url “Outlook 2002 will have settings to automatically block 39 types of file
attachment, meaning that under default settings, users will not be able
to receive files such as images and screensavers. However, it also
means that attachments that have a legitimate business use — such
as Java, HTML application files and executable program files — will
also be blocked.”

ZDNET.co.uk: “The Dell cuts apply across most of its PowerEdge server and
PowerVault storage ranges. Although Dell described the cuts as
passing on cost savings, it is clearly prepared to sacrifice profit margin
to take market share from server rivals Compaq, IBM and
Hewlett-Packard. Dell has already made deep price cuts to its
desktop and mobile PC s, leading Compaq chief executive Michael
Capellas to accuse it of selling loss-leader products.”

A ZDNet column on Yahoo!: “Sometimes I think that if Microsoft didn’t exist, Linux fans
would have had to invent it. It’s the company everyone in Linux land loves to
hate–very often with good reason, sometimes without reason, and
occasionally just because it feels good. Recently, Redmond seems to be
returning the compliment in kind.”

CNET: “IBM announced Thursday a semiconductor it said is designed for consumer-electronics
devices connected to the Internet, continuing its push into what it and other high-tech
players are calling “pervasive computing.”

ZDNET.co.uk: “Microsoft’s Web site recommends a minimum 300MHz Pentium II
processor and 128MB of RAM to run the Windows XP beta, up from a
133MHz processor and 64MB of memory for Windows 2000.
Although many PCs come with 128MB now, machines sold a year
ago, especially budget PCs, typically came with much less memory.”

CNET: “NEC will announce on Monday two new Versa notebook PCs based on Transmeta’s Crusoe
TM 5600 processors, according to sources close to the company.”

The Register: “The head of Microsoft’s security response team
argued here Thursday that closed source software is
more secure than open source projects, in part
because nobody’s reviewing open source code for security flaws.

“Review is boring and time consuming, and it’s hard,” said Steve Lipner, manager
of Microsoft’s security response center. “Simply putting the source code out there
and telling folks ‘here it is’ doesn’t provide any assurance or degree of likelihood
that the review will occur.”

LinuxSecurity: “This week, advisories were released for xntp3, ntpd, vim, mailx, kernel, pine, netscape, and mc. The vendors include
Conectiva, Caldera, Debian, EnGarde, Immunix, Mandrake, NetBSD, Progeny, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, and Trustix.”

eet.com: “Microsoft is considering a number of options for getting the USB 2.0 software on the market in
tandem with the Windows XP release, said Carl Stork, general manager of Microsoft’s Windows
Division. “How that USB 2.0 software is shipped in the final version of XP, we don’t know,” he
said. “It could be shipped and turned on by default if suddenly a wave of hardware hits Redmond. It
could be that we ship it but turn it off by default. Or it could be that we choose to distribute it
through Windows later.”

The current snapshots are at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/CVS/snapshots/current/. Here’s the note to the developers from W. Bastian last night:

KDE 2.2alpha1
From: Waldo Bastian 
To: kde-core-devel@kde.org,  kde-devel@kde.org,  kmail@kde.org,  kde-i18n-doc@kde.org
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:16:52 -0700


Message for european developers: Hey you, go to bed!

I am about to tag KDE 2.2alpha1 in about an hour or so. If you still need to 
fix that last _very_ important bug, now is a good time to tell me about it. 
Please mail me if you put fixes in CVS after the thing has been tagged that 
need to go into 2.2alpha1 so that I can move the tag.

Navindra: Can you submit this configure patch?

Note to translators: Translations will _not_ be a part of this release.

Now is a good time to do a clean compile to see if we don't forget to install 
some header file. (Don't forget to delete $KDEDIR/include before you do that 
:-)

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
bastian@kde.org | SuSE Labs KDE Developer | bastian@suse.com
 
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