From NewsBytes: “They operate in a shadowy online world where people often conceal their true identities through nicknames like Blue Boar, ObLiviON, and w1re p4ir. But sometimes even computer security experts get a brutal reminder: You can’t always trust what you read on e-mail lists. And you certainly shouldn’t put any faith in programs posted there.”

From C|Net: “A computer worm that spread to both servers and PCs running Microsoft software flooded the Internet with data this week, prompting the FBI to create a task force to investigate the attack.” Also covered: recent Palm Computing news.

From Slashdot: “The most controversial part of the Combatting Terrorism Act of 2001 is Section 832 (full text) that would expand government powers to capture information about your Internet activities. A UCLA law professor and the former NSA general counsel debate the pros and cons at Slate in a series of e-mails this week (see the upper left hand side for links to each day’s exchange).”

LinuxJournal.com has an article about how to build a geek ISP cooperative. “Going into business sounds like a lot of fun, but it isn’t always, nor are you limited to enjoyment as your only success. By forming a
cooperative ISP with fellow geeks, we’ve found a successful business model, a great technical education, and one of the best learning
centers for real world business skills.”

TheStandard reports that Microsoft says it will delay the
launch of its Xbox gaming system by one
week. It is now scheduled to be available in
stores in the United States on Nov. 15
instead of the original target date of Nov. 8

Alan Cox: “Next batch of clean ups, Reiserfs fixes, merge the S/390 changes (the sane bits anyway)…”

Linux 2.4.9-ac14
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 03:22:46 +0100
From: Alan Cox 
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org


ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/

                 Intermediate diffs are available from
                         http://www.bzimage.org

*        Next batch of clean ups
*        Reiserfs fixes
*        Merge the S/390 changes (the sane bits anyway)

2.4.9-ac14
o        Fix atm alignment on IA64                       (Chas Williams)
o        Soundblaster unload oops fix                    (Matthias Hanisch)
o        NFS over tcp fixes                              (Trond Myklebust)
o        Add usb zero packet flag support to OHCI        (Roman Weissgaerber)
o        Clean up reiserfs flags usage                   (Nikita Danilov)
o        Fix reiserfs disk leak on crash case            (Nikita Danilov)
o        Fix reiserfs mount option handling              (Nikita Danilov)
o        Cosmetic reiserfs changes                       (Nikita Danilov)
o        Small fusion driver update                      (Steve Ralston)
o        Add RAID1 support promise ide raid              (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Remove duplicate DEC fb config                  (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o        PCI type 2 access type cast fixes               (Brian Gerst)
o        Add AMD761 AGP                                  (Robert Love)
o        Fix /proc/pid/maps                              (Manfred Spraul)
o        Fix 8139too pio problem                                 (Celso Gonzalez)
o        Fix SEM_UNDO wrap bug                           (me, Leonid Igolnik)
o        Add xircom/entrega single port USB              (Greg Kroah-Hartmann,
                                                         Brian Warner,
                                                         Cristian Craciunescu)
o        ISOfs transparent compression, unify zlib       (H Peter Anvin)
         somewhat (lots more to do there!)
o        Correct usbvideo reported procfs name           (Jonas Munsin)
o        SMP safe Z85230 driver                          (me)
o        Merge saner parts of S/390 code drop

Anonymous Reader writes “According to this story at LinuxDevices.com, Empower Technologies has begun selling a $99 PDA that is a clone of the Palm III, from a hardware perspective, but runs Empower’s Linux DA operating system instead of Palm OS. Actually, if you act fast you get the device for a discounted $89.”

allan writes “Void Main just released an interesting piece of music, with vocals by GNU founder Richard M. Stallman. The song is a musical version of a free software speech, comparing software to recipes. Download available at artist page.”

From O’Reilly.net Linux: “The low cost of wireless network equipment has brought this technology into the realm of affordability for most users, but will it replace all your wires? David HM Spector explains when and where to use wireless in your network.”

From ZDNet: “Although analysts were dismayed to see Palm cut its sales forecast for the current quarter, some were more alarmed that the company appears to be retreating from its efforts to launch devices with built-in wireless capabilities.”