Wired: “The FBI’s arrest of a Russian programmer for allegedly distributing a utility that violates copyright law sets off a storm of protest, both online and off.”

The Globe and Mail: “IBM warned of a “dramatic falloff” in its microelectronics
business – which includes powerful Web servers and
other network equipment – in the second half of the year,
forecasting a fall of up to 20 per cent from the second
quarter.”

DebianPlanet: “Normally I do not condone proprietary software like this but I have seen
much interest in installing Oracle on Debian so I decided to post this, however I recommend you use the DSGF FREE MySQL and PostgreSQL.”

Net-Security: “php mail() function does not do check for escape shell commandes,
even if php is running in safe_mode.

So it may be possible to bypass the safe_mode restriction and
gain shell access.”

LinuxPR: “For the third consecutive show, IDG
has partnered with SAIR Linux and GNU Certification to be the
certification sponsor of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San
Francisco, August 26-30, 2001.”

An anonymous reader writes: “Winning an important round in appeals court that gives the company permission to resume its service, Napster sent out a letter announcing the impending launch of the beta of Pay Napster.

http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/return.htm l“

PCWorld: “Imagine if you bought a brand-new car only to find it had 500 annoying problems. You’d probably return
the car to the dealer. Yet when Microsoft makes 500 errors in an operating system, the company gets
congratulated for its best work in years. Welcome to Windows 2000: It may well be more stable than its
sibling OSs, but Microsoft, nonetheless, had to post a second update for Windows 2000 users.”

An anonymous reader writes: “An anonymous source has provided detailed evidence showing that the popular Linux news portal LinuxToday.com has been astroturfed by its own staff for almost as long as it has been owned by internet.com. In particular, the source has identified Kevin Reichard, Executive Editor of the Linux/Open Source & Internet Technology Channels at internet.com, as having allegedly posted these messages under a number of aliases on the site.” More at VarLinux.org.” (Editor’s note: NewsForge and some other OSDN sites are mentioned in the article.)

The Dot: “Lately, we’ve been spending some time improving the dot and implementing new features.
While our efforts are far from over, we thought we’d announce a few of the things we’ve
done so far. Dre has finally implemented one of the most requested features of the dot: You
can now receive timely email notification of dot-headlines, or, depending on your preference, you can
receive the full text of the dot-stories. As if that wasn’t enough, I went ahead and implemented Flat Forty.
Flat Forty can be thought of as a poor man’s flat mode with a twist: You can now view the 40 most recent
stories and comments globally. While mostly useful as an administrative trollbuster, we think you might
enjoy it too. We hope to optimize Flat Forty eventually so that we can provide an efficient timely dynamic
generation of the page. Read on for some dot fixes.”

LWN: This week’s coverage starts out with a roundup of the NuSphere – MySQL fiasco.