NetSecurity.org: “Previous versions of XEmacs had a problem with the
gnuserv application. Versions prior to 21.1.14 could
allow arbitrary code to be executed by overrunning the
magic cookie buffer, as well as accepting the prefix of
valid magic cookies (i.e. “12” is accepted if the cookie
is “12345678”).”

From ZDNET: “The open-source Apache software continues to be the most popular server software for sending
out Web pages, but Microsoft’s competing product dominates in the high-end financial
transaction part of that market, an ongoing Web server study from U.K. research firm Netcraft
shows.”

Slashdotters talk about Linux World expo stuff.

Chastened Linux executives pledged to stop their “crazy dreaming” and
disband their efforts Wednesday after an executive from Microsoft proclaimed Linux was doomed, and openly
questioned whether the free, rival operating system should exist, reports SatireWire.

From an announcement at LWN: “WhizzBee is a next-generation web server that leverages the state-of-art
clustering technology. It is developed on top of the open-source Apache
web server with a number of performance enhancement features. The current
version, WhizzBee 1.0a, works for the Linux OS on i386 platforms.”

“What is a teergrube? How about a sig virus? What does RTFB
mean? What does “bash” stand for? Who created MS-DOS? What operating system
ran the 3DO?

If you know the answers to these obscure queries, you are a prime candidate for
competing in the Golden Penguin Bowl. The team quiz-bowl event is a highlight of
LinuxWorld Expo here, the annual gathering of geeks and nerds of the Linux
community.” From Infoworld.

Reports The Register: “‘The news here is that the big guys have taken over!’ we
overheard a rather excitable reporter inform his editor via
cellphone in the LinuxWorld Expo press room. ‘They’ve
squeezed the little guys out! That’s the news!’

Well, not only is that not news, folks, but it isn’t even true. Not
from our impressions of the show floor, and we’ve been to the
last four Stateside Expos. Of them all, this one has the
healthiest balance between the come-latelys — the IBMs, Dells
and SGIs — and pure play newcomers.”

Anonymous Reader writes “Janelle Brown wrote a story in Salon today about Vault.com getting bitchslapped by the FBI for cracking Bitchvault; an employee-owned board for openly discussing salary, options and benefits. After reading the article I’m not sure which is more heretical: the Bitch About Your Boss folks silencing dissent on their own boards, cracking and DNS-redirecting Bitchvault to their most flattering press release, or leaving logs behind that made prosecution a no-brainer.

Too bad for Vault that being ‘3L1T3 H4CK3RZ’ won’t get you funding these days.”

ZDNet reports on new programming tools from Borland, which it calls a “bruised software maker.” The software, called Kylix, will easily transfer programs to Linux and designed “not just for desktop applications such as word processing but also for
servers running databases and Apache Web server software.”

From InternetWire: Tuxia Deutschland GmbH today
announced that its embedded system, TASTE, provides a Linux-based operating system for National Semiconductor’s Geode
family of high performance, low power consumption integrated processors.