The Register: “The importance of 2469 would therefore seem to us to be that it’s the first build
where Microsoft has given us some indication of how tough the protection in the
shipping product will be. So this might be Product Activation, Release Candidate 1.
According to Joolz of MSWinXP.net (which is currently running a Verdict on 2469
piece), the problem lies in something Microsoft’s done to winlogon.exe. “The old
crack was to replace that file with an older version. This no longer works. It blue
screens during setup if you do that! Its winlogon.exe that handles the activation.”

Beyond2000: “A “Mission Rehearsal Exercise” developed for the U.S. Army by ISI, the USC Institute
for Creative Technology (ICT), and the USC Integrated Media Systems Center
(IMSC) takes soldier-trainees on a virtual reality mission to a bleak and troubled town
in Bosnia. There, they must deal with a peacekeeping situation threatening to spin out of
control and turn into an international incident.”

Upside: “Damn, it’s getting harder and harder to think of anything funny — living in California, my portfolio
down 80 percent, and no electricity three times a week.

I’m actually too angry to be in the right mood for writing my usual satire. You see, if the dotcom
bong-heads out there had just listened to me back in 1996, we wouldn’t be in the fix we are in today.
That is when “David Bunnell’s Eight Ironclad Rules for Starting a Successful Internet Company” was
published in John Brockman’s book “Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite” (Orion Business
Books).”

Anonymous Reader writes: “An interesting take on using one of the more popular and free web based development tools. In his introduction, Frank Castellucci states:”The intent of this document is not to flame SourceForge but to position what is available in a more favorable and productive light. I’ll do this by suggesting pragmatic and practical processes around the
existing tools and services. That being said let’s get right to the meat of the matter (as the title suggests), which may be rephrased as a question: “How can I leverage the existing Source Forge tools to
support a structured development process?”.

The full document can be read here.
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PCWorld: “The popular perception of virus writer as a dysfunctional, pasty-faced teenager with no girlfriend and no life,
who taps out malicious code to a backbeat of trance music, is too pat and not accurate, says Sarah Gordon,
a researcher at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Center who has been profiling virus writers since 1992.”

LinuxJournal: “I always wear a Linux Journal shirt at conferences. One reason, of course, is company loyalty. Another is the fact that we put out some fine shirts. But, the best reason of all
is that it attracts stories. People love to tell their Linux stories. The best are suitable for publication.

This brings us to the Personalization Summit in New York (April 2-4, 2001), where I was on a panel about “The Future of Personalization” (briefly, I said there wasn’t much
hope, but that’s another story). Sitting near me in the audience was John K. Thompson, VP Worldwide Marketing for a company called WhiteCross.”

OReillyNet: “When you look at it closely, Extreme Programming isn’t really as extreme as it is logical. This introduction shows you the tenants of XP and its relationship to open source methods for writing software.”

Yahoo: “The Transaction Processing Performance Council released new data this
week showing that IBM’s upcoming DB2 7.2 release running on Linux 2.4.3
outperforms SQL Server 2000 running on Windows 2000 in the 100GB
category.”

Zoe Knipe writes: Ca Linux Systems Global Services has made the decision to deploy GPL virtual web hosting environment freeVSD (www.freevsd.org), the UK originated opensource project, to manage a large volume of its client accounts. freeVSD is an advanced web-hosting platform for ISPs, educational institutions and other large organisations, created under the GPL. It allows multiple Virtual Servers to be created on a single hosting server, each with a separate and secure web-hosting environment. The objective of freeVSD is to reduce an ISP’s hardware outlay and also lower the cost of support due to delegated administration.

Kevin Druet, CIO for Ca Linux, explains ?Technically speaking, our services encompass, Email to fax, Fax to email, Security Consulting, Operating System Development, Remote Server Administration, Disaster Recovery Systems Implementation, Data Warehousing, and RDMS development.

?We have already put 400 domains and 1100 users onto our freeVSD servers. That is an immediate indicator of what we think of this virtual web hosting platform. Within the next year we would expect to put all our hosting clients on our freeVSD servers.

?FreeVSD allows us to divide each server into many properly separate and secure virtual servers. We saw the product as an administration tool. We wanted to provide true virtual services to our clients, and the BSD VKERN solution did not look like what we wanted. We have identified the best implementation for our particular production server situation and, when fully deployed, expect it to improve our commercial margins. Effectively, we are providing the client with what they feel to be a colocate.

?If I were to summarise the advantages which we will gain from using freeVSD, I would point to increased margins, ultimately lower admin costs, increased security, and the ability to reach a wider market (particularly SMEs).

?Over time, we feel that freeVSD will port to most other distributions. We are taking an active part in that drive. Our Developer team has just released a Debian port – still in test mode – which is nevertheless running trouble free on our production servers. We do not intend to change that situation. I have made the source available under the GPL and have provided the FreeVSD user list with the link to download it.

As a result of the Debian port, we have over 90% of our clients on a FreeVSD server and the remaining 10% are simply awaiting permission from our clients to move them to the Debian-ported freeVSD.?

About freeVSD
freeVSD is an opensource project sponsored by Idaya ltd (www.idaya.com) Since launch, there have been in the region of 200 downloads of freeVSD each month from developers and ISPs across the USA, Latin America, Europe, Russia, Asia and Australasia. It is estimated that more than 25 ISPs are already using freeVSD commercially, whilst 150 ISPs are currently implementing or testing the software. Much positive feedback has already been received from almost 2000 software developers and ISPs.

About Ca Linux Systems Global Services
Ca Linux Systems Global Services (www.calinuxsystems.com) offers its clients in Canada and internationally a comprehensive expertise in Linux Open Source Solutions and Internet Infrastructure. The company provides a Canada-wide network of Internet servers on multiple high-speed Internet connections. This ensures that client?s Internet applications are available 24 hours per day 7 days a week (the company guarantees 99% uptime). As well as hosting services, Ca Linux Systems provides a wide array of web enabling technologies. It is the company?s belief that because Linux is open source, it offers unmatched control, flexibility and reliability, allowing Ca Linux Systems to more precisely match clients? technology requirements and constraints. Ca Linux also provides clients with on site Canadian Linux Certified Technician (CLCT) programs for A+ technicians throughout North America.”

Peter Revill writes: “No Limits, an open source visual basic browser using mozilla and ie components has been released. We seek talented developers to help contribute to this project that has both the mozilla and the IE rendering engine. We intend to create a browser that can check html code, and works out which of the two mentioned engines will render it quicker or more “compatible”! Promising the best speed and display ever. Major help required in understanding HTML parsing. Main site here. FAQ here.Download.
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