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.

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)

IBM’s sidewalk advertising campaign is history. After learning that spray painting or drawing ads on city pavement is illegal, the company responsible for placing the ads has agreed to remove them. Read the Bloomberg update at CNET News.com.

LinuxToday: “he 800 and main phone numbers for Stormix are now disconnected, and the
Web site isn’t accepting any orders. We also tried contacting the customer-support and fax
lines, and these numbers were not being answered, either.”

Macworld: “Apple released the much-anticipated first update to OS X last week with all the fanfare of a Vanilla Ice comeback
album. OS X 10.0.1 first appeared on Apple’s Web site late on Friday, before the Easter holiday — a release time sure
to generate as much buzz as the one-time rap sensation’s big screen debut in Cool as Ice. That’s a shame. Because the OS X update, though not revolutionary, does add some nice features for early adopters.
And when you’re facing an entirely new operating system, every little fix helps.”

From LinuxGram: “FSMLabs has ripped Linux out of RTLinux and replaced it with NetBSD, coming up with a new offering called RTL/BSD.”

Kellie writes, “A quick look at the news from the Linux Technology Center (also from IBM.com), which tracks all the Linux-related technologies happening inside IBM. The LTC offers a more detailed site where they track all the technical contributions IBM makes to the Linux community. But those of you who are looking for the news in brief will find it here, along with links to greater detail.”

Linuxgram has a short item on Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann, who says Wind River’s BSD embedded play makes Wind River “a big fish in a little pond” because, as Linuxgram says, BSD “barely has a profile in the embedded
arena.”

Kellie writes, “Firewalls are good and fun, but what do you do when you need to make rapid, complex changes to your firewall rules? Easy. Use Daniel Robbins’ dynamic firewall scripts that are demonstrated in this article at IBM.com. You can use these scripts to increase your network security and responsiveness, and to inspire your own creative designs. The article includes code snipets.”

Kellie writes, “This column continues David Mertz’s introduction to functional programming in Python at IBM.com. His introduction to different paradigms of program problem-solving demonstrates several intermediate and advanced functional programming concepts. The article includes code snipets.”