[newsforge daily] March 03, 2003

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March 03, 2003

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Choosing Strong Passwords
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/26/1639212

• By Raj Shekhar - Passwords are the most common approach for identifying a user's identity. We use passwords to secure our computers, to send or receive emails or to access special resources. Password guessing has always been the favourite method of cracking into computers or circumventing security measures.

Linux Advisory Watch - February 28th, 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/01/0229236

• By Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for slocate, nanog, tcpdump, kde, openssl, WebTool, syncookie, webmin, acupsd, tightvnc, vnc, vte, hypermail, libmcrypt, openldap, mysql, postgresql, initscripts, krb5, lynx, and shadow-utils.  The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Secure Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE, and Trustix.

There's GOLD in them thar (Linux) Hills! http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/26/2251215

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The company name is Linux Gold. The URL is linuxgoldcorp.com. This name is brand-new. It used to be LinuxWizardry (Google Cache), and before that it was called Flame Petro-Minerals. What does the company do? It owns gold mining claims in Alaska. But, says CEO/President John Robertson, "We still use the name 'Linux' because we have Linux antispam and antivirus solutions in the company, and we don't really want to ...

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Film Gimp Changes Project Name
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/0116253

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    As unanimously decided during the recent Film Gimp panel discussion in     Los Angeles during the Linux Movies conference track, the name of Film     Gimp is being changed. This change will present a more professional     name as well as eliminate confusion with the separate GIMP project.     What wasn't decided at the panel meeting is what the our name should     be. A call for suggestions was put forth on the mailing list to the     Film Gimp community. The new name ...

CollegeLinux Released to the Public
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1250212

"It seems that the Swiss Robert Kennedy College (with the aptly named
    website) has released CollegeLinux, a Linux distribution based on ..."

Mandrake 9.1 RC1 - Desktop, Laptop, Small Server http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1249225

    ladislav writes "Mandrake Linux 9.1 RC1 was released without fanfare on     Tuesday 18 February afternoon in Paris, and as the ISO images     percolated through the various mirrors worldwide, I prepared my     hardware for another review of the latest pre-release of MandrakeSoft's
"swiss-knife" Linux distribution. My previous articles have dealt
    exclusively with Mandrake's use on the desktop. This time around, I     tested Mandrake 9.1 RC1 on three different ...

2003 GCC Developer's Summit
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1247224

    After months of planning the first (hopefully) annual GCC Developer's     Summit will be happening in Ottawa, Canada from May 25th-27th, 2003.     The event is for both those interested in and working on compiler     internals (GCC, G++, GJC, etc), associated tools such as Binutils, and     for those developers who use these tools in their daily work.

Federal Government: Still Crazy About Data-Mining http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1246225

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    Jason writes "Data-mining is all the rage in D.C. these days. Not     satisfied with Poindexter's "Total Information Awareness" (TIA) and     then Transportation Security Agency's Computer Assisted Passenger     Prescreening System II (CAPPS II), two more data-mining programs have     recently attracted attention from critics: the Foreign Terrorist     Tracking Task Force (FTTTF) and the Terrorism Threat Integration Center     (TTIC). What is FTTTF?"

SCO Group On the Licensing Warpath?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1245227

    Anonymous Reader writes "CEO Darl McBride now acknowledges that SCO has     hired attorney David Boies to investigate a complex set of legal     issues, in particular whether the company has legal claims against     other operating system vendors (including Linux and Microsoft) based on     its Unix intellectual property. McBride says the collection of     royalties from unlicensed SCO shared libraries is "the tip of the     iceberg as there are so much IP we're ...

U.S. Army's Future Combat System Will Run Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1241236

"In 2001 Boeing was chosen to be the lead system integrator for the
    Army's Future Combat System ... a little known fact is that the OS for     FCS will be Linux"

Next from Open Source: Killer Apps?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1239252

"INEVITABLE MIGRATION." In a sense, the systems integrators that often
    implement big software installations have already set the table for     low-cost, open-source applications: Increasingly, these service     companies "give away" software -- or at least include its cost in     long-term maintenance and outsourcing contracts.

Red Hat to offer Linux training and professional certification programs in Saudi Arabia http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/017257

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    Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT), the leader in developing, deploying and     managing Open Source solutions, announced today that Remal IT – Linux     Busness Unit will be offering its Linux training and acclaimed RHCE     (Red Hat Certified Engineer) programs throughout the Saudi Arabia.

History takes a Big Mac-sized byte out of Microsoft http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/01/198238

    An unwritten historical law says that an empire is at its most     vulnerable at the apex of its greatest power and influence. People     don't live long enough to see the parabola of political empires but the     life cycle of businesses is comparable. Take les Big Macs for instance     Ã‚— McDonald's and Microsoft.                                                             

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