The Chicago Tribune reports on the high tech sector in Israel and its problems with old-style politics and the armed conflict taking place within the country’s borders.

Microsoft Tech Net gives us its version of what, exactly, a security vulnerability is, in the lingo of security teams rather then the dictionary definition of the term.

ZDNet reports that a court has upheld the sacking of two employees for sending joke emails, and that a British Chamber of Commerce is warning that companies may ban personal email to avoid liability.

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for Open Content,
is proud to begin hosting Maximum RPM and selected articles from Nupedia: The Open Content Encyclopedia. Come
read, annotate, and discuss with us! –David Sweet

From a press release posted at LWN.net: Today, SuSE Linux, the international
technology leader and solutions provider in Open Source operating system
software, announced the latest distribution SuSE Linux 7.0 for computers
with Alpha CPUs. The port of the current SuSE distribution to Compaq
64-Bit-technology, underlines SuSE’s technical competence as the leading
provider of server solutions. In addition to the Alpha platform, SuSE Linux
also supports Intel and PowerPC as well as the SPARC and S/390
architectures.

Hewlett-Packard has launched a new, entry-level four-way L3000 Unix server, InfoWorld reports.

“So, Microsoft doesn’t see Linux as a threat, huh? OK,explain its recent ad campaign in Germany. It’s
totally absurd! Microsoft is trying to say that Windows 2000 won’t ‘mutate’ on you the way Linux will,
and they’ve spent about ten bucks to get some guy with PhotoShop to add a frog face and antlers to a
penguin. Clever.” It’s from Maximum Linux.

From Linux World:

“While I no longer put up with the dual-boot blues
on my laptop but simply run Linux as my primary operating system, I do run Windows under VMware to read my
mail with Eudora. That situation came about as a quick solution to a simple problem I had over a year ago.

Like many people, I started out reading my mail on Unix systems using mail clients such as mh and xmh, and then shifted
to Windows-based clients such as Eudora or Netscape Messenger. When I got a new laptop about a year ago and
decided to run Linux on it, I found that I could not abandon the large amount of mail I had built up under Eudora. So I
installed Windows under VMware, copied my Eudora files over, and still had access to my accumulated mail.”

There are many reasons to customize your shell prompt. In the prompt you can have all sort of information about your system and what you are doing in the shell. You can display information such as the machine you are working on, the current directory, how many users there are in the system, date, time, etc. You can also add ANSI color to the display making it easier to read for some people. The posibilities are limitless…

Read the full article at Linuxlookup.com. -Anonymous Reader

BSD Today has a short item: “IBM has a support page saying that ThinkPads are unable to boot after installing FreeBSD. It says:
‘IBM offers no solution for the unbootable condition because FreeBSD is not a supported operating
system’ and to ‘not install a non-supported operating system on IBM ThinkPads.’ “