Alleging that Compaq Computer Corp. manufactured PCs that use unlicensed,
patent-protected MPEG-2 video compression standards, six electronics companies and Columbia
University have sued the Houston-based original equipment manufacturer. Computerworld.com has the report.

Stuff.co.nz reports that the New Zealand Army is among a growing band turning to open source operating system
Linux, using it to stage virtual combats.

Some outside Microsoft said that as you peel
back layers of .Net, it boils down to Windows 2000 or
Windows NT, rather than the cross-platform Web
applications implied by .Net. From ZDNET.

“CGIForum is a free forum. We can set ‘thesection’ parameter to view files
on the vulnerable system with privileges of the user “nobody”, reports Net-Security.org.

ZDNET:German software company SAP AG, a Microsoft
partner, offers its R3 enterprise resource software in
versions written for Microsoft NT, Sun, and Linux. But in
order to keep the software functionality the same in all
three versions, SAP renounced compatibility with
proprietary standards built into each.

IE 5.x/Outlook allows executing arbitrary programs using .chm files
and temporary internet files folder, reports Net-Security.org.

By adding specific headers to messages, the pine mail reader could be
made to exit with an error message when users attempted to manipulate
mail folders containing those messages. The report is at LWN.net.

A Reuters reports on Forbes.com says that MusicMatch Inc., a maker of software for
storing and playing music on personal computers, Tuesday released
a test version of its “jukebox” for the start-up Linux operating system.

FreeBSD 4.2 is available at ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386. -Anonymous Reader

OSOpinion: “I think it is unfortunate that this scenario probably means we’ll never see quality 3dfx drivers for Linux. At the rate things were moving, I am quite confident that we would never have seen them anyway.” –Kelly McNeill