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Internet
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The only way for governments to share software and save money, it says

MS poised to announce .NET Server RC1?
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HP releases Itanium 2 benchmark data
Timp goes mad on benchmarks...

Semiconductors
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HP goes mad on mountain themes...

HP releases Itanium 2 benchmark data
Timp goes mad on benchmarks...

Internet
BT Retail to flog 24/7 Net access
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WorldCom takes the Fifth
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P45s for Porn Surfers
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Business
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Buffet and friends sub Level 3 $500m for acquisitions
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20020711 Lockergnome Tech Specialist
07.11.2002 GnomeREPORT
CHRIS TEACHES THE BASICS: If you've got friends or family who want to learn more about their PC, from a guy who makes things nice and easy, check out the VHS release of Computer Basics in the GnomeStore. Chris teams with TechTV cohort, Kate Botello, to lead novices on a journey through their computer. From basic interactions, to installing apps, to using the Internet and e-mail, Chris and Kate have all the basics covered. Help out a friend and  get them a copy today.
Wednesday's trip went fairly smooth overall, and I actually
enjoyed helping out my friend Larry with some server
software installation and network configuration tasks. His
kids seemed impressed with the new ability to copy files
between the five different computers and have Internet
access at any of them. Ahh, yes... geeks in the making.
After that project was finished, I met up with Jake at a
nearby Starbucks to shoot the breeze and catch up on all
things Lockergnome. We email all the time, but it's nice to
have a face-to-face conversation for a change. He had just
finished establishing new phone service with Verizon, so he
has a fun new PalmOS-based phone to play with.
After the dose of caffeine, I headed up to Boone, Iowa to
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Stephanie. Their new house is awesome, but disappointing, as
there was no high-speed Internet connection or wireless
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impressed with the geothermal heating/cooling system and the
vast potential of the unfinished basement that will someday
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Casey is ticked about all of the rain recently because it
keeps eroding his dirt front yard into the drainage ditch.
The back yard is in great shape, as there was sod laid after
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Directions to Larry's house. DOH! I had to dig out the
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As I mentioned in yesterday's Digital Media newsletter, I recently
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The unit is Palm powered, with a screen the size of an m105 and all the
functionality of Palm OS, in addition to having the latest bells and whistles
you'd want in a phone. Built in Web browsing, by way of MSN, is slightly
cumbersome compared to what I'm used to from my cable connection, but I can
already see the usefulness in carrying around portable access to things like
driving directions.
Now that I've got a way to test the final results in real time, I've got a
more vested interest in making Lockergnome considerably more WAP compatible.
I'm still figuring out many of the phone's features, so that's still going to
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"If you browse to a Web page that contains an image that has a transparent
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sets the stage with 5 characters (all of which could easily represent
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specific benefits for each character's limitations. Solutions are
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GnomeBLOG
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I've been using Radio from the moment I finally got around to creating
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desktop interface for their blogging system though. They've fully
documented all the XML, XML-RPC, and SOAP tie-ins used to connect to
their network, which could easily be adapted to other content
management applications with some XML knowhow. Backend is the place to
look "under the hood" at Userland's XML inner workings, including
detailed documentation on making everything work. If you've got
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Like a growing number of Web surfers, Audrie Krause faces a new uncertainty when she hits the send button on her e-mail these days: Will the message get through?
As the head of a political action group, Krause uses members-only e-mail lists to help educate and organize fellow activists. So she was jarred recently when one message bounced back with a note accusing her of spreading unsolicited junk e-mail, or spam.
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Software companies looking for greener pastures are turning to the red, white and blue.
Whether out of heartfelt patriotism in the wake of Sept. 11 or the desire to tap into the nearly $38 billion budgeted for homeland security spending in 2003, many information technology companies that previously paid little attention to government contracts are now going to great lengths to attract government business.
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Juniper Networks continues to muddle through the telecom morass.
Juniper beat estimates by earning less than $500,000, reported a 42 percent decline in year-over-year sales and offered little hope that it could grow its business when it reported 2002 second-quarter earnings on Thursday. Yet in some corners of the industry, Juniper's performance was viewed as mildly positive.
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National newspaper USA Today said Friday that one or more online vandals had posted a fake front page and six phony news stories on its Web site.
Network administrators have yet to determine how the vandals compromised the company's Web server Thursday night. The national newspaper has called in local law enforcement to help find out who defaced the site with fake stories.
