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In November there were 70 news posts.
Without a doubt, the big story of the month was the release of the the much-awaited 2.5 development kernel. Even if it was just the 2.4.15 kernel with a different name, and the 2.4.15 kernel had a nasty bug that corrupted your filesystem when you unmounted it. Open source saved the day though, when it was fixed a day later with a prepatch.
This month also covered much on Microsoft. Michael Tiemann, Red Hat's CTO attacks Windows XP. Microsoft admits to flaw in their much touted Passport technology, and think good security is all about hiding the problem. Also, the question's asked, "US Government and Microsoft, the unconstitutional pair?", and by the way, Microsoft invented open source.
Then came the IE security hole that should have been fixed long ago, allowing people to grab others cookies. And harkening back to the days of the infamous Halloween documents, Microsoft promotes Linux from threat, to the threat.
Linux fans misbehave, by defacing Windows XP billboards, and the largest seizure of counterfeit software (primarily Windows XP) in US history, take place. Then came the big one for us, with Red Hat proposing to enhance the ongoing Microsoft settlement, by providing open source software to US schools.
And to end the month, the UK goverment could drop Microsoft, and Yet Another Windows Virus struck.
| News archive - November 2001 |
| New NVIDIA Linux drivers released |
| Always good to see big hardware companies releasing new Linux drivers, especially since I have an NVIDIA graphics card, and these drivers offer improved AMD support, and improved Quake performance. :) |
| November 30, 2001, 11:32 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Windows on Linux: Real choices, real products |
| An excellent article on the vapourware that is Lindows, and why instead you should look into real products, like VMware, Win4Lin, and Wine: " If you're a developer or anyone else who needs fully functioning Microsoft and Linux operating systems on one machine at your beck and call, VMWare is for you. If you just want support for most basic home and office applications, Lin4Win really should be your program of choice. And, if you can't stand Microsoft, but you really want that one Windows application or game on your GNOME desktop and you're comfortable with HOWTO files, you should have some WINE. Lindows? Sorry, it's hard to do anything with vapor." |
| November 30, 2001, 4:56 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Software flaw threatens Linux servers |
| Who needs soaps when you have this: "A vulnerability in the most widely used FTP server program for Linux [wu-FTP] has left numerous sites open to online attackers, a situation worsened when Red Hat mistakenly released information on the flaw early, leaving other Linux companies scrambling to get a fix out." |
| November 29, 2001, 8:22 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| BadTrans computer virus strikes |
| Yet Another Windows Virus: "A sneaky Windows computer virus is circulating that tries to install software that monitors what users are typing and passes it to the malicious program's creator. Like many of the other computer viruses that have struck in recent months, BadTrans-B attempts to spread by exploiting weaknesses in Microsoft e-mail programs. One anti-virus company has caught over 20,000 copies of the virus in the last 24 hours." |
| November 28, 2001, 7:30 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| What makes Google good |
| An excellent article on the success of Google, the ''in just about everyone's opinion'', ultimate search engine. Here's something you likely didn't know: "The name Google itself is a casual play on the mathematical term, googol -- a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Indexing a googol of Web pages is the company's stated objective." And of course, being powered entirely by Linux, and used by Yahoo, Palm, and Netscape makes Google something of a massive Linux success story. |
| November 28, 2001, 6:46 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Tuxracer 1.0 retail version finished |
| The Tuxracer 1.0 retail version has just been finished, and the screenshots available from the second link of this Slashdot post are nothing short of breathtaking. |
| November 27, 2001, 8:28 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linus Torvalds on kernel releases |
| In light of the commencement of the 2.5 kernel, these comments on kernel releases from Linus make for some interesting reading. |
| November 27, 2001, 1:24 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Opera 6.0 Technology Preview 1 for Linux released |
| The first technology preview of Opera 6.0 for Linux has just been released. I installed it and gave it a quick spin. Seems fairly solid. Basically it's 5.0 with a slightly new look and a few more tricks. Worth a look. |
| November 26, 2001, 7:08 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| 2.4.16 kernel released |
