Speare writes, “As reported at NewsForge earlier, the US Senate Commerce Committee was scheduled to hold a hearing about the “Security Systems Standards and Certification Act,” or SSSCA. With the anthrax debacle, it’s uncertain whether this hearing is being held on schedule or not, but I wrote my representatives anyway. The result is an eight printed page open letter, which I’ve made available online at my site, 2001-10-22 Re: Content Control and the SSSCA. It hits upon the many strange and problematic issues I have with the SSSCA, from its scope, its civil issues, its business and technical flaws, and the motives and deals that appear to have created the bill.”

Krissi Danielsson writes, “ At searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com:

Do you want to run Linux, Unix, and Windows on one server or Windows applications on Linux? This story describes how virtual computing can can unite many applications, devices, and operating systems in one management world.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “They upgraded msn.com and will not allow access to the site with mozilla any more.” The story’s at CNet.

See what Slashdotters have to say. From the original post: “I find it amusing
that I didn’t really even notice until I saw this submission. I know this
affects a fair number of users but for the life of me I just don’t know
why ;)”

Dave writes, “I’ve been toying with the idea of implementing a journalling filesystem on the Redhatbox.org server for quite a while now. The increased data integrity and speed was strongly appealing, but the thought of patching the hell out of my kernel to reach what was called ‘experimental’ functionality at best made ext3, the successor to the ever popular ext2 filesystem, sound like more trouble than it was worth. Guess who went ahead and did it anyway? 😉 And you know what? It didn’t even take much effort on my behalf, and I’ll show you what I did so that you don’t make some (little) mistakes I did along the way.” Read the rest at RedHatBox.org.

It’s from LinuxFocus.org: “For some time by now messages announcing format string based exploits are getting more and more
numerous. This article explains where the danger comes from and will show that an attempt to save six
bytes is enough to compromise the security of a program.”

Werner writes, “Oracle on SuSE Linux Enterprise 7 is faster than NT2000; Fastcenter Corp. benchmarks released.” It’s from a press release at Businesswire.com. More: Fastcenter Oracle performance tests on exactly the same hardware
show NT2000 capable of only 85% of throughput compared to SuSE Linux Enterprise 7 .
Fastcenter, an Oracle server sales and database support organization, today announced the completion of performance comparisons of
Oracle on SuSE Linux Enterprise server 7 as compared to Oracle on Windows 2000 Server.

Mayhem from www.linuxathome.net writes, “Well the latest kernel has been started, you can download the patch from here

The following is the out of the ordinary changelog: ‘Oops.

Don’t use pre1 without removing the “DEBUG_LRU_PAGE()” line
in mm/swap.c: __del_cache_del() – I uploaded an old diff, and
since it’s 4:30 AM I’m too tired to generate the correct one.

(Not removing the line will cause a nice oops very early on,
nothing bad will happen).

Linus “off to sleep” Torvalds’ “

Werner Heuser writes, “Three months ago MobiliX, which is dedicated to UniX on mobile devices, has got a request to withdraw its name. Until now the legal representative of the trademarks for Asterix and Obelix has not taken any further legal action yet. According to the lawyer of MobiliX this doesn’t provide final security. But at least there is no possibility anymore to close the website immediately.

This success is caused by the strong support of the Free Software community. Many people have written to Les Editions Albert Rene (Paris), which are the holder of the trademarks. Other people have provided a huge list of projects with similar names ending on ‘iX’. Look at Moblix.org for details.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “newsfilter has the story on Sony letting slip that the PS2 Linux Kit will be released outside of Japan. Very exciting news for PS2 owning geeks everywhere!”