March 2003

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Dell Will Find HP’s Printer Act Hard To Follow

With decent color inkjet printers selling for less than $100 and even some black-and-white personal laser printers retailing for less than $200, it’s hard to see how Dell’s usual strategy of bringing cost advantages to a market will work in this area. http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21130.html

Fujitsu preps Linux-based robot

Fujitsu has launched a humanoid robot – based on a real-time version of the Linux operating system. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/29995.html

FSF announces corporate patronage program

Following the highly successful launch of its Associate Membership program, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today its new Corporate Patronage Program. According to FSF’s Executive Director Bradley M. Kuhn, “since its launch in late November, more than 950 people have signed up as Associate Members of FSF. We are now offering a similar opportunity [...]

Filtran detalles de chipset de Intel

Sitio de entusiasta de la tecnología publicó detalles del programa de Intel para la producción de futuros chipsets. http://diarioti.com/gate/n.php?id=734

El troyano Rolark emplea una vulnerabilidad de Information Server de Microsoft

Panda Software ha informado sobre la aparición de un troyano denominado Rolark. Este código malicioso ha sido creado a toda velocidad ya que ha sido diseñado para aprovechar una vulnerabilidad existente en la versión 5 de Microsoft Internet Information Server, descubierta el pasado 17 de marzo. http://www.idg.es/pcworld/noticia.asp?idn=29764

Intel patenta sistema que impide overclocking

Intel ha obtenido certificación para un sistema que impedirá el overclocking de sus microprocesadores. http://diarioti.com/gate/n.php?id=737

Discos flash con capacidad de 35 Gb de M-Systems

La compañía M-Systems presentó un nuevo disco flash de cuerpo duro con la interfaz Ultra Narrow SCSI, estos discos de 5 pulgadas están presentados por versiones desde 512 Mb hasta 35 Gb. http://www.noticiasdot.com/publicaciones/2003/0303/2803/noticias280303/noticias280303-15.htm

Goodbye zOS? Your Next Big Unix Box Might Be a Linux Mainframe

In what one IBM-watcher calls a ‘dramatic change’ in IBM’s thinking, Big Blue is now starting to push mainframes that run Linux — and only Linux. http://cin.earthweb.com/trends/article.php/2171451

Is the GPL Completely Misunderstood?

The GPL, GNU General Public License, is a license boilerplate that the FSF, Free Software Foundation, has put forward to be adopted by software developers that are creating software. The GPL has some fundamental flaws that may actually make one wonder if people using the GPL license really understand the license. http://daviesinc.com/gpl.rxml

Red Hat & the MP3 issue

When Red Hat Linux 8.0 came out, people complained that RH removed mp3 support. People are saying the same thing again now that Red Hat Linux 9 is on the horizon. Recently, Mike Harris of RH posted some interesting comments on the Phoebe mailing list, which sums up RH’s take on this mp3 issue pretty [...]