Apache Dynamic Content Security

  Submitted by Jeff Internet 10 Comments
Here is an interesting Apache article worth taking the time to look at. It provides information and details on how to secure dynamic content on an Apache Web server. Topics covered include general security issues pertaining to dynamic content, securing Server Side Includes, configuring the Apache Common Gateway Interface, and wrappering dynamic content.
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Copland and NeXT – Looking Back at What Happened

Apple 42 Comments
"It has now been a few years (over 5) since NeXT took over Apple, and they’ve had time to implement their ideas. OS X is shipping in it’s 3rd version, and I think we can recap and try to learn from history. Let’s recap. In the mid 1990’s Apple had been working hard on Copland. This was a new kernel underneath the MacOS and new UI and features up above. It was bringing MacOS into the 90’s (and into the next millennium)." Read the interesting article at iGeek. Three more Apple-related articles today, an editorial about OSX 10.2 here, printing capabilities of OSX and more from Seybold here and why OSX on Intel would be bad for Apple is here.
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UnitedLinux Readies First Public Showing

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UnitedLinux said on Wednesday that it would release a preview version of its business-oriented Linux distribution to the public in the last week of September, the first chance most potential customers will have to evaluate the results of the combined effort. UnitedLinux is based on SuSE Linux's enterprise server, but the public beta will reveal how technology has been integrated from the group's other three partners: Turbolinux, Conectiva and The SCO Group (formerly Caldera). Version 1.0 of the distribution is expected in November.
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Greek Anti-Game Law Declared Unconstitutional

  Submitted by MrZammler Legal 18 Comments
The court decided yesterday, at a trial where an internet cafe's owner was charged of letting his customers play Counter Strike, that the law that prohibited playing games is unconstitutional. This paves the way for the law to be struck down. There's some additional information at ZDNet UK.
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Remembering a Year Ago Today

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Today is a solemn day of introspection and rememberance here in the United States, and we here at OSNews would like to send our condolances to those who lost loved ones in the attacks on the Pentagon and Twin Towers. Though most of the people of the world did not experience the attacks first hand, there are very few people in the world who were not affected by them in some way. I know it's a bit off-topic, but I'd like to open up a discussion thread today for people to air their feelings about the events of a year ago, and where they think things stand today. And if you read on, I'll get things started by talking a bit about what happened to me on that day and since.
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KDE Ships KOffice 1.2

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The KDE Project today announced the immediate release of KOffice 1.2, the third major release of KDE's free, integrated office suite. KOffice utilizes free and open standards for its document formats, component communication and component embedding, and provides a variety of filters to interoperate with other popular office suites.
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Men at Work: the Ximians in Their Aerie

Novell and Ximian 10 Comments
"The tall art deco building in Boston's Fenway neighborhood could easily be a courthouse, or some other seat of power. Signs in its windows proclaim "the awakening of the slumbering giant." If power can be described as the encapsulation of energy, power does reside there. And if the giant can be thought of as awakening for the first time, it's all perfectly consistent. For in this renovated relic of the first half of the 20th century resides Ximian, Inc." Read the report at LinuxAndMain.
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Apple Announces Mac OS X-Only Booting For 2003

  Submitted by sunlit mechanism Apple 40 Comments
Apple today announced that starting in January 2003, all new Mac models will only boot into MacOSX as the start-up operating system, though they will retain the ability to run most Mac OS 9 applications through Apple's bundled 'Classic' software. There are nearly 4,000 native applications now available for Mac OS X. In the meantime, Apple released iCal. iCal is an elegant personal calendar application that helps you manage your life and your time. iCal lets you keep track of your appointments and events with multiple calendars featuring at-a-glance views of upcoming activities by day, week or month.
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Linux Guns for the Desktop

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In an interview with IT Week, Red Hat chief technology officer Michael Tiemann said the new product - which is expected to be called Red Hat Technical Workstation - will be Red Hat's first attempt at making a Linux desktop for business users. Unlike its existing desktop product, which is used mostly by programmers and specialists and is often updated, Technical Workstation will be upgraded only every two years to make it easier for third parties to support.
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