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  1. Slashback: Folding, Cursing, Exporting

    News · Slashback · · posted by timothy · from the tomorrow-is-confiscation-day dept. · 161 comments
    Slashback tonight brings updates and clarifications on the odds of Apple Computer buying Universal Music, the Evil Bit RFC, and more, including Niels Provos' reasons for moving his cryptographic research tools off-shore.

    The more numerous the laws ... friscolr writes "The Register has an article about security researcher Niels Provos's (creator/collaborator for systrace, honeyd, openssh, various steg tools, and more) struggle to continue his Ph.D. studies amidst an increasingly restrictive set of U.S. and Michigan laws. This isn't the first time a prominent security researcher in Michigan has voiced serious concerns over new laws."

    You may remember several earlier stories mentioning Provos' research, such as this article on his honeynet creation tool honeyd.

    Apple Records has a certain ring, though, doesn't it? egoff writes "The Apple/Universal Music deal is unlikely, according to the New York Times (reg req), nor would it be a sure hit with investors. However, if the deal did go through, it would be because of Steve Job's vision for the future of digital music. Said one former Apple exec: 'Apple always needs to pull a rabbit out of its hat. Universal is a pretty big rabbit.'"

    Swearing in another language doesn't count. Chilliwilli writes with an update to the recent Anger As a Software Design Philosophy: "Anyone that took a look at the foul language feckfeck might be amazed to see that somebody has actually risen to one of the three challenges and written a quine in this more irritating of languages. Congratulations go to 'hoser'."

    Upping their meds. Elyjah writes "Steve Bellovin has compiled a short list of emails he got regarding his most recent RFC (3514) which appeared this last April 1st. (I believe you may have seen something on Slashdot about it.) Some people just...don't...get it."

    If you go beyond the Enterprise, doesn't that invalidate their theme song? Built enough floppy-disk Enterprises? GaryK writes "With Dell getting rid of 3.5" disk drives, I'm quite sure we'll have to come up with creative uses for the hundreds and hundreds of floppies we have around our offices. This guy should serve as an inspiration to us all.

  2. We Just Typed Make

    Linux · Linux · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the porting-is-fun-for-the-whole-family dept. · 0 comments
    Martin Vermeer writes " A discussion Phil Hughes (of Linux Journal) had with an Informix spokesman on the difficulty of porting Informix SE [from Solaris] to Linux. The answer to his question, how much work was involved, is given in the subject line :-) So much for the "problem" of multiple incompatible UNIX versions vs. "one binary runs everywhere" for Windows, of which M$ tends to make such a big number... "

  3. Interesting Aberdeen Papers

    News · News · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the stuff-to-read dept. · 0 comments
    Martin Vermeer wrote in to give us a couple of gems over at The Aberdeen Group. this link where you can read about their findings on interoperability, NT and Solaris. Second we have an older article that is still worth reading. They tell the decision makers to evaluate the software before buying based on the MS Logo.