The Register: “Hacking activity is at an all-time high, according to stats compiled by The Honeynet Project. It bases this conclusion on the number of attacks perpetrated against a network of servers, set up by the organisation specifically to collect data on hacking attempts.”

LWN: “I know this duplicates in part the link-farms being kept at http://freesklyarov.org/ and elsewhere. No slight is intended to such fine folks, who are extremely welcome to use anything from it that’s worthwhile.”

O’Reilly Network: “Microsoft VP Craig Mundie says he was glad to visit with the Open Source community for a debate with Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann on Shared Source v. Open Source today at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. “I take away nothing but positive feelings,” he said, despite pressing concerns expressed repeatedly from the audience and members of the round table which followed.”

Network World Fusion reports that Palm is splitting into two companies. One company will focus on hardware, and the other will focus on the licensing of its widely-used software.

ZDNet reports that a US congressional report says the FBI is not living up to its potential in its fight against cybercrime, noting a shortage of qualified staff.

CNN discusses a trend in people monitoring other peoples’ computer use without their knowledge or consent, whether it be to determine if their significant others are cheating on them or to see if their kids or employees are looking at porn.

GamePro reports that the 1982 bomb ‘Tron’, which has become more popular as time goes on, will be released on DVD and the computer-cult movie will be gaining a sequel, as well as a new computer game in its honour.

Joe Barr writes “http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2001-07/lw-07-mono.html

Ximian’s plans and ambitions for the controversial Mono project.”

Linuxnewbie.org provides a helpful tutorial on configuring a modem to work with Linux. Except for winmodems, which use software to emulate certain routines that are perfomed with hardware in other modems.

From IDG New Zealand: “One reseller in Sydney, Australia, has decided to let the world know that
not everybody in the IT community at the moment has tight pockets.

Anthony Rumble, managing director of Linux reseller Everything Linux, is
offering PC for Kids — a charity threatened with legal action by
Microsoft over hard-disk loading obsolete copies of its software —
assistance with loading free Linux software onto their PCs.”