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The media and its techno-ignorance
Author: JT Smith
OSOpinion has published a long complaint about the media's confusion over tech/geek issues and culture. The author infers that the only smart...
Java fight hurts developers most
Author: JT Smith
MSNBC is whining about Microsoft having to pay $20 million to Sun. They say, "Just because Microsoft ended up paying Sun
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New operating system is a chameleon
Author: JT Smith
From Wired: "A new operating system can be customized to appear however you want it to. Athena will run on Macs, Windows...
Wildform releases Flix flash video encoder
Author: JT Smith
Colby Devitt writes "Wildform, creators of Internet media software, today announced the release of Flix, the first application that encodes video into...
SDMI director steps down
Author: JT Smith
The Standard reports that Leonardo Chiariglione is stepping down as head of the Secure Digital Music Initiative after two years. The SDMI...
UK considers Internet chat room controls
Author: JT Smith
ZDNet reports that the British government is considering controls on chat rooms on line to prevent pedophiles from meeting kids on line.
FreeBSD advisory: crontab
Author: JT Smith
A post on LWN.net warns that crontab includes a vulnerability that allows users to read any file on the system that conform...
Debian advisory: WU-FTPD
Author: JT Smith
From LWN.net: "Security people at WireX have noticed a temp file creation bug and the
WU-FTPD development team has found a possible format...
Caldera advisory: KDE2’s kdesu
Author: JT Smith
An advisory at LWN.net reveals problems with KDE2's kdesu system administration tool: any user on the system can steal the passwords you...
FreeBSD advisory: XFree86-3.3.6
Author: JT Smith
A post at LWN.net discloses several vulnerabilities of XFree86-3.3.6 when run on FreeBSD, and includes links to more information, upgrades, and newer...