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E-mail continues explosive growth

Author: JT Smith

Network World Fusion reports on the continuing rapid growth of the world’s supply of email boxes – nearly 900 million around the globe.

Intel takes next step toward 10GHz processor

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet reports that Intel has developped a method of etching more transistors into less space on silicon wafers, allowing for significantly faster processors.

Category:

  • Unix

European cybercrime proposal blasted at U.S. conference

Author: JT Smith

Computer World reports that a cybercrime treaty being worked on by the Council of Europe has been attacked as being too biased toward law enforcement at a U.S. conference.

Category:

  • Linux

Is Open Source un-American?

Author: JT Smith

Tim O’Reilly posts to ONLamp.com: “I got a lot of email in response to my weblog, Shuttle Diplomacy Between Jim Allchin and Richard Stallman, in which I chronicled my efforts to mediate between Microsoft and the Free Software Foundation. I answered a lot of the email, but I have also asked some of the most vocal of the early respondents for their permission to reprint their email to me.”

Category:

  • Open Source

Kernel 2.4.3-pre3 is out

Author: JT Smith

From LinuxToday: “The third pre-patch of the 2.4.3 linux kernel is available to download from www.kernel.org or from your favorite mirror site.”

Category:

  • Linux

Alan Cox: Linux kernel 2.4.2-ac16

Author: JT Smith

Alan Cox posts the latest changes to the Linux kernel, including: “Uniprocessor APIC fixes for misdetect” … “Switch to the updated irda fixes” … “Mark ips scsi experimental until IBM ship a proper 2.4 driver.”

Category:

  • Linux

Failed firms’ URLs find little net worth

Author: JT Smith

What’s the least valuable asset of a dead dot-com? That might be the domain name associated with the deceased business. A report at the Los Angeles Times says that there’s not much market interest in such hard-luck domain names that often performed double duty as the company name bandied about in negative media accounts. There is hope for some “generic” names — garden.com, for example, now redirects to the Burpee Seed Company.

Two Linux distributions trim the fat

Author: JT Smith

CNET reviews two “slimmed-down” Linux distributions: Vector Linux 1.8 and Peanut Linux 8.3, concluding that both “are good if you want to get your feet wet in the Linux waters but aren’t able (or willing) to devote a great deal of computing resources to the process.”

Category:

  • Linux

New Sylvania digital Internet/TV has “Linux inside”

Author: JT Smith

Sylvania’s newest digital television product will ship with a penguin. The 27-inch PC2700iHD Internet/TV will provide access to the global network via an embedded “Internet appliance computer” running “sophisticated Linux-based operating system and user interface software, with an easy-to-use graphical interface that unifies TV watching and Internet viewing.” In addition to standard 56K dialup, the device can take advantage of faster connections via its built-in Ethernet port. Full story at ZDNet.

Category:

  • Linux

India jams politicians’ mobile phones

Author: JT Smith

A Reuters item at MSNBC informs us that India’s lawmakers are fed up with the constant ringing of cellphones in Parliament. They’re so fed up that political leaders have ordered cellphone jamming devices installed to thwart motor-mouth lawmakers who refuse to turn off their noisy devices.