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The Web's leading standards group has updated its core draft specification for Web services.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week published Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.2, a language based on XML (Extensible Markup Language) that defines the protocol for interactive services on the Web, as well as their data and location.
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Network giant Cisco Systems is installing Aironet wireless LANs into lounges at 19 airports across Europe, targeting business travelers with wireless cards in their laptops or personal digital assistants.
The announcement includes various deals with different telecommunications companies and airports, made under the banner of Cisco Mobile Office, a campaign for wireless LANs (local area networks). The airport deals are at different stages, from a fully fledged paid-for service run by wireless provider Mobynet at Turkey's Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, where the wireless LAN was included when the airport was designed in 1999, to others that are still free trials.
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If you've ever taped a "Seinfeld" episode or traded music online, Uncle Sam may want you--to stop.
Draft legislation that is winding its way through Congress would sharply limit Americans' rights relating to copying music, taping TV shows and transferring files through the Internet. The first part of their proposal, which would limit backup copies, has drawn objections from academics and nonprofit groups that have reviewed it.
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The proposed bill would end that exemption, handing copyright owners substantial new control over the distribution of their works by curtailing a consumer's right to copy material under a doctrine known as "fair use."
Another salvo in the copyright battle was delivered when a federal judge said that record labels and film studios could expand an ongoing copyright lawsuit to include Sharman Networks, which distributes the popular Kazaa software.
The Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America last October sued three prominent file-swapping companies in Los Angeles federal court. The suit named Morpheus parent StreamCast Networks, Grokster and Kazaa BV, the Netherlands-based company that originally created the Kazaa software.
However, in February, Kazaa BV sold the Kazaa file-swapping software to Sharman, a company later revealed to be based in Vanuatu, a small island in the South Pacific. The recording and movie industry trade groups asked permission to add that company to the lawsuit in June. A judge ruled this week that Sharman could be added to the lawsuit.
Shoring up U.S. security
Computer security is becoming increasingly critical to President Bush's proposal for a homeland defense department. When Bush formally proposed the department last month, he never mentioned the Internet or so-called cybersecurity.
But as Capitol Hill scrutinizes the proposal, politicians are fretting about tech-savvy terrorists--and insisting any new agency must shield the United States from electronic attacks as well. House Republicans have asked committees for any suggested changes to the White House-backed bill by the end of the week.
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Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Outlook and Outlook Express applications may be vulnerable to a recently discovered software flaw that could leave their system open to malicious code carried on Web pages or in e-mails. A security researcher and partner at risk-assessment company PivX Solutions warned that HTML objects embedded in Web pages and e-mail could carry code that allows an attacker to check out victims' cookie files, read their documents and execute programs on their computer.
Still another problem is plaguing Outlook: A popular plug-in that lets users encrypt and digitally sign messages has inadvertently weakened security and left the mail program open to attack. Security company eEye Digital Security issued a warning late Wednesday to users of Network Associates' Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) plug-in for Outlook, saying that a vulnerability in the add-on could let attackers execute malicious software on a victim's computer.
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One of the first cameras that can shuttle photos and videos using the Wi-Fi wireless networking technology has made its debut. IQinVision plans to sell the camera to companies such as security firms that need to put video cameras in places where wires can't go, or as a way to quickly install a temporary security system.
This product is among the first devices to combine digital videography and wireless LANs (local area networks) that use the Wi-Fi, or 802.11b, standard. Expect more digital camera makers to follow suit. The number of digital cameras has been on the rise, and it's only a matter of time before a camera maker wants to add a popular new technology like Wi-Fi.
Wi-Fi is also invading handheld devices. Wireless equipment maker Intersil is working with SyChip to incorporate 802.11b wireless networking technology into a Secure Digital (SD) card for handheld devices. The card, which should be available to manufacturers for testing in the fourth quarter, lets handheld owners add and remove wireless networking capabilities to handhelds that contain an SD slot from Palm, Hewlett-Packard and other companies.
Wireless SD cards would make it far easier for handheld manufacturers and owners to get these devices linked. Only a few handhelds include wireless capabilities, and they are some of the most expensive on the market. With the card, wireless access becomes an option for many.
Not everyone is pleased with the explosion in popularity of wireless networking. Broadband providers are cracking down on some customers, threatening to cut service to those who set up the inexpensive wireless systems and allow others to freely tap into their Internet access.
