LinuxWorld.dk reviews Win4Lin: “With Windows up and running (from within Linux) you
can easily add all your favorite Windows applications just like you would with
a regular installation of Windows. This way you won’t have to dual boot your PC
between Windows and Linux when you for some reason have to use a Windows
program that is not available under Linux.”

Please join us for a glimpse into “A Day in the life of a Slashdot
Poster”. Our presenters will be michael (Michael Sims) and timothy
(Timothy Lord) of /. fame. Timothy and Michael will discuss Slashdot’s
history, what it’s like working on one of the busiest sites on the
Web,
and other issues of importance to the Linux and Open Source community.
http://www.slashdot.org.2/21/2001
Wednesday
6:30pm-8:00pm
IBM Headquarters Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
Check in at lobby for badge and room number.

As a special treat, attendees will be given an inside look into the
new
“Bender” release of Slashcode, the Perl programming that produces the
Slashdot site. Also, thanks to Peter Norton, who will be providing us
with wireless mobile Internet access so that we can peer into the dark
corners of Slashdot at the meeting.
http://www.slashcode.com

About Slashdot…

Slashdot, the “News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters” weblog site, serves
about 30 million page views per month. Slashdot is also a committed
Linux
shop, running the site on VA Linux servers under Debian Linux.

Slashdot is also helping fund development efforts with the mySQL team
to
add database replication and rollback capabilities to mySQL, one of
the
most widely used SQL engines under Linux.

Prepare to be Slashdotted!
http://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml#sm600

Stammtisch:
And then after the meeting… Join us around 8:15pm or so at the
Typhoon
Brewery & Restaurant located at 22 East 54th Street between Madison
and
5th Aves.

March 2001 Meeting Preview:
We are pleased to announce that Donald Becker, known to most as the
source of NIC drivers that actually work, and to many as the Beowulf
Guy, will be returning to NYLUG in March. Donald is the Chief
Technical Officer and acting president of Scyld Computing Corporation,
which develops and supports high performance computing solutions based
on Open Source systems such as Linux Beowulf clusters.
http://www.scyld.com

Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
version of this announcement, complete with graphics and additional
hyperlinks to related information.

“As many of you know, Amos Latteier and I have spent the last year
working with O’Reilly and Associates writing a book about Zope. Recently, O’Reilly decided not to publish the book.
We took the book to a number of different publishers, all of whom
showed a lot of interest in publishing it. After lots of discussion
and review of our options, we have decided to go with New Riders
Publishing. We think is a great choice for us, for Zope, and for
the Zope community.” Read more at Zope.org.

“As many of you know, Amos Latteier and I have spent the last year
working with O’Reilly and Associates writing a book about Zope. Recently, O’Reilly decided not to publish the book.
We took the book to a number of different publishers, all of whom
showed a lot of interest in publishing it. After lots of discussion
and review of our options, we have decided to go with New Riders
Publishing. We think is a great choice for us, for Zope, and for
the Zope community.” Read more at Zope.org.

LWN Daily reports a Red Hat security vulnerability: “New vixie-cron packages are available that fix a buffer overflow
in the ‘crontab’ command; this could allow certain users to
gain elevated privileges.”

“I get email every day asking for good sources for more information
on a variety of things from Apache to CGI to mod_perl. So, this article
is as much for me as for you — so that I can email back a quick
URL to answer their question.” Get educated at ApacheToday.com.

Linux.com is planning a live IRC event: “This is an open discussion on Linux games and the
commercial industry. We’ll be discussing topics such
as what the buyer wants and what the companies
perceive they want. We’ll also be discussing different
aspects of the gaming world, looking at it from the
frustration of the developer to issues with support.
BioWare and Creature Labs are also going to be there
to discuss why their latest games will be released for Linux.” Be at #linux.com-live! on irc.openprojects.net at 2:00pm, Wednesday February 21st.

LinuxGames.com: “Trade Wars is expected to be released during the second half of 2001 running on Windows 95/98/2000/NT. Realm’s technology is being built from the ground up with cross platform compatibility in mind. Realm plans to release Trade Wars on Macintosh, Linux and the console systems soon thereafter.”

FreeOS.com: “Now that you have installed FreeBSD, would you like to use your FreeBSD box as a client on a network running NIS? Well, here is an article just for you.”

From Infoworld.com: “Stealing a page from the Marine Corp recruiting ad, USB will soon be all it can be. The technology is being used to give soldiers a heads-up display for wearable computers, as well as infrared, laser and thermal sights on their weapons.”