Configuring Linux to stream MP3 music over a TCP/IP network is a matter of installing and configuring just two RPMs. These are Icecast – an MP3 server, and Shout – which streams MP3 data to the MP3 server for broadcasting. On the client side, you’ll need MP3 players like Winamp for Windows, or X11amp and Mpg123 for Linux. So, let’s get going on how to configure Linux for playing MP3s over your network. Read full article-Anonymous Reader

Nothing hurt the mission-critical systems, says MSNBC, but the www.nasa.gov site and some email services were affected. Evil crackers at work? The possibility is raised but not confirmed.

“A big drop in its share price rubbed off on investors, who carried the selling trend over to the rest of the technology
sector.” Upside recaps Friday’s tech stock unhappiness.

A Technocrat.net reader wonders if it might not be possible to rewrite some functions of the Linux kernel to make Linux comply with U.S. government purchasing requirements for POSIX.

The RIAA has had a student’s computer confiscated at an American university for trading mp3s. The story from CNet.

Linux World discusses the advent of the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and what it means.

CNet tells us that Dow Chemical has fired two dozen employees from a Texas plant over sexual and violent pictures sent within their email system.

Daily Radar has a silly feature that allows you to be rejected by cheerleaders in a hurry. Perhaps lessons could be learned from such a script.

Despite their label’s law suit against Napster, punk band ‘Offspring’ is planning to release their next album on line before the CD hits the stores. ZDNet has the story.

D-Link has introduced a new set of wireless LAN cards and control points, priced lower then other existing wireless LAN hardware. The story at NW Fusion.