| The 2.4.16 kernel has promptly been released, fixing the problem with 2.4.15 corrupting your filesystem when unmounting. |
| November 26, 2001, 6:29 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| UK government could drop Microsoft |
| "The government has threatened to drop Microsoft as its main supplier of software to 500,000 civil servants unless it backs down on plans to raise licence fees by up to 200 per cent." |
| November 25, 2001, 9:10 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| KDE 2.2.1 for Windows |
| Fancy running KDE 2.2.1 in Windows? With the help of Cygwin and Cygwin/XFree86 you can do just that. |
| November 25, 2001, 8:49 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| 2.4.15 and 2.5.0 kernel released! |
| Well here's the massive news of the day, the 2.4.15 kernel has been released and so too has the highly anticipated 2.5.0 kernel, it for this release being identical to 2.4.15. (Update note: Turns out there's a nasty bug that can corrupt your filesystem with these kernels. There are prepatches that fix the problem (2.4.16-pre1 and 2.5.1-pre1) both of which now exist in the 'testing' directory of each kernel's directory at kernel.org.) |
| November 24, 2001, 2:47 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Galeon 1.0 released |
| Galeon the GNOME Web browser, based on gecko (the mozilla rendering engine) has finally reached a 1.0 release: "At long last, after a year and a half of work, we're proud to announce that Galeon 1.0 has been released." |
| November 24, 2001, 2:36 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| id Games for Linux PDAs |
| This is most cool: "Thanksgiving was a great day for Linux PDA gaming. Not one, but two classic id games were ported to not one, but two different Linux PDAs! Quake is available for the Sharp Zaurus and the original Wolf3D is out for the Agenda VR3." |
| November 23, 2001, 7:25 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Imbruglia CD sparks complaints |
| What makes this news all the more infuriating is that I wanted this CD and only listen to music in MP3 format whilst I work all day at my computer. Now I won't be buying it. What's the point? I cannot stress enough how important it is that you tell everyone you meet about which CDs to avoid like the plague. It's the only way the music industry will get the message. CDs you do buy that can't be played on CD-ROMs, DVD players, your console, or a CD-player, and weren't clearly labeled with, ''This is NOT a real CD.'' should be taken straight back to the store where you promptly demand a refund. |
| November 22, 2001, 7:46 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Reiserfs or ext3: Which journaling filesystem is right for you? |
| Nicholas Petreley, the number one Linux columnist in my opinion, delivers yet another superb article, on a much asked question: "Reiserfs is fast and reliable. The new ext3 is an easy upgrade. Both journal metadata, but ext3 journals data too, but at a big price. Which journaling filesystem is right for you? ... For most people it doesn't matter." |
| November 22, 2001, 7:28 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| KDE 2.2.2 released |
| "KDE 2.2.2 is a security and service release and marks the last scheduled release of the KDE 2 series, although further releases may occur." |
| November 22, 2001, 6:57 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Time's Inventions of the Year - 2001 |
| If you're into cutting-edge technology you're going to want to check out Time Magazine's Inventions of the Year - 2001. Me, I like the sound of the odor-free boots. Something I'm very much in need of. |
| November 22, 2001, 5:51 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| FBI don't necessarily need encryption backdoors |
| An interesting little article on why the FBI don't necessarily need encryption backdoors: "For example, if encrypted messages were going from Afghanistan to a flight-school student in Florida ... It wouldn't matter what they said, would it? You're going to haul the student in, and then you're going to start investigating." |
| November 22, 2001, 5:35 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Mozilla 0.9.6 released |
| Mozilla 0.9.6 has been released with quite a few new welcome features, like print preview, search on highlighted text, and .bmp and .ico image support. Also announced is that version 0.9.7 will feature those funky favicons supported by Konqueror and Internet Explorer. Have to say, Mozilla is starting to look pretty damn sweet. I remember back in the (understandable) days when it was quite the opposite. |
| November 21, 2001, 8:07 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Red Hat proposes to enhance MS settlement, providing open source software to US schools |
