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Archivists struggle to keep records of the digital era

Author: JT Smith

From ABC News: “There’s a lot of great information on the Web, but is anybody saving it? They’re trying to, but the digital revolution is presenting new challenges for the keepers of our culture.”

Category:

  • Linux

Compaq sees slow sales, lays off 4,000 more

Author: JT Smith

Network World Fusion reports that Compaq has announced another 4,000 layoffs from its workforce as it predicts its revenues will drop 9%, bringing Compaq’s total layoffs to 8,500 so far this year.

Category:

  • Open Source

Hackers convene amid signs computer security is eroding

Author: JT Smith

ECommerce Times reports on the upcoming Black Hat and Def Con conferences in Las Vegas, Nevada, and what they mean for computer and network security.

Category:

  • Linux

Music industry heeds lessons of Napster

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet reports on the fallout from the war between Napster and the recording industry, quoting an Intellectual Property lawyer who believes that the Napster case has shown that the industry has gotten to the point where peer-to-peer sharing can be filtered.

Enlighten Software CEO eliminates his own salary

Author: JT Smith

From PRNewswire: Enlighten Software Solutions,
Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SFTW), a leading provider of systems management
software for Linux, Unix, Windows and FreeBSD, announced that Chief Executive
Officer Omar Maden has dramatically decreased his annual salary in order to
reallocate funds within the company. The compensation reduction will be from
$180,000 per year to $1 per year.

Big promises from TiVo

Author: JT Smith

TheStandard.com reports that the maker of personal video recorders, which run on Linux, says revenues for fiscal year 2003 will be triple
that of the current fiscal year.

Category:

  • Open Source

.Net’s open to change

Author: JT Smith

Interactive Week has even more information about Ximian’s Mono project.

Category:

  • Open Source

Review: Abit Siluro MX400

Author: JT Smith

TheDukeofURL has the review of the Abit Siluro MX400, which is based on
the GeForce2 MX400 chipset and has 64 MB of 5.5 ns DDR SDRAM. The review has benchmarks
of both Linux and Windows performance.

Category:

  • Unix

Red Hat releases its Linux for Itanium

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet has more on Red Hat’s release of its 7.1 version for Intel’s Itanium chip.

Category:

  • Linux

Atipa calls it quits

Author: JT Smith

The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., has a short item about Atipa first acquiring OpenNMS development company PlatformWorks, then recently closing its doors.

Category:

  • Open Source