online, company blames technicians

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January 25, 2001

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet reports that Microsoft’s servers are back on line after a day of downtime, following a router configuration error blamed on technicians.

FreeBSD advisory: crontab

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January 25, 2001

Author: JT Smith

A post on LWN.net warns that crontab includes a vulnerability that allows users to read any file on the system that conform to a valid crontab file syntax.

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Linux

Debian advisory: WU-FTPD

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January 25, 2001

Author: JT Smith

From LWN.net: “Security people at WireX have noticed a temp file creation bug and the
WU-FTPD development team has found a possible format string bug in
wu-ftpd. Both could be remotely exploited, though no such exploit
exists currently.”

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Linux