| Frankly I'm lost for words with how much sense this proposal makes. So much sense that Microsoft will surely turn it down flat: "The Red Hat's alternative proposal includes the following: Microsoft redirects the value of their proposed software donation to the purchase of additional hardware for the school districts. This would increase the number of computers available under the original proposal from 200,000 to more than one million, and would increase the number of systems per school from approximately 14 to at least 70. Red Hat, Inc. will provide free of charge the open-source Red Hat Linux operating system, office applications and associated capabilities to any school system in the United States. Red Hat will provide online support for the software through the Red Hat Network. Unlike the Microsoft proposal, which has a five-year time limit at which point schools would have to pay Microsoft to renew their licenses and upgrade the software, the Red Hat proposal has no time limit. Red Hat will provide software upgrades through the Red Hat Network online distribution channel." |
| November 21, 2001, 12:30 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| We speak about Free Software |
| FSF Europe announces food for thought: "Unfortunately many companies have started calling their products ''Open Source'' if at least some parts of the source code can be seen. Users buy this software believing they are purchasing something ''as good as GNU/Linux'' because it claims to follow the same principle. We should not allow proprietary vendors to abuse people's enthusiasm like this. Since the ''Open Source'' trademarking initiative failed, there is no way to prevent abuse of the term that becomes possible because of the aforementioned misunderstanding." |
| November 20, 2001, 6:56 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Dell begs for mercy after ditching desktop Linux |
| You know it's news like this that keeps me returning to The Register: "So there you go. It's not an alternative to Windows at all, it's a ''migration platform'' for customers who need to get their apps away from ''proprietary Unix platforms.'' All it needs is for Dell to precede it with ''And now for a word from our sponsors.''" |
| November 20, 2001, 1:59 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| IBM forms new security initiative |
| You can laugh at it, scorn it, or shrug it off, but the truth is after September 11th folk became far more security-concious:"The company attributed the change to increased security awareness after the Sept. 11 attacks. The new office will meet growing demand for security services ranging from disaster recovery to data protection using technology such as biometrics." |
| November 19, 2001, 6:47 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Douglas Adams's unfinished final novel to be published |
| I tell you, proof of a truly inspirational writer is one where an unfinished book gets to print. With Douglas Adams, you can't help but be inspired:"Douglas Adams's unfinished final novel is to be published next year ... A Salmon of Doubt - the sixth episode of Adams's Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series - will hit book shops next May on the anniversary of the writer's death..." |
| November 19, 2001, 8:07 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| US rejects e-tax plan |
| "The US Senate has given final congressional approval to a bill that extends for two years a ban on internet-related taxes." |
| November 19, 2001, 7:52 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| How to watch TV, view Teletext and listen to the radio in Linux |
| This definitely is one of them articles that stands out from the crowd. Only wish I had a TV card to try it out. Sounds like most fun: "This week Linux.com contributor Dave Madeley looks at what it takes to watch TV on your Linux box equipped with a TV capture card. We take a look at kernel compilation, video devices and configuration. Finally Dave takes a look at some applications you can use to watch TV, listen to the radio or even check out Teletext." |
| November 18, 2001, 8:42 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Red Hat 7.2 Professional review |
| A nice review of Red Hat Linux 7.2 Professional. |
| November 17, 2001, 2:43 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Apache 2.0 Beta released |
| "The Apache community drew a collective sigh of relief this week as a new beta of 2.0, Apache 2.0.28, was finally released. Users of old 2.0 releases are strongly encouraged to upgrade. Just over two hundred changes have been documented in the six months since the last beta: significantly, the majority of these changes are bug fixes, cleanups, and optimisations. With the continuing success running the 2.0 code on the live server at apache.org, this demonstrates that at least on FreeBSD, Apache 2 is becoming more reliable." |
| November 17, 2001, 2:34 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Largest seizure of counterfeit software in US history |
