From Slashdot: “We had an extremely interesting submission from Ted T’so, Linux kernel developer, who also has
an obvious interest in security, given his work with Kerberos[?]. He wrote in concerning the release
by the NSA (Yes, that NSA) of a high security version of Linux.”

use Perl says, “ActiveState has released the first beta of Komodo, its IDE built on top of
Mozilla.”

Alan Cox doesn’t like the idea of ATA hard drives with built-in copy proctection features. More @ The Register. (We don’t like this idea either. Should we start stockpiling “old style” hard drives just in case?)

ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley has a great story today about Netdocs, which, she says, “is slated to be one of Microsoft’s showcase .Net building blocks, but Microsoft officials steadfastly refuse to discuss it publicaly.”

HP may be moving into Linux big-time, but in the short run they’re trying to save a few pennies… and millions of dollars… with a series of money-saving measures unlikely to put smiles on employees’ faces. Story at ZDNET.UK. The austerity measures are balmed on “declining PC sales.”

“When manipulating the bookmark folder in Netscape 6,” says MSNBC, “do not
copy and paste the bookmark folder into itself. According to
Netscape, this may delete the bookmark folder.”

Press release at prnewswire.com says, “LynuxWorks(TM), Inc., a provider
of open source and true real-time embedded solutions for the post-PC era,
today announced the appointment of Bob Morris as vice president of marketing.”

latest goodies for Perl People are on use.perl.org today.

nwfusion.com has a story about a new service that lets you put in reservations for domain names you want, but are already taken — in case the people who own them let them lapse. They’re supposed to automatically register any “lapsed” domain names you want for you. (Are these folks going to advertise on F*cked Company? Seems like the perfect place to promote this service…)

“A version of Microsoft Windows for Intel’s upcoming high-end
Itanium chip won’t be available when the chip arrives, but rival
operating system Linux will,” according to ZDNet UK.