After being introduced just a couple of years ago, so-called Wi-Fi "hot spots" that tap into cable or digital subscriber lines (DSL) are now in at least 15 million homes and offices. The problem is that one paying subscriber can set up a local network that allows several other people to access the Net, for fun or for profit.
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I don't usually spend much time explaining metaphors. They are, after all,
metaphorical. They can be filled with whatever symbolism you choose. Written
well, we all come to some similar understanding of their meaning. But, I'll
depart today, contrary to my normal practice, to take a few minutes explaining a
recent metaphor.
I'm a Linux guy through and through. As a user, I see myself as right about at
the average on the curve. For love of the language and open source attitude,
though, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone with quite the same level of
enthusiasm. Put simply, there's very little about the Linux and broader open
source worlds that I don't like or believe in.
Take, for example, the practice of recursive acronyms. GNU ("Gnu's Not Unix"),
HURD ("Herd of Unix-Replacing Daemons"), WINE ("Wine Is Not an Emulator"), even
PHP ("PHP Hypertext Processor") - all carry on the tradition of recursion in the
Unix/Linux world. Goofy as it sounds, I love this stuff.
So it is that I set out to create a recursive metaphor last week. It could only
have happened on or about the 4th of July. In fact, it happened in the edition
of the 3rd. I wrote a piece about how we Americans spend more time over the
course of a year talking about what's wrong with our system than what's
right. I wrote it knowing full well that many of the responses I'd get would be
a) from readers outside the US and b) in sharp disagreement to my comments or
those of citizens of other countries. You're following me, right? People would
disagree with an article that said we spend much time disagreeing. This, of
course, would prove my point in a somewhat metaphorical way - the perfect
recursive metaphor. The point was to be made yet more perfectly by the eventual
inclusion in Penguin Shell of the comments of someone from outside the US
disagreeing with my take our argumentativeness as Americans. Ideally, they would
be comments that disagreed with our collective American perception of being
disagreeable. They would, of course, point out things about which citizens of
other countries can disagree with Americans on. By exercising the right to
disagree, we'd subtly agree that we have that right. Yet another level of
recursion and a final layer of metaphor.
The response to both my own and Johan Sauviller's comments was overwhelming. In
the main, I believe both were appreciated. Many commented on the balance of the
two pieces. Some readers were surprised, I think, to see a dissenting opinion
published so quickly, if at all. Overall, the ability to express honestly held
opinions, to agree and to disagree on a global level closed the circle on the
metaphor in a perfect way.
Things have, however, gotten a bit more ugly in the past few days. I'm not sure
whether some were slow in getting to the July 3rd issue, or whether it's just
been stewing since then. Take, for instance, these comments by a reader who will
remain mercifully nameless:
We get enough
America bashing from our left-wing whacko extremist press and schools here
in the USA that we don't wish to hear some (insert favorite adjective here)
from Belgium whining too!
Followed by:
... please don't let Tony single-handedly tarnish the fine reputation
of Lockergnome. I'm sure there are other articulate Linux experts out there who
would be able to replace him.
... and, in a later note on the topic ...
Censorship is to be encouraged in a
free-market society whenever and wherever it doesn't come from the
government.
Clearly, the metaphor just whizzed right over the heads of some.
Chris
has been great about allowing all his authors plenty of room in the editorial
piece at the beginning of each newsletter. This particular piece is no
exception. He's shown a quiet confidence in the face of some very shrill
comments. While we all generally stay focused on technical issues, Chris has
shown unwavering support for the notion that we geeks are, in the end, humans
with opinions and thoughts to share. I think it's one of the things that makes
the Lockergnome newsletters stand out from the pack - the personal touch.
So, despite the irrationality of some of this week's comments, I'll continue to
occasionally throw in a personal aside with the technical stuff.
Just watch out. Recursive metaphors are only funny until someone puts an eye
out.
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Yesterday, I mentioned an interesting review of two products for Linux by CodeWeavers - CrossOver
Office and CrossOver Plugin. You've probably heard of both by now, as they've
garnered quite a bit of publicity both in and out of the Linux world. You'll
recall that I promised to try to secure copies for review this week. With the
help of a friendly sales rep at CodeWeavers, I was able to accomplish that task
this morning. True to the second half of the promise, we'll spend the next few
days looking at these two products and how they might impact your Linux use.
Let's take them in chronological order, starting today with CrossOver Plugin.