| I guess now the 31,000+ folk that would have bought the seized CDs instead of from the official source at a ridiculous price will just have to 'make-do' with Linux: "Law enforcement officials on Friday announced the largest seizure of counterfeit software in U.S. history, a shipping container of cleverly faked copies of Microsoft's Windows software valued at $100 million." My completely legal operating system, Red Hat Linux 7.2, cost me £5 (about US $7), how much did yours cost you? |
| November 17, 2001, 2:05 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Review: SuSE 7.3 Personal: easy to love, hard to install |
| I decided to post this review mainly because much praise has been thrown about the net, over SuSE's new Linux distribution, SuSE 7.3. I wouldn't know because I haven't tried it, but I'm guessing if Linux Jounal gave it Product of the Year it must be pretty good. |
| November 16, 2001, 9:19 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Introducing ext3 |
| An excellent article explaining why the new ext3 filesystem is so desirable. |
| November 16, 2001, 9:01 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| KDE 3.0 screenshots |
| Some screenshots of the highly-anticipated KDE 3.0. Looking good. |
| November 16, 2001, 8:32 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux handheld crawls to market |
| "A new crop of Linux handheld computers could soon satisfy the appetites of open-source software fans, with the long-awaited Yopy from GMate now on display at Comdex. Hewlett-Packard is also reported to be preparing a new Linux handheld." |
| November 16, 2001, 12:09 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| The 2.5 kernel is coming |
| The latest Linux Weekly News is out. Their leading story, the 2.5 kernel is coming. |
| November 15, 2001, 7:54 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux fans 'hack' Windows XP advert |
| Nice to wake up and see this story: "British Linux users have begun to tell the wider world what they think about Microsoft's Windows XP. Their weapon: the spray can." Not exactly good Linux advocacy, but hey, like I care. :) |
| November 15, 2001, 7:44 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux to dominate high performance computing in less than three years |
| Move over Cray, Linux is about to take your place. How long before we see, Linux Supercomputers for Dummies? |
| November 14, 2001, 8:02 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Conectiva Linux 7.0 review |
| Many have atleast briefly heard of Conectiva Linux, but what's it like, and how does the latest version compare with the major Linux distributions? The Duke of URL tells all. |
| November 13, 2001, 6:52 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| The GIMP 1.3.0 released |
| This the first of many releases on the road to a stable The GIMP 1.4.x. |
| November 13, 2001, 6:36 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Interview: Neal Walfield (GNU/Hurd) |
| Many have 'hurd' of it, but few know much about it--the GNU/Hurd operating system. Here's a interview with one of its main developers to help shed some light. |
| November 13, 2001, 7:55 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| MS promotes Linux from threat to 'the' threat - Memo |
| Ah, sweet music to my ears. It's the Halloween Documents all over again: "I need you to make sure that as many of these customers as possible continue to migrate off of UNIX, but on to Windows 2000 on Intel,'' Valentine says. ''You should be smothering your accounts from every angle, and if you see Linux and/or IBM in there with it, then get all over it. Don't lose a single win to Linux." |
| November 12, 2001, 8:07 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| SourceForge drifting |
| I've been saying it for a while now, and now so too are the FSF Europe: "SourceForge did a lot of good for the Free Software community, but it's now time to break free." I've nothing against SourceForge but the way they've gone over the last few months makes Linux look bad. |
| November 12, 2001, 7:59 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Can computers be creative? |
| The BBC asks can computers be creative? And specifically in this article, can computers create art? Now what I, and many others want to see is a computer that can write code. |
| November 11, 2001, 11:47 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| IE security hole leads to cookie jar |
| Time to change your operating system? Nimda, Code-Red, Passport security problems, and now this: "The vulnerability exists within IE 5.5 and 6.0, but earlier browser editions 'may or may not be affected,' according to a security bulletin posted to Microsoft's Web site Thursday. The security flaw allows an outsider to break into cookies ... through a specially crafted Web page or e-mail. A person could then steal or alter data from Web accounts, including credit card numbers, usernames and passwords." Yes Linux distributions regularly have security updates but what I'd like to know is why it took Microsoft so long to discover. Something to do with closed-source perhaps? |
