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The Internet in China
Author: JT Smith
Linux Journal is carrying an essay on the effect of the Internet on China, and leads to conclusions that may surprise some...
PING author killed in car crash
Author: JT Smith
The author of the enormously popular freeware network tool PING, Mike Muuss, died in a Maryland car crash last night. The accident...
ghostscript advisory
Author: JT Smith
"ghostscript makes use of mktemp instead of mkstemp to create temp files; and also uses improper LD_RUN_PATH values, causing it to search...
Bob Young on community, criticism, and profit
Author: JT Smith
From LinuxWorld.com: "In the second part of a two-part interview, Bob Young discusses the likelihood that Red Hat, which has not yet...
Mac OS X: All sizzle, little steak
Author: JT Smith
"Linux is mainstream. No, really. Everywhere I look, not only are Linux and open source equated, but the masses of punditry seem...
File vulnerability problem for elvis-tiny
Author: JT Smith
"Topi Miettinen audited elvis-tiny and raised an issue covering the use and creation of temporary files. Those files are created with...
Debian packaging commands
Author: JT Smith
Have you heard about the packaging system included with Debian? Are you at a loss to figure out how to actually use...
Commentary: Napster’s ball of confusion
Author: JT Smith
ZDNet's Todd Spangler mulls over the latest developments with the online music sharing service: "EMusic President and Chief Executive Gene Hoffman, for...
Security update for xmcd
Author: JT Smith
"The Debian GNU/Linux xmcd package has historically installed two setuid helpers for accessing cddb databases and SCSI cdrom drives. More recently,...
Security advisory for ncurses
Author: JT Smith
The advisory is at LWN.net: The version of the ncurses library shipped with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is vulnerable to several buffer overflows...