Zero Knowledge discontinues anon service
Due to market -- not government, or attack-related -- pressures.
From Slashdot
VA doesn't do hardware
Oh, man. We thought we were on permanent hiatus forever, but
now that we begin to notice the news again after the Personal
Circumstances which caused that hiatus to begin, have calmed
down, we see that the world needs us. VA Linux has announced
they are getting out of hardware, will focus on selling
SourceForge licenses and banner ads at Slashdot. This from the
co with the highest IPO in the history of the world.
From a press release by way of Linux Today
Polish hackers net $48K
Better yet, Argus now has to shut up already.
From Wired
Shocker: dotcom fraud!
The U.S. attorney's office is being
"very aggressive in trying to make a name for themselves in Silicon
Valley."
From Washtech.com
Publish free or perish
Shouldn't we have free access to scientific research?
From
Bill Gates not richest guy anymore
Now it's Robson Walton in first place, followed by billg,
then Larry Ellison (Paul Allen is 6th).
From The Sunday Times
PC shakeout imminent?
Some economists think the PC industry has similarities to the
auto industry in the early part of the last century. Will we be
left with a "big three" of computing?!
From The LA Times
What does it really cost to adopt Linux?
Discusses the issues one needs to consider to calculate TCO.
From Planet IT
SDMI demands Princeton prof "destroy" paper about vulnerability
RIAA and The SDMI Foundation on April 9 warned Ed Felten
and his researchers not to publish their paper about the
weaknesses of the SDMI content protection system. (The
paper has already been
published online.)
From Politechbot
WideOpenNews suddenly not dead anymore
Yes it is! No it isn't! Yes it is! No it isn't!
IBM's new Unix servers
Going head-to-head against Sun.
From C|Net's News.com
Violence in the media
Filed hours before a two-year statute of limitations expired,
the family of a Columbine victim has filed a suit which claims
that violent games and other media images are responsbible for
the shooting.
From The Denver Post
1.7GHz P4 on Monday
Intel is set to launch the 1.7GHz Pentium 4 on Monday, blitzing prices
across the P4 range into the bargain, according to numerous industry
sources.
From The Register
Milberg Weiss likely to lead Linux litigation
That would be the shareholder suits against Red Hat and VA.
Previously, Milberg Weiss helped bring some high-profile fraud
cases, including the $800 million award the firm won in
litigation involving Michael Milken.
From TheDeal.com
So which is it?
While a press release from FSMLabs (linked from the headline) announces
that the company now has a "netBSD component for RTLinux,"
LinuxGram
reports that FSMLabs has " ripped Linux out of RTLinux and
replaced it with NetBSD." LinuxGram also notes that this may have
something to do with the GPL vs BSD-style licensing issues (see
also Wind River stories earlier this month on the main news page).
PC news wrapup
Dell has moved ahead of Compaq to become the world's
largest PC maker (C|Net News.com story is linked from
the headline); and LinuxGram reports that Gateway
isn't doing so well. Also in LinuxGram, some
speculation on Compaq strategy which opines that the
company will become more MS-neutral and begin to back Linux strongly.
Compaq SDK for Alpha
Compaq has announced that it is offering Linux developers an
Advanced Developer's Kit (ADK) for
use with its high-end AlphaServer GS Series systems.
They also call themselves "the leader in Linux computing."
From a press release
Anatomy of a hacking course
ZDNet audits a "how to hack" course and writes a diary.
Loki in the news
Joe Barr interviews Scott Draeker over at ITWorld (linked
from the headline); LWN.net does the same in the Linux Weekly News top story
this week. And also at LWN.net -- the news that Loki's offering big
discounts on products to LUGs.
Stormix dead?
Stormix's demise has been rumored for several months, and
now it appears as though the rumors are true. The 800 and main
phone numbers for Stormix are now disconnected, and the Web site isn't
accepting any orders.
From Linux Today
US judge thinks First Amendment applies to the Internet
Hard to believe, but true! U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly has
ruled that chat room users who used nicknames are entitled to
speak anonymously. The story, from digitalMASS, is linked from
the headline. There's now also a story up on this
at
C|Net's News.com.
Ericsson sacks 12,000
We haven't been keeping track, but this seems like about the
largest layoffs figure we've seen -- is the main reason we're
including it. That -- and the fact that these layoffs are impacting
Europe, where most other recent announcements have been in the US.
From Wired
SGI lays off 1,000
SGI beat expectations, but still
posted a net loss of $141 million Friday and
announced it would lay off 1,000 employees -- about
15 percent of the Mountain View workforce --
as part of a plan to break even
financially in a few months.
From C|Net's News.com
Engineers knew Challenger shouldn't have launched
Fifteen years ago, two senior spacecraft engineers spent six
hours pleading with Nasa to delay the launch of Challenger. The
next day, the shuttle exploded in the skies, with the loss of its
entire crew.
From The Guardian
Transmeta results
Revenues at $18.6 million and losses at $22.7 million for Q1 2001.
From a press release
VMware ported for NetBSD
Wasabi Systems have
announced they have enabled VMware to run under NetBSD. To use the
software, a user will need to buy a copy of VMware for Linux and
download and install the Wasabi VMware compatibility package.
From BSD Today
An interview with Guido von Rossum
Slashdot readers quiz Guido on Python (naturally), on licensing,
and more.
From Slashdot
Workers wasting time
Three hours per week on personal surfing at work, according
to a recent European Web@Work survey (BBC News story linked
from headline) and an hour a day on mail (according to Gartner and
cited in
this C|NET story which is reprinted at Yahoo).
RIAA thinks it's the FCC
The Recording Industry Association of America has issued a radio license to
a music start-up that lets it legally distribute digital music online from
major-label artists.
From C|Net's News.com
