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<FONT COLOR="green">Jon Johansen Indicted by Norwegian Authorities
Regarding DeCSS
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Unhappy news this month, as it emerged that Jon Johansen has been 
<a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/news/306">
indicted</a>
by Norwegian authorities for his part in creating and distributing the
DeCSS code.  This comes two years after he and his father were 
<a href="http://www.2600.com/news/display.shtml?id=343">
first</a> taken from their home in connection with the same software.
The initial report is available
<a href="http://www.nettavisen.no/servlets/page?section=9&item=194062">
in Norwegian</a>, and a 
<a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=25975&cid=2816391">
translation</a> was posted in the Slashdot
<a href="http://slashdot.org/yro/02/01/10/1433237.shtml">
discussion</a> of the story. 
<p>
It appears that the case against Jon is unusual in that he is being charged
under laws which are generally applied in cases involving breaking into
computers and theft of electronic records or company files.  Pressure from
the MPAA and the US entertainment industry appears to have encouraged the
Norwegian authorities to try this experimental attempt to secure a
conviction.
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.eff.org">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>
have extensive resources on 
<a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/DeCSS_prosecutions/Johansen_DeCSS_case/">
this case</a>.
Particularly interesting are
<a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DVDCCA_case/20000118_bing_norway_law_decl.html">
some legal arguments</a>
as to why no offence has been committed
under Norwegian law
and
<a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20000720_ny_trial_transcript.html">
transcripts</a>
including Jon Johansen's testimony at the 2600 Magazine trial in New
York under the DMCA (July 20, 2000).
<p>
A
<a href="https://www.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/free-jon">
mailing list</a>
has also been set up to discuss issues concerning the case, including how
to support Jon and how to protest against the indictment.

<p>
The sorry truth is that cases like this are likely to become more common in
the future.  Governments internationally are harmonising their intellectual
property laws through measures such as
<a href="http://www.ifpi.org/site-content/press/20011206.html">
the WIPO copyright treaty</a>
which will come into force in March (having recently secured its 30th
signatory).  The result will be that all countries might eventually enact
legislation akin to the DMCA to protect the media multinationals'
intellectual property and access-control technologies.  Countries
attempting to resist this trend will not be well received.  Slashdot 
<a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/03/1621205.shtml">
reported recently</a>
that Ukraine is subject to US trade sanctions for not using an "optical
media licensing regime" for blank CDs and CD recorders.  The best
way to resist at an individual level is to make your voice heard and start
lobbying and writing letters.  Your local LUG could form a focus for this
activity.



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<FONT COLOR="green">Support From Washington
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<a href="http://www.house.gov/boucher/">
Congressman Rick Boucher</a>
has been receiving a lot of press lately for the
position he has taken with regard to issues such as digital rights
management and the DMCA.
<a href="http://www.dotcomscoop.com/">
Dotcom Scoop</a>
recently
<a href="http://www.dotcomscoop.com/article.php?sid=81">
reported</a>
that Congressman Boucher has 
<a href="http://www.dotcomscoop.com/article.php?sid=80">
written</a>
to the RIAA expressing his
concern at the introduction of copy-protected compact discs.  He feels that
such developments "...may prevent or inhibit consumer home recording using
recorders and media covered by the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992". A
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23587.html">
report</a>
on the same story in The Register, however, indicated that the copy
protection measures probably are legal.  It seems that though the record
label cannot sue you for making a legitimate personal copy of your new CD,
they are not obliged to make it easy for you!
ZDNet has
<a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-802646.html?legacy=zdnn&chkpt=zdnnp1tp02">
reported</a> [<a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>]
that Boucher is planning to introduce a bill that would eliminate the
"anti-circumvention" clause of the DMCA.  It is certainly encouraging to
see an elected representative taking an overtly pro-consumer line on these
issues.
<p>
Another elected representative who seems to understand a thing or two is
Rep. Darrell Issa, a member of the US House of Representatives' Judiciary
Committee.  
<a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5714">
Speaking</a>
to <EM>Linux Journal's</EM> Don Marti, he indicated that the SSSCA was "dead on arrival".
Though this is encouraging,  it might be foolish to get too relaxed until
the grave is actually occupied.  Don comments that Issa also seemed
well informed on other issues in this area (DMCA, etc.,).
<p>
Perhaps when campaigning on issues of concern, it would be wise to be alert
to good as well as bad news.  Elected representatives careers are
based on achieving public support and they can be very sensitive to public
opinion.  It could not hurt to mail guys like Boucher and Issa to tell
them if you like what they are doing.

