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Tuesday, February 25, 2003

Linux servers to host Office. New software from CodeWeavers will allow Linux servers to host Microsoft Office and other Windows productivity applications for hundreds of users. [CNET News.com]
2:30:48 PM

News.Com: Blogging Comes to Harvard. [Scripting News]
2:25:54 PM

Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.

Root-server switches from BIND to NSD.
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 25, @12:01PM
from the invulnerability-through-diversity dept.
A Sorry End writes "It appears that one of the 13 root-servers, the core of DNS name resolution, have moved away from BIND to NSD since wednesday, Feb 19th, 2003, which is a Good Thing. Since the 26th of october 1990, all root-servers have been running BIND. According to this message, this change was designed to increase the diversity of software in the root name server system, the lack of which is widely considered to be a potential vulnerability. The nsd software has been designed from scratch specifically as an authoritative name server. It has no design commonalities with bind, the currently prevalent DNS implementation. In addition to that nsd provides a significant increase in the performance reserve of k.root-servers.net. NSD was developed at NLnet Labs in coorperation with RIPE."

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2:24:21 PM

Dialing for bloggers. The latest Web-log trend is audio blogging, the posting of audio clips instead of or alongside text entries, which is inspiring software developers to raise a new crop of tools. [CNET News.com]
10:04:31 AM

InformationWeek > Software > Windows Apps On A Linux Desktop > February 24, 2003 - A partnership between Tarantella and CodeWeavers will let users access Office apps via a Web browser without installing Windows on a desktop.

9:01:52 AM