“Keeping a promise it made last summer, Compaq Computer released a pair of ProLiant servers that come preloaded with Red Hat Inc.’s version of the Linux operating system,” reports Computerworld.

LinuxPR: HASP CD9 is an upgrade to HASP4,
Aladdin’s family of software protection keys. In addition to
the encryption mechanisms HASP4 hardware offers, HASP CD9
software introduces Linux support and security enhancements
to the HASP Device Driver and the HASP Envelope Utility.

From netsecuritybugs.com: “When exiting joe in a non-standard way (such as a system crash,
closing an xterm, or a network connection going down), joe will
unconditionally append its open buffers to the file DEADJOE.”

“One question that has been asked of us a few times is why we cover BSD security
reports in LWN, including FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. After all, LWN is dedicated to the Linux
community, right? Well, in many ways, our community is the Free Software and Open Source community, to
which the BSD operating systems definitely belong. So reporting on BSD is not totally outside our mandate.
On the other hand, it could be quickly pointed out that other Free Software operating systems exist that we
don’t cover.” Read more at LWN.net.

32bitsonline reports that Ebiz takes advantage of Caldera’s acquisition of SCO to acquire one othe largest private VAR resellers of UNIX computer products. EBiz’s hopes corporate extend its reach away from the low end and into the high margin segment.

Searching for a theme at Comdex, the author finally finds one: white people. Three thousand people in the room, and 21 black faces in the crowd. IDG.net reports.

From 32bitsonline: “While many are using Linux as a Web server, many have not been using Linux to its full potential. Communicado FAX will allow users to fax directly using their favorite Linux-based Office suite.”

Info World reports that Microsoft has met with the now notorious “Dimitri,” the student who made a mockery of Microsoft’s security on their web sites. “Dimitri” and Microsoft are remaining secretive about the unusual meeting.

Just days after the release of Intel’s Pentium 4, ZDNet reports that the processor’s first bug has been squashed.

Hot on the heels of Honda’s unveiling of its latest humanoid robot, PC World IDG reports that Sony has also unveiled a prototype of the company’s latest humanoid robot only one day later.