CNET: “Casio will release on Wednesday in the United States its Fiva MPC-206E notebook, which
contains a copy of Windows Me and a subset of Linux. As previously reported, consumers
can use Windows to run most applications on the notebook but can switch to Linux to play
MP3 tunes or read certain files.”

cw360.com: “Windows is generally regarded as less secure than Linux but Chris Klaus,
founder and chief technology officer at Internet Security Systems (ISS),
warns that the open source system is increasingly being targeted.”

Internetnews: “The sadmind/IIS worm propagates from an infected Solaris machine by probing port 80 on a random Class B set of IP addresses, looking for the
signature of other Solaris or IIS web servers. Should it find another vulnerable Solaris machine, the worm will upload its attack tool, root.exe, and
infect the server.”

theHighlander writes: “Talking of network intrusions, most follow a similar pattern. Here is a peek into a typical intrusion scenario, which leads to the adoption of a detection method, followed by the rectification and reconfigurations stages to set right the intrusion. Read on…”

theHighlander writes: “DES may soon be a passe, what with Rijndael now being chosen by the NIST as the Advanced Encryption Standard. Though Rijndael with its complex algorithm codes, compactness and design simplicity has a great potential for application in handheld and wireless computers, the moot question is, will the block cipher-designed code be safe enough? Read on… “

Kelly McNeill writes “Open source has some significant advantages over traditional programming, but there is one that I have never seen discussed: the recruiting benefits. The best part is, the “interview” is a perfect simulation of writing code for the project, because it is precisely that. You write code and submit it, and if it passes muster you are “hired.” The Microsoft joke about having an interview candidate solve a technical issue has instead become open-source reality.”

CNet reports that RLX has unveiled a Transmeta-based server to go head to head with Intel-based servers. The servers promise to run on 1/10th the power of their Intel counterparts and can be stacked closer together because of their lower heat emissions.

Star Tribune reports that one third of Australian households have Internet access, making the country the third-highest per capita user of the Web behind Sweden and the United States, according to a survey Tuesday.

Yahoo! reports that Mentor Graphics Corp. announced its strategy to provde the industry’s first complete front-end solution for programmable logic design on the Linux platform.

KDE dot reports on the results of a poll which suggests that speed is the number one issue of concern among voting users of KDE.