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MS security: on a path as clear as it is reliable

Author: JT Smith

Slashdot: “bobthemonkey13 writes: “It appears that Microsoft’s ‘secure’ E-Book system has been cracked. MIT Technology Review is
reporting that an anonymous programmer has figured out how to bypass the ‘advanced antipiracy features’ in Microsoft
Reader. This sounds a lot like what Dmitry did except for two things: The MS E-Book hacker has (wisely) decided to remain
anonymous, and he’s not publishing his program.”

IBM, Intel come to aid of SuSE Linux

Author: JT Smith

IDG: Open-source software maker SuSE Linux AG has narrowly avoided insolvency after investors agreed to a new round of financing, according to a newspaper report.”

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  • Linux

Mosix 1.3.0 for kernel 2.4.9 released

Author: JT Smith

Moshe Bar writes: “Hi everybody.
We just released Mosix 1.3.0 for kernel 2.4.9 (and yes, I know 2.4.10 is going to be out soon, but this is a never-ending game :-).”

Changelog:
  - Upgrade to Linux 2.4.9
  - Changed the ``OOB'' algorithm
  - Removed diagnostic messages regarding ``OOB''
  - Recursion in MFS is no longer allowed,
     except for symbolic-links that satisfy strict criteria
  - Fixed an MFS/NFS combination bug
  - Fixed a bug in the MOSIX shut-down
  - Fixed the DRM driver
  - Fixed several SMP locking race-conditions
  - Fixed access to /proc/mosix/admin/mfscosts
  - Optimized "memsort" to consume less CPU time

Note: DO NOT mix nodes with MOSIX 1.3 with any previous MOSIX release
      in the same cluster. 


Report any bugs to the bugs mailing list as usual. Go get the patch,
as usual, from http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/ftps/MOSIX-1.3.0.ta r.gz

And once more: For compilation, use MAKE version 3.77 or higher;
GCC version 2.91.66 (or egcs 1.1.2); and BINUTILS version 2.9.1.0.25
or higher. 

Enjoy!

Moshe Bar
The Mosix Team"

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  • Linux

LinuxWorld: Video clips

Author: JT Smith

Anonymous Reader writes: “LinuxDevices.com has these two video clips from LinuxWorld. One has Apache founder Brian Behlendorf and Linux kernel founder Linus Torvalds and the other is of a bunch of cool gadgets with Linux embedded inside.”

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  • Linux

Web review: Don’t light my fire — light my belly

Author: JT Smith

by Tina Gasperson
If you work in front of a computer screen all day, occasionally you get bored and feel isolated. Especially if you work at home. Sometimes you need to go offtopic. What better way to climb out of a rut, than to light yourself up. Fire up the Web cam, point it at your midsection, and show people what you’re made of. Do a dance. Sing a song. Be different. Be you.

Hey, Halloween is coming up sometime in the next few months, and there’s no time like now to get prepared. You’ll beat the rush at Wal-Mart and Spencer Gifts, and besides, you might like these little gadgets so much you’ll make them a part of your daily wardrobe. I’m talking about belly lights. Instead of going out and getting a ring for your belly, do something much less painful, much flashier, and much less permanent (unless you have a really deep belly button and the light gets lost) — stick a tiny flashing light in there.

In case you don’t know where to get a tiny flashing light to stick in your navel, well, we’ve got help for you. Lightmybelly.com sells its Belly Lights online for a steal — only $5.95 each. Don’t worry about getting an infection, either. Lightmybelly.com says that each belly light comes with hypoallergenic skin adhesive and something called “hydro foam.” Oh, and batteries are included. I guess you could stick your belly light anywhere. Who says it’s for bellies only? Stick it on your forehead, or on your cheek, or buy two and put one on each knee. The possibilities are as limitless as your imagination.

The folks at lightmybelly.com want you to have a fresh, hygenically acceptable light for your ears, so they make what they call “head lights.” You get a pair of these for $14.95. Don’t know why they’re more expensive. If you’re cheap, stick with the belly lights. Or, check out the “body lights” which run two for $7.95. These do not come with hypoallergenic skin adhesive, though, so watch out for fungus or something if you put them in the wrong place. They do have a tiny clip-on apparatus, which could come in handy for some parts of the body.

