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upside writes "It had to be done. Once The Spinning Cube of Potential Doom gave us a 3D visualization of a firewall, someone was bound to ask themselves 'What does your firewall sound like?'."

An anonymous reader writes "To update an earlier story about the pending battle between SSC and LinuxGazette.net, it seems SSC has taken to officially asserting a trademark on the term 'Linux Gazette' and is asking them to relinquish the domain name. Interesting to note that LinuxGazette.net has issue 97 out, while SSC doesn't."

An anonymous reader writes "To update an earlier story about the pending battle between SSC and LinuxGazette.net, it seems SSC has taken to officially asserting a trademark on the term 'Linux Gazette' and is asking them to relinquish the domain name. Interesting to note that LinuxGazette.net has issue 97 out, while SSC doesn't."

Zelligar writes "You may want to check into the brewing trademark issues between SSC/linuxgazette.com and the linuxgazette.net people - linuxgazette is a volunteer gazette, hosted by SSC for a while, and now SSC is taking it over - and threatening trademark litigation to boot! Here is one story and another on the subject."

Zelligar writes "You may want to check into the brewing trademark issues between SSC/linuxgazette.com and the linuxgazette.net people - linuxgazette is a volunteer gazette, hosted by SSC for a while, and now SSC is taking it over - and threatening trademark litigation to boot! Here is one story and another on the subject."

Radical Rad writes "There is a great article by Bruce Forsberg at Linux Gazette for anyone wanting to develop for the Zaurus platform. Using a mileage calculator as an example, he covers step by step setting up the Qtopia SDK, compiling, testing with the Zaurus emulator, and finally cross-compiling and creating the distribution package. He covers all the bases including compile-time environment variables and the control file for the ipkg."

Radical Rad writes "There is a great article by Bruce Forsberg at Linux Gazette for anyone wanting to develop for the Zaurus platform. Using a mileage calculator as an example, he covers step by step setting up the Qtopia SDK, compiling, testing with the Zaurus emulator, and finally cross-compiling and creating the distribution package. He covers all the bases including compile-time environment variables and the control file for the ipkg."

RiverWolf asks: "As a Systems Administrator (a.k.a. 'paranoid security freak') I spend much of my time tightening down systems, loading patches, and just generally making sure no one does what they're not supposed too. While tools like ssh have become a staple for file transfer and terminal sessions, I recently began looking at all the little print servers we have throughout my offices and wondered "hmm, can those things be sniffed?". Until now, my focus for printing has always been 'just get it working', but if someone can sniff the print jobs (like payroll and other confidential information) as they go across the network, then it doesn't matter how locked down eveything else is. Is there a standard for secure (encrypted transmission) network printing, or does anyone know of a way to do this? I found this document that deals with it in a round about fashion, but with dozens of printers spread throughout multiple locations, I don't see it as an option."

PSwiss writes: "I recently wrote an article for Linux Gazette on how to make an X Terminal from an old PC (486s work great). It's a neat application of Linux and would make a good project for some weekend." This is a nice step-by-step guide ... we posted a similar project not too long ago, about diskless linux kiosks.

PSwiss writes: "I recently wrote an article for Linux Gazette on how to make an X Terminal from an old PC (486s work great). It's a neat application of Linux and would make a good project for some weekend." This is a nice step-by-step guide ... we posted a similar project not too long ago, about diskless linux kiosks.

Christopher Leung writes "1999 February issue of Linux Gazette has been pubished. " Articles include a timely one on Linux Certification, an Ode to RMS, Linux Installation and ispell.

Josh Baugher wrote in to tell us that the January 1999 Issue of the Linux Gazette is now out. Articles on Samba, booting Linux with the NT Boot Loader, printing and more.

Jim Dennis (The Answer Guy from the Linux Gazette) has written an editorial at Linux Today suggesting that GNUStep and GNOME work together. Has anyone noticed we are getting three environments: KDE, GNOME and GNUStep, each based on a particular variant of C (C++, C, Objective C)? Since GNUStep and GNOME are GPL'd, collaboration between them would be simple on the Licensing front. update Here's some reaction from the unofficial GNUStep guys.

