Dan Sparks writes: “The Compaq Test Drive Program is pleased to announce the completion of a major upgrade to our Intel® Itanium Test Drive. We now have RedHat Linux for IA-64 running on the newly upgraded hardware of our Blazer system. Our Blazer now sports four C0 Intel® Itanium processors, all running at 800 MHz, and 4 GB of RAM. Check it out at http://www.testdrive.compaq.com.”

Yahoo: “While the performance of PC chips doubles every 18 months in accordance with Moore’s Law, the quality of computer
displays has been increasing by only about eight percent per year, Claude Leglise, VP of Intel’s Intel Capital division, said
Tuesday at a conference for the computer display industry.”

Wired: “For those suffering serious illness, Internet chatrooms can be a great source of comfort. But fakes abound, with some even suffering an illness of their own: Munchausen by Internet.”

2600: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will ask a federal court on Wednesday to rule that Princeton University Professor Edward Felten and his research team have a First Amendment right to present their research on digital music access-control technologies at the USENIX Security Conference this August in Washington, DC, despite threats from the recording industry.”

AP on Yahoo: “Napster , the former music industry bad boy, said Tuesday it has struck a distribution deal with three major record labels that are launching a music subscription service this summer.”

LinuxSecurity: “The ispell program uses mktemp() to open temporary files – this makes it
vulnerable to symlink attacks.”

NetworkMagazine: “These days, the outlook for
enterprise networks with a mission
to safeguard corporate data is
getting brighter. Weapons such as
firewalls; VPNs; and increasingly
sophisticated authentication,
authorization, and encryption
techniques (and more resistant public and private
keys) are becoming more widely available to
organizations of all sizes.”

MSNBC tells us: “System lockups and slow performance may be par for
the course, if too many programs are configured to autostart
with Personal Firewall running on a Windows 98- or Me-based
system, says McAfee.”

BinaryFreedom: “Clyde explains how life imitates art, and draws from his roots to tell us how a small-town boy with a humble start became a Self-Made Technocrat.”

Peter Lockett writes “SMS texting specialists
YourRelease.com are about to launch the
next version of their highly acclaimed MoTexT service allowing websites to harvest
customer cell/mobile phone numbers. …
Website visitors
will be able to opt-in to receive SMS text message, specifying points of interest
allowing website marketers to accurately market appropriate information. …
For more information,
contact Mark Panay at YourRelease.com
– mark.panay@yourrelease.com
”