News from PANUG/BizNix - August 12, 2002
http://panug.org - http://biznix.org


WEB DEVELOPER WANTED
by Christian Bayer 

I am seeking a web developer to redo a website that is done in Active
Server Pages. I want the site to be strictly non-proprietary 
technology, so I can administer it more easily. Contact me
at cbayer@timberlinelodge.com


Linux Certification News
by Ed Sawicki - Accelerated Learning Center / Tailored Computers

Not everything happens quickly in the world of Open Source software.
LPI (Linux Professional Institute) has _finally_ updated their
Level 1 exams. Their old exams had some lunacy such as testing your
knowledge of BIND4 instead of BIND8 and/or BIND9. I asked LPI to
remove BIND4-related questions from their test in March 2001 (because
BIND4 is obsolete and can be attacked by even novice crackers). LPI
couldn't because, even though it made sense to do so, they had a
formal procedure to go through. It took a year and a half for LPI to
stroke their snail-paced system.

These new exams will be live with VUE and Prometric on August 13, 2002
- tomorrow. VUE will continue to offer the existing Level 1 exams until
November 1 to fulfill needs of vendors and candidates who have prepared
based on the old exam objectives. The new exam objectives are here:
www.lpi.org/p-index.html.

I used to think that the Comptia Linux+ test was Linux distribution-
neutral but it's clearly not. The training materials I've seen are
targeted squarely at Red Hat Linux. I have to take this test soon
(to satisfy my publisher - I'm already LPI certified) so I'll report
on it afterwards.


NEWS
 
Patrick Corrigan points out the following article that reports
on the problems a company can face when IT departments battle over
religious isssues rather than trying to solve business issues.
(a Dilbert)
 
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25943.htm


An Apache vulnerability was discovered and fixed late last week.
The problem only exists when Apache is running on Windows, OS/2,
and NetWare. Refer to the Apache web site for details:

http://httpd.apache.org


If you're not up to speed on TCPA/Palladium, here's a FAQ that
gives you the details:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html


FEEDBACK

Regarding the article When Dreamcasts Attack, Christian bayer writes:
The Register article fails to mention that Dreamcast Broad Band
Adapters (BBA) are rare and usually go for $150.00 on eBay (I would 
like one myself). Also of Dreamcast note, they run Linux, NetBSD, and
NewOS (whose kernel is the basis for OpenBeOS).  My website
(http://www.bayerwerke.com) has links to the Linux and NetBSD sites
but not the NewOS site because NewOS currently doesn't do anything 
useful (AFAIK).



HOW DOES A CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

Windows NT Chicken: Will cross the road in June. No, August.
 September for sure.

Mac Chicken: No reasonable chicken owner would ever want a chicken
 to cross the road, so there's no way to tell it to.

Microsoft Chicken: It's already on both sides of the road. And
 it just bought the road.

Java Chicken: If your road needs to be crossed by a chicken, the server
 will download one to the other side. (Of course, those are chicklets)

OOP Chicken: It doesn't need to cross the road, it just sends a message.

Assembler Chicken: First it builds the road ...

C++ Chicken: The chicken wouldn't have to cross the road, you'd
 simply refer to it on the other side.

Visual Basic Chicken: USHighways!TheRoad.cross (aChicken)

Delphi Chicken: The chicken is dragged across the road and dropped on
 the other side.

Lotus Chicken: Don't you dare try to cross the road the same way we do!