Avatar writes, “The Evil3D team is proud to announce its first game review has been posted today. The productivity destroyer: Hyperion’s Linux port of Shogo: Moblie Armored Division. Coverage includes single and multiplayer, weaponry, the 3D engine, and more. Here is a small snip: “The first person shooter game genre has been around for quite awhile now. It started with Wolfenstien 3D, and exploded with the likes of Doom, Doom II, and the Quake legacy. Then came the modifications, mods for short, which enabled game play beyond what was originally intended by the developer. Anime too has been around a long time, and has gained a sizable following. However, in Shogo: MAD the two giants have been put together. And well put together I might add.” The review can be found at Evil3D.net.

InfoWorld reports that two Air Force researchers have published a paper that is very critical of a Microsoft Outlook 2000 email patch.

It’s at LWN.net. Among the items: We have finished collecting data and evaluating results of
the Level 2 JAS.
We are in the final stages of confirming the remaining budget
required for Level 2 development.
We are preparing the objective writing phase and will also soon
be collecting “critical incident” stories for both Level
1 and Level 2.

Slashdot readers talk about a report on InfoAnarchy.org saying that Denmark’s minister of culture is pushing for a law that
will legalize private music sharing.

From LWN.net: A problem exists with the kdesu component of kdelibs. It created a
world-readable temporary file to exchange authentication information
and delete it shortly after. This can be abused by a local user to
gain access to the X server and could result in a compromise of the
account that kdesu would access.

From BusinessWire via Wide Open News: Tom McNeal, Director of West Coast Engineering and Operations at Mission Critical Linux, Inc., a Linux
professional services and support company, will be speaking at the InterWorks Conference in San Francisco on
Tuesday, May 8, 2001 from 8:00 – 9:00 A.M. In his discussion, Mr. McNeal will highlight the importance of
insuring data integrity during a failover procedure, the design assumptions confronted when seeking to support
any software service, and how Linux enables the use of commodity hardware in a clustered solution. As
proof-of-concept, the implementation of a highly available NFS server solution will be explained.

The San Fransisco Chronicle reviews the DeCSS legal battle. The story feature’s a Carnegie Mellon professor’s 456-stanza haiku that’s actually a recipe for the DeCSS DVD-descrambler code.

Salon.com has a column on the latest Microsoft outburst against Open Source and the GPL. Here’s a good quote: “A more sensible strategy would have been for Microsoft to shut up and concentrate on making
attractive products. Instead, the company seems intent on whipping up its opponents into a
berserker-like frenzy.”

From LWN.net: The OpenACS community is happy to announce the release of OpenACS
3.2.5 today.

OpenACS is a full-featured free and open source toolkit for
creating “Web services with a collaborative dimension”. It is based
on the ArsDigita Community System (ACS) which uses Oracle as its
database. OpenACS uses the free open source database PostgreSQL
instead.

Posted at LWN.net: The sgmltool programs (“sgml2html” and others) are used to convert
SGML-files into various other formats.

During operation, the underlying SGML perlmodule creates temporary files
in an insecure way. This allows attackers to destroy arbitrary files owned
by the user who invoked the sgmltool program. The problem has been fixed
by creating temporary files with the exclusive (O_EXCL) option upon
opening them.