CNET: “Companies are not doing as well as they did last year,” said Darryl Gordon, director of marketing
for Websense, the No. 1 maker of software used to monitor how employees use the Internet. “Any
way to make sure their employees are productive can be helpful.”

BBC: “The [United Nations] report points to world-class hi-tech hubs that have
emerged in Brazil, India, Malaysia, South Africa and
Tunisia as a sign that developing countries can make
their own technological advances.”

The Register: “New Zealand security firm Co-Logic has become one of the latest victims of prolific
hacking group PoizonBOx.

In order to monitor hacker activity the security assessment firm had set up a “honey
pot” server, a poorly protected section of its Web infrastructure that contained no
real data and was designed purely to log the activity of crackers.

However after hacking into this site, PoizonBOx was able to break into the firm’s
genuine systems, IDG reports. The defacement has been recorded by Alldas.de and
can be seen here.”

Wired: “An otherwise harmless virus advocating the legalization of marijuana is alienating potential allies — potheads who download the weed thinking wrongly that it’s part of a popular rasta shoot-’em-up game.”

PCWorld: “After seven days of interrupted service, Microsoft’s MSN Messenger chat service is back online for most of its customers who lost
access to the service for nearly a week, the company says.

Though the company posted a notice on its Web site saying the instant messaging service would be back online by Friday, MSN
released an addendum to its notice Saturday, saying that most, but not all customers had full use of the free IM client.”

“We are pleased to announce that Vagn Scott will once more speak to the
GNUbies group this Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at the generously provided
space at the IBM building on 57th Street. He will be giving A Whirlwind
Tour of Unix Fundamentals(including, of course, GNU/Linux) with examples
and discussion (see below for details).”

Vagn has spoken at a previous GNUbies meeting and his exceptionally lucid
and thorough explanations allowed attendees of all levels to learn a great
deal of value. We are fortunate to have him agree to return and speak to
the group again.

Wednesday July 11, 2001
6:30 Q&A
7:00 Vagn Scott on A Whirlwind Tour of Unix Fundamentals
     with examples and discussion
at the IBM building, 590 Madison Ave.
(57th Street and Madison Avenue)

as always the most up-to-date information is on our web page
at http://www.gnubies.org or http://www.eskimo.com/~lo/linux.


Biographical information provided:

"Vagn Scott did his first stint as a unix admin in 1983. He has worked as
an application programmer, system programmer and sys admin at various
points in his career. He discovered linux in 1993 or so, and has been using
Linux as his system of choice ever since.

He will be discussing unix fundamentals and answering any questions the
best that he can."

All our meetings are free and open to all.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

Lyn
GNUbies
The GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners' Group

“If you really want to tell people how cool Linux is, don’t just sit there and spout off useless fanaticism. Explain to people
why open source and free software are beneficial to them. Talk in real numbers, real advantages. You can’t just spray
out silly comments like ‘Linux will kick Windows ass’ and expect people to respond positively. Anyone with half a brain
could come back with a just as stupid argument and point out to you that Linux has been around since 1991, just as long
as Windows, so why hasn’t it happened yet? It’s had 10 years to kick Windows’ ass, and it hasn’t in the desktop space.
What are you going to say to that? Are you going to say that Linux has not headed for that direction except in recent
years? Are you going to point out Linux’s very strong deployment in the server and embedded spaces? Or are you just
going to sit there and spew out mocking and hateful little comments trying to boost your own sense of superiority?” More at LinuxPlanet.com.

“Who says getting Windows and Linux to talk is tough? Take a cakewalk tour on how to network the two operating systems.” At FreeOS.com.

Kelly McNeill writes “The Microsoft antitrust decision is still intact after the first appeal. What does this mean for the future of Microsoft’s “The Freedom to Innovate” theme? At first glance, the opinion handed down by the appeals court looks like a victory for Microsoft. e most important aspect to the appellate decision is that the trial court’s findings that Microsoft is a monopoly and abused its monopoly power have been upheld. What has been affected is the remedy. This does not mean that the remedy is set aside or reversed. What it means is that it must be reconsidered by another court. This reconsideration could go either way.”

ZDNet reports that Japanese company NEC will shortly be joining the ranks of personal digital assistant (PDA) manufacurers. Their new PDA uses Windows CE.