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  1. A little explanation (No such thing as just EAL4) on Windows 2000 Gets Common Criteria Certification · · Score: 1
    A nice introduction to the CC

    "The CC defines the Protection Profile (PP) construct which allows prospective consumers or developers to create standardised sets of security requirements which will meet their needs."

    "The Target of Evalution (TOE) is that part of the product or system which is subject to evalution. The TOE security threats, objectives, requirements and summary specification of security focuntions and assurance measyers together form the primary inputs to the Security Targets (ST), which is used by the evalutators as basis for evaluation"

    "Evaluation
    The principal inputs to evalutation are the Security Target, the set of evidence about the TOE and the TOE itself. The expected result of the evalution proecess is a conformation that the ST is satisfied for the TOE, with one or more reports documenting the evalution findings"

    In short the Protection Profile defines the implementation independent set of security requirements and objectives. I think the PP used for Win2000 is "Controlled Access Protection Profile (Version 1.d)", downloadable here

    "The TOE (Target of Evaluation) is the product under evaluation (Win2000+VPN?+?) and the ST (security target) contains the security objectives and requirments of a specific identified TOE and defines the functional and assurance measures offered by that TOE to meet stated requirements. The ST may claim conformance to one or more PPs and forms the basis for an evalution."

    The assurance level (EALx) is the measure of "how much" assurance there exists that a TOE meets its security claims. EAL1 ("bad") ... EAL7 ("good"), see above reference.

    So the real interesting parts are the Security Target and the Evaluation-report. (Then you know what you're talking about).

    (Yes, my native tongue is not English)

  2. Contents of the archive on BeOS 5.0 Available for Free - But Not Yet · · Score: 2
    $tar zvtf BeOS4Linux.tar.gz
    -rw-rw-rw- builder/users 538 2000-03-27 22:55:36 readme
    -r--r--r-- builder/users 1474560 2000-03-29 02:23:56 floppy.img
    -rw-rw-rw- builder/users 524288000 2000-03-28 11:17:18 image.be

    Especialy the date on floppy.img is nice. BeOS the OS of the near feature.

  3. readme from Beos4Linux.tar.gz on BeOS 5.0 Available for Free - But Not Yet · · Score: 2
    BeOS Personal Edition for Linux

    To boot the image.be Personal Edition partition image, place it at in a directory called 'beos' at any root point on a ext2 partition. ex, /beos/image.be, or if you have /home on a seperate partition, it could be placed at /home/beos/image.be

    Then create a boot floppy from floppy.img, and reboot! (try dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync; sync )

    This configuration is provided for your enjoyment, and is NOT supported by Be, Inc. Please don't ask us for help and support on making this work

  4. Source code on Corel Launches Corel Linux, with WebCast · · Score: 1

    According to the web-pages at linux.corel.com the source code is available at ftp-link. Has anyone seen that directory and does it contain the full-source? (Can't check myself, because the servers are swamped).

  5. Not just 802.11 on No AirPort for the French? · · Score: 2
    Bluetooth is also operating in the 2.4 GHz band, so the french will not be able to use that either. Or maybe they will because the "use-range" of bluetooth is so short. There are two version of bluetooth (I think), one with a range of about 7 metres and one with a range of aprox. 100 metres. Most consumer devices probably will be using the short-range version.

    Also the 100 Mbit/s wireless standard (don't know if this is also 802.11) will be operating at 5 Ghz, so maybe the french will be able to use that.

  6. More screenshots && corel info on Corel Linux Preview · · Score: 1

    Corel has a page about its distribution at: http://linux.corel.com/linuxp roducts_distribution.htm

  7. Ummm, not on my system on Customizable Parallel Port MP3 Decoder · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Don't know if you're running linux, but if you are you should put your mp3 player in realtime mode (quite easy). I believe for example mpg123 can do this for you automaticly (using the right compile options). It uses about 50% of the processing power, so you have (like me) a P30 left.