| November 10, 2001, 11:28 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| How Microsoft invented open source, by Billg |
| You know I wasn't going to stoop to posting this news story that's being doing the rounds, but then thought, what the hey: "The open source movement wouldn't exist without Microsoft, Bill Gates told his company's shareholder meeting earlier this week. Open source is also a follower, not an innovator, and destroys jobs, the economy and world peace (we made that last bit up)." |
| November 9, 2001, 11:33 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux Journal Editors' Choice Awards |
| This year's Linux Journal Editor's Choice Awards have gone online. Nice to see Konqueror win best Web client, and KDE 2 win best Desktop Environment. Both of which without a shadow of a doubt I firmly believe to be Linux's best allies toward desktop acceptance from the newbie. |
| November 8, 2001, 10:45 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Ximian Evolution 1.0 rc1 released |
| "Ximian Evolution 1.0 Release Candidate 1 marks another giant step forward for GNOME. After more than two years of hard work, with over 750 thousand lines of code, Ximian Evolution stands out as the premier groupware suite for Linux and UNIX systems." |
| November 8, 2001, 10:33 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Slash 2.2.0 released |
| Slash 2.2.0, the Perl code that runs Slashdot and many other sites, has just been released: "This is the first major release of Slash since Slash 2.0.0 in May. There's lots of changed code and new features." |
| November 8, 2001, 8:46 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Terabytes are so 1990's |
| "Linux recently became the first desktop OS to support enormously large file sizes. How large?144 Petabytes." A mere 147,456 terabytes, or almost 151 million gigabytes in layman's language. |
| November 7, 2001, 11:15 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| US Government and Microsoft, the unconstitutional pair? |
| "But what was the deal? What did Microsoft give up to get full control of the Internet? ... did Microsoft promise to provide the government with access to all the information they accumulate in the Hailstorm database?" Been noticing a lot about this 'Conspiracy Theory' on the Net. In light of the US Senate running about like headless chickens after that terrible day, Echelon, Windows XP, and Microsoft being Microsoft, is this really all that far from the truth? |
| November 7, 2001, 10:25 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| OpenSSH 3.0 released |
| "OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH protocol suite of network connectivity tools that increasing numbers of people on the Internet are coming to rely on. Many users of telnet, rlogin, ftp, and other such programs might not realize that their password is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted, but it is. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other network-level attacks." |
| November 7, 2001, 12:07 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| VA releases proprietary software version |
| You know I may be speaking out of term, but I feel VA are likely no longer right for Linux. Perhaps it's best they change their name. A company that runs the open source giant, SourceForge and then put their last hopes in proprietary software sounds to me like a company going down in flames, and a case example for closed source companies to use in the future. |
| November 6, 2001, 10:09 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Torvalds, Cox agree on the future kernel |
| The minor VM dispute between Linus and Alan has always been that. Minor. The online press always looking for hype would have you think otherwise. Hopefully this article will put things straight. (Albeit, this article in itself attempts to hype.) The proprietary model has always been, 'you get no input', 'you only get to look at and modify this bit of code', 'you do what the boss tells you to do, no questions'. Linus and Alan having a minor disagreement only serves to illustrate the freedom given by open source. |
| November 6, 2001, 9:21 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Microsoft tries to cage security gremlins |
| 'Microsoft' and 'security' in the same sentence may seem a bit of a contradiction. However, they aim to put a stop to this, the Microsoft way. Which is, you guessed it, by simply preventing people from knowing about any security issues in the first place! Security by obscurity anyone? |
| November 6, 2001, 5:20 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux 2.4.14 released |
| The latest stable Linux kernel, 2.4.14 has just been released featuring its usual plenty of updates and fixes. |
| November 6, 2001, 6:08 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| VMware 3.0 released |
