ZDNet UK, posting a CNET News.com item, has more information on Eazel’s recent announcement that its Nautilus environment will soon be available for Solaris.

From PR Newswire: “SteelEye(TM) Technology
Inc., a leading provider of enterprise application reliability solutions,
announced today an extension of its LifeKeeper(R) Next Generation Enterprise
Reliability Platform(TM) into MySQL database environments.”

RPMs are the standard package for Red Hat based systems. Because Red Hat is so popular, it has become a sort of industry standard in package management. However, rpms can be very moody since they don’t automatically handle dependencies for you.

Check it out here–Sensei

Today, Tuesday 19 December 2000 at 1PM (13:00) EST, the WAMU radio program,
“Public Interest”, will do an hour show on the Free Software Movement. Richard M. Stallman will be a guest on this program. The WAMU listening area is Washington, DC, USA. However, the program is
also syndicated through a number of affiliate stations throughout the USA.
The website lists the affiliate stations. -Bradley M. Kuhn

Newsforge reader Dan Sparks sent this in: “Compaq’s free New Technology TestDrive has been updated, you can now try out RedHat 7.0 on an Alpha EV6.7 system and also testdrive Compaq’s Java 2 JDK V1.2.2 beta 004 on RedHat 7.0 on an AlphaServer ES40, they really scream!”

A Dutch woman who plunged to her death during the flight of a California
commuter plane committed suicide, the Sacramento County coroner’s office
ruled Monday. From ZDCOUK.

ZDCOUK reports: “Microsoft chairman Bill Gates telephoned the chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission last week to urge a close examination of
America Online’s dominance in instant messaging, a Microsoft representative
confirmed.”

Newsforge reader Dave Whitinger sent this in: “This is a press release for LinTraining:”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Lenoir City, TN: December 19th, 2000: Whitinger announces today that the Linux training resources directory (LinTraining) has crossed a new milestone – 400 training centers listed.

LinTraining, a member of the Linsight network, was launched on December 31st, 1999 with the mission to provide a single point of reference to all
+information pertaining to Linux training. In addition to training centers, LinTraining includes a listing of Courseware resources, Internet-based
+resources, independant instructors, and video resources. LinTraining is owned by Dave Whitinger and managed by Dan York and Dave Whitinger.

Linux training centers span the four corners of the globe, with Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, China,
+Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Lebanon, Macau, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico,
+Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden,
+Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia represented.

LinTraining also categorizes training centers by whether or not a center has courseware for preparing students for the various Linux certification
+offerings.

As a member of the Linsight network, LinTraining benefits by being closely integrated with LinEvents, a global events calendar for the Linux community. Users may find events close to them with United States
+Zip-code searches, or by browsing the country listings.

About Linsight ( link
Linsight exists to provide unique information resources to the Linux community. By combining useful content with a professional and intuitive interface,
+Linsight provides the Linux community with needed resources, as well as advocate Linux to the larger computing audience.

# # #

Contact:
Dave Whitinger
E-Mail: dave@linsight.com

Our friend from Poland, Lcamtuf
recently sent us some interesting info – “Vulnerable item has been identified as “Oracle WebDb” PL/SQL proxy (?),
which is apparently used as a part of Oracle Internet Application Server
(IAS) installations. IAS is the leading dynamic-content / database
connectivity engine in our small, commercial WWW world
” – looks like the Oracle WebDB simply let’s users to put their
own SQL statements. Somebody want’s to UPDATE www.oracle.com? 😉

Read more on LinuxNews.pl–LinuxNews Team

LinuxToday has posted this “patch for the adventurous” from developer Alan Cox.