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.

NW Fusion tells of the internet community’s refusal to participate in SDMI’s encrpytion tests.

ZDNet cites a series of moves by Apple Corp lately, accusing the company of trying to gain, as the article says, control.

MSNBC is reporting on a warning that many computers are compromised and could be used in a new wave of distributed denial of service attacks, similar to what we saw in February.

SecurityFocus is reporting that a common un*x mail client is vulnerable to remote denial of service attacks. The site claims that pine is vulnerable to a malformed-header attack which can render the programme useless until an offending email message is removed.

A CRN story talks about the high-end server’s capabilities:
“The system comes in three configurations that scale from two to
64 processors, 192 PCI slots and 256 Gbytes of memory. Initial
editions run PA RISC chips, but the systems can be upgraded to
the IA-64 processor family in the future. The server supports
HP-UX 11, the company’s current Unix version, as well as the
upcoming HP-UX 11i. It also supports Linux and Windows NT.”

How’d Linux supports get IBM, Intel and other tech heavyweights to back the Open Source Development Lab? LinuxWorld has a story about the lab’s beginnings.

CRN has a story about the coming release of Linux 2.4: “It’s not your father’s way of making an operating system.

Creation of the next version of Linux,version 2.4, the first
version of the OS expected to be widely adopted
commercially, isn’t occurring behind closed doors. Day after day,
far-flung developers are grinding out new source code and
patches for Linux in full public view.”

Linux.com has an article on the transition in recent months away “from the traditional
source distribution of software using tarballs towards a more ‘user-friendly’
approach of binary packages destined for use on a specific platform.”