Then there are e-badges, e-watches, and e-shirts. Each of these has a “hypnotic display of moving lights” that are sure to delight your feline friends, inciting a playful response from even the laziest of cats. Just be careful where you stick those e-badges — or make sure you have kitty declawed if you’re not into blood and pain.

The most socially responsible offering from lightmybelly.com is the “bra”-veaux light. It looks like a string with a little flashing light pendant — a necklace. They say it can be worn upon a bra by hooking each end of the string to your bra straps. Sure! Why be mired in tradition and hang it around your neck? Do something different. If you don’t wear a bra, go out and buy one, for gosh sakes, and stick a bra-veaux light to it. After all, a portion of the proceeds from each sale are donated to the Breast Cancer Awareness fund.

Get out a credit card with some available credit, go to lightmybelly.com and get a stash.

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  • Linux

Good reasons for a dot-sex domain name

Author: JT Smith

Kelly McNeill writes “I’d like to see a dot-sex domain name. No, I don’t necessarily want to see a pornographic Web site. I’m saying that I’d like to see dot-sex included among the new Web categorization top-level domains that were recently issued. To bring those of you who don’t keep up with such things up to date, there was a proposal not too long ago by the people who look after domain names that dot-sex be introduced along with a host of other categorization domains. As it turned out, only two — dot-biz and dot-info — were later accepted. I’d like to see dot-sex reconsidered.”

Sega to bring games to PDAs

Author: JT Smith

From MSNBC: “Game maker Sega Corp. and software developer Synovial Inc. of America on Tuesday announced a deal that will this year bring classic Sega games such as Sonic The Hedgehog to handheld computers.”

Zope News for August 31

Author: JT Smith

Chris McDonough writes “http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZWN/ZWN-2001-08- 31

The top stories this
time around include: Zope 2.4.1 beta 1 released, a new ZEO beta is
announced, Paul forks off a kid, versioning is hot, Tim Peters gets
paid, Zope for Mac OS X, a big fat client, and a Zope-XPath marriage
is proposed.”

Another new Linux-based Korean PDA expected soon

Author: JT Smith

An Anonymous Reader writes “LinuxDevices.com has a brief article about a new Linux-based PDA from Korea, which is the result of a joint development of Mizi Research and a company called CIIT. Nice picture, too. The device is due out in several months.”

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  • Linux

LinuxWorld: The orgs ye shall have with you always

Author: JT Smith

– By Robin “Roblimo” Miller
Some of the corporate booths at this year’s San Francisco LinuxWorld were bigger than what Microsoft puts up at regional “generic” computer shows. But the orgs — the volunteer and cooperative groups that are the heart of Linux and Open Source, are still around (although hidden, as usual, behind the huge commercial displays), unfazed, unbattered and proud.
The one I found most fascinating was SHARE.org, an IBM users’ group that has been around since 1955.

Yes, that date is correct. 1955. Back when the IBM 704 was first conceived and a few forward-looking companies, universities and government agencies had ordered them, some scientists and engineers got together to figure out how to use the things when they finally shipped, which they did in 1956.

According to the people personning the SHARE.org booth, members back then routinely wrote and swapped free software. GNU/Linux, to them, is like bell-bottom pants; so old a concept that it’s new again. This was SHARE.org’s first time at a major Linux show. What can we say? “Welcome, Daddy,” I suppose.

KDE was back in the .org area too, basking in yet another show award. They were pretty blase about it. Waldo Bastian, one of the KDE folks in attendance, said they had won awards at every show they had been to in the last four years except the 2001 Comdex in Germany, where Windows 2000 beat KDE out for some sort of “best desktop” honor.

There were other orgs, large and small, all worthy of your support. Check the .org pavilion list to see them all.

We’ll be talking to some of these fine groups in the future. But right now it’s late, the show has worn me out, and I have an early flight to catch. And so, to bed.

– Robin Miller
San Francisco, California
10:53 p.m. PDT. 30 Aug 2001

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  • Linux