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Some Web users handle online privacy themselves

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Author: JT Smith

Nandotimes is reporting that users are more than willing to take measures to protect their own privacy. “The nation’s Internet users want stronger online privacy protections and many use fake names, dummy e-mail accounts and data scrambling software to preserve their anonymity, a new study has found.“

Usenet archive from 1981

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Author: JT Smith

Slashdot posted an interesting link to a Usenet archive from 1981. Included are such gems as how to overclock your 6502, connecting an IBM PC to a vax mainframe, and a possible FPU bug on some VAX series.

Web pioneer supports surfing licenses

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Author: JT Smith

From Nandotimes, Robert Cailliau supports web-licenses, and discusses some ways of implementing them. Robert Cailliau was one of the people who worked with Tim Berners-Lee on creating the draft for the HTTP and HTML standards which are behind the web.

Flaw means not pretty good privacy

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Author: JT Smith

The recent security flaw in NAI’s PGP versions 5.5 through 6.5.3 is discussed on ZDNet’s site. NAI has since posted updated versions of PGP which close the hole. The GNU Privacy Guard, an OpenPGP implementation, was not affected by this problem, and is known secure.

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  • Linux

It’ll be an open-source world

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Author: JT Smith

Slashdot has posted a link which reports that companies will have to open their source code, or be content to support legacy applications. Wired also has an article discussing the report.

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  • Open Source

Yet another graphics bus from Intel

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Author: JT Smith

Intel is reportedly creating an AGP extension, increasing the speed of the bus to 8x AGP (from Slashdot).

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  • Unix

Notes from the cathedral

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Author: JT Smith

Our reader submitted link for the day: “A former developer of a “major software company” explains why Open Source software is better than proprietary software.” This is an indepth article comparing common business programming practices with those of people working on free software.

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  • Open Source

BrainDock sends software directly to PDAs

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Author: JT Smith

ZDNet’s IT Week reports that BrainDock is releasing a technology designed to allow downloading of software via BlueTooth onto PDAs and smartphones.

Satellite-delivered broadband becomes more common

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Author: JT Smith

AOL and MSN are going to be offering satellite broadband, as reported by Slashdot, in addition to their landline modem services. Except for DirectPC, they are the only satellite-based broadband ISPs in the world.

Business to boost focus on customers, buy lots of CRM software

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Author: JT Smith

The business of managing relationships with customers would be the biggest source of IT spending over the next two years, a new study has found. A lot of this money is expected to go into Customer Relationship Management [CRM] software. Story at www.afr.com.au.

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  • Open Source
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