Author: JT Smith
Security Focus’ Bugtraq warns of a buffer overflow exploit in modprobe, the programme used for loading kernel modules.
Darwin being sidelined?
Author: JT Smith
MacWeek comments on the utter lack of attention given to Apple’s Darwin project lately. The Darwin project is open source, argues the article, it’s not all Apple.
Category:
- Open Source
Council of Europe to discuss cyber crime treaty
Author: JT Smith
PC World IDG reports that “[f]orty-one countries stretching from Iceland to the former Soviet republic of Georgia could be close to approving a treaty that would fight cyber crime” within Europe.
Legalizing the mp3 trade
Author: JT Smith
ZDNet has an editorial on the legalizing of the on line music trade. Instead of spending their resources going after people who trade music, argues the author, go after the positive side of the trend and make this a winning situation for the corporations as well as the people listening to the music.
Linux2order.com on target to surpass 9,000 titles
Author: JT Smith
From LinuxPR: Linux2order.com, the online resource
offering the largest and most current selection of Linux applications on the
Internet, is on target to surpass 9,000 titles by the end of the year.
offering the largest and most current selection of Linux applications on the
Internet, is on target to surpass 9,000 titles by the end of the year.
When the site was launched this summer, it offered more than 5,000 titles, and
has maintained a steady growth to more than 8,000 titles by the end of this month.
The company is in final preparations to add at least additional 1,000 titles by the
end of the year.
BSA busts auction sites for ‘illegal’ software
Author: JT Smith
From ZDNet UK: “The Business Software Alliance claimed a major victory in its
ongoing battle against piracy Thursday, recovering tens of thousands
of pounds worth of illegal software in a raid last week. The software
was believed to have been peddled on a number of UK auction sites.
ongoing battle against piracy Thursday, recovering tens of thousands
of pounds worth of illegal software in a raid last week. The software
was believed to have been peddled on a number of UK auction sites.
Raiding one UK property, Trading Standards officers and
representatives from the BSA say they recovered extensive evidence
implicating UK auction sites including QXL, Yahoo! eBay and eBid.”
Napster and EMusic continue schoolyard fight
Author: JT Smith
The Register reports on the ongoing war of words between EMusic and Napster over the sharing of licensed music.
QNX RTP: What lies beneath?
Author: JT Smith
When was the last time you remember booting off a floppy to run an operating system? QNX can do that and pack in a full featured web browser, internet dialing capability and support for many hardware devices. Now, they are giving away the entire OS and development tools for free … but is it worth checking out?
How to setup a Linux supercomputer
Author: JT Smith
Are you looking for cutting-edge supercomputer technology on your network? This article from osfaq.com covers how to setup a Linux supercomputer. It covers both the hardware and software configurations, but you should have a good understanding of networking and Linux before reading this article.
-Anonymous Reader
Category:
- Linux
New glue could help recycle hardware
Author: JT Smith
Discover discusses a new hardware glue developed at Cornell University which could aid in recycling still useful computer parts from obsolete computers.
Category:
- Unix