NEAR-Shoemaker to land on Eros

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January 10, 2001

Author: JT Smith

CBS reports that NASA will attempt to land the NEAR-Shoemaker satellite on the asteroid Eros. NEAR-Shoemaker is the Near Earth Asteroid research spacecraft that has been orbiting the asteroid since February of 2000. NASA rates its chances of success at less then 1%.

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Linux

MSNBC pokes at Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson

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January 10, 2001

Author: JT Smith

MSNBC pokes at Microsoft Anti-trust case presiding judge Thomas Penfield Jackson over his remarks during and following the Department of Justice suit against the software giant. Jackson, the article claims, has shot himself in the foot and may no longer have any say in Microsoft’s fate.

Linux kernel 2.0.39 released

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January 10, 2001

Author: JT Smith

Linux Weekly News reports on the latest 2.0.xx series kernel release. Kernel 2.0.39 is a bug-fix release and will probably end the 2.0.xx series.

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Linux

eBay glitch affects as many as 6,000,000 users

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January 10, 2001

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet reports that eBay, in fixing a bug, caused several users’ accounts to approve telemarketing, which has angered many users.

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Programming

Quicknet’s Linux products win Product of the Year

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January 10, 2001

Author: JT Smith

PR Newswire reports that Quicknet’s Linux products have won “Product of the Year” for its low-density Internet telephony hardware.

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Linux

Novell awarded $600,000 in piracy suit

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January 10, 2001

Author: JT Smith

Tech Web reports that Novell has been awared $600,000 in a suit against an alleged pirate, accused of distribution illegal copies of Novell’s network software on auction sites.

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Linux

Lego enlisted to help Microsoft

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January 10, 2001

Author: JT Smith

Reuters reports that Microsoft has enlisted Denmark-based Lego to help with its Xbox video game console and with the Microsoft Network.

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Open Source

Oracle8i, 9i Application Server does Linux

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January 10, 2001

Author: JT Smith

TechWeb follows up on the story: “Database giant Oracle Corp. said Tuesday its leading 8i
database and recently released 9i application server are
available for the new Linux 2.4 kernel.”

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Linux

Linuxcare sponsors Australian Open Source conference

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January 10, 2001

Author: JT Smith

From LinuxPR: Linuxcare, Inc., a leader in providing
comprehensive professional services and solutions for Linux and open-source
technologies, today announced its continued commitment to educate Linux
specialists and users through major sponsorship of the Linux.Conf.Au
conference.

The PowerPC penguin, Part 2

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January 10, 2001

Author: JT Smith

In this LinuxWorld story you will learn how to back up your Mac OS,
repartition your hard disk, and install the LinuxPPC 2000 distribution on your Mac.

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Linux