ZDNet reports that BlueTooth is being released by IBM for Linux developers under the name BlueDrekar.

From SecurityFocus.com: The FreeBSD advisory regarding this vulnerability (FreeBSD-SA-00:61) offered
the following possible solutions:

1) Upgrade your vulnerable FreeBSD system to 4.1.1-STABLE or
3.5.1-STABLE after the respective correction dates.

2a) FreeBSD 3.x systems prior to the correction date.

From the humor site Segfault: The University of Southern California today continued to defend its
lawsuits claiming ownership of the term ‘Trojan horse.’ In the wake of a serious breach of
Microsoft system security, USC officials and representatives have steadfastly held that the
university holds a trademark on the phrase ‘Trojan horse.’ USC President Steven B. Sample
today added, ‘the Men and Women of Troy will pursue all available avenues to defend USC’s
software-related intellectual property.’ The author even manages to work FreeBSD into the piece.

Oreilly.linux.com has an article on installing Linux on a Mac G4: “What was once a Unix-geeks operating system
is now drawing attention from people in all corners of computing: from those
developing massively parallel computing architectures at universities to senior
citizens at home wanting to get a handle on this Internet revolution. Among this
diversity I’ve noticed that a noteworthy segment of users are attempting to install
LinuxPPC 2000 on their PowerPC G4s. Because I happen to share the opinion
that the G4 hardware is very appealing, I’m going to describe in laymen’s terms
how to perform a LinuxPPC installation on a Macintosh PowerPC G4.”

Maximum Linux reports that OpenSales, the provider of Open Source e-commerce apps will change its name to Zelerate, which has expanded its services department and
brought on a new member to the executive team. A press release is at LWN.net.

From LinuxDevices via ZDNet: “Agenda Computing has manufactured a limited pre-production build of several hundred VR3 PDAs and is going to make them available at a highly discounted price to developers who want to be in the forefront of creating apps for the new Linux PDA.”

LinuxWorld, the Web site, reports on LinuxWorld, the conference, in Germany: “A number of significant Linux players, like Corel, Applix, and Loki, didn’t appear at the Expo. It
was also hard to find GNOME’s footprint — the only place I saw GNOME was on Jon ‘maddog’
Hall’s notebook computer during his keynote. KDE absolutely dominated the booths and
presentations. Is more evidence needed of a strong KDE position in Europe?”

CNet follows up on the Napster merger Tuesday: “More people may be window-shopping at online music retailer CDNow since they started
using software from file-swapping service Napster, but fewer people are buying, according to
a new report.

PC Data found that new Napster users are just as likely to purchase music at Bertelsmann-owned
CDNow in the first month after downloading Napster software as they were before becoming members of
the file-swapping service. But those consumers’ purchases decreased after 90 days, even though they
visited online music retailers more frequently.”

From Technocrat.net: We all know that the leading cause of burn-out in computing is stress. But where is this stress
materializing from? You get idiot bosses, wherever you go, and nowhere is completely immune to the
Clueless Newbie Customer Syndrome. Sure, technology is advancing all the time, but that impacts
everything from washing machines to VCR’s.

From InfoWorld: “The U.S. Library of Congress has posted a rule saying only two types of digitized works are exempt from the 2-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s prohibition against cracking access codes designed to protect movies, software, books, and other digitally recorded material from illegal use. The rule is seen as a victory for the entertainment industry, which uses access codes to protect the copyrights of digital recordings of films and music, but a defeat for software developers who ‘reverse engineer’ some software code in order to customize it …”