[newsforge daily] August 30, 2003

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August 30, 2003

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Why offshore IT outsourcing can't be stopped http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/132243

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - I have many friends who have lost high IT industry paychecks and are struggling financially because their jobs are now being done in lower-cost countries. But none of the legal remedies currently proposed are going to stop this problem -- assuming it really is a problem in the long run.

Linux Advisory Watch - August 29th 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1022217

• by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for docview, unzip, sendmail, iptables, pam_smb, gdm, php, and perl. The distributors include Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, and TurboLinux.

IBM's Eclipse now compatible with Jikes VM http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2349207

• by Chris Preimesberger - IBM has announced that Eclipse, its open-source development platform, will now run on the Java-based, open-source Jikes Research Virtual Machine. Previously Eclipse was usable only on IBM's and Sun's proprietary JVMs.

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700,000 Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/2229253

    gulker writes "700,000 low-cost Netgear routers were shipped with a     flawed SNTP client that pings a hard-coded IP address at the University     of Wisconsin once a second, amounting to a 150 Mbit/second flood. U of     W expects the flood will last for at least 5 years."

Keeping Ourselves Safe
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/228234

    SoBig.F made me fairly angry last week, because even though I use     Linux, I was still feeling its effects. MSBlaster had not really     bothered me directly, though clearly it had some negative effects on     other organizations. What made me so angry was not just the fact there     are idiots out there who come up with such things, but there is a     larger idiot company out there that keeps letting things like this     happen to them.

Opinion - SCO vs. IBM
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1958256

    LogError writes "Bob Toxen, the author of "Real World Linux Security:     Intrusion Prevention, Detection, and Recovery", gives his take on the     SCO situation."

Doubts about SCO DoS claim
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1956227

    Anonymous Reader writes "Reviewing a NetCraft graph of www.sco.com     reveals that their periods of downtime seem to be as regular as     clockwork. That sure would be a surprising pattern for a DoS attack!     Further doubts arise about whether there was a DoS attack, because at     least three times SCO employees seemed to say that there wasn't one."

Blaster.B author arrested in Minnesota
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1940224

    gulker writes "T33kid, aka Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, of Hopkins,     Minnesota has been arrested, and his 7 computers siezed, according to     wire reports. Parson is suspected of authoring the worm variant     variously know as 'Hi Mom' or 'Blaster.B'. t33kid.com, Jeffrey's Web     site is still in Google's cache, complete with worm code samples."

End Users Have Rights Too
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1920227

    Anonymous Reader writes "Considering the amount of time and money     wasted on the most recent outbreak of Windows-born contaminants, I     think it's time that the root of the problem is exposed for what it is.     In my opinion, too many people are either completely ignorant of the     facts or just too lazy to care. Either way, someone needs to be held     responsible for the damages incurred by this utter lack of ethics and     security practices."

Linux Makes Phone Debut
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1726200

     Linux has so far failed to make much of an impact in the mobile client     market. A handful of handheld PDAs have used the open-source operating     system, most notably Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500, but the majority of buyers     have opted for Pocket PC or Palm models.

Spaces still available in Sept iCanProgram courses http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1723228

    bob findlay writes "Since 2002 Jan iCanProgram has been running online     training courses for nofees in return for a voluntary Cancer Research     donation in memory of one of the founders. Nearly 2000 students     worldwide have taken an iCanProgram course since then. Courses are     offered when demand warrants. The Intro to Linux Programming and     Extreme Linux Programming courses are both going to be offering Sept     sessions. There are still plenty of spots ...

IBM To Develop Single-Chip Supercomputer http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1720258

     Applications for the TRIPS chip range from cell phones, which     currently use several different processors for different functions, to     scientific research that involves complicated calculations.

IDC: Linux, blades the high spots in server market http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1519228

     The worldwide server market was worth $10.6 billion in the second     quarter of 2003, a scant 0.2 percent higher than in the same quarter     last year, according to revenue figures released Friday by IDC.                                                             

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