ZDNet reports that Random House, which is set to release e-books in the near future, is suing RosettaBooks for releasing books released by Random House as e-books. Round 3 of digital media lawsuits has begun, after music and movies.

“One of the most fascinating aspects of KDE is the speed with which new developments occur after each release. KDE 2.1 came out yesterday, and was celebrated in
the traditional manner by adding lots of new features to the KDE development tree
in CVS.” Read more at the dot.

“Vince Freeman over at Hardware Central writes an informative editorial about Symmetrical Multi-Processing (SMP) machines being used as workstations. Is this technology for you?”

Net-security.org: “New Zope packages are available which fix numerous security vulnerabilities.”

MSNBC reports: “Sun Microsystems Inc. will unveil Tuesday its first Unix workstation priced less than $1,000 as it tries to regain ground lost to competitors.”

ZDNET: “Those who are making XML standards are reliving the mistakes of past standards bodies. I can see what’s coming and it is a whole lot less than any of us would like or need. I think 90 percent of the current activities will not produce meaningful technology. In my view, that’s failure.”

LinuxWorld.com: “While Linux has good X.25 support, when using X.25 between pairs of Linux systems you have to modify the LAPB driver (to function as a Distributed Computing Environment). I felt that made class setup more difficult. On the flight home, I fired up my laptop and modified the LAPB driver to automatically set the appropriate parameter when loading the module with insmod or modprobe. Try doing that with a proprietary operating system!”

Wired.com: “An appeals court judge says breaking up Microsoft could result in competitors wielding unfair power.”

The Standard: “The German unit of the Italian maker of popular nougat treat Nutella has forced the owners of the domain names Gnutella.de and Newtella.de to stop using their sites, partly from concerns that the peer-to-peer technology the sites promote will damage the company’s global image.”

Net-security.org: “sudo is a program used to delegate superuser privileges to ordinary users and only for
specific commands. There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in sudo which could be used by
an attacker to obtain higher privileges.”