A bit of background is in order. CodeWeavers is, in their own words, " ... the
leading corporate backer of the Wine Project. Wine has been, for the past several years, an
ongoing project to port Windows applications to Linux. It's a tough goal, but
it's also one that's been undertaken by others in the past year or so. Though the progress has been
slow, the Wine project has managed to stay at the front of this development
realm.
CrossOver
Plugin marks a change in the philosophy of the Wine Project. Prior to its
release, Wine had taken a "full system" approach. Running Windows applications
in Wine required the installation of a sizeable daemon and no small amount of
configuration work. CrossOver Plugin has moved Wine away from the system-wide
approach to one that's much more modular. Rather than executing at system
startup, Wine is called as-needed, with the virtual Windows path to the called
program. When the program is closed, so is Wine. CrossOver Plugin has focused on
creating Linux functionality with one related set of Windows
applications: browser plugins.
The results stand as a clear indication that the change in philosophy is a
success. Off the top, CrossOver Plugin bundles QuickTime 5, Windows Media Player
6.2, Shockwave 8.5, Flash 6, and RealPlayer 8 into a Linux-accesible browser
plugin package. Throw in more esoteric apps like IPix, Trillian, Authorware Web
Player 6 and eFax Messenger 2, and you've got virtually every need plugin need
covered.
But this package doesn't stop there. Included in the CrossOver Plugin package
are viewers for Word, Excel and Powerpoint, as well as several
Microsoft-oriented fonts. Honestly, I was stunned at the range of applications
offered by the CodeWeavers developers.
Having had some experience with Wine, I was a bit leery about the install
process and about the ability to get all these great applications to work with
my RedHat setup. I've never been completely successful with Wine, but I hoped
for the best when I started the CrossOver Plugin installation. I really did want
these apps to work.
The installation was quite easy. By running the install-crossover.sh script from
the command line, I was able to install the installers for both CrossOver Plugin
and CrossOver Office, which we'll talk about tomorrow. I started the plugin
installs with QuickTime, a tool I've admittedly missed in Linux. In the
background, CrossOver Plugin had already created a virtual C:\ drive on my
machine. I clicked on the QuickTime install and immediately saw a familiar sight
- the Vise installer in its Windows format. CrossOver Plugin first checked for
feedback from the Windows binary, opened a virtual Windows window, then stepped
out while the Vise installer took care of the rest. Though the install failed
four times, it appeared to be a server failure rather than a failure of the
CrossOver program. I kept "retry"ing and, with some persistence, managed to get
a full QuickTime 5 install downloaded from the Apple servers. Quite literally,
the install looked and performed exactly as I've seem many times in Windows.
When the install was completed, CrossOver again checked for the Windows binary,
located the appropriate .dll files in the virtual C:\ drive and dropped the
plugins into the /home/tony/.netscape/plugins and /home/tony/.mozilla/plugins
directories.
The process was so smooth that I had to check the plugin listings in these
browsers - "Help", "About Plugins." Sure enough, the CrossOver QuickTime plugin
was listed. Quickly, I ran out to the Apple site and opened the "Men In Black
II" movie trailer. QuickTime performed flawlessly.
I followed with the Windows Media Player, Shockwave, Flash, IPix, and eFax
Messenger installs. Of those, the only ones that weren't self-contained in the
CrossOver install were IPix and eFax. Even at that, the installer pointed me to
the Windows download then found the .exe file when the download was done. Within
a half-hour, I had all installed and tested.
Then, just for grins, I installed RealPlayer 8 via CrossOver. This was despite
the recommendation in the installer screen to use the Linux version. It went as
smoothly as the others with one caveat - the player played media files at a much
faster speed than that in Windows. Fast enough to make me laugh, in fact,
reminded of Dave and Alvin the Chipmunk. Ah well, six out of seven is pretty
strong given my previous troubles with Wine.
I also installed a few fonts - Arial, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, and Veranda.
In every case, the install was quick and absolutely painless.
Wine has always held great promise. At times, it's been painful to watch the
tedious pace of development, only because that promise was so alluring. With the
backing of CodeWeavers and a fundamental change in the approach to development,
Wine has finally realized the goal of integrating Windows applications
seamlessly into the stable Linux environment. The results are so strong that, if
I didn't know better, I'd swear that a few of these plugins actually run better
in Linux than in their native Windows. Honestly, I didn't realize how much I
missed them until I started using them in Linux today.
