Guess what? Bruce Perens (HP’s Linux evangelist) has been fired. Now I wonder why

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Guess what? Bruce Perens (HP’s Linux evangelist) has been fired. Now I wonder why
“NYT” report.

“According to Mr. Perens, a handful of forces combined to make his exit from Hewlett-Packard inevitable. After it bought Compaq this year, the combined company became the largest single buyer of Windows for personal computers and data-serving computers, and thus more dependent on Microsoft. A rising threat to Microsoft is GNU Linux, an operating system distributed free and developed using the open-source model in which communities of programmers donate their labor to debug, modify and otherwise improve the code.

After the merger with Compaq, Hewlett also became the largest vendor of Linux-based server computers, ahead of Dell Computer and I.B.M. Yet Hewlett’s bet on Linux still pales compared with its reliance on Microsoft. And after the merger, it was mainly former Compaq executives who took senior positions overseeing the Linux business.”

MicroBSD

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MicroBSD

“MicroBSDs are stripped down hardened secure version builds. The concept for MicroBSD is a hardend secure Posix1e small foot print OS for x86 (NOW), Alpha/Sun/PPC (Soon) (or other) hardware to use as little hard disk space as possible yet provide fully functional Systems. Based on a complete server model, builds for Firewall/IDS/VPN (NOW). SMTP/WWW/DNS/FTP (Soon) and other combinations will be developed over time. Systems features address all aspects of security. These builds are designed to take the work out of building secured network environments with specific features unique to each one. Basically a Secured manageable system build designed to do specific tasks.” [More….]

American Net users ambivalent about government surveillance of the Net

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American Net users ambivalent about government surveillance of the Net

“Though they demonstrate a willingness to cede power to officials over what to disclose online, a plurality of Americans believe that taking government information off the Internet will not make a difference in battling terrorists. In addition, citizens are sharply divided on the question of whether the government should be able to monitor people[base ‘]s email and online activities. The division is this: 47% of Americans believe the government should not have the right to monitor people[base ‘]s Internet use and 45% say the government should have that right. A majority of Internet users oppose government monitoring of people[base ‘]s email and Web activities.

These are among the findings in a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project taken between June 26 and July 26 of 2,501 American adults. The results are published in a report entitled [base “]One Year Later: September 11 and the Internet.[per thou] It is a wide-ranging examination of what people feel government disclosure policies should be, how Americans[base ‘] online behavior has changed since 9/11, and how the Web itself changed as producers responded to the crisis.” [More….]

Spam analysis — money and porn, mainly

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Spam analysis — money and porn, mainly

“Now anti-spam outfit, Brightmail, has taken a snapshot of all the spam it intercepted over a 24 hour period from 20-21 August. The findings make interesting reading.

Around 55 per cent of all the spam it came across related to money, including how to reduce debt, get rich quick schemes and gambling giveaways.

The second biggest group was porn – accounting for around 30 per cent of all spam received during the 24 hour period.” [More…]