Root for everyone

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January 16, 2001

Author: JT Smith

Evan S writes “Want a root shell? The Openroot Project gives away root shells to anyone who needs or wants one. People can learn the UNIX operating system, experiment, or do whatever they want, for example, someone could start a community owned webserver by installing Apache. Openroot has been running for six weeks, and with generous donations from organizations such as the FSF, there has been hardly any downtime.”

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Unix

LG debuts Linux tablet PC

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January 16, 2001

Author: JT Smith

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. has announced development
of a Linux-based tablet PC that boasts wireless LAN connectivity, reports Infoworld.

The Digital iPad is designed for applications such as basic e-mail
and Internet access and word processing, and as a multimedia
terminal, for which video and MP3 player software is installed.

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Linux

Space shuttle Atlantis launch delayed

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January 16, 2001

Author: JT Smith

CBS reports that NASA has ordered the space shuttle Atlantis to be removed from its launch pad, delaying its launch until the end of the week.

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Linux

The fate of the Free ISPs

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January 16, 2001

Author: JT Smith

Business Week looks at the state of free ISPs Juno and NetZero, exploring their passed and forseeing their future.

France planning to tax blank recordable and computer media

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January 16, 2001

Author: JT Smith

Reuters reports that France is planning to introduce a blank digital-media tax to compensate musicians and filmmakers for the potential loss from copied works. Slashdot has a lively discussion on the topic.

AT&T turns on 10Gbps US coast-to-coast backbone

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January 16, 2001

Author: JT Smith

Computer World reports on the introduction of a new OC192 (10Gbps) backbone between Massachussets and California. It is the fastest single backbone linking the two shores of the US.

Linux in education report #37

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January 16, 2001

Author: JT Smith

SEUL.org has the latest SEUL/edu Linux in Education Report for January of this year.

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Linux

The other hacker contest: You wear the white hat

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January 16, 2001

Author: JT Smith

SecurityFocus.com has a story about Honeynet’s Forensic Challenge, which lets you wear the white hat and bust the hacker. In the contest, you match wits with the “perpetrator of a dastardly attack on an unnamed Linux machine last November.”

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Linux

Motorola to lay off 2,500

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January 16, 2001

Author: JT Smith

CBSnews.com reports that Motorola Inc. said
Monday it is halting cellular-phone
manufacturing at a plant in Illinois and laying off about 2,500 workers.

FreeBSD advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:01.openssh

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January 15, 2001

Author: JT Smith

BSD Today has this advisory: “If agent or X11 forwarding is disabled in the ssh client configuration, the client does not request these features
during session setup. This is the correct behaviour.

However, when the ssh client receives an actual request asking for access to the ssh-agent, the client fails to
check whether this feature has been negotiated during session setup. The client does not check whether the
request is in compliance with the client configuration and grants access to the ssh-agent. A similar problem
exists in the X11 forwarding implementation.”

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Linux