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2000-12-06: Voodoo5 6000 Preview

2000-12-06: FCC Considering 10 Digit Dialing

2000-12-06: ZDNet: Neighborhood watch for the Net

2000-12-06: USAToday: Browser boosters busted on privacy

2000-12-07: Cisco Catalyst Memory Leak Vulnerability

2000-12-07: CNet: Schwab financial site vulnerable to attack

2000-12-07: TechWeb: OASIS Will Addresses Security With XML

2000-12-07: SJ Mercury: Computer crimes face weak laws in most countries

2000-12-07: Advogato.org: Why don't C++ and free software mix?

'Why use C++? My reasons are that it offers typesafe, convenient abstract polymorphism (abstract base classes, allowing the clean separation of interface and implementation without icky 'void casts'), that it offers typesafe, convenient parametric polymorphism (templates, allowing me to use generic containers, algorithms and patterns without sacrificing performance), and that its standard library includes the STL, which knocks the socks off anything available in the C world for power, flexibility and efficiency.'
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2000-12-07: Digital Camera With Wireless Browser

2000-12-07: Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.4.0-test12-pre7

The only reason for this pre7 is to resolve some warring patches in the cs46xx driver.
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2000-12-07: Enterprise Linux Today: Monster Linux Mainframe Ousts 70 Suns in Europe's Largest Linux Deployment

'Telia, the largest ISP and telecommunications company in Scandinavia, and IBM will officially announce tomorrow that Telia is pulling seventy web hosting Sun servers from service and replacing them with asingle IBM S/390 G6 server hosting more than 1500 virtual Linux servers simultaneously.'
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2000-12-07: Kernel Cousin Debian Hurd #70 By Paul Emsley And Zack Brown

Highlights from the Debian-Hurd development mailing lists for the previous week.
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2000-12-07: LinuxWorld.com: Lexmark on Linux - Find out how the Z52 and its proprietary drivers stack up against Gimp-Print

'Can a proprietary printer driver outperform the Gimp-Print project and the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)?'
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2000-12-07: Administering Apache

2000-12-07: UPI: National Guard tapped for infowar duties

2000-12-07: LWN: Fun with the press; a remarkably bad week for Linux reporting

'This last week has been a really remarkable one for awful Linux reporting. We're going to look at a few examples to show just how misrepresentations of Linux reflect a misunderstanding of what we are about, and how they can be damaging.'
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2000-12-08: id on Linux: Bad News

2000-12-08: New Crypto-OS

2000-12-08: SmartFilter: Way Too Extreme

2000-12-08: ZDNet: Gates: We must be more secure!

2000-12-08: Premisesnetworks: Genuity's managed VPN service now avai....

Premisesnetworks: Genuity's managed VPN service now available in over 40 countries
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2000-12-08: Konqueror ported to QT/Embedded

2000-12-08: Slashback: Price-fixing, Borneo, Index

2000-12-08: LinuxLookup.com: Killing the 'Linux Future' Fallacy

'Open source software has been criticized by the proponents of proprietary software development precisely for this reliance on peer review. Indeed, some of these proponents have attempted to cast doubt on the open source model by linking a community-based review to communism or other socialist ideologies.'
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2000-12-08: BugTraq No Longer Able To Publish MS Security UPDATED

2000-12-08: How Should Government Web Sites Be Designed?

2000-12-08: Longitude

2000-12-09: Mapping Phones To IP Addresses

2000-12-09: CDDB Joins the Bad Patent Club

2000-12-09: 3D Nano Wineglass Created by NEC

2000-12-09: ZDNet: Schwab admits to 'small' Web security hole

2000-12-09: CNET: New site communes against hackers

2000-12-09: MSNBC: Your privacy invasion stories

2000-12-09: LinuxPR: The Linux Gnome Desktop for Windows

'Recompiling Linux source code under Microsoft Windows is not something that Microsoft would love to see, but we would, and we have.'
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2000-12-09: DoD and Net Attacks

2000-12-09: LinuxPR: VectorLinux 1.8 - New Distribution Release

'A very small, easily installable, fully functional Xwindows based version of Linux 2.2.17 capable of running in 16MB of memory and less than 200MB of disk space.'
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2000-12-09: LinuxPR: Easy Software Products Releases HTMLDOC v1.8.9

'HTMLDOC v1.8.9 includes a new 'portal' CGI that allows web servers to dynamically serve PDF versions of HTML pages.'
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2000-12-09: Profit vs. Science

2000-12-09: Freenet, Broken Down By Content

2000-12-09: Linux Support For The Enterprise?

