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29th October 2002 Archive

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  • All your e-commerce sites belong to PanIP (and they want your money)

    E-racket

    A San Diego-based company has stepped up its legal offensive against small and medium-sized web businesses. Pangea Intellectual Properties LLC was created in March this year, and is using a patent granted on September 11 2001 to one Lawrence Lockwood to obtain damages from a number of websites. The patent (No. 6,289,319 …

    Music and Media 29 Oct 2002, 01:02

  • Of mad snipers and cyber- terrorists

    We'll trade one for the other

    Last Monday the Internet was attacked in what one Washington official described as "the most sophisticated and largest assault" in its history. Eight of thirteen root DNS servers got whacked simultaneously with a distributed denial of service attack. Had the assault not been shut down in an hour, the constant interchange of e- …

    Security 29 Oct 2002, 01:34

  • Creepy MSN butterfly guy identified

    Reg readers to the rescue

    In a recent article dealing with Microsoft's advertising crimes against New York City I described their new MSN-8 butterfly advert as bearing "the silhouette of a ghastly adult male with ludicrous antennae reminiscent of the 'Killer Bee' skits from Saturday Night Live, and creepy, superhero gloves, with colorful 'butterfly' …

    Software 29 Oct 2002, 04:27

  • Dell will swing PDAs to PocketPC, says Dataquest

    Palm the victim

    Dell Computer Corp's entry into the PDA market could lead to a considerable market shakeup, according to a report from Gartner Dataquest, despite Dell's own limited short-term ambitions for the technology. Gartner Dataquest, a division of Stamford, Connecticut-based Gartner Inc, believes that Dell's avowedly low-cost …

    Personal 29 Oct 2002, 11:00

  • Open Source is good for America – US military advised

    FOSS regularly

    A report commissioned by the US military concludes that open source and free software should play a greater part in the infrastructure of the world's remaining superpower. Mitre Corporation's 152-page study addresses the extent of software libre, or FOSS-licensed software use - FOSS being "Free and Open Source Software", an …

    Software 29 Oct 2002, 11:03

  • Merseyside council suspends five in porn probe

    Routine checks

    Five staff in a council team dealing with young offenders have been suspended for alleged "Internet misuse". Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council is continuing to investigate the alleged misuse of its computer facilities. Alarm bells were tripped when routine checks uncovered illicit material, believed to be pornographic, …

    Music and Media 29 Oct 2002, 11:05

  • Kournikova virus author loses appeal

    Ordered to do 150 hours community service

    Jan de Wit, aka OnTheFly, infamous author of the Anna Kournikova worm, has lost his appeal against his sentence for creating and distributing the prolific worm. An appeals court in Leeuwarden yesterday upheld a 150 hours of community service order imposed by a Dutch district court last September. The 22-year old appealed the …

    Malware 29 Oct 2002, 11:10

  • Real opens source but keeps its crown jewels

    Bid for ubiquity

    RealNetworks Inc will today release the source code for an audio-video playback client into the developer community, and announce bargain-basement pricing for companies wishing to license the code on a commercial basis, writes Kevin Murphy.. The company will release the code of its Helix DNA Client, the underlying engine …

    Software 29 Oct 2002, 11:12

  • Trustix clinches China Secure Linux deal

    Langchao to bundle

    Secure Linux operating system and software provider Trustix AS has signed a strategic partnership deal with Chinese server manufacturer Langchao Group to bundle its Trustix Linux Solutions Software (TLS) suite on the company's Intel-based hardware. Based in Trondheim, Norway, and with offices in San Jose, California and …

    Software 29 Oct 2002, 11:15

  • IBM demos BladeCenter using future Power4 variant

    Next year's model

    With Sun Microsystems Inc talking more and more about the benefits of blade servers as it readies its own entry in this nascent product segment, IBM Corp is keep to keep the excitement building for its own BladeCenter servers, which were announced in September and which are expected to start shipping in early December, …

    Hardware 29 Oct 2002, 11:17

  • Brocade and Emulex go unified

    'Just good friends' as they dance the night away

    The Register's new Enterprise Storage Channel Brocade (www.brocade.com) has stepped up its plans to dominate the Fibre Channel market by agreeing with Emulex (www.emulex.com) to integrate the latter's Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) into Brocade's intelligent switched SAN fabric, via free firmware upgrades to be …

    Storage 29 Oct 2002, 14:18

  • SAN to SCSI converter targets AS/400

    Crossroads flips storage routing on its head to give legacy servers a longer life

    The Register's new Enterprise Storage Channel Storage routers which were developed to re-use old SCSI devices within SANs are being flipped around to allow otherwise incompatible legacy systems such as IBM's AS/400 to join SAN-based storage consolidation projects. Crossroads Systems (www.crossroads.com) says that its …

    Storage 29 Oct 2002, 14:21

  • You're never alone with a clone

    Disk cloning technology moves from the PC factory into server backup

    The Register's new Enterprise Storage Channel If you think that bit-copying hard disks is only for cloning drives or PCs, then PowerQuest (www.powerquest.com) wants you to think again. It reckons there is a lot going for it in the backup market as well, where a snapshot disk image can be used to quickly restore a complete …

    Storage 29 Oct 2002, 14:25

  • DoCoMo gets defaced

    Red faces in the land of the Rising Sun

    Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo shut down part of its Web site last week after an attack by Internet vandals. DoCoMo was forced into action after pages on the Web site which allowed business customers to contact the mobile operator were defaced. WirelessWeek reports that the cracker left his name along with the phrase " …

    Music and Media 29 Oct 2002, 14:29

  • SuSE Linux makes its pitch for the Windows desktop

    Enterprise version on the way

    SuSE is pitching for the mainstream office client market with the announcement today of SuSE Linux Desktop, which it ominously describes as the "first element of SuSE's product campaign for the utilization of Linux on workstations." The product, which will ship from January, is aimed squarely at existing Windows users, companies …

    Software 29 Oct 2002, 18:02