Employees threaten network security

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November 23, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The Register warns that many company networks are compromised, not by shortcomings in security on the part of admins, but rather by employees within the network putting their own systems on the network or doing other things which could lead to compromises.

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Linux

EU expands legal action against Microsoft

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November 23, 2000

Author: JT Smith

InfoWorld reports that the European Union is stepping up its legal case against the American software giant, Microsoft.

Carnivore report toothless

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November 23, 2000

Author: JT Smith

CBS reports that US Republican House leader Dick Armey says the Department of Justice insured a positive report of the FBI’s Carnivore email reading software, further raising questions about the report’s legitimacy.

Too early to buy the flat panel monitors

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November 23, 2000

Author: JT Smith

MSNBC warns that the price of flat panel monitors is dropping, and in a few years’ time may actually be available at a reasonable price. The advice is to hold off until then to buy the light-weight, high-resolution monitors.

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Unix

The Internet in China

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November 23, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Linux Journal is carrying an essay on the effect of the Internet on China, and leads to conclusions that may surprise some readers.

Video Cards in 2001

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November 23, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Anandtech looks at the video card industry and its plans for 2001.

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Unix

PING author killed in car crash

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November 23, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The author of the enormously popular freeware network tool PING, Mike Muuss, died in a Maryland car crash last night. The accident happened at 9.30pm (New York time) on route 95 as a result of a previous accident. Mike hit a car stuck in the middle of the road and was pushed into the path of an oncoming tractor.” Full report at The Register.

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Linux

Review: BestLinux 2000

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November 23, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The Duke of URL reviews BestLinux 2000: “The question, is BestLinux just another clone of RedHat or does it add something that has been missing and fills a need in the community, in this case better language support? Do we really need another distribution to fill this need?”

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Linux

New Internet domains face an uncertain future

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November 23, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Computerworld’s Patrick Thibodeau writes: “The problem with last week’s decision by the organization that manages the Internet domain name system to add seven new top-level domains (TLD) is that no one really knows whether it’s a gift or a curse.”

ghostscript advisory

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November 23, 2000

Author: JT Smith

“ghostscript makes use of mktemp instead of mkstemp to create temp files; and also uses improper LD_RUN_PATH values, causing it to search for libraries in the current directory.” Full details at LWN.net.

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Linux