SCO claims that SuSE isn't immune from prosecution on copyright violations. SuSE claims their existing license agreements with SCO make them immune. However, SCO has yet to make any moves against the German manufacturer of Linux variants. An article from CNET provides some further detail and quotes from both sides …

A letter was sent to members of SCO's developer community indicating that they were suspending immediately their Linux efforts and were likely to go after the end users for copyright infringement. The letter asserts (without any proof other than citing some people who had access to the original AT …

A bug that affects users of Apple's Safari browser has been discovered. The bug results in sophisticated sites being able to masquerade as other sites even when SSL is being used. Although the bug is considered moderately severe, and should be fixed immediately, it is unclear that the risk …

CNet reports that analysts believe that the transition to Windows 2003 server from NT and 2000 may take quite a while. The Gartner Group, an IT research firm, projects that around 60-70% of all Windows servers are still running Windows NT, the predecessor of Windows 2000, the progenitor of the …

I'm a little concerned that the Gartner Group wasn't playing fair when they wrote this, but giving them the benefit of the doubt, here1 is their report republished by ZDNet. All the usual, variety is the enemy of efficiency (now, show me one single Windows house that has the …

An article on SlashDot indicates that Microsoft is the new home for a free, downloadable version of The Unix Hater's Handbook. The manuscript is nearly 10 years old, out of print and the author appears to be working for Microsoft...

Here is a good article on MacDevCenter about making virtual hosts using Rendezvous technology and the built-in Apache web server.

According to an article from CNet, graphics chip manufacturer nVidia has released a new utility that is able to update drivers quickly and with less hassle on Linux machines.

According to a release on the MySQL web site, version 4.0 is now deemed production quality. This version has been in test for a long time, but there are still many who will wait for the .1.

Terrasoft Solutions has released an announcement that Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) version 3.0 has been released. Terrasoft has been providing YDL for a while and also sells Apple computers with Linux pre-installed and the Briq computer which is a G3 or G4 in a "shoebox".

"Actually, sir. There's a server in your fly," says the waiter. Somebody with clearly too much time on their hands has decided it would be a good time to take advantage of the existence of web server-capable chips smaller than the size of a standard housefly. To that end, he …

So far, so good, for the new Department of Homeland Security (despite the fact that I, personally, still hate the name). According to an article1 on CNet, they have been credited with doing a good job responding to the recent Sendmail vulnerability, including detection and coordination with private organizations …

Apple Computer has released the March 2003 security update for MacOS X. As usual, it fixes a number of security issues, including the recently discussed SSL man-in-the-middle and the Sendmail bug discussed by the new Homeland Security department.

Leave it to Sony to come up with a Portable Wireless Web Server to drag your web site around with you. The info here is in Japanese, but you'll get the idea from the pictures. If somebody wants to read the Kanji and post a translation, I'll be happy to …

Apple has released v0.2 of X11 for MacOS X 10.21. If you're using the previous version, the download page has a list of improvements. x11 is no longer available for download. ↩

A number of sites have pointers to this internal memo1 allegedly from Sun Microsystems and posted on InternalMemos.com2. The gist of the memo is that more resources need to be committed within Sun to make sure that the development efforts necessary are spent on Java and that …

A message on the Linux Kernel mailing list accuses Castle Technology Ltd, UK of incorporating portions of the Linux Kernel into their product RiscOS. Now the Linux Kernel folks are going to have to decide if they want to sue or take some other legal action.

Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the C programming language and co-creator of UNIX, gives his opinions on a variety of issues in this interview from Unix.SE. He comments on things like GNU, the BSD variants and Linux, and tells what kind of things he's up to.

Researchers at AT&T Research Labs have published a paper (PDF) about counting hosts behind NAT devices. The short version is that they take advantage of the poor use of monotonically increasing packet ID numbers in IP packets sent by different hosts to track the number of hosts that are …

In the ever-growing world of open source projects that are just wrong... comes iPod Linux, a microLinux port to the iPod. Apparently, they now have it booting and playing sound...