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<FONT COLOR="green">UCITA
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<P>
LWN reported that
<a href="http://lwn.net/2002/0103/">
UCITA is back again</a>.
The main issue for the free software community would be that the UCITA, if
it came into US law in its current form, would prohibit the distribution of
software to consumers without warranty.  This would mean that by
distributing a free software utility, you could be held responsible by
consumers for any flaws in the product (even though you have disclaimed all
warranties, etc.,).  This story was also
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23675.html">reported</a>
by TheRegister, who linked to
<a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/UCITA_UCC2B/20000131_fight_ucita_stallman_paper.html">
this article</a>
by Richard Stallman on "Why We Must Fight UCITA".


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<FONT COLOR="green">Legislative Links
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<P>
Indianapolis' 
<a href="http://www.starnews.com/article.php?legalfees04.html,news">
attempt</A>
to keep minors from playing violent video games in public arcades was ruled
unconstitutional, at a cost of $318,000 to taxpayers.
<P> 
NY Times
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/28/technology/28CYBERLAW.html">
review</A>
of the year in tech law, which makes a nice lead in to their
<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/technology/11CYBERLAW.html">
preview</A>
of what might be to come.  Both articles feature the input of various
experts from the field, and both require registration.
<P>
<A href="http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-net-mg.htm">
Essay</A> on cryptome.org
by Mike Godwin on digital rights management and the battle 
between computer companies and entertainment companies. (Courtesy
Crypto-Gram)



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<p>

Jun Jungho mailed to announce a LG Korean translation site at
<a href="http://www.whiterabbitpress.com/lg/">
http://www.whiterabbitpress.com/lg/</a>.
He and fellow volunteers have tested this site for
5 months, and would now like to inform others. "I wish
that this site gives more fun & infomation to Korean Linuxers."

<P>

<a href="http://www.wps.com/texts/codes/">
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information <EM>Infiltration</EM></a>
by Tom Jennings. A very interesting, and in-depth
article. Covers history of ASCII, and its various developments over
almost half a century.

<P>

Courtesy 
<a href="http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html">
crypto-gram</a> is a link to a
<a href="http://www.nipc.gov/cybernotes/2001/cyberissue2001-26.pdf">
review</a> [pdf]
of the year in vulnerabilities.  This contains a list  of all the operating
systems and applications with vulnerabilities.

<P>

Newsforge has a
<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/15/1939255&mode=nocomment">
story</a>
on one person's experiences with 
<a href="http://www.gentoo.org">
Gentoo Linux</a>
, a distribution that requires
the user to start the installation by compiling new compilers.
In a similar vein, DistroWatch have a
<a href="http://www.distrowatch.com/review-sorcerer.php">
review</a>
of Sorcerer GNU Linux, which again compiles much of the system from source
during install.


<P>

ZDnet
<a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102466,00.html">
asks</a>
`is Linux ready for the desktop?'
While
<a href="http://www.cio.com/">
Cio.com</a>
tell us
<a href="http://www.cio.com/archive/010102/shop_content.html">
how to run</a>
a Microsoft-free shop.

<P>

<EM>Linux Journal</EM> have
<a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com//article.php?sid=5672">
looked back</a>
over the problems exposed in SSH during the past year, and the solutions
which have resulted.

