Anonymous Reader writes “Tip Of The Week: Finding open files with ‘lsof.’ Have you ever tried to unmount a filesystem and received that annoying “umount: /dir: device is busy” error message? Need to know who’s accessing the files so you can boot ’em off? hehe. Well, in this week’s tip, we’ll talk about the very helpful utility ‘lsof’, which should help alleviate your stress. Read the fill tip at http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/main/totw.html“

Newsweek via MSNBC reports on recent relaxation of government encryption regulations after a long, uphill fight by privacy activists and crypto advocates. “On one side of the battle were relative nobodies: computer hackers, academics and wonky civil libertarians. On the other were some of the most powerful people in the world: spies, generals and even presidents. Guess who won.”

From CNET News.com: “What do NASA, the Communications Workers of America and Palminfocenter.com have in common? Their Web sites were all defaced at different times last year by a hacker using a security weakness in Windows NT, the precursor to
Microsoft’s Windows 2000 server software.”

From MaximumLinux: “Microsoft’s biggest competitor isn’t Oracle, Sun, Palm, Yahoo! or AOL. Instead, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
explained, it’s the lil OS that could (and does), Linux.”

At LinuxWorld: “Searching for an easy way to speed up huge compilations or scale up your Internet services? Take a look at
MOSIX, an open source clustering project from Hebrew University that features power without a price.”

CNET News.com reports that Universal Music Group isn’t about to settle its lawsuit with Napter, the online MP3-trading service. Universal’s CEO believes the company may be able to cut a better deal with Napster if the court rules in Universal’s favor.

Help Net Security has the details of a security issue that Lotus has named the “Domino Server Directory Traversal Vulnerability.”

GNOME developer Helix Code has changed its name to Ximian. Read all about the change in a letter from Ximian CEO Nat Friedman, and get more information from the name change FAQ.

ZDNet reports from the floor of Moscone Center at Macworld, commenting on Microsoft’s popularity at this year’s show, LinuxPPC’s lack of same (in contrast with last year’s surging crowds), and the Not the Mac the Knife Party.

A press release at Linux PR: “ACTIS Computer, a leading manufacturer of VME boards and IP modules has released a PowerQUICC II-based Single Board Computer that runs Embedded Linux and is targeted at the communication and embedded control market.”