ZDNet reports that an Internet worm called Ramen, “cobbled together from generally available hacking tools” has compromised at least hundreds of Linux servers. Apparently, the worm uses two security flaws in applications set up during the default installation of Red Hat Linux. However, the worm doesn’t really do anything destructive, it’s just annoying.

An article from the Albany Times Union reviews Hollywood’s efforts to stop you from taping TV shows in the privacy of your own den.

From a ZDNet column: “Apple doesn’t want OS X in the enterprise, that much is clear. Nary a mention has ben made of the forthcoming Mac OS X Server release …”

Wired.com reports on the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana’s announcement Tuesday NCSA will install two IBM Linux clusters, creating the the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world.

“NCSA’s new clusters will have 2 teraflops of computing power and will be used by researchers to study some
of the most fundamental questions of science, such as the nature of gravitational waves first predicted by
Albert Einstein in his Theory of Relativity.”

Slashdot readers talk about who to nominate for the Open Source Development Lab’s board of directors. Nominate yourself! Nominate your neighbor!

ZDNET.co.uk reports: “One in five employers may be snooping on their staff emails without informing them or gaining their consent, according to a new report published Tuesday.” Now we know why the suits have been spending so much time with netops lately.

From an article at Fairfax IT:
“Linux software and support company VA Linux Systems (ed. note: VA owns Newsforge) today more than halved its expected revenues for its 2001 fiscal year, boding of tough times ahead and showing how tough it is to make money off open source software.” Yeah, it’s so hard to make money off Open Source that we didn’t even realize VA Linux was a software company. Go figure.

ZDNET reports that the U.K. “government claims Tuesday to have smashed its own targets for the delivery of services via the Internet.

The original target — for 2002 — was to have a quarter of government services delivered electronically, but the Cabinet Office claims that more than 40 percent are already available.” Now, why can’t the U.S. government beat a deadline for a change? Oh yes, because it’s the U.S. government. We forgot.

ZDNET reports: “The developers of hacker video technology DivX are going public, opening up much of their work to the open source community.” Not exactly public, not exactly mainstream, but probably good news for us.

Network World Fusion: “Despite dubbing fiscal 2000 overall a “record” year for both earnings and revenue, Intel Tuesday announced revised fourth-quarter financial results and said it expects first-quarter results to be adversely hit by current economic uncertainty. The company also revealed that it plans to close a manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico as a way to cut costs.”