“James H. Moore Steps Up To Chair BOXX Technologies,” described on internetwire.com as a “Leading High Definition And Digital Film Hardware Manufacturer.” Mentioned here only because BOXX supports Linux, among other platforms.

ZDNet.uk talks of new free set-top Internet surfing boxes being offered in Great Britian for people who don’t have PCs — and warns that the terms under which they are being given out may allow so many, um, “purchasing opportunities” to be offered to those who sign up for the service that they may become disgusted with it.

Intel has slashed prices on Pentium III and Celeron processors by as much as one third, reports Infoworld.com.

BSDToday brings us some more explanations and information about some uncommon or rarely-used utilities often installed on BSD systems.

A statement issued by Microsoft on Sunday, contradicting earlier
statements by company spokesmen, states
that the hacker infiltration of its Redmond,
Wash., campus network last week lasted
less than two weeks and that Microsoft
security tracked the infiltration soon after
it began. Although clearly an attempt to
mitigate the incident, the statement
tellingly leaves open the possibility,
reported last week, that the hackers were
able to steal source code for a major
product under development. From The Standard.

Installing multiple operating systems on the same box has become
common, especially for consultants, hobbyists, developers and Information Systems administrators. Everyone
has different reasons, but for everyone, it all comes down to the same reason – trying out the latest systems. But
is dual booting the solution? From 32bitsonline.

BSDToday reports that the chpass family contained a format string vulnerability that could be exploited by unprivileged local users to gain local root access.

Kaspersky Lab is warning users of the discovery of a new internet-worm: Sonic. This worm was discovered in France and Germany on the morning of 30th October 2000. The distinctive feature of this malicious program is its ability to update itself (ie: to automatically download additional component functionality) via the Internet. The worm consists of two parts -the loader and the main module. Copies of the loader are being distributed across the Internet by e-mail. Read more–Mirko Zorz [LogError]

The U.S. government on Monday told a federal
appeals court hearing the Microsoft Corp.
antitrust case that it favors
further outside opinions, but Microsoft said that
would be unfair. The court earlier said it would
accept two friend-of-the-court, or amicus,
briefs, one from those in support of the
government’s position and one in favor of
Microsoft’s side. From ZDNET.

Typos and all, here’s the transcript from Wall’s slide show at Atlanta Linux Showcase, from Perl.org.