Author: JT Smith
LinuxPlanet reflects on a pair of news items that played out this week and asks “is AOL using Linux in an anti-competitive way?”
Category:
- Linux
IBM gets a Real deal for Unix
Author: JT Smith
IBM Corp. will offer audio and video software made by RealNetworks, Inc. to users of IBM business computers running the UNIX operating system, including the RS/6000, the workhorse that
serves up Web pages, under an agreement
announced by the companies Thursday, from ZDNet News.
serves up Web pages, under an agreement
announced by the companies Thursday, from ZDNet News.
Category:
- Unix
Yet more SDMI fallout
Author: JT Smith
Salon revisits the controversy surrounding whether the “watermarking” system that SDMI was testing as a way to protect digitally distributed music would actually work.
Category:
- Linux
New IT website launched to proliferate Open-Source in China
Author: JT Smith
Open Source Online (OSO), http://www.oso.com.cn, was launched to serve
and promote Open-Source IT in China, according to this report on Linux PR. OSO offers industry outlooks,
lectures, source codes, program downloads and forums to members at all
levels of computer literacy.
and promote Open-Source IT in China, according to this report on Linux PR. OSO offers industry outlooks,
lectures, source codes, program downloads and forums to members at all
levels of computer literacy.
Category:
- Open Source
Asia catching up on Java development
Author: JT Smith
IDG News Service reports, Asian companies are one to two years behind the U.S. in adopting
advanced Java software technologies, but growth in the Java market
in Asia is faster than in the U.S., according to software tools vendor
Inprise/Borland.
advanced Java software technologies, but growth in the Java market
in Asia is faster than in the U.S., according to software tools vendor
Inprise/Borland.
IE 5.5 hole lets crackers read files
Author: JT Smith
A veteran bug hunter has detected a security hole in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 5.5, Outlook and Outlook Express. CNET.com reports.
Gates to Digital Dividends: make them healthy before you give them PCs
Author: JT Smith
TechWeb reports that Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates
challenged participants at the Creating Digital Dividends
conference, saying that direct technology investments in
developing countries might be useless if the population
isn’t healthy or literate.
challenged participants at the Creating Digital Dividends
conference, saying that direct technology investments in
developing countries might be useless if the population
isn’t healthy or literate.
Category:
- Linux
O’Reilly and Bezos are in business together – no, really
Author: JT Smith
A new company encourages people to dig up pre-existing technology that helps debunk bogus patents. And guess who started it? Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the man who claims Amazon’s 1-Click Shopping patent is a crock. From Wired.com.
An interview with ICANN’s new German hacker
Author: JT Smith
Wired.com: A German hacker from Berlin’s famed Chaos Computer Club is voted to the board of ICANN, which oversees domain issues on the Internet. He wants people to understand that “hacker” is not a bad word.
Linux kernel news update
Author: JT Smith
LWN.net reports: “The current development kernel release is 2.4.0-test9. The -test10 prepatch is currently in its fourth
revision. This patch contains the usual pile of assorted fixes. It also has one new feature: the “frame
divertor.”
revision. This patch contains the usual pile of assorted fixes. It also has one new feature: the “frame
divertor.”
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- Linux