Author: JT Smith
Linux.com has posted an interview with Telsa Gwynne, famed wife of Alan Cox, and excellent writer working with the Gnome project.
Category:
- Open Source
PHP, Perl, Java servlets: What’s right for you?
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