The Register reports: “An application called SMBRelay, written by cDc’s Sir Dystic, exploits a
design flaw in the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol on Win NT/2K
boxes, easily enabling an attacker to interpose himself between the client
and the server.

The program enables access to the server using the client’s
authentication by acting as a ‘man in the middle’ to both.”

LinuxProgramming.com: “PyWISARD is a WISARD implementation suitable to work with binary images
(PPM format). It contains a wisard neural network module in python, a
simple Tkinter GUI and a HTML presentation.”

“This is the initial release of Gnome-aRts which provides GTK+-2.0 based GUI frontends for common
aRts features.” From LinuxProgramming.com.

LinuxToday posts news of an unofficial ResierFS update disk for Red Hat Linux 7.1.

From a post to LinuxProgramming.com: “he purpose of maki is to serve XML files via the web. A web developer
can specify that the XML data be processed or transformed through any
number of steps. Each step is either a stylesheet transformation or a
custom process. A processor that evaluates embedded Python code is
included. The output of each step is passed as the input to the next
step (similar to a Unix pipe). Additionally, the output of each
processor step can be cached for a user-specified time period. All
configuration is in a central XML file that specifies rules based on
matching paths against regular expressions.”

LinuxProgramming.com: “GNU Mailman is software to help manage electronic mail discussion
lists, much like Majordomo or Smartmail. Mailman gives each mailing
list a unique web page and allows users to subscribe, unsubscribe, and
change their account options over the web. Even the list manager can
administer his or her list entirely via the web. Mailman has most of
the features that people want in a mailing list management system,
including built-in archiving, mail-to-news gateways, spam filters,
bounce detection, digest delivery, and so on.”

At Linux Today, from a post by James Simmons to the Linux kernel mailing list: “The Linux GFX project grew out the need for a higher performance X
server that has a much faster developement cycle. In the last few years
the graphics card and multimedia environments have grow at such a rate
the current X solutions can no longer keep pace nor do they focus on
producing high performance X servers specifically for linux. Also the
community has demanded for specific functionality which has never come to
light.”

“The Simi-Conejo Linux Users Group will be holding LUGFest IV on
April 21st and 22nd, 2001, in Simi Valley, California.

A LUG Fest is an opportunity for you to see Linux users demo Linux (or
other Open Source operating systems), Linux applications, attend
seminars, and BOF (Birds Of a Feather) sessions. Additionally, vendors
may participate and show off their wares.” From a press release at LinuxPR.

“Here we go again. After some time has passed, I decided to write
another article concerning some overall security aspects of installing
and running linux, and as you can see it’s connected to the very first
one ‘Securing a default linux installation’ and makes a good reading
companion to it. To keep it short and simple, here are some good
pointers to enhancing your system’s security. But remember, there’s no
absolute security, so keep your eyes open, subscribe yourself to good
sec-related mailing lists, and keep your software up-to-date” Read the full feature at Help Net Security.

Info World: “Sun Microsystems reported third-quarter net income Thursday
that is slightly higher than analysts’ expectations. The company’s
revenue for the quarter increased slightly over the same period last year.

Sun pulled in $263 million in net income, excluding additional charges,
which translates into $0.08 earnings per share. Analysts polled by First
Call/Thomson Financial predicted that Sun would earn $0.07 per share for
the quarter in a consensus estimate.”