<P>

Some links and stories that appeared on
<a href="http://www.slashdot.org/">SlashDot</a>
over the past month:
<ul>
<li>
    Kerneltrap
    <a href="http://kerneltrap.com/article.php?sid=490">
    interview</a>
    with Alan Cox about the kernel, DMCA and more.
    Linux Today reported Alan's recent release of
    <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-14-001-20-NW-KN">
    2.4.18PRE3-AC1</a>
    and
    <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-14-009-20-PS">
    2.4.18PRE3-AC2</a> (due to popular demand!).
</li>
<li>
    <a href="http://linux.html.it/articoli/rik_van_riel_en1.htm">
    Interview</a>
    with Rick van Riel, kernel developer.
    Talks about virtual memory controversies (among other things).
</li>
<li>
    <a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/15/1245209.shtml">
    Kernel 2.5.2</a>
</li>
<li>
    The Linux Cookbook
    <a href="http://slashdot.org/books/02/01/02/0458242.shtml">
    book review</a>.
</li>
<li>
    <a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/18/1457208.shtml">
    Story</a>
    about flashing a mini Linux OS onto 802.11b firmware with
    <a href="http://opensource.instant802.com/screenshots.php">
    screenshots</a>.
</li>
</ul>


<P>

<a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com/">Linux Today</a> have featured the
following links which you may be interested to follow:
<ul>
<li>
LinuxSecurity.com
<a href="http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/cryptography_article-4229.html">
article</a> on a vulnerability in the Linux encrypted loop device.
</li>
<li>
Also from LinuxSecurity.com is an
<a href="http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/intrusion_detection_article-4240.html">
article</a>
on using statistical tools with the
<a href="http://www.snort.org/">Snort</a> IDS.
</li>
<li>
Caliban.org
<a href="http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml">
article</a>
on getting more from Bash.
</li>
<li>
Bram Moolenaar writes about
<a href="http://www.rons.net.cn/english/FSM/vim">
Vim, an open-source text editor</a>, dealing both with technical issues and
the background to his selection of the Charityware licence.
</li>
<li>
LinuxLookup have
<a href="http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/reviews/software/vmware-3.0.html">
reviewed</a> VMWare 3.0 Workstation for Linux.
</li>
<li>
The BBC is
<a href="http://support.bbc.co.uk/ogg/">
trialing</a>
Ogg Vorbis streams for online listeners.
</li>
<li>
The Guardian
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,629939,00.html">
reports</a>
on free software's fortunes during the downturn.
</li>
</ul>

<P>

TheRegister's Thomas Greene
reported on getting
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23735.html">
superior benchmarks</a> for Quake-3 FPS on Linux as opposed to Windows.
Hardly a scientific test, but nice to see none the less.

<p>

From the
<a href="http://oreillynet.com">
O'Reilly</a> stable of websites, the following may interest you:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/01/10/xp.html">
An article</a> covering some of the issues in integrating WinXP into your
existing heterogeneous network.
</li>
<li>
An
<a href="http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/01/03/cvs_intro.html">
introduction</a>
to CVS.
</li>
<li>
Automating Network Administration, 
<a href="http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/12/20/sysadmin.html">
Part One</a>
and
<a href="http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/01/04/sysadmin.html">
Part Two</a>.
</li>
<li>
A discussion on the
<a href="http://oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/01/12/openinf.html">
question</a>
of whether
publicly funded research should result in open source code? Related to this
issue is a recent Salon
<a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/04/university_open_source/index.html">
article</a> on intellectual property and universities.  The current head of
the Berkeley department responsible for intellectual property reckons they
should have licensed the TCP/IP stack and collected royalties all the way
to the bank.
</li>
</ul>

<P>

Scientific American
<a href="http://www.sciam.com/2002/0202issue/0202patents.html">
article</a>
on really
<a href="http://www.bustpatents.com/">
bad patents</a>.
If you find those interesting, you might like to look at IBM's new 
<a href="http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US06329919__">
patent</a>
for a toilet reservation system 
<a href="http://www.aful.org/pipermail/patents/2002-January/002581.html">
highlighted</a>
by Hartmut Pilch on the 
<a href="http://www.aful.org/pipermail/patents/">
patents mailing list</a>
at
<a href="http://www.aful.org/">
aful.org</a>.

<P>

<a href="http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/faqs/responding.faq">
What to do</a>
after a computer break-in.

