NWfusion.com notes that former Linux company Corel jumped on the .Net Web services bandwagon and announced plans to “offer a line of enterprise software tools and services for creating ‘smart’ content that can be tied to back-end servers and modified over the Internet.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “The Linux bonding driver can be an important component of a highly
available system and, coupled with the hot-swap capability of CompactPCI hardware, is capable of providing “five nines” of availability. In this technical article at ELJonline, John Mehaffey explains how to achieve five nines availability by using the Linux bonding network driver in conjunction with the high availability dæmon.”

LinuxCertified, Inc., a leading provider of Linux training, will
start offering the latest class in its portfolio, the Linux/UNIX
System and Network security Bootcamp, on April 8-9, 2002 in San Francisco bay area (south bay). This workshop has been designed for system, network or application administrators responsible for providing key network services on Linux servers. All students get a free Linux laptop!

As networked IT services become more invaluable, organizations of all sizes must face the growing challenge of ensuring security of these services.Security of network services faces threats from a variety of potential assailants, some with significant knowledge of the target as in the case of former and current employees, as well as uninformed yet equally dangerous cracker individuals and organizations.

This class enables the administrators to scan their network to
identify these vulnerabilities, and provides them tools to build secure systems and network.The curriculum comprises all dimensions of security issues in a complex network of servers offering various services. Some of the topics include operating system hardening techniques, application based exploits, firewalls, network hardening, and security-conscious network topology design. The class will also cover securing the most important internet services such as Web, DNS, Mail, DHCP and File serving. After this class attendees will be well versed with the common methods used by crackers against systems and networks, and methods to block them out.

The overall objective of the class is to build a secure network of servers for mission-critical production environments. Instruction is provided in a highly hands-on fashion, with labs customized to mirror the needs of modern data centers.

Students get a powerful Linux laptop at the start of the class, along with other class materials. Their goal is to secure networking services on this system, as well as to create a tool to analyze the security of rest of their network.

A detailed agenda for the bootcamp is available at:
http://www.linuxcertified.com/security_description .html

About LinuxCertified.com

The mission of LinuxCertified.com is to bring Linux to mainstream IT usage.
We firmly believe that Linux has an enormous potential, once it crosses over from the early adopters to the more mainstream users. Our goal is to help this transition by providing:

– Linux trained and certified professionals
– Linux certified products that cater to mainstream users rather than early adopters.

Contact:
info@linuxcertified.com
http://www.linuxcertified.com/

1-408-314-6700

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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MozillaQuest Magazine (MozillaQuest.com) has listed its year 2001 Editor’s Choice hardware picks. Factors included in the Editor’s Choice selection process were: (a) multi-platform functionality, (b) innovation, (c) usefulness, (d) ease-of-installation/configuration, (e) ease-of-use, (f) bang-for-the-buck, and (g) we like the product well enough to use it. MozillaQuest Magazine Editor, Mike Angelo, said “multi-platform functionality for computer hardware is a particularly important factor for us in deciding which computer hardware products to review. So it’s only natural that we would give multi-platform functionality much weight in making our hardware Editor’s Choice picks. A computer user should not find himself or herself tied to a specific platform or operating system because the hardware does not support at least the two major PC operating systems, Linux and Microsoft Windows.” Check this MozillaQuest.com story for pictures, details, links, and full story!

The Associated Press (on Yahoo!) reports that “Microsoft’s new version of its popular Media Player software creates a list of the digital songs and movies each computer user has played – a potential treasure-trove for marketing companies, lawyers, even snooping spouses.

The company is notifying customers about the tactic after inquiries from The Associated Press. Microsoft says it has no plans to sell the data collected by Media Player, which comes free with the Windows XP (news – web sites) operating system. The company said last month it had sold more than 17 million copies of Windows XP.”

tony writes: Western Scientific unveils 1U 6-processor rack server; computing system contains the most GigaFlops per cubic foot of any Linux Cluster solution in the industry.

Western Scientific, a leading manufacturer of data storage, networking and workstation solutions, announced today the SuperCluster, a six processor, 1U high rackmount server. The new system contains 3-times the amount of computing power when compared to today’s standard 1U Intel based configurations.

With space being one of the utmost considerations when making a computer purchase, the new SuperCluster systems will now take up over 60% less space when compared with existing units and still perform the same function. On-board storage of up to 220 GB and 4.5 GB of RAM per node is available, as are SCSI and IDE configurations. The standard configuration of 40 1U nodes per 77′ cabinet will remain the same.

“People using cluster technology for their performance computing needs, are running into critical issues like processor density, power requirements and physical space constraints. The SuperCluster was developed to provide a solution to those users needing more computing power while still meeting existing space constraints,” said Jeff Johnson, Vice President of Engineering for Western Scientific. “With 240 processors in a 40U cabinet, the SuperCluster will now hold 33% more processors per U than other high-performance clustered computing solutions, with no loss of performance.”

The SuperCluster uses only industry standard components, Intel® Pentium® III processors, and up to 4.5 GB of state-of-the-art SDRAM. Units are also configurable with up to three SCSI or IDE drives. Rugged backplane design guarantees easy upgradability.

For more information on the SuperCluster, please use the above contact information or visit Western Scientific’s web site at www.wsm.com.

About Western Scientific
Western Scientific was founded in 1978 and provides custom-built computing clusters, RAID storage solutions, high-end UNIX, LINUX, Windows NT and SPARC workstations, and networking solutions for the public and private sector, both in the United States and abroad.

PCWorld: “According to the filing, Microsoft–by referring to the proposed settlement–was able to impose “uniform” licensing
terms on PC vendors that, for among other things, gives Microsoft free access to their patents. These customers
were precluded from enforcing their patents against Microsoft because of a “nonassertion of patents” provision in
the licensing terms, the states claimed.”

PRNewsWire: “Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced a significant expansion of its
Shared Source Initiative, the company’s commitment to enabling source code
access for customers, partners and educators, by making enterprise systems
integrators (SIs) eligible to receive access to Microsoft(R) Windows(R) source
code. The Systems Integrator Source Licensing Program (SISLP) enables systems
integrators to use Microsoft Windows source code to provide customers with
Windows operating system-based solutions that are relevant, reliable and
secure.”

The Dot: “Flood is a simple web interface plugin for Noatun. It allows the user to control the basic
features of Noatun from anywhere on the web, using a dynamically generated XHTML/CSS
interface. Flood also generates an RDF file of recently played songs readable by news
tickers such as KNewsTicker.”

Seamus Murphy writes: “iMacLinux announced yesterday that MandrakeSoft has released a beta of 8.2 for the PowerPC. You can read the announcement and the article here. It is nice to see that Mandrake hasn’t abandoned the PowerPC users like PenguinPPC had suggested would happen in the past.”