Network Computing posts an interesting, but rather error-prone, essay on Open Source, Free Software, and copyright law: “Licenses that are mass-produced for the open-source community, however, may not fare well under state commercial codes. For example, the GPL grants a direct license from the copyright holder to each developer or user with each software transfer. As software passes through the hands of users, offer and acceptance becomes diluted, and courts may find this unenforceable. Also, any license amended by one party without agreement on the terms of sale by the other party amounts to a nonbinding “shrink-wrap” license.”

“Last month, I talked a little bit about Squid, a Web proxy cache, and how to set it up. Although you could run Squid in the default configuration, how much fun would that be? In this month’s column, I’ll look at a few of the important configuration parameters.” More at UnixReview.

“Xkeymacs is a (GPL2’ed) free software which gives emacs-style key
bindings to all applications under Windows. (Each key bindings can be
turned on or off for respective applications using GUI.)
You can, for example, save a file with C-x C-s.
And, of course, you can use C-{a,e,n,p,f,b}, C-{w,y} and so forth.
Moreover, C-k, C-l, C-t, C-0 .. C-9, etc. also work (as you expect).” Details at Linux Weekly News.

PC Magazine: “Once you’ve resolved to choose Linux, the question becomes which Linux to choose. We examine six of the most popular distributions to help you make that decision.”

The Register: “The former president and CEO of Internet overseeing body ICANN, Mike Roberts, has angered members of Internet community including an ICANN director, a well-respected computer scientist and various lobby groups with a political diatribe on the 11 September terrorist attacks, posted on a newsgroup for the At-Large Study group.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “LinuxDevices.com reports that the MyLinux Pocket Linux Workstation project has been canceled. The completely open source hardware/software project was sponsored by Arizona Cooperative Power LLC, and had reached the stage of accepting advanced purchase orders for beta versions of the device. Here is the explanation of why the project was discontinued.”

O’Reilly: “Transparent proxying frees you from the hassle of setting up individual browsers to work with proxies. If you have a hundred, or a thousand, users on your network, it’s a pain to set up each browser and to use proxies — or to try to convince users to go into their preferences and type in these symbols they don’t understand.

Using transparent proxying, you intercept their web requests and redirect them through the proxy. Nice and simple — on the surface.”

Eugenia writes “OSNews talks with Alexandre Julliard, the WINE project leader and also CodeWeaver’s coder, regarding the future of WINE, the obstacles of the development, the WINE commercialization and lots more. An interesting read overall.”

Reported at Network World Fusion: “Fujitsu says it has succeeded in using InfiniBand to connect together a cluster of Linux-based servers running an application – an industry first, according to the company.

The cluster consisted of 16 of the company’s Primergy dual-processor servers, for a total of 32 processors, and was linked using InfiniBand, a relatively new system being promoted for the interconnection of servers to make building such clusters easier.”

From ZDNet: “While analysts praised Apple’s entry into the MP3 market, they expressed concern that the cost of the device–$50 to $100 more than some competitors–could be a sticking point for some consumers. The fact that the iPod only works with the Mac OS could also limit its potential…”