The Standard reports that Napster has begun blocking 115,000 songs listed as being in violation of copyright, but says 46,000 more named songs have not been blocked because improper procedure was followed in naming them.

ZDNet reports on the development of USB On-the-Go. USB is the Universal Serial Bus and currently must be attached to a computer to be useful. On-the-Go would allow peripherals to be connected to eachother without having to communicate with the computer.

MSNBC reports that Iomega is recalling 60,000 Jaz drives because of a risk of breakage and short circuit.

PR News Wire reports that Trolltech and LISA Systems have announced a “comprehensive solution for the Compaq iPaq palmtop computer”.

BSD Today reports that Linux compatibility under NetBSD on the PowerPC platform is now working and available.

Kelly McNeill writes “Suppose you have a dispute with a third party whose rented software your company relies on. The UCITA says that the third party is within its rights to suspend your license and prevent you from operating your computer systems by removing access to the rented software or services. The DMCA says you can’t take the data files created by the rented software and reverse-engineer their format to extract your data for use elsewhere. If a BMP exists, you can’t obtain compatible software from another source.”

From eWeek: “Caldera Systems Inc.’s new Linux management package, Caldera Volution, is a good first step toward centralized administration of Linux systems, but eWeek Labs found it to be an immature product that anyone but the Linux faithful may have trouble mastering.

However, for sites that manage numerous Linux systems, the software distribution features in this first version may override its shortcomings.”

eWeek reports that Guardent Inc. has identified a large security problem in TCP involving ISN values.

TheDukeofURL.org reviews Turbolinux Workstation Pro 6.1. “Installing TurboLinux is a snap. Like Slackware and Debian, it uses a text based install
routine, bucking the trend of the graphical installion tools found in many Linux
distributions. Although it can be precieved by many to be behind the times, it did get the
job done very effectively and with a minimum of mouse clicks.”

LinuxWorld interviews Ian Murdock of Debian Linux, who talks about his company’s new clustering project, “which
doesn’t seek to provide Cray-level number crunching but to make life easier for network
administrators.”