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.

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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.

From The Register: “White smoke from the most cherished of all Linux distros Debian
today. Project maintainer Anthony Towns has posted a progress
update with a roadmap into next year.”

MSNBC tells us: “…credit card
accounts in Microsoft Money 2001 display the
wrong balance when you view un-reconciled
transactions in the account register…”

MS Tech reports: “…it’s worth discussing the tools and the risk they pose, for two reasons. First,
there are some scenarios in which these tools could succeed, and customers who
understand the issue can easily take steps to ensure that their data is secure.”

From LinuxPR: “e-smith, inc. announced today the e-smith
Authorized Partner Program, designed to help solution
providers deliver easy-to-install, reliable and cost-effective network server
solutions to small and mid-size businesses.

The program has 19 systems integrators and solution
providers enlisted as e-smith Authorized Partners worldwide, serving
customers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the
Netherlands, South Africa, Japan, Australia and Indonesia.”

“The wireless standard
Bluetooth has been trumpeted as the way to
computing’s unified and unplugged future, but
the technology remains in limbo because of
stubbornly high costs and cautious marketing.” MSNBCTech reports.

From LinuxPR: “The latest upgrade of the Linux-based e-smith Server and Gateway(tm),
version 4.1, addresses the remote access needs of small to mid-sized
businesses with two new features…”

The LinuxNews Team writes: “Yesterday XFree86 changed it version to 4.0.2. There are lots of
changes since 4.0.1 – X are more stable, offers better DRI and
XVideo for s3virge. For full changelog please go to LinuxNews.pl.”