| If you require to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the same screen, and don't mind paying for the luxury, them VMware is the solution: "VMware Workstation 3.0 is available in two versions, one for systems running Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP, and one for systems running Linux. Both versions support a wide range of guest operating systems running in virtual machines." |
| November 6, 2001, 5:59 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| IT manager's nightmare |
| Yet another reason to go with open source software: "A software supplier that closes its doors is the nightmare of every IT manager, but that rule no longer applies in the open-source world. The loss of a company does not necessitate the loss of a software solution." |
| November 6, 2001, 5:47 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Microsoft admits flaw in Passport |
| MSNBC has this to say: "Microsoft Corp. acknowledged that its 'Passport' technology for safeguarding Internet purchases has a serious design flaw that could have allowed hackers to steal credit card numbers and personal information." |
| November 6, 2001, 12:16 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| LinuxFocus November issue out now |
| The November issue of LinuxFocus the popular bi-monthly Linux e-zine is out now. |
| November 5, 2001, 5:53 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Interview: Linus Torvalds |
| Another of those interviews with Linus, on comparisons with Bill Gates, Linux vs. Windows, Open Source advantages, and the future of Linux. |
| November 4, 2001, 8:24 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Red Hat Linux for mainframes imminent |
| Red Hat play catch up with SuSE and Turbolinux, by moving into the mainframe market in the next 30 days. |
| November 3, 2001, 7:07 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux wins access to next-generation CDs |
| Hands up who wants a drag and drop CD writer in Linux that behaves like a hard drive. No that's no good. Ok, hands up who doesn't? |
| November 3, 2001, 6:26 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| The distribution we need |
| Bookmarked this article a week ago and haven't read it until now. Wish I had. The author writes an excellent piece on how security-enhanced Linux would be an important selling point. |
| November 3, 2001, 2:38 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Alan Cox: Linux 2.4, maintenance and succession |
| A quick message from Alan about what still needs to be done before the 2.5 kernel begins, and Marcelo Tosatti succeeding as head 2.4 maintainer leaving Alan to concentrate on Red Hat customer related needs. |
| November 2, 2001, 9:38 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux 2.2.20 released |
| For fans of the 2.2 kernel, 2.2.20 has just been relased. |
| November 2, 2001, 9:26 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| VA Linux proposes name change |
| This really is contemptible behaviour in my opinion. Perhaps linuxdot.org should be ashamed of its name and run a poll on whether it should be renamed dot.org? Not as bad as Borland calling themselves the ridiculous Inprise, but getting there. |
| November 2, 2001, 9:16 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| 'DeCSS' DVD descrambler ruled legal |
| I think it's safe to say that unless something extraordinary happens this week, like Alan Cox sprouting wings and a tail, that this will be LWN's next lead story. The 'no-holds barred' Register has this to say: "The Copy Control Association (CCA), which was granted a preliminary injunction against Andrew Bunner and other Webmasters, was handed its head in a California appellate court." A victory from freedom, for sure. Now where's Mel Gibson when you need him? |
| November 2, 2001, 8:57 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Windows XP: eXtra Proprietary |
| Many are aware that this time Microsoft have gone too far. Even for them: The Masters of Going Too Far. Michael Tiemann, Red Hat's CTO has this to say: "The Windows XP default installation process offers one choice for Internet connectivity: Microsoft's proprietary MSN network. On top of this, Microsoft also has specially tuned its MSN.com site to reject connections from non-Microsoft browsers, including Netscape, Mozilla and Opera." |
| November 1, 2001, 7:41 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Google tests snapshots of Web pages |
| A bad idea in my opinion: "Google has been quietly testing a new feature that offers snapshots of Web pages alongside ordinary search results." Illegible snapshots, longer downloads, what's the point? If they were to start this then it wouldn't be long before search engines started showing company logos instead. No, definitely a bad idea. |
| November 1, 2001, 4:03 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Red Hat white paper: ext3 |
| The first class Red Hat white paper for ext3 has just received an update. |
| November 1, 2001, 3:47 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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