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U.S. government warns of digital ‘Pearl Harbor’

Author: JT Smith

InfoWorld reports that the US Government is warning of the possibility of a “Peal Harbor” style attack on the internet.

Win4Lin versus VMWare

Author: JT Smith

Linux World compares Win4Lin and VMWare, two systems designed to allow users to run Windows and Linux concurrently.

Category:

  • Linux

VectorLinux 1.8

Author: JT Smith

Linux PR has a press release announcing VectorLinux, a small X-based distribution.

Improving mod_perl driven site’s performance

Author: JT Smith

From ApacheToday: “In the next series of articles we are going to talk about mod_perl performance issues. We will try
to look at as many aspects of the mod_perl driven service as possible. Hardware, software, Perl
coding and finally the mod_perl specific aspects.”

Now it’s Intel’s turn to issue earnings warning

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet’s eWeek has a story about Intel announcing lower-than-expected earnings, joining a chorus of other tech companies.

Category:

  • Open Source

Webcasters get copyright relief

Author: JT Smith

Wired.com reports on a ruling from the U.S. copyright office that requires terrestrial radio stations that broadcast both over the Web and over the air to pay the same content licensing fees as Web-only broadcasters. CNet weighs in with a story about how the copyright office didn’t rule on how much individual users could control music streams.

Riffage music site pulls its own plug

Author: JT Smith

CNet reports that online music Riffage.com has pulled the plug on its services after an unsuccessful hunt for a
buyer.

“The company was among the most creative of the online music start-ups, buying an offline, independent music label and San Francisco’s
venerable Great American Music Hall venue in an attempt to diversify its business.”

Future of OpenBSD: Interview with de Raadt

Author: JT Smith

Dr. Dobb’s Journal interviews Theo de Raadt, principal architect of OpenBSD. “The biggest thing is to keep on improving quality and make everything work better. Device drivers
are also becoming an issue, people need those more. We’re working a lot on laptop issues like
WaveLAN, which works fine now, and on PCMCIA card, APM, laptop suspend … sound cards are
going to become a big concern soon.”

Category:

  • Unix

Opinion: theKompany’s act of trust

Author: JT Smith

Linux Planet speaks out on theKompany’s release of the source code to Kivio for use by the KDE project. Will freeloaders in the Open Source community ruin the act of trust?

OpenBSD 2.8 security fix

Author: JT Smith

From BSD Today: “OpenBSD has announced a security fix for two problems that were discovered in KerberosIV code.
According to a posting to the OpenBSD security announcements list, a symlink problem was
discovered which makes it possible for a local user to overwrite any file on the local machine if you
have enabled KerberosIV in /etc/kerberosIV/krb.conf. And, if you use telnetd and you accept insecure
cleartext passwords, the announcement says, special environment variables may be set on the remote
side.”

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  • Linux