joabj writes : “Server manufacturers have been concerned about the high heat dissipation coming from Itanium processors, according to this article in EE Times. Seems that the server market is building compact servers that can be tightly layered for the rapidly growing field of Internet data centers. “At 130 watts, the 0.18-micron Itanium dissipates significantly more heat than the 32-bit Pentium 4,” the article reads. “Indeed, heat dissipation has become such a concern that some system designers say Intel may have to partially cripple performance to meet power budgets.””

LinuxSecurity: “By far the most viable VPN solution is an IPsec variant Not only is IPsec built in to IPV6, but also all the major vendors and software consortiums are gearing their products towards this standard. There’s only one real choice here for IPsec and open-source on Linux and that is FreeS/WAN. In this article, SecurityFocus writer Peter Mueller examines implementing an IPSec gateway for Linux systems using FreeS/Wan. “

Net-Security: ” e-Synergies has discovered and researched remote vulnerability in Internet Information Server from Microsoft. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can reveal critical internal information such as Internal IP Address or Internal host name.”

CNET: “Twenty years after helping change the direction of computing, participants in the project to develop the first IBM PC say they were concerned less about making history than about making deadline.

“We didn’t have any expectation that we were going to change the world,” said Bill Lowe, the executive responsible for proposing that IBM build a personal computer and establish a beachhead in a nascent market then dominated by brands such as Apple Computer, Commodore and Atari.”

PCWorld: “Netscape’s latest release comes just as Microsoft readies its final release of the Internet Explorer 6.0 browser. But experts no longer consider the once-dominant Netscape as a threat to Microsoft’s ownership of the browser market.

“The browser war is all but over,” says Geoff Johnston, vice president of product marketing for WebSideStory’s StatMarket. “Microsoft won.”

The Register: “Wall Street traders have been forced to eat humble pie after computers wiped the floor with them in an experiment.

In a trading simulation which pitted the wits of half a dozen of New York’s sharpest operators against six robots, the machines came out clear winners.

By close of trade the machines had made seven per cent more money.”

Kelly McNeill writes: “There’s a kind of fuzzy thinking that is used to justify Microsoft’s stranglehold on the computer and information technology industries. By refusing to weigh the heavy costs that Microsoft has imposed on us all — lost innovation, impoverished inventors, wasted time, frustration, lost data and the resultant bankruptcies — the supporters of Microsoft appear to be wearing blinders. The cheerleaders only look at the few good things about Microsoft, and the pile of money it has acquired, and used that as the basis for their conclusion that Microsoft is pure and innocent, harmless and beneficial. After all, Microsoft has been incredibly financially successful, right?”

LinuxSecurity: ” This week, advisories were released for xmcd, tomcat, squid, zope, FreeBSD kernel, openldap, xloadimage, and kerberos. The vendors include Caldera, Debian, FreeBSD, and Red Hat and SuSE. “

PCWorld: “Failing to practice what it preaches, Microsoft acknowledges the Code Red worm infected two servers used for its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service.

“A few MSN Hotmail servers were affected by the Code Red worm virus. The servers were promptly removed from the MSN Hotmail environment, shut down and patched,” says a Microsoft representative in the United Kingdom. The infection was detected late Wednesday afternoon in the United States, she says.”

Kelly McNeill writes “In its latest bid to prevent competitors from gaining exclusive placement on the upcoming Windows XP desktop, Microsoft is tripling the number of icons some computer makers must include. Some see the move as a clear test of the Bush administration’s regulatory will. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that decide to add icons for rival America Online must also prominently place Microsoft’s Windows Media Player, the MSN online service and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer on the new desktop, the Redmond, Washington software giant decreed on Wednesday.”