Akamai experiences network outages027 (6/16/2004 7:00:57 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Akamai Experiences Network Outages anon June 16, 2004 -- Akamai Technologies .. confirmed that network outages .. were caused by a distributed denial of service attack .. according to research firm Netcraft (n... Daeron
Sasser worm informant under investigation027 (6/16/2004 6:56:38 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy 'Sasser' worm informant under investigation anon June 16 2004 Berlin � The informant who tipped Microsoft Corp. to the identity of the "Sasser" computer worm's creator last month is among five people under inv... Daeron
IBM sets up Linux center of competency039 (6/16/2004 3:02:52 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy IBM sets up Linux center of competency anon June 17 2004 Bangalore - IBM has unveiled its Linux Center of Competency in Bangalore, which it said will help its clients from industry, academia and government mov... Daeron
the real promise of open source028 (6/16/2004 2:55:17 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Why open distribution is the real promise of open source Matt Asay June 16 2004 ... what we thought was a software development methodology has perhaps even more importance as a business strategy that leverages... Daeron
Wimbledon serves Linux volley022 (6/16/2004 10:11:53 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Wimbledon serves Linux volley Mark Ward June 16 2004 The Wimbledon tennis tournament will be relying on Linux and Grid computing to keep everything running smoothly during the two weeks of the championship. F... Daeron
Munich may dump Microsoft for Linux234 (6/16/2004 9:59:42 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Munich may dump Microsoft for Linux Dina Bass and Benedikt Kammel June 16 2004 New York - Munich may become the biggest Microsoft customer to switch to Linux software, as the city will this week decide whether... Daeron
Microsoft zombies responsible for Akamai attack4122 (6/16/2004 9:34:48 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Zombie PCs spew out 80% of spam John Leyden June 04 2004 Four-fifths of spam now emanates from computers contaminated with Trojan horse infections, according to a study by network management firm Sandvine out ... Daeron
U.S. Courts run on Red Hat Linux134 (6/15/2004 9:48:17 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy U.S. Courts Selects BakBone, HP ProLiant Servers Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux dave June 14 2004 SAN DIEGO -- BakBone Software .. today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Titan Corporation... Daeron
StarOffice 6.0 back to 5.21519 (6/9/2004 10:39:29 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Hi, I created a christmas address list in Star Office 6.0 and saved it to a floppy disk. Some time later, I deleted StarOffice 6.0 and installed 5.2. Why can't 5.2 read the floppy of my addresses that I crea... axipolti(17)
Linux news827 (6/10/2004 2:21:31 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Hi What is the best way to get news about Linux ? (besides reading this newsgroup:)) Regards, Razvan ... mihai11(140)
Swedish Navy runs on Windows NT6020 (6/10/2004 4:58:40 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Stealth ships steam ahead Chris Summers June 10 2004 The first Visby corvette, designed by the Swedish shipbuilders Kockums and built at their Karlskrona yard, has just completed sea trials with the Royal Swed... daeron2(1617)
distroX v. distroY2235 (6/11/2004 12:37:11 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy first off, i'm running fedora. presumably there's some safety in numbers there, but.. what methodology's are commonly used to evaluate the merits of the various distributions? is there, perhaps, a book that ... javac(45)
Antivirus vendors pushing Linux worm fud1319 (6/11/2004 7:52:03 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Antivirus vendors await first Linux worm Security firms are waiting until Linux gets hit hard by a virus Iain Thomson June 11 2004 Although some Linux antivirus software is now available, vendors are waiting f... daeron2(1617)
Application upgrades1223 (6/14/2004 2:31:09 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy One of the things that the Linux faithful like to talk about it how easy it is to update all of the apps and the OS on their systems. What I don't understand is why do the apps need updating so often? Based upo... rg_bell(425)
UK firm claims patents on Internet downloading2514 (6/14/2004 5:41:55 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy UK firm claims patents on Internet downloading Graeme Wearden June 14 2004 A UK company claims to own a number of patents that relate to the process of downloading software and virus-protection updates over th... daeron2(1617)
Linux not up to the job, apparently3319 (6/15/2004 5:29:06 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy In the spirit of all those crowing posts about Microsoft "switching to a Linux solution for webhosting" when they switched to using Akamai... .... well, apparently Linux isn't up to the job. http://isc.incide... Simon
Microsoft zombies responsible for Akamai attack4122 (6/16/2004 9:34:48 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Zombie PCs spew out 80% of spam John Leyden June 04 2004 Four-fifths of spam now emanates from computers contaminated with Trojan horse infections, according to a study by network management firm Sandvine out ... daeron2(1617)