Wired: “Two weeks remained of the computer camp when American Computer Experience abruptly announced it was shutting down. The trucks pulled up, took away the hardware, and that was that. “

Kelly McNeill writes: “The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) contends that the federal appellate court handling the Microsoft antitrust case should not allow the Redmond, Washington-based software giant to stall any longer on the case’s outcome, arguing that the Supreme Court justices would most likely agree with the recent appellate court opinion and, therefore, not elect to hear the case. In a brief filed Friday, assistant attorney general Charles A. James said that granting Microsoft’s recent request for a stay pending consideration of the petition for Supreme Court review would only “further delay the public’s remedy and contribute to uncertainty in the market,” and that Microsoft has failed to meet any of the requirements for a stay.”

LinuxSecurity: “Robert Marshall reported a crash problem with Window Maker. Further
investigation by Alban Hertroys showed this to be a buffer overflow
in the window title handling code.
Many applications, in particular web browsers, set the window title
to something obtained from the network, such as the title of a
webpage being viewed by an user. Thus this could be exploited
remotely.
The authors of Window Maker, with contributions from Alban Hertroys,
released a new version (0.65.1) which addresses this vulnerability. A
patch was made available for previous versions.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “Shell redirection – sending the output of a command to a file or reading the input from a file – is commonly used and supported by any shell you might use. But bash offers some redirection tricks above and beyond what you might seen in the C shell.

Read the full tip at Linuxlookup.com“

Harry Zink writes: “The Mutant has mutated again! Unfortunately, with the scope of the changes between .6.1 and .62 we were not able to do a fix only file. That’s the bad news.
0.62 first and foremost is a maintenance release with numerous bugs cleaned. The SF tracker is down in the 20’s from it’s high in the 60’s earlier last week. Great work by the bug team there!

There are also plenty of new features with this release.

First off, there is the new FAQ. This allows your users to post questions to be answered. It’s a very nice addition by Mike Cortez!

Table sharing is in effect as well with this release. You can now share tables amognst sites that share the same database. This is a very good option for those of you that run multiple PN sites on your same domain. Zamolxe nailed this feature down, and it is very cool!

Index.php has undergone a major overhaul as well. The categories have been merged into this file, as well as the READMORE links have been redefined (and all variables are now passed to the themes) for greater control for you theme designers. Patrick is the man on the town with this one.

There is also archived submissions for high traffic sites. You may not want to publish all of your news that you recieve on a daily basis, but you also don’t want your stats to show 1000 news articles waiting to publish. You can now archive it! You go, adam_baum!

We are also prepping some added features, and may have one more Mutant release if necessary.

These include:
Language files are being modularized so that your server does not have to parse a 100k file for each page view, just the translations needed for that page. This should dramitically increase performance once instituted and also shows why we feel the need for modularizing everything in the system. Thanks go out to Patrick for this one!

The modules system is also being improved by dctanner. There is now a version file in each module folder, and this will be greatly expanded in the future.

This may be the last Mutant release, unless there is something major. The next release (Codename: Rogue) will bring together many features including the much awaited new users system (which is going through preliminary tests as we speak).

Evolve!
www.PostNuke.com”

MSNBC tells us: “When using Windows 2000 Professional, Server, and
Advanced Server computers with a USB keyboard and a USB
mouse, it may not be possible to get the system to resume.
According to Microsoft, this is a sporadic problem, and is due to
a bug in the Usbhub.sys file. Microsoft is testing a fix, which will
be in a future service pack. Need the fix right away? Contact
Microsoft Technical Support and ask for: 06/27/2001 01:42 P.M.
5.0.2195.3788 39,920 Usbhub.sys. Note that there may be a
charge for this call.”

Slashdotters are talking about the near demise of Loki, the Linux games company.

Kelly McNeill writes: “Microsoft will reportedly announce changes to its new operating system that will allow Eastman Kodak and other third-party online photo processors to be seen by Windows XP users. The software giant has agreed to change a dialog box to list photography services in addition to those allied with Microsoft when digital cameras are attached to Windows, according to reports published over the weekend. Microsoft said it worked with Kodak to correct any “perceived issues” surrounding how Windows handles the products and services of the Rochester, New York-based photo-finisher and camera-maker.”

CNet reports that IBM will no longer be selling computers with AMD processors in North America.

PC World reports that Compaq has announced an LCD flat-panel monitor that will be for sale for just under US$500.