KDE.org has the interview, in which Häckel predicts of KDE in two years: “I guess KDE will continue with increasing in market share. If you compare the development that has happened in KDE the last two years and the
development in five years between Windows 95 and Windows ME then I think KDE is clearly in front. At least for my needs Linux/KDE is anyway
much more useful than any of these OS since it is much more flexible.”

From LinuxPR: Jeff Gerhardt, chief executive officer of GeekCast.Com Networks and co-host
of The Linux Show!! stated today, “The long rumored demise of Northpoint
as one of the worlds leading providers of DSL has now progressed beyond
rumors. It appears that Northpoint services will cease in a very short
time, possibly as short as a few hours. It is our hope that members of the
Linux community that are about to experience the loss of service from a
Northpoint account, will take advantage of the almost 2 year history of our
program servicing DSL to Linux folk.”

SignalGround.com has the review: “So as not to prolong the inevitable, we’ll say it now: the Zoom 56K USB worked with
the Linux ACM driver and a pppd/chat-based dialer script, just like the D-Link
modem did. Under Mandrake 7.2, setup for the Zoom modem was exactly the same
for both modems. Unfortunately, we also had the same problems using KPPP (from
KDE 2.01) as we did with the D-Link modem.”

Jay Sulzberger, the corresponding secretary of LXNY forwards this to us. On 28-March-2001, sixgirls.org will be sponsoring an InstallFest!
Details
are sketchy right now, but here is an outline: The InstallFest will occur on Wednesday, the 28th, starting at 7:00pm,
at
Indira’s apartment, Avenue C and 11th Street (Manhattan; you are
reading
NYC-geeks, right?)We plan to have up to ten installs (this limit is due to space);
electricity, bandwidth, monitors, and keyboards will be set up.

Bring any computer that has an MMU, memory, and enough storage to hold
an
OS, and we’ll install some version of Unix on it.

RSVP is necessary; the first ten people who want to install and the
first
ten observers will be taken, so plan now! Send a brief description of
the
hardware you’d like to use, and what additional hardware you may need.

We have plenty of extra Pentium motherboards, cd rom drives, small hard
drives, and cheesy video cards; bring larger hard drives, if desired,
ethernet cards, and whatever non-x86 hardware you can find.

Those of you with a cable modem or DSL line might like to attend
because
we will also be showing how to make an IP NAT router so that you can
share
your Internet line with as many computers as you like (well, several
hundred, at least).

Food and drinks will be served, and you are encouraged to bring some,
too.

Kelly McNeill writes: “Every network or sysadmin has a number of big obstacles to overcome. Aside from the stupidity and insecurity of people (namely the users), there are physical issues and — possibly the most difficult to deal with — middle management. Recently, Linux has been touted as a way to get middle management and department heads to use Unix. In reality, BSD is more like what they’d want to see, and OpenBSD in particular, means working around them is an easy task. For years, offices and networks have been powered by Unix. Why? Because it’s the only thing that is suited to the task.” The column is at osOpinion.

From ZDNet: “Facing the prospect of a post-Napster world, tension is starting to build between
copyright holders and Internet service providers over who should police other
file-swapping networks that are poised to step in as replacements.”

The Democratic congressman, who’s called for changes in the DMCA, fields questions from Slashdot readers. On copyrights: “The recent extension of the copyright term by the Congress was wholly unjustified. The
United States Constitution establishes a regime of intellectual property protection and
specifies that exclusive rights in original works should be preserved for the creator of the
works for a ‘limited time’. I am concerned that the very wealthy copyright owning
community, including motion picture studios, recording companies and publishers have
seriously unbalanced the Congressional process in the creation and amendment of
intellectual property laws with the result that the ‘limited time’ concept has largely been
forgotten.”

Linux Today posts a security advisory: “Solar Designer has posted an excellent analysis of problems in current versions of numerous SSH protocol implementations. These problems can allow an attacker that is monitoring encrypted SSH sessions to obtain sensitive information. For more information on this, please see
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/169840“

“The Midgard Project Association has released a new version of Midgard Content Management and Application Serving Suite. The new release contains Midgard core libraries, scripting language bindings for PHP4 and PHP3, Web application server for the Apache platform and Asgard, the Web-based administration interface.” Read the press release.

“The Centre for Advanced Telematics at the University of Birmingham has organised a one day seminar, Linux and Open Source for Business, which will be held at the Conference Park at the University of Birmingham on April 24th. Sponsored by IBM, the seminar features speakers from IBM, RedHat, SUSE, and Fujitsu.” More information.