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'Like LPI, Sair divides the mastery of Linux into three levels. To become certified at each level, you must pass four exams (available through Prometric testing centers). As of this writing, only the first level--'Sair Linux and GNU Certified Administrator' (LCA)--is available.'
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2001-02-12: Firewalls - It's Time to Evolve or Die: Introduction

2001-02-12: Weekly Microsoft Security Digest

2001-02-12: Weekly Solaris Security Digest

2001-02-12: Firewalls - It's Time to Evolve or Die: Introduction

2001-02-12: See Lawrence Lessig At BayFF Monday

2001-02-12: Bungie's Marathon Infinity on Linux

2001-02-12: Just Slightly Ahead of Our Time

2001-02-13: Kernel Traffic And The Cousins Have Moved

'Kernel Traffic and the Cousins are no longer hosted at kt.linuxcare.com.'
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2001-02-13: KDE-Related Organizations Express Anger Over Ximian Search-Engine Ads

'KDE developers aren't the only people upset by a Ximian advertising buy on the Google search engine that pops up Ximian brand Gnome ads when users seek information on KDE or KDE-related products.'
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2001-02-13: Massive Storage Advances

2001-02-13: Tracking Desperadoes, Documents, Computer Files, and Other Objects of Hackerdom

2001-02-13: Firewalls - It's Time to Evolve or Die: Securing the Firewall Itself

2001-02-14: Firewalls - It's Time to Evolve or Die: The Network Filter and Proxy

2001-02-14: ComputerWeekly: Virus Hosts Could Face Legal Threat

2001-02-14: LinuxPR: New 'PizzaBox' Security Firewall Sets New T....

LinuxPR: New 'PizzaBox' Security Firewall Sets New Targets For TCO, Has Free Download
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2001-02-14: Microsoft Bulletin: �Malformed PPTP Packet Stream� Vulnerability

2001-02-14: Slashback: Antennae, Play, Book Larnin'

2001-02-14: Alan Cox: Linux kernel 2.4.1-ac12

2001-02-14: Miguel de Icaza: Planning GNOME 2.0

'This document provides some background on the way we have developed GNOME in the past, the integration work that lies ahead and outlines the problems that we might run into if we are not careful with the goals we set for GNOME 2.0'
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2000-10-19: ID-PRO auctions PAUL The proceeds will benefit the Open-Sou....

ID-PRO auctions PAUL The proceeds will benefit the Open-Source-Community
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2000-10-12: Advantages of GNU/LINUX & Open Source in the Administration Network

Topical Forums for Individuals from the Areas of Administration and Government Authorities Responsible for IT Matters
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2001-02-16: Antivirus Tips

2001-02-16: The Story of Jeff, Part XIII

2001-02-16: Firewalls - It's Time to Evolve or Die: Examining and Filtering Encrypted Data

2001-02-16: LiViD: First Official OMS Release!

'The LiViD team is proud to release the first official version of Open Media System, our OpenSource media and DVD player!'
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2001-02-16: Eight Tenths Of A Lizard

2001-02-16: The ssh vs. OpenSSH Trademark Battle, Next Round

2001-02-16: Napster Users Being Arrested In Belgium

2001-02-16: MozillaQuest: The Lizard Marches On: Mozilla Milestone 0.8 Browser-Suite Released

'The Mozilla Milestone 0.8 browser-suite is cross-platform and builds are available for the Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, and several UNIX platforms.'
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2001-02-16: Rant Mode Equals One: The Linux Reality Versus the Microsoft Dream

When Microsoft's Steve Ballmer said Linux was 'crummy,' Paul Ferris swallowed a Rant and smiled. When Jim Allchin decided to drape Microsoft in the flag and imply that open source software might be un-American, he had enough. 'The GNU General Public License is no more anti-American than the United States Constitution. True, honest to God innovation is happening with Linux right now, and the party is open to everyone -- including Microsoft if they want to get in on it. It's a growing phenomena that is creating intellectual property and true new innovations,' says Ferris.
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2001-02-17: Debian Lays Out Freeze Plans for Woody

2001-02-17: Free Internet Movie Archive

2001-02-17: The Minicomputer Orphanage

2001-02-17: Debian Woody is Frozen

2001-02-17: Binary Freedom: The End of Maximum Linux

'While being a colorful and interesting magazine, many people in the Linux community shunned the magazine for not being technical enough to serve their needs.'
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2001-02-17: Declaration of Software Freedom Leaked Early; Release Was Planned for MS Court Date

'Since our hand has been tipped, here is a rushed version of a press release that was to be issued closer to the news cycle around the February 26-27 court date for Microsoft.'
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2001-02-17: The Debian Telemetry Box

2001-02-17: Interview with Bill Joy

2001-02-17: Recovering from an MTX Infection

2001-02-17: TurboLinux Security Announcement: All versions prior to glibc-2.1.3-27

'A problem with the library could allow access to write or overwrite restricted files.'
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2001-02-17: Who Owns Your Body?