2000-12-09: technofile: Cheapskate's Buying Guide: Choosing software

'Of course, Linux is the hottest operating system ever introduced, surpassing the Macintosh this year as the No. 2 operating system after Windows. It's always free if you don't mind downloading, but do your geek recipient a favor and buy a packaged version. My choice: Mandrake Linux 7.2. Stay away from Red Hat Linux (it's not as easy as Mandrake to install and use) and avoid Corel Linux (Corel seems to be abandoning the Linux market).'
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2000-12-09: Run Gnome -- On Windows

2000-12-09: CanadaComputes: Worker: A Directory Opus lookalike

'The reason for the long mention of Directory Opus is the program is almost certainly a homage to Directory Opus. Though there are a great many similarities between the two programs, Worker is entirely the creators own work. And what a great piece of work it is. If you've ever hankered for the good old Amiga days, I sometimes, even now, stop to wonder why I deserted the Amiga for the PC beast, this program will bring back some great memories.'
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2000-12-10: UUnet's Case Study , or The Trouble With Spam

2000-12-10: TheRegister: Default hardware logins on porn-hacked 'security' site

2000-12-10: Window Manager Spec 1.0 Now Available, GNOME developer cites KDE/GNOME Cooperation

'The EWMHS has already been implemented by many window managers, including kwin and Sawfish, the window managers associated with the KDE and GNOME projects. We believe the specification is an important step forward in X desktop interoperability, achieved thanks to the collaborative spirit of the free software community.'
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2000-12-10: Alan Cox: Linux kernel 2.2.18 almost...

'The patch I intend to be 2.2.18 is out as 2.2.18pre26 in the usual place.'
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2000-12-10: Pioneer 6 -- Still Alive At 35

2000-12-10: Infoword: FTC, FBI sites leave opening for hacker access

2000-12-10: NymIP: Anonymity At The IP Layer

2000-12-10: Security Portal: Hex Editors: A Security Tool

'Probably your reaction is that all this information is interesting, but what does it have to do with computer security?'
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2000-12-10: Linux Journal: GTK+/Gnome Application Development [Book Review]

'Penned by Havoc Pennington, GTK+/Gnome Application Development is clearly a jewel in the vast sea of programming books. Not only is it well-written, clear and humorous, but the book is also released under an open license, meaning you can download the entire text for free.'
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2000-12-10: Linux Journal: Professional Linux Deployment [Book Review]

'In the Introduction the book states it will teach professional administrators steps to replace existing network systems with Linux. The book is targeted towards the NT and non-Linux UNIX administrator.'
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2000-12-10: Linux Journal: Mac OS X: First Impressions

'Apple Computer, the very antithesis of the Open Source movement, and considered evil by the GNU project due to their closed technology practices, is known the world over for killing as many third-party companies as it created (and killing them for no reason other than they dared to make money from Apple's technology). And then there's Steve Jobs. Could we possibly find an individual more unlike Linus Torvalds?'
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2000-12-10: DukeofURL: FreeBSD 4.2 Review

'Not only does FreeBSD share many of the same qualities of its allied *BSDs, but it also has many advantages as far as abundance of software goes, as well as a rigorous release schedule. This is great for users out there constantly craving the latest, and even for the user looking to have his or her hardware supported -- since hardware support is growing very quickly.'
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2000-12-10: UUnet's Case Study, or The Trouble With Spam

2000-12-11: NASA's Odds For Iridium De-Orbit Casualties

2000-12-11: TheRegister: Default hardware logins on porn-hacked 'security' site

2000-12-11: ZDNet: Bugtraq swats Microsoft

2000-12-11: Intel Creates 30-Nanometer Transistors

2000-12-11: Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - tcsh

This is a specific update for Conectiva Linux 6.0, previous versions were already updated.
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2000-12-11: Postcard From The Real-Time Linux Workshop

2000-12-11: Linux.org: Linux Online interviews David Faure

'You've just released KDE 2. If you've been using the KDE 1+ builds, what important improvements are built into KDE 2?'
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2000-12-10: Verizon Clogged With Tons Of Spam

2000-12-10: Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.4.0-test12-pre8

The biggest part of the pre8 changes are the USB updates, with support for a new serial dongle.
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2000-12-11: Gifts for Geeks

2000-12-11: Most Linux Distros Won't Run on Pentium 4

2000-12-11: The Renaissance

2000-12-11: CNET: Privacy officers get a seat in executive boardrooms

2000-12-11: LA Times: Web Privacy Programs Are Scrutinized

2000-12-11: ZDNet: U.S. Firms Move Slowly Into Safe Harbor

2000-12-11: CNET: VerticalNet, VeriSign team on B2B security

2000-12-11: ZDNet: Bymer spreads through open network shares

2000-12-12: FCW: Security plan OK'd

2000-12-12: Understanding Studies and Surveys of Computer Crime

2000-12-12: Fugu May Be Key To Human Genome

2000-12-12: Ogg Vorbis Update: Thompson Trouble

2000-12-12: Linux 2.2.18 Release Notes

'Linux 2.2.18 is the latest update to the Linux kernel tree. The out of the box tree supports the Alpha, PPC, Sparc and X86 platforms. MIPS and ARM are mostly merged but you should obtain the platform specific tree.'
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2000-12-12: AllLinuxDevices: Rappore and Lineo to port Bluetooth to Embedix Embedded Linux OS

'This is the first announcement of a Bluetooth protocol stack for an embedded Linux OS. Rappore Technologies is also the first 'wirefree' company to join Lineo's Partner Connect program.'
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2000-12-12: Linux 2.2.18 Released

2000-12-12: AllLinuxDevices: Red Hat to Help Cradle Create New Generation of Stream Processing Chips

'Cradle's UMS platform will make it possible for new a generation of complex embedded systems to be developed by OEMs simply by redesigning software rather than by constantly rebuilding the entire chip hardware.'
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2000-12-12: The Most Powerful Mouse in the World

2000-12-12: Perl for System Administrators

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