EE Times reports that London’s Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd. has pledged to deliver an all-CMOS 802.11a Bluetooth chip that will deliver 54MB/second wireless networking. The new hardware should be ready for distribution in the summer of 2002.

“Earlier this week, however, it became crystal clear why this business has managed to sustain my divided attention for so long: It’s hilarious. Laugh-out-loud funny. Not every minute of every day, of course. But often enough, when you least expect it, someone important will do or say something that just kills me.
The latest jokester? Microsoft’s operating system guru Jim Allchin. This guy should quit his day job as soon as possible and go straight into stand-up comedy.” Full column at ZDNet.

LinuxWorld says “Nick Petreley gets specific: apt-get, Debian’s way of updating and upgrading, is the right way to resolve the dependency problems that plague the various distros and ultimately hobble Linux’s ability to take over the computing world.”

ZDNet reviews NuSphere MySQL: “By integrating the most popular open source Web development applications into a user-friendly bundle, Nusphere has strongly sounded the Linux gong in the battle for developer mindshare with Microsoft’s .Net.”

Microsoft’s software development division in South India is developing something called JUMP to .NET, aka the Java User Migration Path for Microsoft .NET. A beta release is on track for this summer. Full story at InfoWorld.

InfoWorld has an interesting article on the use of Java at major financial and stock trading firms. Apparently Java’s openness and portability are ideally suited to the constantly evolving needs of the financial markets. The next step for trading houses: wireless Java applications.

A few words on Unix in education from freebsdzine.org: “I work for one of the few universities in Australia
that teach Systems Administration as an elective course in an undergraduate Computer Science or
Information Systems degree. Currently, I have 22 students, and we are a third of the way through the
course. I thought I’d briefly describe how the course
is run, why I’m using FreeBSD, and how useful the
students are finding the course.”

BSD today coversa new NetBSD port by the name of hpcarm, designed to run on the Intel StrongARM-based personal digital assistants. The new port supports hardware with the
Microsoft’s Handheld PC (H/PC) and the H/PC Pro and Palmsized PC (PsPC) form factors, including Hewlett Packard’s Jornada 720 and the Compaq iPAQ H3600.

“The issue is related to ZClasses in that a user with through-the-web
scripting capabilities on a Zope site can view and assign class attributes
to ZClasses, possibly allowing them to make inappropriate changes to ZClass
instances.” The complete post has additional details and links to updated files.

“Updated analog packages are available which fix a buffer overflow
vulnerability. Previous releases of analog were vulnerable to a buffer overflow
vulnerability where a malicious user could use an ALIAS command to
construct very long strings which were not checked for length.” Details at LinuxToday.