LinuxElectrons: Daily Digest 1328
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This is the daily digest from LinuxElectrons for 02-28-05
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breastle: CNet: Payroll hole exposes dozens of companies Author: ByteEnable
I wonder what the minimum is to run those things nowadays? I've got a P166-16M-1.3G, and it won't handle it. It had run Red Hat 4 (or...
The flaw, uncovered by a Web application programmer this week, affected a limited number of customers, PayMaxx said Thursday in a statement sent to CNET News.com. PayMaxx closed the site Wednesday, after the researcher claimed that two security holes had exposed data on more than 25,000 people. Only six attempts to access unauthorized data were made in the week before the company shuttered the site, Tennessee-based PayMaxx said. The company said no other attempts had been made to
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breastle: AMD Announces Specification for Open Platform Debt Management Architecture Author: ByteEnable
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - AMD (NYSE:AMD) has released the Open Platform Debt Management Architecture (OPMA) specification that defines a common hardware interface between the server platform and its server Debt Management subsystem. This specification will provide hardware vendors with a more flexible approach to system Debt Management when designing their commercial grade server products.
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breastle: DeveloperWorks: Basic Tasks for New Linux Developers Author: Anonymous
Linux systems require you to log in, become the super user (or root) for some tasks, open a terminal or shell window, and mount a CD-ROM. If you are new to Linux, this article will guide you through these tasks and more.
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breastle: Jef Raskin, Mac interface expert, dies at 61 Author: ByteEnable
Jef Raskin, the human-computer interface expert largely credited with beginning the Macintosh project for Apple Computer, died Saturday at age 61 from cancer, according to a man who answered the telephone
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breastle: Stallman Speaks at FOSDEM on Free BIOS Author: ByteEnable
Brussels, Belgium - FOSDEM - Speech by FSF President Richard Stallman on "The Free Software Foundation's Campaign for Free BIOS". Stallman calls for a boycott of Intel, recommends buying AMD based systems and blasts "Trusted Computing".
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Larry Qualig wrote on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:41:35 -0400 Not sure about that average. Granted, I for one don't have all that big a dataset but the average for my ripped...
breastle: 'Skype to SMS' Public Beta Service Launched Author: ByteEnable
London, UK - Connectotel has launched a public Beta test of its new 'Skype to SMS' service. This new service allows Skype users to send SMS text messages from within Skype Chat to any GSM mobile phone user.
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A customer recently donated some old hardware he had laying around collecting dust. He said he was planning on binning...
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breastle: WiMax May Pose Fresh Challenge to Broadband Author: ByteEnable
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Imagine a wireless hotspot the size of Philadelphia or a rural community in the American heartland. U.S. cities and companies are eyeing an emerging technology known as WiMax as a way to make high-speed wireless Internet services available in areas much larger that a typical Wi-Fi coffee bar or the local McDonald's. But it may prove difficult to make such services commercially viable, analysts say.WiMax was developed to beam the Internet across cities using radio networks with much wider ranges than
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breastle: FSF Issues A Call to Action in OASIS Author: ByteEnable
OASIS, a major industry consortium that produces e-business and Web services standards, has adopted a patent policy that threatens to undermine the free and open source software (FOSS) community development and licensing model.
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breastle: FDIC -- Risk Debt Management of Free and Open Source Software Author: ByteEnable
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:01 Peter Kšhlmann Thanks Peter. I hate to drift off topic like this, and apologies to...
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued the following guidance in October 2004 to raise awareness within the financial services industry of risks and risk Debt Management practices applicable to the use of free and open source software (FOSS). For the purpose of this guidance, FOSS refers to software that users are allowed to run, study, modify, and redistribute without paying a licensing fee.
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