Tomorrow holds a few surpirses, with a look at CodeWeavers' CrossOver Office
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We're nine parts into the kernel configuration series, with quite a bit yet to
go. If you haven't been following along, we're breaking out the configuration
screens one at a time in an attempt to shed some light on the purpose and
function of each. With that knowledge, you should be able to make a clear
decision as to how to configure each section.
Today, it's the Parallel Port support section. This is pretty simple. If you
need parallel port support - such as for a printer - select this option either
as a driver built into the kernel or as a loadable module.
Most will use the PC-style hardware option in conjuction with a Windows printer.
But that's not all the parallel port can be used for. As an example, the builds
I did with the telescope company required parallel port support, as the
telescope cameras were attached to this port.
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the parallel port. The computer's BIOS sets the mode for the port - ECP, EPP, or
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"I am the web master for largest health care camp in the State of Utah.
No not Cancer camp it is the Diabetic camp.
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"Please tell Chris that one of his first fans died last weekend of
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last October, but got shot down. The conference was a hit despite
being postponed by 9/11, and having to move the venue at the last
minute. I know... I was there. So, I'm starting all over again
being 'pushy' about our presence at this event in August of this
year. Chris Pirillo, whose Des Moines-based commercial email
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friend of mine. He was the 'kid' hired by TechTV to host their
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It's VERY well done, as is TechTV as a whole."
I returned from speaking to another user group the other night and
found that approximately 100 new GnomeTomes had been ordered.
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Every time some new technology has expanded free access to popular
music, starting with radio broadcasts of recorded songs in the
1930s, the recording industry has fought it - claiming that it
would cost them money. And every time, it has resulted in
increased sales. The best-known example, of course, was the
advances in tape cassette technology in the 60s and 70s, including
Dolby sound technology. As with MP3, this technology was opposed
by the music industry as different from previous such
developments, because it made it possible for ordinary people to
create their own copies at near-professional quality. The actual
result was the creation of a whole new profit center for the music
industry - pre-recorded cassette tapes - which actually became
more popular than vinyl for a while (before the advent of CD
technology).
The thing is, the music industry is well aware of this effect -
and they are not really aiming to stop the private exchange of
songs in MP3 format. If that were their goal, they'd be
instituting widespread, aggressive legal actions against all the
server-centered nodes (as they did against all radio stations
playing their music in the 30s, when they really thought the
phenomenon was going to wipe them out). Instead, they have focused
on the best-known services - first Napster, then Morpheus, KaZaA,
and most recently, Audiogalaxy. Even in those cases, they've
limited their legal challenges to things they know they can win -
and they've avoided actual court trials whenever possible (to
avoid the possibility of setting some damaging precedent).
The point that seems to escape a lot of people is that copyright
is not a property in the same sense as most of the things we think
of as property. One key difference is that if you don't defend it,
you lose it. If you left your car sitting in the driveway, with
the window open and the keys in the ignition, and somebody drove
away in it, that would still be theft - and you'd still be
entitled to get your car back. Not so with copyright. If you are
aware of infringement and you do nothing to try to stop it, you
are voluntarily allowing it to enter the public domain. It's for
the same reason that big companies insist that newspapers put a
copyright or trademark symbol after the names of their products
whenever they're mentioned, and not use words like "Coke" or
"Kleenex" as generic terms. They don't really expect everybody to
do what they say - and they're well aware that having the name of
one's product become the generic term for a product is actually a
great marketing boon. But if they DON'T do that, someone at some
point could start using the word on their own product, arguing
that it is in the public domain.
The efforts of the music industry are not aimed at actually
stopping the exchange of music between individuals - which they
know from long experience, increases their sales because most of
the people who normally buy the music aren't really satisfied with
near-perfect copies. For most of them, the learning curve and the
cost in time of creating those copies themselves outweighs the
cost of simply buying the CD. Most of the outright piracy is
committed by people who wouldn't have bought the music in the
first place. What the music industry is doing is clearly aimed at
establishing a public record of their efforts to defend copyright,
in the broadest, most public way; to prevent anyone from making a
legal claim that the stuff they own has entered the public domain.
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the change in the marketing model. Even legitimate online music
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few good songs and a bunch of others most people wouldn't pay for
if they were buying the stuff song by song. The problem is how to
make as much money on a per-song basis - and, at the moment, it
requires charging far more for an individual song that most people
are willing to pay.
