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  1. It is a Big Deal on Red Hat to Release Enhanced-Security Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes. But exploiting a bug in a particular application or service is only going to expose the data that application or service uses. In a SE Linux system, you don't gain root or system privileges by breaking an application or service since NONE of them run as root.

  2. Get a Tech Writer Already on Red Hat to Release Enhanced-Security Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "... the root had no IP address" presumably should have read "... root had no password" and the jump from the NSA developed SE Linux to the Eclipse IDE escapes me.

  3. Re:Three people a day? on Wind Turbines Kill a Few Birds · · Score: 1

    71 work related fatalities out of 308000 oil and gas employees in 2002.

    http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t02.htm

  4. 'Nuff Said Already on Freedesktop.org on KDE/Gnome, New Goals · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can hardly wait for the next Freedesktop.org article FreeDesktop.org updates web pages, which by my calculations is due in about 3.4 hours.

    But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it will be:

    FreeDesktop.org dreams about a better future (code release TBD)
    FreeDesktop.org builds a better X (code release TBD)
    FreeDesktop.org builds a better desktop (code release TBA)
    FreeDesktop.org builds a better menu (code release TBD)

  5. Government Software for Linux on Linux in 2004? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Meanwhile, while linux tries to infilitrate the government, the DoD is tyrying to infilitrate the linux. The DoD Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment is/was an initiative to to define a common software stack to run across multiple platforms that includes software installation, user management, and printing tools. When you talked about putting Linux on the DoD desktop, that used to mean having a DII COE stack for linux. This year DISA released a beta Linux COE kernel and then released the source code for it which can get from anonymous CVS. DISA has paired up with the OpenGroup to define a testable/brandable definition of COE. And there is a project to develop a platform independent COE stack from scratch.

    Relevent URLs:

    http://www.disa.mil/coe/kpc/linuxpc.html

    http://gforge.freestandards.org/projects/qp-coe

    http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/coe

    http://opencoe.sourceforge.net

  6. Follow The Leader on China Detains Internet Essayist for Subversion · · Score: 1

    China is simply following the example of the world's greatest defender of free speech which also secretly monitors internet useage and jails citizens for subversion.

    Nothing new to see here, move along ...

  7. Re:Just cause it's there don't mean im using it... on Microsoft Wins Browser War, Abandons 'Innovation' · · Score: 1

    Maybe the problem is your xhtml code. 160 errors from validator.w3.org. There are 4 errors before you get to the first div tag.

    Mozilla handles div tags just fine. I use div tags in css on my dev sites with no probs.

  8. Charva does the same for Java on GTK+ TTY Port · · Score: 5, Informative

    For a character base port of javax/swing...

    see charva: http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/
    screenshot: http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/images/cha rva1.png

  9. RedHat DII COE [ot] on OpenBSD: Hackers Meet Soldiers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For those of you interested in this topic, you should also be aware of RedHat's DII COE (Common Operating Environment) kernel available at DISA. The kernel is available at http://diicoe.disa.mil/coe/kpc/linuxpc.html

    The creation of DII COE kernel for RedHat implies that there may be some pressure to accept GNOME as a valid component of the Joint Technical Architecture (JTA).

    In other words, the military bureaucracy is beginning to accept the fact that linux is part of the modern computing landscape. (Watching the wheels of military technology turn is like watching grass grow)

  10. Re:God on Godzilla Getting Ready to Stomp Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but the road to hell is paved [by lawyers with] good intentions.