Apparently some mirrors have the gentoo stages for release candidate 4 up for download, but Gentoo's site does not mention it.
Here is the link
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc4/x86/x86/stages/
WLAN Security: Reducing the Risks
This is a roundup of various wireless security articles, news, and product information. Worth a quick look for anyone working with wireless technology.
Full story:
http://www.techweb.com/tech/mobile/20030407_mobile
Using Mozilla to Test and Debug Web Sites
We already know that, despite a few remaining problems, Mozilla is the best web browser available (well, we enlightened folk anyway ;-) ), but here's another very cool feature - debugging web sites.
I've messed with this capability a couple times in the past, just to see what exactly it does, but I never did anything more than just skim over the surface of it. Well, I recently came accross this site, which gives a VERY thorough tutorial and using the debugging and development capabilities of Mozilla to their fullest extent. It's most definitely worth reading for anyone that develops web pages.
The tutorial can be found ere:
http://gemal.dk/mozilla/mozdev.html
Terabit Switches Now Available
Yes, you read that right:
"Five-year-old Procket Networks introduced its first products on Wednesday: a pair of terabit routers for major telephone and Web service providers, government agencies and very tech-savvy businesses."
Oh, hell yes. I WILL have one of these in my living room. :-)
Full story
Sun Likely to Use AMD's Opteron Processor
Sun has been testing AMD's Opteron for the past few months, and they seem fairly happy with it. No guarantee that they'll use it, but this story alone is good news and quite an endorsement for AMD.
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Bye-Bye TCPA, Hello Trusted Computing Group
"TCG is a more formal group with licensing policy, a marketing budget, and a mission to push the trusted computing technology into a variety of devices."
Okay, now let's summerize:
- "formal licensing policy" => ream the end users
- "push the trusted computing technology" => force Microsoft's plan for total market dominance upon unwilling users
- "variety of devices" => there's no escaping it!
Full story
Intel helps found WiMAX broadband wireless forum
"The 802.16a standard, approved in January of this year, is a wireless metropolitan area network technology that will connect 802.11 hot spots to the Internet and provide a wireless extension to cable and DSL for last mile broadband access. It provides up to 50-kilometers of range and allows users to get broadband connectivity without needing a direct line of sight with the base station. The wireless broadband technology also provides shared data rates up to 70-Mbit/s"
Full story:
http://www.ebnonline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=8600222
Novell sees a growing role for Linux in its software future
Novell has finally seen the light and is probably going to move to Linux soon. Well... more likely they probably have no choice.. but this will be interesting. Personally I would be in favor more of Novell if they did that; believe me.. I have spent some time on some Netware boxes that probably made me lose some hair.
Options for logging into Active Directory w/ Linux
Jared gave me this great security focus article that talks about Linux's capabilities when it comes to logging into a Microsoft Active Directory Server...
Read the article
Linux Desktop Comparison Review
This desktoplinux article posted recently gives a pretty good overall look at how well linux distros work as a desktop... read this article