Author: JT Smith
Slashdot has an article looking at three languages commonly used to automate websites, and their respective merits.
PHP poetry & t-shirt design contest
Author: JT Smith
Sick of those Perl programmers being the only one who have a flowing language? Improve PHP by making it it poetic! Winners of the contest receive their code on a T-shirt.
Category:
- Open Source
Review: IBM Websphere 4.0 for Linux
Author: JT Smith
Anonymous Reader writes “Recently I discovered the need to re-publish my old website. After reviewing and comparing it with other “amateur” sites I came to the realization that mine didn’t just suck, but it sucked with a vengeance. I REALLY needed to start from scratch. So to make my life easier I decided to go on a quest to find an easy to use, very little actual coding program that would allow me to publish a somewhat professional looking website. The only catch was I wanted it to run under Linux… Read the full review at: linuxlookup.com“
Category:
- Linux
Social engineering: The threat and the solution
Author: JT Smith
syslog writes “Ever wonder how big companies and big government spend millions on
internal and external security (firewalls, security personnel,
intrusion detection systems, etc.) and are still compromised? One crucial piece is missing — an audit of how successful the
policies and procedures are being implemented. Enter social
engineering. Check out the entire story here.“
internal and external security (firewalls, security personnel,
intrusion detection systems, etc.) and are still compromised? One crucial piece is missing — an audit of how successful the
policies and procedures are being implemented. Enter social
engineering. Check out the entire story here.“
Category:
- Linux
FSMLabs announces RTL/BSD
Author: JT Smith
BSDToday has a short blurb describing the addition of NetBSD to the RTLinux product line. This follows the aquisition of BSDi by Wind River.
Category:
- Open Source
Cellular telephone industry gets sued as health hazard
Author: JT Smith
CNet reports that the Cellular telephone industry is under attack from law suits yet another time, being sued class action as a health threat.
Wasabi Systems ports VMWare to NetBSD
Author: JT Smith
Linux PR announces that Wasabi Systems has ported VM Ware to NetBSD, allowing existing, licensed copies of the software for Linux to function under NetBSD.
Category:
- Open Source
Napster to use fingerprinting technology to filter copyrighted works
Author: JT Smith
Reuters (via Yahoo) reports that “[e]mbattled song-swap company Napster said on Friday it has licensed revolutionary “digital fingerprinting” technology to help it filter out copyrighted songs from its service to comply with a federal court order.”
Category:
- Linux
Court backs right to free speech on Web
Author: JT Smith
ZDNet reports on a US court ruling that preserves the rights of anonymous posters on the Internet to not be identified to groups with gripes, unless identifying the anonymous user is essential to a law suit.
Category:
- Programming
Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.3-ac11 available
Author: JT Smith
From Alan Cox: It’s available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/. Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org.
You may well need to ‘make clean’ before building -ac8 as the GDT
layout
has changed a little.
2.4.3-ac11
o Merge Linus 2.4.4pre5
o Back out problem dvdram changes
o Make reiserfs use daemonize (Chris Mason)
o Fix lvm map buglet (Jens Axboe)
o tms380 driver fixes (Adam Fritzler)
o Fix up duplicate configs and other glitches (Steven Cole)
o Fix pcnet32 printk format bug (me)
o ISDN driver further small update/fixes (me)
o Fix bounce buffer deadlock on bh allocs (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix fbmem merge glitch (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Version string cleanups on net devices (Jeff Garzik)
o Update ext2 documentation (Andreas Dilger)
o Add MCE support for AMD Athlon/Duron (Dave Jones)
o Further SDLA tidying (me)
o Update Configure.help maintainers (Steven Cole, Eric
Raymond)
o Tulip update (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix sound config to use right symnames (Eric Raymond)
o Further dmfe fixes (Tobias Ringstrom,
Frank Davis
Jeff Garzik)
o Parport probe cleanups (Tim Waugh)
o Fix a few configure items (Eric Raymond)
o Fix cmsfs nonbuild (me)
Category:
- Linux