At any rate, copyright is actually a fairly complex matter of
civil law, with a good deal of history behind it - dating back to
the Renaissance. The strategies music companies use are clearly
directed to realities and necessities, in light of history and
case law. They have also done a great PR job, convincing the most
technically knowledgeable people on the Internet that it is a
simple moral or criminal issue. "Common sense" tells a lot of
people that copying music without paying for it is just like
stealing someone's car, and represents a loss to the owner. But if
common sense could decide the issue equitably, we wouldn't have
the law in the first place. Most of our great intellectual
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part to overcome the errors of common sense, and that is more the
case in civil law than criminal. The people who work within those
systems are well aware of that, but they are also well aware that
most people aren't - and that it can work to their advantage. Any
time a highly paid civil attorney begins by telling you that an
issue vital to his client is actually very simple, or just a
matter of common sense, there's a very high probability that what
he means is that it's to his clients advantage if people like you
believe that. If it really WERE that simple, the client wouldn't
be paying him as much as he is.
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As if there weren't enough hypocrisy and misinformation
being spewed by marketing and sales departments. This time,
a startling revelation that Microsoft refuses
to use their own ISA Server to protect themselves from the
very things the product is meant to stop - worms and
intrusion. Nimda was turned loose within Microsoft and
they've chosen NetScreen's 500 series security appliance to
cure what ills them. I find this staggeringly hilarious, to
say the least. The move is tantamount to Intel deploying
desktops based on AMD processors!
Ok, so a hardware solution might be better than a
software defense in many cases. I suppose we can't entirely
blame Microsoft for opting to go that route. Probably a wise
decision, in fact - admit defeat and move on. However, why
is Nimda spreading within the corporate walls to the point
that they felt the needed to make such a leap in the first
place? After all, patches were released months ago, so IIS
is impervious to attack now. Still considering the
deployment of IIS as your web server platform of choice?
Things that make you go hmmmm...
See You in August,              Randy Nieland
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various bits of configuration information are stored in a
setup.iss file, including account passwords that have been
captured in order to configure the services. Prior to
certain service packs, these passwords are stored as clear
text, which is problematic because the file is left on the
hard drive after the installation process is completed.
Peruse the details of the bulletin to be sure you've cleaned
up any relevant bits and pieces applicable to your
environment.
SQL Server Cumulative Patch

A new roll-up patch is available for SQL Server that takes
care of all previous security issues, plus a trio of new
items. Two buffer overrun vulnerabilities exist that could
allow an attacker to gain control over the server, and a
different privilege elevation flaw can be exploited due to
improper permissions within the registry. All three are
spackled over by the latest cumulative patch described
further in this bulletin.
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Win2K Memory Allocation Adjustments
Unearthed by Wayne Clark

Most Windows 2000 servers tune themselves fairly well and
do not need further tweaking. In those cases, it's best to
just leave things alone unless you specifically identify a
problem somewhere. Serdar Yegulalp has an excellent
explanation of one particular situation where memory pools
can be exhausted and crash the server. Before you go diving
into the registry to play with the knobs and buttons, be
certain you know what you're messing with or you could just
make things worse. Backups, backups, backups.
GnomeALERTZ
Today's Top 5 kbAlertz
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Sorting IP Addresses Via Script

Documentation is everything. If you have a handle on your
network configuration, it's much easier to manage. IP
addresses are one bit of information that must be properly
tracked, but often it's a manual effort to enter and sort
data. Using the script techniques provided in this brief
article, you can convert an address to a 32-bit number,
perform the sort, then convert back to the standard dotted
decimal format. An Excel sample spreadsheet is also provided
to get you started.
GnomeSTUFF
Broadband Sharing Crackdown

Those of us with wireless networking equipment might be
tempted to allow the neighbors to share the wealth, but be
careful. Broadband companies are catching on and putting a
stop to the practice. What's concerning to me is that I
don't share my wireless network, but I do use quite a few
different machines at any given time. If someone is snooping
around and seeing a lot of different sessions and gets
curious, might I be subject to a teeth-kicking?
Virtual Sketching
Discovered by Diana
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I believe I still have an old Etch-A-Sketch in a box
somewhere. Maybe I should dig it back out and webify the
thing just for grins. Check out this example of novelty web
programming, assuming y'all don't kill the site. If it's
down, check back later. Using a web form, you can enter the
moves you'd like to see represented on the pad, which is
viewed through a live webcam. I'd love to see someone craft
the Lockergnome logo. Impress me...
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