Judah writes "The December issue of the Linux Gazette is out." There's an intro to Emacs, as well as an intro to RAID if you're interested. Plus Miguel on GNOME and a review of the Happy Hacking keyboard.

mrproper sent us a link to a User Friendly noting that a strip this week featured those Penguin Caffeinated Peppermints that nearly killed me at ALS. Judah wrote in to say that the November issue of the LinuxGazette is now online. Ignacio wrote in to note that the XFree86 3.3.3 will be out this month, and the XF86_SVGA server will support the Matrox Gx00 video cards. Sixl6 wrote in to send us a link to an entertaining catalog oof christmas presents for, well, crazy people. I'm disturbed that this exists. Pleased, but disturbed. Tim Doran wrote in and sent us a link to a moderately humorous usenet post that takes a humorous pot shot at MS with a linux joke. Dave Whitinger wrote in (along with everyone else on earth) to note that Slink has now frozen really for sure definitely (note:I spelled it right!) this time. Debian 2.1 should be ready soon. Lastly, I'm just gonna throw a link out to Taco Hell, where I've posted a bunch of pictures of the old Geek House, as well as goofy pictures of my room mates (including myself and Hemos).

Josh Baugher sent us a link to a Linux Gazette article called The Proper Image for Linux. And he says "Here is a great article. The author took a survey of all of the current kernel contributers. Asked them about their education, experience, current use, motivations and quality. Very interesting read. " Hopefully this will do much dispell the immature hacker myth that seems to be floating around out there.

Sean McPherson wrote in to say that issue #32 of the Linux Gazette is now out. Several folks wrote in to say that the very geeky/very funny User Friendly comic strip has moved. New domain. New design. And it's funny too. I had a submission about a web site that featured the destruction of Beanie Babies, but whoever sent it in forgot the URL. Someone should definately post it in the comments if they know it. I'm all for destruction of beanie babies. Finally, you should go to this page and click on product information. It's just something funny for those of us who've read far to much badly translated tech stuff. This one takes the cake. sunDevil for sending it in. Apparently I get 72 magic powers if I buy their mobo? I can't tell. Last hit the link below to read a batch of misc. notes from todays Slashdot code changes. Most of the major bugs are squashed at this point. Here's a sorta non-comprehensive list of what got done today. I'm sure I forgot a bunch of stuff, but this covers most of them that people will notice. Done

1. Comment Submission code got a serious overhaul. Your user account now determines if you are in plaintext or html mode. Plus you can edit and submit on the preview page. now preview is actually useful.
2. Fixed the bug that caused names to disappear from flat mode.
3. Your user preferences now are used to determine pollBooth comment display mode (flat vs. threaded). Thank god that one is done.
4. Stories now go into YY/MM/DD/ subdirectories. The original articles directory has thousands of files in it, I figured I'd stop that before it got any more dangerous.
5. You can change your password now in user accounts. It's not the most secure method (I just added a password & confirm box to the form) but it'll work. And now people can have passwords that you can remember instead of my uber wacky random ones.
6. I added 'pending' stories. It's not a big deal, it just lets us submit stories, but not have them display. We really don't need it on a site like Slashdot, but other sites using the code will really benefit. I'm working on a site that needed it anyway.
7. If you change your 'Real Email' address in your user account, it will email a notification message to the old email address.
8. Nate wrote some nifty functions for time handling so hopefully all of our cookie woes are now completely gone. I still haven't tested IE, but Lynx & NS seem cool to me.
9. Various other random back end features that won't really affect users, but will make my life a lot easier.
10. Added NOTIFY=NEVER to email messages so the bouncy bouncy mail doesn't end up in slashdot@slashdot.org's mailbox.

Todo

1. I'm probably going to hafta figure out an automatic way to stop the First Post Syndrome. It's really getting annoying. FPS posts are off topic people! Please don't bother people with them. Currently the best ideas for stopping them include randomizing the order of the first 5 top level comments or else writing some wacky regex's to filter 'em out.
2. A headline mailer. It'll be integrated with user accounts. Add a checkbox to have Slashdot Headlines mailed at midnight. I'll get that sooner or later.
3. Comment posting sig files? Maybe an 80 char limit. Something small.
4. Bite the bullet and make Slashdot fully GMT instead of this eastern stuff.
5. Several major chunks of the backend code need an overhaul.
6. I was considering allowing a user account option to have replies to your posts emailed to you. Not sure about that one though. Would people really want that? Conversations might go to email instead of getting posted here. Often that would be a wonderful thing, but probably just as often, it makes more sense for the conversation flow to continue online. Anyway, thats a bit off yet.

Well thats about it for now. 8:30 class tomorrow so no beer tonight. Well, maybe some beer. Oooh, and whiskey.

python writes " A new article, Open Source's First Six Months, is in Linux Gazette, written by Eric Raymond. "
Read it, boys and girls, ESR (as we know) is one smart cookie, and his anthro-history writings of OpenSource are going to be very interesting documents to examine later.