2001-02-18: Sun, Motorola Want Radio Tags In All Consumer Goods

2001-02-18: Alan Cox: Linux kernel 2.4.1-ac18

2001-02-18: Maximum Linux Exceeded: Shutdown

2001-02-18: Cal Schools May Nix SAT In Admissions Process

2001-02-18: New York ISP Held Liable For Newsgroup Content

2001-02-18: Web Standards Project: Upgrade, Or Miss Out

2001-02-18: Linux Magazine: The Linux Logical Volume Manager

'Conceptually, the LVM allows you to combine and divide physical disk partitions in a completely flexible manner. The resulting filesystems are dynamically resizable, and their maximum size can exceed 1,000 terabytes.'
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2001-02-18: Linux Gazette: Downloading LinuxToday links and Linux Gazette's TOC with Python (and Perl)

'I choose Python because I have been using it for quite a while for a mathematical project, and it has proven quite useful. I want to make a habit of using Python now. It tends to be easier for me to program in Python than Perl. Also, in the future, I wish to use threading to download many webpages at the same time, which Python does very well.'
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2001-02-18: BBspot.com: Microsoft builds most secure server [Humor]

'Microsoft Obsecurity is the most secure and powerful internet server ever created. ...provides the most comprehensive platform for building a new generation of Web applications.'
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2001-02-18: Linux Journal: Book Review: Linux Internals

'The material covered in Linux Internals is required reading for any aspiring Linux kernel hacker, high performance junkie and guru wannabe. I can recommend this text to Linux guru candidates because Moshe Bar has crafted an informative book that strikes a keen balance between an operating system text and a programming manual.'
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2001-02-18: Hubert's Interesting Nanoassembler

2001-02-19: Firewall Configuration Prerequisites

2001-02-19: Using Linux 2.4 Firewalling - Building a Firewall with Netfilter

2001-02-19: Privacy, From Outside The Paranoid Fold

2001-02-19: AllLinuxDevicesPR: REDSonic Announces Events in Asia

'REDSonic will showcase its real-time Linux technology, embedded development tools, and present several live demonstrations ranging from a high performance real-time embedded web server to quality of service resource management technology.'
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2001-02-19: Making Sense Of An Employee IP Agreement

2001-02-19: UnixReview.com: MultiView Catalyst [Convert Unix Applications to the Web]

'MultiView Catalyst is designed to convert Unix applications to the Web with minimal pain and expense. It works well, especially considering the Herculean task it's aimed at.'
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2001-02-19: LinuxGazette: Securely Erasing a Hard Drive with Perl

'I want it to delete all partitions, create one partition that takes up the whole hard drive, and then fill up the hard drive with garbage data (including some random encrypted data just to ruin a hacker's day trying to find out what the data is).'
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2001-02-19: O'ReillyNet: Ximian GNOME: Welcome To Your Desktop!

'In this article, we'll go through the different features of Ximian GNOME and teach you how to customize the desktop to suit your specific needs. We'll then review some of the applications that come with Ximian GNOME. Getting to know Ximian GNOME.'
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2001-02-19: linux.ie: Installing mod_gzip with Apache and PHP.

'Mod_gzip...is a module for Apache that allows you to compress content from an Apache web server on-the-fly. It uses the same compression as gzip and no plugins or extra software is needed by your browser to take advantage of this product. Reduction in size of up to 90% or more is possible.'
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2001-02-21: Microsoft Clarifies Jim Allchin's Statements

2001-02-21: Kernel Cousin Gimp #32 By Cris Flagg

Newsletter of the Gimp developers' mailing list prepared by Cris Flagg. The Gimp is a high-end, open-source graphics application which competes with Adobe Photoshop.
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2001-02-21: Microsoft: Malformed Request to Domain Controller can Cause Denial of Service

2001-02-21: Vendor Key Management

2001-02-21: O'Reilly Open Source Convention: Call for papers

'Our 'Our audience comprises sophisticated developers and administrators, so we only want talks on solid technical subjects.'
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2001-02-21: Segfault announces 25% workforce cut

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