Author: JT Smith
ZDNet lays out where it sees Intel and AMD going over the next year, with the GHz boundary being broken.
Category:
- Open Source
The ongoing competition: AMD and Intel
Kriz virus – or Christmas virus – prepares to strike
Author: JT Smith
IDG Net reports that the Kriz virus, better known as the Christmas virus, is preparing to strike Windows boxes the world over on Christmas eve, after a year of propogating. Virus protection vendors warn that the virus is a potential holiday-wrecker.
Driven crazy by SANE
Author: JT Smith
Linux World reviews SANE, a programme intended to make scanners work sanely under Linux, and discusses an endless series of problems with the programme and the author’s scanner not cooperating.
Category:
- Unix
Why penguins waddle
Author: JT Smith
MSNBC reports on some research out of Berkeley on why penguins waddle along so comically. It turns out our favourite flightless birds walk like pendulums to save energy.
Category:
- Linux
More problems for ICANN from new TLDs
Author: JT Smith
ZDNet reports that ICANN is taking flack from the people responsible for 8 of the 37 rejected top level domain names.
2000: The Internet year in review
Author: JT Smith
Highlights from the article: “The Internet reaches a demographic milestone as a new study reveals that for the
first time, the majority of U.S. Internet users are FBI agents posing as teenage girls,” and “Online advertising network DoubleClick, under fire from the New York state attorney general for its plan to
personally identify Web surfers and their habits through its software, denies it ever implemented the scheme and
offers to make amends by paying for online subscriptions to “any of the numerous porn sites” the attorney general
frequents daily between 11:35 a.m. and 2 p.m. from his Dell XPS D300 office computer running Windows 98 and
Netscape Communicator 4.6.” Sure, every news Web site in the world does some sort of “Year in Review” feature in December or January, but only SatireWire’s version of this tradition is full of items (like the samples above) that’ll make you laugh so hard you’ll need to wipe your monitor after you read them
first time, the majority of U.S. Internet users are FBI agents posing as teenage girls,” and “Online advertising network DoubleClick, under fire from the New York state attorney general for its plan to
personally identify Web surfers and their habits through its software, denies it ever implemented the scheme and
offers to make amends by paying for online subscriptions to “any of the numerous porn sites” the attorney general
frequents daily between 11:35 a.m. and 2 p.m. from his Dell XPS D300 office computer running Windows 98 and
Netscape Communicator 4.6.” Sure, every news Web site in the world does some sort of “Year in Review” feature in December or January, but only SatireWire’s version of this tradition is full of items (like the samples above) that’ll make you laugh so hard you’ll need to wipe your monitor after you read them
Category:
- Management
2000-12-14: jpilot World Readable Storage Director
Author: JT Smith
SecurityFocus reports: “jpilot is a palm device synching suite designed to run on the Linux
Operating System, and written by Judd Montgomery. A problem exists
which could allow users unauthorized access to sensitive information.”
Operating System, and written by Judd Montgomery. A problem exists
which could allow users unauthorized access to sensitive information.”
Category:
- Linux
Stunnel local arbitrary command execution vulnerability
Author: JT Smith
“Insecurely-structured calls to syslog() found in certain versions of
Stunnel (prior to version 3.9) pass user-supplied data to the syslog()
function in such a way that maliciously embedded format specifiers in
this data can cause the process to overwrite sections of its own
memory with arbitrary data.” Full details at SecurityFocus.
Stunnel (prior to version 3.9) pass user-supplied data to the syslog()
function in such a way that maliciously embedded format specifiers in
this data can cause the process to overwrite sections of its own
memory with arbitrary data.” Full details at SecurityFocus.
Category:
- Linux
Review: Enterprise JavaBeans
Author: JT Smith
Linux Journal reviews Richard Monson-Haefel’s Enterprise JavaBeans, Second Edition.