Israel and Palestine supporters have been flailing away at each other in cyberspace for more than a month, attacking each others’ websites. From Wired.com.

The 16-year-old Montreal-area high-school student known as Mafiaboy has agreed to plead guilty to a series of attacks on major Internet sites including CNN.com, Yahoo.com Inc., Amazon.com Inc., eBay.com Inc., Dell.com and others in February. ComputerWorld has the story.

MSNBC reports: Bristol makes a software product called Wind/U,
which allows programs written specifically for Windows to
be converted to run on computers with different operating
systems such as UNIX.
Bristol sued Microsoft in August 1996, claiming the
industry leader was trying to crush competition by
preventing access to its source code — software blueprints
— for Windows NT.

From a Newsforge reader: “With the release of AURAN Jet, the creation of Realtime 3D games can now actually become a reality to garage developers and experienced game developers alike.
Visit www.auranjet.com for more information.” –pagefault

At a workshop organized by the Global Internet Project, a business group that’s trying to head off government regulation of the Web, speakers said companies need to develop better security and online privacy safeguards. From Computerworld.

Gunnstein Lye at Zez.org writes:
“The Qt class QCanvas features optimized 2D graphics with game related functions, such as sprites and collision detection. This article describes how to use this in a small game.”
–Paul K Egell-Johnsen

ZDNET reports that the browser has been developed by Netscape
engineers, in conjunction with the open-source
developers who are part of the open-source Mozilla.org
project.

Zez.org’s Jan Borsodie writes: “A regular expression is a text pattern consisting of a combination of alphanumeric characters and special characters known as metacharacters. A close relative is in fact the wildcard expression which are often used in file management. The pattern is used to match against text strings.” –Paul K Egell-Johnsen

“The book will include the much anticipated (and long awaited) PowerPC
Linux distribution Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 (slated to ship mid-December)
which introduces a consistent graphical installer and maintenance
environment. “We have been wanting to write something of this caliber to
compliment our Linux distribution. OpenDocs’ professional work with us is
perfectly timed … an excellent launch for Yellow Dog Linux 2.0,” stated Kai
Staats, CEO of Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.” From LinuxPR.

This article by Jan Borsodi at zez.org is the first in a series about CVS, a Version Control System which helps multiple developers manage software projects. I’ll not discuss whether or not CVS is the best choice over other free and commercial Version Control Systems, I’ll instead show how CVS is used and give some small tips. This first part deals with setting up CVS locally, checking out a project and getting updates. –Paul K Egell-Johnsen