<P>

Some 
<a href="http://lwn.net/">
Linux Weekly News</a> highlights:
<ul>
<li>
    LWN has
    <a href="http://lwn.net/2002/0117/">
    analysed</a>
    the controversy surrounding Eric S Raymond's kernel auto-configuration
    software. Eric has been defending the project using stories detailing
    the plight of 
<a href="http://lwn.net/2002/0117/a/aunt-tillie.php3">
    Aunt Tillie</a>
    as she tries to reconfigure her kernel. LWN has further amusing links.
</li>
<li>
    Final version of 
    <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/features/Timeline/">
    LWN 2001 timetable</a>
</li>
<li>
    Taking a 
    <a href="http://lwn.net/2002/0103/kernel.php3">
    look at</a>
    the phenomenon of people setting up multiple alternative kernel trees,
    as a demonstration and staging area for their patches.  Could other
    projects benefit from this approach?
</li>
<li>
LWN's Jonathan Corbet 
<a href="http://lwn.net/2002/0110/kernel.php3">
comments</a>
on the processes at work behind `large' Linux kernel changes, and how these
processes differ from practice in proprietary software development.
</li>
</ul>


The Washington Post have an interesting article by Lawrence Lessig entitled 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11361-2002Jan7.html">
"Who's Holding Back Broadband"</a>.
It appears issues of control loom large in this area, with media companies
loath to take any move which might loosen their grip on the "content
industry".  Embracing broadband would be just such a move.

<P>

Two 
<a href="http://www.ibm.com">
IBM</a>
whitepapers
(<a href="http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/whitepapers/security/les_summary.pdf?open&t=grl,l=927,p=LXS">here</a>
and
<a href="http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/whitepapers/security/les_whitepaper.pdf?open&t=grl,l=927,p=SR4D">here</a>)
on security issues relating to "Linux in Enterprise Systems" (and we are
not talking about Klingons off the starboard bow). Both pdf's, and quite
large.  IBM appears to be strengthening their support for Linux. Slashdot
<a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/25/1254250.shtml">reported</a>
that IBM's new $400,000 Z-series mainframe will not be sold with z/OS, but
rather with Linux.



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<P> Listings courtesy <EM>Linux Journal</EM>.  See <EM>LJ</EM>'s
<A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/events.php">Events</A> page for the
latest goings-on.

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        <b>LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (IDG)</b><BR>	
        <td valign=top>January 30 - February 1, 2002<BR>New York, NY<BR>	
        <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/" target="_blank">
	http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/</A><BR>
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        <b>The Tenth Annual Python Conference ("Python10")</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>February 4-7, 2002<BR>Alexandria, Virginia<BR>
        <a href="http://www.python10.org/" target="_blank">
        http://www.python10.com/</A><BR>
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        <b>Australian Linux Conference</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>February 6-9, 2002<BR>Brisbane, Australia<BR>
        <a href="http://www.linux.org.au/conf/" target="_blank">
	http://www.linux.org.au/conf/</A><BR>
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        <b>Internet Appliance Workshop</b><BR>
	<td valign=top>February 19-21, 2002<BR>San Jose, CA<BR>		
        <a href="http://www.netapplianceconf.com/" target="_blank">
	http://www.netapplianceconf.com/</A><BR>
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        <b>Internet World Wireless East (Penton)</b><BR>
	<td valign=top>February 20-22, 2002<BR>New York, NY<BR>				<a href="http://www.internetworld.com/events/weast2002/" target="_blank">
	http://www.internetworld.com/events/weast2002/</A><BR>
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        <b>Intel Developer Forum (Key3Media)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>February 25-28, 2002<BR>San Francisco, CA<BR>
	<a href="http://www.intel94.com/idf/index2.asp" target="_blank">
	http://www.intel94.com/idf/index2.asp</A><BR>
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        <b>COMDEX (Key3Media)</b><BR>
	<td valign=top>March 5-7, 2002<BR>Chicago, IL<BR>
        <a href="http://www.key3media.com/comdex/chicago2002/" target="_blank">
	http://www.key3media.com/comdex/chicago2002/</A><BR>

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        <b>BioIT World Conference & Expo (IDG)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>March 12-14, 2002<BR>Boston, MA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.bioitworld.com/" target="_blank">
	http://www.bioitworld.com/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>Embedded Systems Conference (CMP)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>March 12-16, 2002<BR>San Francisco, CA<BR>	
        <a href="http://www.esconline.com/sf/" target="_blank">
	http://www.esconline.com/sf/</A><BR>

