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.

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

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.

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.”

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

“The Irish Times, in an article announcing RMS’s visit to Dublin, calls the efforts of programmers working to create free software a ‘noble, if financially foolhardy approach.’ Sounds like a wee bit a fighting words t’me, laddy.

linuxnews.pl writes “On www.projectmayo.com first projects using OpenDivX are mentioned. Linux users will surely be happy to hear that XMPS 0.2 with a new OpenDivX plugin is available to download. There is still no precompiled RPM or DEB packages, but it’s probably only a matter of time.

Sensei writes “I was getting really frustrated building this kernel using the online and hard copy resources, because they sorta get sketchy in some parts (ie ‘depends on the system’, ‘if you want’, ‘might be a good idea’). So I got together all of my resources in one place, sat down with the README and CHANGES docs that come with the kernel, and decided to document, step by step, the process I went through. Of course I don’t go through every config option the kernel has to offer, but if you need information on each choice you have, do ‘xconfig’ like I do below, and there’s help all along the way.

Check it out here“

After painful copyright lawsuits, MP3.com is expecting to turn a profit, reports ZDNET, and the company won’t be taking on any partners.

The US President’s website, http://www.whitehouse.gov, was transferred from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration on January 20th, but the transition was not entirely smooth. The website launched with the words, “Insert something meaningful here,” still on the page, and a long series of broken links. Hopefully the rest of the transition has been going better. Wired News has the story.