Jobs Seybold Keynote

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August 30, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Summary at MacWorld: “You could take the 90-minute keynote speech given by Steve Jobs Tuesday at the Seybold
Seminars trade show in San Francisco, extract all his major announcements, and wind up with just
one sentence. – The public beta version of Mac OS X will ship in two weeks.”

Open Source textbooks

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August 30, 2000

Author: JT Smith

I just found this and thought it could be helpful for the group. OpenMind Publishing Group will soon have inexpensive textbooks online. They plan on generating their content via an open content system — kind of mirroring the open source software movement. Check out OpenText Project. This is where the community will soon share info. Neat idea! -Anonymous Reader

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Open Source

‘Business method’ patent madness may spread to Australia

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August 30, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Business method patent lawsuits (like amazon.com’s against barnesandnoble.com over “one click shopping”) have become common in the U.S. It looks like this illness may spread to Australia soon, if this AustralianIT story can be believed.

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Open Source

Kerberos KDC Spoofing Vulnerability

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August 30, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Info on potential BSD klogin security breach if certain Kerberos versions are configured incorrectly, at securityfocus.com.

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Linux

Do ‘Munchies’ Mirror Our Inner Selves?

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August 30, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Whimsical story at cbs.com says pretzel lovers are lively and energetic, tortilla chip lovers are perfectionists, and cheese curl munchers have high integrity. (There will be a brief break in NewsVac posting while the editor on duty refills his bowl of tortilla chips.)

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Management

Hand to Hand Combat

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August 30, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Fortune.com column asks, “Should Palm regret licensing its software to its strongest competitor in the surging market for handheld devices?”

New Mac OS Finally Ready

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August 30, 2000

Author: JT Smith

“On Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs told a rapt audience at the Seybold Seminars publishing conference that
the first public beta of Mac OS X will be released on September 13 at Apple Expo in Paris.”Story at Wired.

Linus Torvalds: 2.4.0test8-pre1

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August 30, 2000

Author: JT Smith

From [Linux] Kernel Mailing List, spotted at LinuxToday, Linus annouced, Ok, there’s a test8-pre1 out there in testing.

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Linux

[DRIVER] DC10plus video capture card. V 0.5

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August 30, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Serguei Miridonov annouced V 0.5 of the Linux driver for Miro/Pinnacle Systems Inc. DC10plus and some DC10 cards on Aug 28, 2000.

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Linux

Embedded Linux Expo technical program announced

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August 30, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The RTC Group and LinuxDevices.com have released the technical program of the second Embedded Linux Expo & Conference, to be held October 27th, in Westborough, MA. The main keynote address will be given by Alex Morrow, IBM “Fellow,” and project leader of IBM’s Linux Wrist Watch Project. The press release is at Linuxdevices.com.