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        <b>CeBIT (Hannover Fairs)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>March 14-22, 2002<BR>Hannover, Germany<BR>
        <a href="http://www.cebit.de/" target="_blank">
        http://www.cebit.de/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>COMDEX (Key3Media)</b><BR>	
        <td valign=top>March 19-21, 2002<BR>Vancouver, BC<BR>		
        <a href="http://www.key3media.com/comdex/vancouver2002/" target="_blank">
	http://www.key3media.com/comdex/vancouver2002/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>FOSE</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>March 19-21, 2002<BR>Washington, DC<BR>
        <a href="http://www.fose.com/" target="_blank">
        http://www.fose.com/</A><BR>	

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        <b>Game Developers Conference (CMP)</b><BR>	
        <td valign=top>March 19-23, 2002<BR>San Jose, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/" target="_blank">
	http://www.gdconf.com/</A><BR>

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        <b>LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Singapore (IDG)</b><BR>	
        <td valign=top>March 20-22, 2002<BR>Singapore<BR>					
        <a href="http://www.idgexpoasia.com/" target="_blank">
	http://www.idgexpoasia.com/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>Software Solutions / eBusiness World</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>March 26-27, 2002<BR>Toronto, Canada<BR>
        <a href="http://www.softmatch.com/soln20.htm#ssebw" target="_blank">
	http://www.softmatch.com/soln20.htm#ssebw</A><BR>

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        <b>SANS 2002 (SANS Institute)</b><BR>	
        <td valign=top>April 7-9, 2002<BR>Orlando, FL<BR>
        <a href="http://www.sans.org/newlook/home.htm" target="_blank">
	http://www.sans.org/newlook/home.htm</A><BR>

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        <b>LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Malaysia (IDG)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>April 9-11, 2002<BR>Malaysia<BR>
        <A HREF="http://www.idgexpoasia.com/" TARGET="_blank">
	http://www.idgexpoasia.com/</A><BR>

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        <b>LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Dublin (IDG)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>April 9-11, 2002<BR>Dublin, Ireland<BR>
        <BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>Internet World Spring (Penton)</b><BR>	
        <td valign=top>April 22-24, 2002<BR>Los Angeles, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.internetworld.com/events/spring2002/" target="_blank">
	http://www.internetworld.com/events/spring2002/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (O'Reilly)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>April 22-25, 2002<BR>Santa Clara, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etcon2002/" target="_blank">
	http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etcon2002/</A><BR>

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        <b>Software Development Conference & Expo, West (CMP)</b><BR>	
        <td valign=top>April 22-26, 2002<BR>San Jose, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.sdexpo.com/" target="_blank">
	http://www.sdexpo.com/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>Networld + Interop (Key3Media)</b><BR>	
        <td valign=top>May 7-9, 2002<BR>Las Vegas, NV<BR>
        <a href="http://www.key3media.com/" target="_blank">
	http://www.key3media.com/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>Strictly e-Business Solutions Expo (Cygnus Expositions)</b><BR>	
        <td valign=top>May 8-9, 2002<BR>Minneapolis, MN<BR>
        <a href="http://www.strictlyebusiness.net/strictlyebusiness/index.po?" target="_blank">
	http://www.strictlyebusiness.net/strictlyebusiness/index.po?</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>Embedded Systems Conference (CMP)</b><BR>	
        <td valign=top>June 3-6, 2002<BR>Chicago, IL<BR>
        <a href="http://www.esconline.com/chicago/" target=_"blank">
	http://www.esconline.com/chicago/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>USENIX Annual (USENIX)</b><BR>	
        <td valign=top>June 9-14, 2002<BR>Monterey, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/" target="_blank">
	http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>PC Expo (CMP)</b><BR>	
        <td valign=top>June 25-27, 2002<BR>New York, NY<BR>
        <a href="http://www.techxny.com/" target="_blank">
	http://www.techxny.com/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>O'Reilly Open Source Convention (O'Reilly)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>July 22-26, 2002<BR>San Diego, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/" target="_blank">
        http://conferences.oreilly.com/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>USENIX Securty Symposium (USENIX)</b><BR>	
        <td valign=top>August 5-9, 2002<BR>San Francisco, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/" target="_blank">
	http://www.usenix.org/events/sec02/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (IDG)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>August 12-15, 2002<BR>San Francisco, CA<BR>
	<a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com" target="_blank">
	http://www.linuxworldexpo.com</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Australia (IDG)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>August 14 - 16, 2002<BR>Australia<BR>
        <a href="http://www.idgexpoasia.com/" target="_blank">
	http://www.idgexpoasia.com/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>Communications Design Conference (CMP)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>September 23-26, 2002<BR>San Jose, California<BR>
        <a href="http://www.commdesignconference.com/" target="_blank">
	http://www.commdesignconference.com/</A><BR>

