[ANSOL-geral](recortes] Lots of Linux-related trademarks up for grabs

Mon Nov 18 15:36:02 2002

Lots of Linux-related trademarks up for grabs
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/14/160204

    - by Tina Gasperson - IBM has abandoned its trademark on the phrase
    "Peace, Love and Linux," according to the United States Patent and
    Trademark Office website. IBM officials did not respond to our request
    for an explanation. Apparently, the phrase is now up for grabs if any
    enterprising entrepreneur wants to take advantage of the name
    recognition.

EU Considering Another MS Antitrust Suit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/16/1942220

    [0]mesozoic writes "Yahoo! News is [1]reporting that the European Union
    is considering *another* antitrust suit against Microsoft, this time
    having to do with anticompetitive behavior in the market for mobile
    phone software. While I haven't seen any signs Microsoft is going to
    dominate the industry here in the States, cell phones are a much bigger
    deal in Europe, so I can understand why they'd be nervous."
Links
    0. http://slashdot.org/~mesozoic
    1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=77&ncid=1293&e=1&u=/mc/2002
1116/tc_mc/eu_looking_at_new_microsoft_antitrust_case

Why Microsoft's legal victory worries open source community
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/16/1548234

    Story at CIOL.com: Open source community in the US are worried by a
    court's approval of the Microsoft settlement with a few states and
    Justice Department.

Registered Traveler ID Initiative
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/15/2144253

    [0]Broadcatch writes "At the coming [1]CardTech/SecurTech in Washington
    D.C. the [2]Transportation Security Administration will make their
    first public announcement of the [3] Registered Traveler ID Initiative
    . Seems they haven't gotten the [4]word that [5]ID cards are a [6]bad
    idea."
Links
    0. http://fen at openprivacy dot org
    1. http://www.ctst.com/conferences/CTST/ID2002/index.html
    2. http://www.tsa.gov/
    3. http://www.ctst.com/conferences/CTST/ID2002/agenda2.html
    4. http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0112.html#1
    5. http://www.privacy.org/pi/activities/idcard/idcard_faq.html
    6. http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020116_eff_dmv_natl_id_alert.html

What's Keeping You On Windows?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/16/0325252

    Slashdot discussion (huge page... may take time to load): 1) Is it just
    the 'vocal minority' that favors alternate OSes over Linux and 2) if
    not, what's keeping you from 'putting your money where your mouth is' -
    why are you using Windows?

Reverse Engineering Win32 Trojans on Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/16/1925246

    [0]slackrootcyc writes "A [1]post (and [2]previous article) give a
    detailed examination of the reversing process, using a trojan found in
    the wild. Later on in the story it discusses some techniques for
    reversing Windows-native code entirely under Linux."
Links
    0. http://www.slackroot.net
    1. http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1641
    2. http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1637

Justifying the Common Criteria Security Evaluation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/17/2343231

    [0]lewko writes "Microsoft has just received a [1]Common Criteria
    certification for Windows 2000 at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4.
    Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
    the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
    rigorous government certification confirming this. What does it all
    mean? [2] This paper suggests that Microsoft spent millions of dollars
    producing documentation that shows that Windows 2000 meets an
    inadequate set of requirements, and that you can have reasonably strong
    confidence that this is the case. Microsoft bashing aside, the process
    in evaluating a security product is relevant to anyone considering the
    deployment of technology into their environment." The [3]EROS operating
    systems he mentions looks interesting - of course, it also [4]looked
    interesting three years ago.
Links
    0. http://www.snoring.com.au
    1. http://www.commoncriteria.org/
    2. http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html
    3. http://www.eros-os.org/
    4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/28/0151212&tid=126

Linux Clusters Finally Break the TeraFLOP barrier
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/17/1911248

    [0]cworley submitted - several times - this well-linked submission
    about a slightly boring topic - fast computers. "[1]Top500.org has just
    released its [2]latest list of the worldÃ,Â's fastest supercomputers
    (updated twice yearly). For the first time, Linux [3]Beowulf clusters
    have joined the teraFLOP club, with six new clusters breaking the
    teraFLOP barrier. Two Linux clusters now rank in the Top 10:
    [4]Lawrence Livermore's "MCR" (built by [5]Linux NetworX ) ranks #5
    achieving 5.694 teraFLOP/s, and [6]Forecast Systems Laboratory's "Jet"
    (built by [7]HPTi) ranks #8 reaching 3.337 TeraFLOP/s. Other Linux
    clusters surpassing the teraFLOP/s barrier include: [8] LSU's
    "SuperMike" at #17 (from [9]Atipa ), the [10] University at Buffalo at
    #22 and [11]Sandia National Lab at #32 (both from [12]Dell ), an
    Itanium cluster for British Petroleum Houston at #42 (from [13]HP ),
    and [14]Argonne National Labs at #46 (from [15]Linux NetworX ) reached
    just over the one teraFLOP/s mark with 361 processors. In the
    [16]previous Top500 list compiled last June, the [17]fastest Intel
    based Netfinity 1024 processor clusters from [18]IBM were
    sub-teraFLOP/s and the [19]University of Heidelberg's AMD based
    "HELICS" cluster (built by [20]Megware ) held the top tux rank at #35
    with 825 GFLOP/s."
Links
    0. mailto:cworley[at]symbionsys[dot]com
    1. http://www.top500.org/
    2. http://www.top500.org/list/2002/11/
    3. http://www.beowulf.org/
    4. http://www.llnl.gov/linux/mcr/build/llnl_integration.html
    5. http://www.linuxnetworx.com/news/llnl_info.php
    6. http://www-fd.fsl.noaa.gov/hpcs/
    7. http://www.hpti.com/
    8. http://www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/tohline/capital/beowulf.html
    9. http://www.atipa.com/
   10. http://www.ccr.buffalo.edu/
   11. http://www.sandia.gov/
   12. http://www.dell.com/
   13. http://www.hp.com/
   14. http://www.mcs.anl.gov/
   15. http://www.lnxi.com/
   16. http://www.top500.org/list/2002/06/
   17.
http://top500.org/sublist/sublist-query.php?list=JUN02&MANUFACTURER=%25&COUN
TRY=%25&INSTTYPE=%25&INSTAREA=%25&TYPPROC=%25&TYPVOP=%25&PRODOFF=%25&COMPFAM
=NOW+-+Intel&KONTINEN=%25&COMPTYP=%25&PROZ_CL2=%25&PROZ_CL=%25&rank_from=1&r
ank_to=500&order_type=asc&show%5B1%5D=LIST&show%5B2%5D=RANK&order_field=RANK
&show%5B3%5D=MANUFACTURER&show%5B4%5D=COMPUTER&show%5B5%5D=RMAX&show%5B6%5D=
INSTSITE&show%5B8%5D=YEAR&show%5B9%5D=INSTTYPE&show%5B11%5D=PROCS
   18. http://www.ibm.com/
   19. http://helics.uni-hd.de/
   20. http://www.megware.de/

Gnutella2 Specs - Part 1
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/17/192205

    Mr Fodder writes "The [0]first part of the Gnutella2 specs are finally
    up." Our [1]previous Gnutella2 story has a little more information.
Links
    0. http://www.gnutella2.com/gnutella2_search.htm
    1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/1316251&tid=95