CNet reports thtat cybercrime researcher at the FBI slipped up while handling a virulent Internet worm, with FBI documents apparently emailed to outsiders.

Slashdot has a column about the mainstream media dropping the ball on the Dmitri Sklyarov arrest.

ZDNet has a short story about Serial System, a Singapore-based components distributor, introducting a Linux handheld device that stores up to
10GB of data and multimedia files. More from CNet.

Slashdotters discuss the review of the book for Linux newbies and the people who love Linus users.

Press release at PR Newswire: “What better time than now for CD Recordable Solutions to hit the
bookshelves! This new release from Muska & Lipman Publishing provides real-
world knowledge and “best” tricks of the trade in CD recording. In its easy-
to-read style, the book teaches users how to burn music, data, and video CDs
using a Windows, Mac or Linux operating system.”

Segfault recaps last week’s OSCon. Here’s a sampling from Tuesday’s entry: “More nerds arriving by the minute. RF emmissions in the airport reach critical levels from various laptop
peripherals, PDAs and cell phones. One cat found dead, evidently from touching the metal gate on its kennel. Break out session: Perl: Bitmasks for a brighter tomorrow.”

Version 1.5.4 of the GNOME Control Center, as well as the capplet
library and the supplementary capplets (control-center-plus) is now
available. This is a bugfix release.

Greetings.

Version 1.5.4 of the GNOME Control Center, as well as the capplet
library and the supplementary capplets (control-center-plus) is now
available. This is a bugfix release.

* Availability

The new control center is available at
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/control-center/control-center-1.5.4.tar.gz

The advanced capplets are available at
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/control-center-plus/control-center-plus-1.5.4.tar.gz

The capplet library is available at
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/libcapplet/libcapplet-1.5.4.tar.gz

* What's new

        - Bug fixes, and lots of them.
        - Translation updates.
        - libcapplet .so number has been bumped down for backward 
compatibility

* Installation instructions and prerequisites

This version of the control center requires the following packages in
addition to the GNOME 1.4 platform:

* bonobo-conf 0.9, (0.10 *highly* recommended) available at
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/bonobo-conf/bonobo-conf-0.10.tar.gz

* pkgconfig 0.8, available at
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/releases/pkgconfig-0.8.0.tar.gz

* gtkhtml >= 0.9 (0.10.1 preferred), available at
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gtkhtml/gtkhtml-0.10.1.tar.gz

* gal >= 0.9, available at
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gal/gal-0.9.tar.gz

In addition, libcapplet must be compiled before control-center or
control-center-plus

Please download and try this out. If you have any questions or 
comments,
please consult gnomecc-list@gnome.org or #xst on GNOME IRC. Thank you.

--
-Bradford Hovinen

MozillaQuest: “Mozilla 0.9.3 was scheduled to have been branched last Friday (25 July 2001) and to have been
released yesterday. However, at publication time Mozilla 0.9.3 has neither been branched nor
released. That’s not surprising considering how buggy Mozilla is at this time.”

Tuesday, July 31st, 2001– from the home of Wayne’s World, Aurora IL — Tonight LIVE on
www.thelinuxshow.com
At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Jeff Gerhardt, PJ Hyett, Doc Searls(Linux Journal), and Arne Flones have another great show lined up tonight on The Linux Show!! (and yes the Loki tribes server is up and running.)

In Segment One – Hot News: We will be covering the hot Linux news of
the last few weeks. In particular, we will talk about the Mandrakesoft IPO. Full details can be found at a special web site http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/ipo

In Segments Two- OSCON and the great Microsoft vs Red Hat debate Where there winners and losers?
Billed by Oreilly as
the Shared Source vs. Open Source: Debate and Panel Discussion, this event was being billed by many as the first real shot for the Open Source community to square off with Microsoft “toe to toe.”

Doc Searls will be giving us a report of his observations of the conference and the debate. Please check out Doc’s Web Log located at http://doc.weblogs.com/. There is a complete running commentary of the debate, with crowd and pundit reactions, called “Smackdown” about halfway down the page.

We will also be joined by Eric Raymond, Open Source maven and Author of lots of books that you all know about. We will get Erics take on the conference Keynote debate.

In Segments Three- featuring David A. Wheeler “Microsoft, Linux and the Fat Lady PART TWO”- or Contrary to many opinions, Linux is far from over and Microsoft still has a very very long road ahead
This is PART THREE of a segment that will carry over the next several weeks.

This week we will be joined by guest panelist David A. Wheeler. David has been involved in software since 1977. His interests include computer security and “high-risk” software. He’s been intrigued with open source software / free software, and began collecting statistics about OSS that resulted in the “Why OSS/FS” thesis that is being presented by David Tonight. Details about David’s projects and opinions can be found in details at his web site, http://www.dwheeler.com/

Other opinions are welcome at GeekCast. If you would like to join us on the show, check our IRC Chat(irc.thelinuxshow.com #linuxshow).

Remember tune in at 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.
Catch the Linux show at www.thelinuxshow.com

The initial release of DevHelp, a GNOME-based documentation system for developers, was announced today. Complete details below.

The initial release of DevHelp, 0.1.0 is now available.

DevHelp is GNOME based documentation system for developers.
Cool technologies such as Bonobo, GnomeVFS, Gnome-print, GtkHTML used
and therefor required.

Features:
Tree & function indexing API docs in XML
HTML viewer (GtkHTML).
Search by function, struct, macro etc.
Auto completion.
Transparent HTTP support powered by GnomeVFS.
Commandline search powered by bonobo, with nice emacs integration.
Simple installer for books.
Print support.
5 zoom levels.

DevHelp can be downloaded gnome cvs (module devhelp) or from:
http://people.codefactory.se/~micke/devhelp/

And required books from:
http://people.codefactory.se/~micke/devhelp/books/

Enjoy,
DevHelp Team (Johan, Mikael, Richard)