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        <b>Software Development Conference & Expo, East (CMP)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>November 18-22, 2002<BR>Boston, MA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.sdexpo.com/" target="_blank">
        http://www.sdexpo.com/</A><BR>
	
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<FONT COLOR="green">Euro Support
</FONT>
</H3> 

As many of you have surely noticed, the euro became a real paper and coins
currency on the first of January 2002.  Being able to type the euro symbol
is now something which will be necessary for very many computer users.
<a href="http://www.debian.org/">
The Debian Project</a> 
have released the
<a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-euro-support/">
Debian Euro HOWTO</a>
by Javier Fernndez-Sanguino Pea which details how to enable support for
the symbol in your Linux system.  Much of the advice will be of use to
users of distributions other than Debian.
<p>
Long-term, the best solution may be a move towards Unicode. This is
particularly the case when interoperability with Windows systems is
required.

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<FONT COLOR="green">Athlon/Duron and Linux Bug
</FONT>
</H3> 
A bug in AMD's Athlon family of processors has been
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/23749.html">
reported</a>
on TheRegister, following an earlier
revelation by
<a href="http://www.gentoo.org/">Gentoo Linux</a>.  The issue relates to
extended memory paging sizes and is a bug in the processor, not the kernel.
Those using Linux 2.4 kernels, and AGP may experience problems with memory
corruption.  The fix is to pass the option "mem=nopentium" to the kernel at
boot-time (via GRUB or LILO).  Gentoo have a good description of the
situation on their main webpage at the moment, and an analysis of how this
was neglected for so long (since September 2000!).

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<FONT COLOR="green">Linux Adoption
</FONT>
</H3> 


<P>     
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/">
TheRegister.co.uk</a>
recently
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23667.html">
reported</a>
that Korea is to convert 120K civil servants to Linux desktop use.  This
appears to be as much a fightback by local favourite Haansoft (producers of
Hancom Linux, and HancomOffice) as a victory for Linux, but it is still
good news.
<p>
In a separate development, NewsForge
<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/09/1252220&mode=nocomment">
reports</a> that
Red Hat India is helping to introduce GNU/Linux as part of a scheme to meet
the software needs of the Indian education system. The program will include
not only software, but also free training to help get the scheme off the
ground.
<p>
Spinning the globe again, this time to China, we see more penguins on the
march.  Linux Today have a
<a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-08-025-20-NW-MS">
report</a>
that Linux is making an impression on many in China.  Apparently the
Chinese Academy of Sciences have published a report highlighting the
savings which could be achieved by using Linux as an alternative to
Microsoft solutions.  This follows a Gartner
<a href="http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=103604">
report</a> that Microsoft recently lost out on a major IT investment in
China, while indigenous firms including Red Flag Linux were favoured.


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<FONT COLOR="green">Penguin Art
</FONT>
</H3> 

<P> 
A new issue of TUX (Terminator Unit X) online comic is now available at:
<a href="http://www.thelinuxreview.com/TUX/">
http://www.thelinuxreview.com/TUX/</a>.  the reports of TUX's death have
been greatly exaggerated. 
<P>
Also in the artistic vein, 
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a> have updated their
<a href="http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/?t=gr,p=LinuxAnimation">
Linux Cartoons</a>
page. Flash or Real Player required.

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<FONT COLOR="green">Linux Trojan Found
</FONT>
</H3> 


<a href="http://www.qualys.com">
qualys.com</a>
have 
<a href="https://www.qualys.com/pr/release_01_09_02.html">
announced</a>
that they have discovered a Linux Trojan, in the wild.
This follows qualys's discovery of a very similar linux trojan 
<a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/08/019246">
last year</a>.  This story was also
<a href="http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173408.html">
picked up</a> by Newsbytes.com, and from there Slashdot 
<a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/05/230233&mode=nested">
got in on the act</a>.  To be infected, you must execute the trojan
as root, so there is likely to be a need for some sort of social
engineering in getting this one to propagate.  Main risk would be if a
binary in a Linux distribution became infected, since most people trust the
binaries on their install media.  At the very least, this is another very
good reason to be very very careful what you do as root.


