[newsforge daily] September 10, 2003

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September 10, 2003

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RIAA tries to rescue PR disaster with quick settlement http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/10/0314244

• by Joe Barr - Brianna LaHara, a 12-year-old honors student from New York caught in the RIAA's shotgun blast of 261 lawsuits fired blindly into a crowd of KaZaA users, faced the possibility of fines of between $750,000 and $150 million before the RIAA announced a settlement had been reached. That might have seriously cut into her weekly allowance, but Sylvia Torres, the child's mother, settled late yesterday afternoon for a mere $2,000.

Raymond and Perens respond to McBride's open letter http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/2355214

• by Eric S. Raymond and Bruce Perens - Mr. McBride, in your "Open Letter to the Open Source Community" your offer to negotiate with us comes at the end of a farrago of falsehoods, half-truths, evasions, slanders, and misrepresentations. You must do better than this. We will not attempt to erect a compromise with you on a foundation of dishonesty.

Did Blaster worm play a role in August 14 blackout? http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/1526221

• by Chris Gulker - Last Thursday's NewsForge report about power grid security prompted an outpouring of response from readers, industry experts, and government officials. Experts hastened to point out that the grid is robust and relatively immune to hacker attack even as attention focused on the role that a suspiciously frozen computer in the control room of grid operator FirstEnergy played in the Aug. 14 blackout that left 50 million people ...

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Will Linux Luminary 'Shred' SCO's Unix Claims? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/2044228

     Linux luminary Eric S. Raymond is taking the fight with The SCO Group     right back to the basics: he has developed a utility known as a     comparator that looks for common code segments in large source trees     and which, on an Athlon 1.8 GHz box, has an effective comparison rate     of over 55,000 lines per second.

LinuxCertified announces "Linux Fundamentals" http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/2010212

    Rajesh Goyal writes "Linux is fast becoming a key component of the     Network age of today and the future. Linux is now core of systems     ranging from small smart devices to supercomputer clusters. A working     knowledge of Linux is critical for professionals who use computing     devices as tools for their work.

Information security checklist
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/202213

    LogError writes "To help you determine how your security program stacks     up, infosecurity expert Ken Cutler has developed this security     checklist."

Ximian to offer Linux .Net apps this year http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/1819242

     Novell acquisition Ximian has promised that the first commercial     release of Mono, its software that aims to run Microsoft .Net-developed     applications on Linux, will be delivered this year.

Red Hat Providing VeriSign With Linux-Based Servers http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/1738220

     VeriSign is migrating over 2,000 servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux;     Move will reduce operating costs

Sun Microsystems' Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Bill Joy to Leave Company http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/1721236

     Bill Joy, a Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder who was once dubbed the     Thomas Edison of the Internet for his leading role in the creation of     several major technologies, said Tuesday he is leaving the computer     company to pursue other interests.

SCO invites open source people to 'monetize' Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/1630243

     In an open letter, SCO boss Darl McBride has publicly berated the open     source community for the extended denial of service attacks on the SCO     website and called on the community to shun its 'counter-cultural     ideals' and join the company in its bid to 'monetize software     technology and its underlying intellectual property for all     contributors'.

Overclocking The Xeon Under Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/1621249

    Augustus writes ""Many other sites cover every aspect of squeezing the     last bit of performance from your already maxed-out system. Here at     LinuxHardware.org we like to bring you a little something extra. While     other sites bring you Pentium 4's pushing the 4GHz mark, we're here to     show you what is possible from your higher-end workstations that need     every bit of power that you can push out of them. Many will call us     crazy, but there will be quite ...

Linux powers building of online digital images catalogue http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/1613211

    Michael S. Mimoso writes "An IBM pSeries Power 4 server running Linux     is being used to build what will ultimately be the largest repository     in the world for digital moving images."

Opera challenges Microsoft in new business area: Opera + Linux = 75% Cheaper Set-Top Boxes http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/1515237

    Amsterdam, Netherlands - Sept. 9, 2003 - Opera Software today     challenged Microsoft in another business area: set-top boxes (STB). A     STB running Microsoft's operating systems inside will cost over $300.     By combining Opera and Linux, STBs at one-third of that price are now     within reach for the residential market. Moving from Microsoft to     Opera-enabled Linux STBs based on open standards will save the iTV     industry's operators hundreds of millions of ...                                                             

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