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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.

PC World reports that the latest version of the data DVD recordable disc can hold 4.7GB, 20% more then the previous standard of 3.9GB.

IBM announced that CSK Network
Systems Corp., or CSK-Net, will use an IBM S/390
server running TurboLinux for its data centre’s Web server platform.
CSK-Net is the first company in Japan to run Linux on a
mainframe. The story is at LinuxWorld.com.au.