Anonymous Reader writes, “Hi. I maintain a ‘project’ at SourceForge named LZIP, which can compress your files down to 0% of their original size. How does it work? The ‘L’ stands for ‘lossy.’ I put the page together last year for April Fool’s, but was unable to get any news site to pick it up. I figure *somebody* must think it’s funny, and since NewsForge is parented by the same people that gave approval to my wasting of VA Linux’s server space for this gag, maybe you would deem it worth a mention on April Fool’s Day.”

A LinuxWorld.com columnist shares what he learned while
setting up a new Website for VarLinux.org, a nonprofit portal.

The Register reports that anonymous Web-surfing company SafeWeb has expanded its secure server facilities
in New York “so that Europeans can enjoy faster access to private, and virtually
anonymous, Web browsing and e-mail.
The company also has an application called Triangle Boy, which adds an extra layer
of security for the truly paranoid and further obstacles and frustrations for investigators
and censors.

Triangle Boy is a randomly-distributed network of boxes, made available by volunteers
with fat pipes, which forwards users to the SafeWeb portal.

It’s a free, open source, peer-to-peer application that the company says will bypass
firewalls and other mechanisms that attempt to block access to SafeWeb.”

Ok, this is an April Fool’s joke, courtesy of ZDNet’s “AngerDesk.” Supposedly, the test filters out customers whose business is likely to fail and others who are likely to overuse Red Hat’s support services.

CNet covers the CanSecWest secruity conference in Vancouver, B.C., this week. Attendees could chose black hats or white hats, and the black hats were gone by the second day. “When you get down to it, these
guys are really all the same
personality type,” CNet quoted Martin
Roesch, president of
SourceFire and the creator of a
popular open-source intrusion
detection system called Snort.

FreeBSD Diary has a tutorial about creating your own fonts for using on a console. “After playing with slackware for a while I got pretty excited about some interesting fonts that they have to replace the very boring and
generic console font.”

From LinuxPR: The files for Release Candidate 1 of PostgreSQL 7.1 are now available for
download at PostgreSQL.org.

Link is here: ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev/.

The release candidate phase follows beta testing and is the last phase before a
version’s official release.

Times of India interviews Atul Chitnis, the director
of Exocore Consulting Pvt Ltd, and the spokesperson for
the Linux India user group, about Linux’s future in India. He says that “contrary to the myth that Linux doesn’t have enough
applications, there is virtually no application available
under the Windows programme today that does not have an
equivalent one available under Linux.”

From LinuxPR: To help respond to the booming demand for
Linux-trained professionals, IBM (NYSE: IBM) is launching the new Ready,
Set, Linux! initiative for Business Partners interested in supporting e-business on
Linux, the fastest growing server operating platform available today (IDC).

IBM’s Ready, Set, Linux! program will be available in cities across the United
States, with the kick-off session taking place in Dallas, Texas on April 2.

CNNfn previews the Comdex computer show in Chicago next week, including a keynote from Larry Augustin, chief
executive of VA Linux Systems. (As most NewsForge readers now, VA Linux owns us.) “Linux is an ‘open-source’ operating system, which means that it is in the
public domain and open to modifications by independent developers. While it
historically has had a cult following, Linux has increasingly been making its way into
corporate networks, a trend Augustin is expected to highlight in his presentation.”