DebianPlanet: “I decided to release a script I was working on to search for Debian packages I don’t
already have. It cross-references /var/lib/dpkg/available with
/var/lib/dpkg/status->Installed, so it doesn’t (or shouldn’t) give you packages that you
already have more (or less) recent versions of.”

LinuxFocus: “Why are scanners so important for the security of networks?. Basically because they are essential tools
for those who want to attack a system. The preparation of an attack by a cracker could look as follows:…”

The Register: “The claim made last month by Thomas Wiesel Partners analyst Eric Ross that Dell
was about to announce a notebook based on AMD’s Mobile Athlon 4 processor
drew plenty of scepticism – not to mention scorn – from AMD and Dell watchers
alike.

But it now turns out he may have been on to something after all. AMD Zone on
Friday posted part of an email claiming that the Texan PC giant is at least testing the
Athlon 4 for mobile computing applications.”

CNET: “Already bitter competitors in the market for streaming video and audio, each company desperately
wants its anti-piracy and playback technologies to be adopted by the record industry.
RealNetworks sought to increase its chances last week by announcing its own open-standards,
anti-piracy initiative.”

pkej writes: “Bjørn Reiten is writing a few short and accurate tutorials on programming new modules for eZ publish. You can read his first tutorial “How to use templates in eZ publish”, or you can enjoy a few of the older ones which are available.”

Kelly McNeill of OSOpinion writes: “IBM announced Thursday that it has delivered the world’s most powerful unclassified supercomputer, capable of 3.8 trillion calculations per second, to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a government research center in California. Amid high pump prices for the summer travel season and rolling electricity blackouts in California, researchers at the center, where virtual internal combustion engines are tested, hope the supercomputer will help provide solutions to the combustion engine’s thirst for gasoline and to the Golden State’s power crisis.”

LinuxFocus: “This article provides you with an extremely detailed and step-by-step process describing how to compile, configure and then install a customized Red Hat kernel.”

The Register: “Some interesting ATI Radeon 2 specs have appeared on the Web, but we’re
sceptical.

According to a posting at French site Puces 3D, the Radeon 2 will be based on a
350MHz core equipped with six rendering pipelines, contain a programmable vertex
shader and support DirectX 8.1. The chip will be fabbed at 0.15 micron.”

The Register: “If a recent story by ZD-Net is accurate, then it appears Microsoft has a new
marketing tool for encouraging business customers to sign up for their easy-peasy,
but rather expensive, software license subscription scheme in favor of the old,
confusing, audit-it-yourself deal.

The gimmick involves demanding detailed license audits of medium-sized
businesses and making sure they’re considerably more expensive and troublesome
than the new Enterprise Agreement Subscription scheme, which offers free
upgrades and on-line license-management tools along with its higher sticker price.”

LinuxFocus: “RamFs is a very simple file system with some interesting aspects. It is a new things in the 2.4 Kernel.”