Salon News proclaims, new legislation that would require the use of filtering software
by public libraries is unnecessary and unconstitutional.

DB2
UDB Enterprise-Extended Edition (EEE) can exploit symmetric multiprocessors (SMP), clustered SMP,
and massively parallel processors (MPP) on platforms as diverse as Microsoft Windows NT, IBM AIX*,
HP-UX, NUMA-Q, Sun Solaris and now on Linux. IBM.com offers the download for free.

The good news for businesses considering implementing Linux is that it continues to evolve and
has wide support among independent developers, distributors, and value-added resellers, but, according to CNET News, that’s
also the bad news.

The new release of
Best Linux includes, in addition to many other improvements, support for the
Portuguese language, improved sound card support, modem configuration,
and the brand new KDE 2.0, from Linux PR.

Several attendees of the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) said they had received notices of about 5,000 patches that Oracle has released for 11i, reports Computerworld on NetworkWorldFusion News
The software “is not ready for prime time,” said
Donna Rosenstrater, an OAUG board member who
works at San Jose-based electronics contract
manufacturer Sanmina Corp. A lot more cleanup
work is required before many users can safely go live
with the new applications, she added.

New York Magazine profiles Emmanuel Goldstein, the editor, activist, and sometime
cult figure at the helm of the sixteen-year-old
hacker journal 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.

MSNBC reports, European Union nations, and perhaps even the
United States, are about to make nearly any form
of cracking — even security research — illegal
by treaty.

From UpsideToday: Not since the rancorous Open BSD/Net BSD split in 1994 had the community witnessed a
breakup — or “fork,” in developer parlance — of this magnitude. While members of both the
Samba-TNG — an offshoot of the Samba group that develops for the latest versions of
Windows NT and Windows 2000 — and the main Samba teams did their best to put a happy
face on this affair, there was no hiding the concern, even among those closest to split.

The difference between the American and European hacking
worlds will be a hot topic this week in Amsterdam, as the first
international version of Def Con, the annual hacking convention in
Las Vegas, gets underway. From ZDCOUK.

ZDNET reports that The Federal Trade Commission is currently hosting a two-day
workshop to look at how victims restore their good names with
the US’s three national consumer reporting agencies — Equifax,
Experian, and Trans Union — and other bureaucracies.