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<FONT COLOR="green">DOSSIER, Documentation Source
</FONT>
</H3> 


<P>
<a href="http://www.ptf.com/dossier">
DOSSIER</a>
is a convenient new way to get printed
documentation for Free and Open Source software.  Current topics include
"Email", "File Systems", "Kernel", PostgreSQL", "Python", and "Text".  The
demand-printed volumes may be ordered from 
<a href="http://www.bsdmall.com">
BSDMall</a>.
The motivation and rationale for DOSSIER are covered in 
"<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200201/meta.html">
DOSSIER and the Meta Project (Part 1)</a>",
in 
<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org">
Daemon News</a>.



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<FONT COLOR="green">BrlSpeak
</FONT>
</H3> 
BrlSpeak is a new mini-distribution of Linux that comes with support for
<STRONG>braille</STRONG> and <STRONG>speech</STRONG> built-in.  The objective
is to offer an easy-to-install solution for blind persons who wish to install a
Linux distribution on their computer without any assistance from a sighted
pereson.  BrlSpeak provides a built-in preconfigurer so that you should be able
to preconfigure the BrlTty Makefile before starting Linux.  Compilation and
automated activation of the braille device is the next step, and will be
performed when booting the distrib.  BrlSpeak was based on Matthew campbell's
ZipSpeak mini-distribution, that's why it contains the SpeakUp screen reader
for supporting speech synthesizers.  The BrlSpeak is available in many
languages.  To download it, visit the 
<a href="http://www.audiobraille.org/blinux/brlspeak.html">
BrlSpeak Projet Home Page</a>.
<p>
Author: Osvaldo La Rosa, freely distributable, UMSDOS mini-distribution,
size: 36MB, available as: zip or iso, website: 
<a href="http://www.audiobraille.org/blinux/brlspeak.html#english">
en</a>,
<a href="http://www.audiobraille.org/blinux/brlspeak.html#francais">
fr</a>,
<a href="http://www.audiobraille.org/blinux/brlspeak.html#nederlands">
nl</a>.
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<FONT COLOR="green">Debian
</FONT>
</H3> 

<a href="http://www.debian.org/">
Debian GNU/Linux</a>
2.2r5 has been released.  This fifth revision adds security updates and
some bug fixes to the stable `potato' release.  A list of FTP and HTTP
mirrors is available at
<a href="http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist">
http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist</a>.
Point apt (see the sources.list(5) manual page) at an up to date mirror and
then run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
The complete list of all accepted and rejected packages together with
rationale is on the 
<a href="http://people.debian.org/~joey/2.2r5/">
preparation page</a>
for this revision
<P>
It is a good idea to keep an eye on
<a href="http://security.debian.org/">
http://security.debian.org/</a>
or to subscribe to the debian security announce mailing list.  There have
been quite a few security announcements in the past month.


<p>
<hr noshade width="20%">
<p>

Debian Weekly News
<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/2/">
reported</a> that
new "Debian on CD" Web Pages have been 
<a href="http://www.debian.org/CD/">
launched</a>.
These replace the
old pages on 
<a href="http://cdimage.debian.org/">
cdimage.debian.org</a>,
which "were often criticised by visitors of the website". The new pages
feature improved documentation, direct download links for images, a CD
vendor list Apart from an extended FAQ, the new pages offer direct download
links for CD images, a list of CD vendors, artwork, and info on
<a href="http://atterer.net/jigdo/">
jigdo</a>,
the new distribution scheme for downloading CD images from any normal
Debian mirror.

<p>
<hr noshade width="20%">
<p>


<P>
<a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com/">Linux Today</a>
highlighted a 
<a href="http://people.debian.org/~jgb/debian-counting/">
report</a>
on the size of Debian 2.2, which includes
more than 55,000,000 physical SLOC:
The COCOMO model estimates
that its cost would be close to $1.9 billion USD to develop
Debian 2.2.


