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Linux Tag is looking for speakers

Author: JT Smith

LinuxToday has posted an announcement about Linux Tag’s need for speakers at their European exhibition.

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  • Linux

An in-depth look at reiserfs

Author: JT Smith

LinuxPlanet explains journaled filesystems and practical considerations for installing and working with reiserfs.

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  • Linux

MS to go toe-to-toe with Sun, IBM, and Oracle

Author: JT Smith

CNET reports that Microsoft is spending $200 million on an advertising campaign in an attempt to align itself with big business server solutions. Will it work? Stay tuned.

Openhack site: Bowed but not broken

Author: JT Smith

ZDNET reports on the site that eWEEK labs has opened up, saying, ‘come and crack if you can.’ Every day, the server is loaded up with kiddies working on the perfect crack… but they’ve had no success yet.

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  • Linux

A meta tag Nintendo didn’t like

Author: JT Smith

From Wired.com: “A couple of guys put up a nondescript site that once contained a Pokemon meta tag. Woe unto those who dare offend the attorneys who guard Nintendo’s treasure.”

Yahoo! Microsoft traffic diverted to MyDomain.com

Author: JT Smith

The happy beneficiary of this exploit, the owner of MyDomains.com, said he was amazed at how easy it was to ‘hijack’ traffic. Surprising it isn’t done more often. From MSNBC.

Microsoft loses execs, shifts to Xbox

Author: JT Smith

ZDNET talks about the marketing department shakeup at Microsoft, plus their new focus on .Net and how Windows might be fading away.

Leverage the 2.4 kernel to make Linux your desktop OS

Author: JT Smith

At Infoworld, the columnist says 2.4 lacks functionality to make Linux the best desktop OS, whines and moans about lack of driver support for 2.4 and then calls for a special committee to put pressure on vendors to create hardware drivers for Linux.

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  • Linux

MS bug of the day: when Palm Cradle shuts down

Author: JT Smith

MSNBC tells us that with Palm cradles attached to PCs, “the system hangs on boot, the mouse cursor flashes between the hourglass and the arrow after Windows loads, Windows will not shut down and the system hangs, and the CPU activity is at 99 percent (in Task Manager) in Windows 2000.”

Building a browser for the FreeBSD file tree

Author: JT Smith

UnixInsider has posted this fairly technical article about a Web-based file tree browser for BSD. The devil you say!

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  • Unix