CBC reports that “mafiaboy”, the 16 year old Quebec resident accused of being responsible for last year’s distributed denial of service attacks, has pled guilty to 56 mischief charges.

MSNBC reports that Windows 98 and Me are having problems with fast computers. The operating system is shutting down the system power before the hard drives have a chance to catch up, sometimes resulting in “Windows was not shut down properly” messages on boot.

Here’s a follow-up to a story posted earlier today. According to nVidia, the new Detonator3 drivers “instantly increases the processing power” of GeForce, GeForce2, Quadro and
Quadro2 family of graphic accelerators. The latest version supports the Linux 2.4.x kernel, and grants TwinView support to GeForce2 MX cards.

Mikael Pawlo writes “Gnuheter reports that the new version of MySQL, 3.23.31, eventually was released. From now on the 3.23 versions will not be updated any more, except for standard bug fixes. The developers will devote their talents to the work finalizing version 4.0. The 3.23-version is now supporting BDB-databases which is important for handling transactions. Complete story (in Swedish) with links (international)“

Update your versions of the virtual machinery that runs the Internet universe. The Internet Software Consortium has announced the availability of version 9.1.0 of Berkeley Internet Name Domain, aka BIND.

A short post at LWN.net announces the availability of a new PowerPC Linux 2.4 kernel designed for dual-processor Apple G4 units with 1GB+ RAM.

As if ICANN didn’t have enough problems with its selection of new top level domain names, now the American Civil Liberties Union is giving the group grief for its choices. InfoWorld reports that the ACLU is heading up a group of “cyber rights advocates” who argue that “by limiting the domain space, ICANN and the Commerce Department have failed to recognize the needs and free speech rights of Internet users and non-commercial organizations.”

Check out the latest modules posted tp use Perl for this week. Highlights: XML-CSV for transforming comma-separated values to XML; access Windows .ini and .reg files with Config-Ini; manage your email with Man-Procmail.

Darn it all to heck, the wireless Web is supposed to be the next big thing, but those pesky American consumers just won’t cooperate with that particular marketing fantasy. Perhaps it’s because services are overpriced? Could it be that availability is severely limited? Or is it possible, as ZDNet says, that no one wants to view a Web page that takes forever to load on a screen the size of a postage stamp?

BSD Today reports on the latest NetBSD report. This latest offering supports NetBSD on handheld devices with the Hitachi SH3/4 CPU. This means you can now run UNIX on HP’s Jornada and other handheld computers that typicall run WinCE. Also available: NetBSD for Sega Dreamcast.