<p>
<hr noshade width="20%">
<p>


<P> 
Also highlighted by 
<a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com/">Linux Today</a>
was this
<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=129604">
bugreport</a>, which comments on vulnerability notification and the Debian
Social Contract.
"Over the past few months,
the GNU/Linux community has slowly adopted a way of dealing with
security issues which closely resembles the approach suggested by
Microsoft last year: more-or-less systematic hiding of security
problems from end users, at least for some time. Some Debian
maintainers seem to participate in this process, and hold
back security fixes, waiting for events to happen which are
external and not related to the Debian project (for example,
other distributors being ready to publish fixes)."


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<FONT COLOR="green">Mandrake
</FONT>
</H3> 

<P>
Linux Planet have started a 'Month Later'  addition to their Distribution
Watch section.  The first distro to receive this 
<a href="http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/4000/1/">
second look</a>
is Mandrake 8.1.
The review discusses the process of getting settled in and smoothing
out the routine bumps and curves of this distribution.


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<FONT COLOR="green">Red Hat
</FONT>
</H3> 

The Washington Post Washtech.com site has
<a href="http://www.washtech.com/news/media/14759-1.html">
reported</a>
that AOL Time Warner is in talks to buy Red Hat.  Everything is very vague
("fluid" appears to be the official term), so it is difficult to know what
the chances are such a deal actually coming off.  Andrew Orlowski of
TheRegister is somewhat
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/23746.html">
sceptical</a>
about the rumours.  He also makes some good comments about what the
wider implications of such a deal could be.




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<FONT COLOR="green">GUI Based DSSSL/XSLT DocBook Tool Released
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>  
<a href="http://www.commandprompt.com">
Command Prompt</a> is pleased to announce the release of DocPro 0.2.0.
<a href="http://www.commandprompt.com/entry.lxp?lxpe=2">
DocPro</a>
is a tool for professional technical authors whom maintain
a large amount of SGML/XML based documentation. DocPro will take any DocBook
document and transform it into a user defined format (Postscript, HTML
etc...). 
<P>
DocPro will correctly transform multiple documents, to multiple output
formats. It includes the capability to arbitrarily set font sizes, margins,
callout definitions etc... via a GUI interface. 
<P>
DocPro currently runs on x86 Linux only, though there will be a release
for YellowDog Linux (PPC) and MacOS X shortly. The Deluxe version of DocPro
comes with the popular DocParse tools for converting HTML to DocBook.

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<FONT COLOR="green">Adobe GoLive 6 Integrates Zend PHP Debugger
</FONT>
</H3> 

<P> Adobe Systems  will include 
<a href="http://www.zend.com">
Zend</a>'s
PHP Debugger in its new release of GoLive 6, its flagship product for Web
site development. This will give GoLive developers integrated access to
advanced PHP debugging for their toughest applications and dynamic Web
sites using scripting languages.

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<FONT COLOR="green">CxProtect
</FONT>
</H3> 


<P>
<a href="http://www.calibretechnologies.com/CxProtect.html">
CxProtect</a>
is an AntiVirus Solution for Linux Mail Servers.  It is a binary based
solution that using the Command AntiVirus API.  The software offers
detection and disinfection of attachments being transported via the Linux
Mail Server.  The only change required to the existing Sendmail.cf is to
register CxProject as the MDA.  Post-install configuration is done via a
web browser interface.
<P> Download available at
<a href="http://www.calibretechnologies.com/downloads/CxProtect.tar.gz">
http://www.calibretechnologies.com/downloads/CxProtect.tar.gz</a>




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<FONT COLOR="green">Mahogany 0.64 Released
</FONT>
</H3> 

<P>
A new release of
<a href="http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/">
Mahogany</a>,
has been made.
Mahogany is an OpenSource cross-platform mail and news client,
available for X11/Unix and MS Windows platforms. It supports many of
the internet protocols and standards, including POP3, IMAP4, SMTP and NNTP.
Mahogany also supports MIME and many common Unix mailbox formats.
<p>
Source and binaries for a of
Linux and Unix systems as well as binaries for Win32 are 
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3100">
now available</a>.






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