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Technical Writing Geek writes "A new report finds that, for the first time, virus infections have slipped to the second spot on the list of computer security troublemakers. In first place— a company's own workers. 'The Computer Security Institute has just released the 2007 edition (PDF) of its long-running "Computer Crime and Security Survey," and it offers some dreary news for overworked computer security admins: average losses from attacks have surged this year. More surprising is the finding that the single biggest security threat faced by corporate networks doesn't come from virus writers any more; instead, it comes from company insiders.'"

P.J. Hinton writes "CMP columnist Fred Langa is in the process of giving Linux a test drive and is opening up his threads page to people who are willing to give installation guidance and input. This would be a good chance for Linux advocates to stop flaming Windows and start helping him to see where Linux can do wonders. "

David S. Miller sent us a self proclaiming Shameless plug- it's about what Cobalt is doing now that everyone adores their MicroServers. He says "The new product lines coming up should prove interesting for a lot of folks out there. And this story talks about what we are saying publicly about it so far. Most failed startups can't see past their first product, and we are trying to show everyone early on that this is not the case. "Cobalt: More than just a pretty blue box." 8-) "

Geoff Corey writes "CMPNET is doing a series of articles on open source. This ought to stir emotions . . . link"

Mike Hicks wrote in to say "At the beginning of February, I corresponded with one person associated with Computer Chronicles, a TV show on PBS that has been a good showcase for new technologies for probably around fifteen years.

They almost ran a show titled "UNIX & Linux," but decided not to for some reason or another. This year's schedule appears to be set, and I doubt it would be very easy to change that now. What can be done, however, is to correspond with them about what we'd like for next year."

We also have an email address and if you follow the link below, you can see the comments from compcron.

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 12:12:12 -0800
From: Elana Kehoe ekehoe@cmpnet.com
To: Michael Hicks hick0088@tc.umn.edu
Subject: Re: Linux?

Hi Michael, thanks for writing. Stewart decided not to do the show on
UNIX and Linux, unfortunately. I too wish he had...my husband just
installed it on his laptop :-). I will forward this on to him however,
in the hopes that he decides to do it next season. The schedule is set
for the rest of this season (til September).

We do appreciate you writing. It's letters like this that help us
figure out what to cover in the upcoming shows.

Elana Kehoe
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If everyone asks politely, perhaps next season we can get a show focused on Linux and Unix.