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========================================================= Sponsored by Appro Appro, a leading developer of high-performance servers and cluster solutions releases a white paper on High-Performance Linux Clusters based on AMD Opteron processors. This paper gives an example of a Linux 80-node/160 processors blade cluster at the AMD Developer Center. To retrieve your free white paper, go to http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1329-2-3-308321-147090-1 ========================================================= November 3, 2004 ========================================================= In This Edition ========================================================= 1. News: Cisco Firewall Source Code Held Hostage by Hackers 2. Opinion: Firefox Is a Worthy Adversary 3. News: Election: All Eyes on the Web 4. News: Bill Sends Spyware, Adware Purveyors Down Divided Paths 5. News: Anti-Spyware Vendor Takes Heat Over Adware Deal 6. News: Source: AOL to Cut 700 Jobs Next Month 7. News: Intel's Stealthy CPU Speed Bump For the latest in enterprise technology, bookmark eWEEK.com. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1329-2-3-308321-147093-1 ========================================================= News and Views ========================================================= 1. News: Cisco Firewall Source Code Held Hostage by Hackers A group that earlier this year offered for sale the source code of a popular intrusion detection system now is selling what it says is a copy of the source code for a recent version of Cisco's PIX firewall. Find out what the Source Code Club is up to now. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1329-2-3-308321-147096-1 Internet Security http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1329-2-3-308321-147099-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. Opinion: Firefox Is a Worthy Adversary Mozilla browser is less complete than Internet Explorer but is much more than just an anti-Microsoft statement. David Coursey gives Firefox two thumbs up. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1329-2-3-308321-147102-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. News: Election: All Eyes on the Web As Election Day played out in polls across the country Tuesday, its course was tracked--in minute detail--by Internet news sites, watchdog organizations and Webloggers, much as they had done most every day over the past several years. Read about the effect the Web had on users and vice versa. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1329-2-3-308321-147105-1 Politics Meets IT http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1329-2-3-308321-147108-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. News: Bill Sends Spyware, Adware Purveyors Down Divided Paths As adware and spyware companies hoping to do business in the United States clean up their act in response to the Internet Spyware Prevention Act (I-SPY) recently passed by the House of Representatives, anti-spyware vendors are trying to stay ahead of a growing onslaught of malicious software developed outside of U.S. jurisdiction. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1329-2-3-308321-147111-1 Privacy http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1329-2-3-308321-147114-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. News: Anti-Spyware Vendor Takes Heat Over Adware Deal Anti-spyware company Aluria Software has given passing marks to WhenU, which typically has been characterized as spyware. But Aluria also runs WhenU's UControl, a free desktop scanning program that removes unwanted spyware. Users and watchdogs are, to say the least, not happy. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1329-2-3-308321-147117-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6. News: Source: AOL to Cut 700 Jobs Next Month America Online, which has been trying to turn its fortunes around as users leave the service for broadband connections, plans to cut about 700 jobs next month, or 5 percent of its U.S. work force, in a bid to meet financial targets, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday. http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1329-2-3-308321-147120-1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7. 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