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ZDNet: Printer Friendly - What's really scary about Y2K -------------------------------------------------------------- This story was printed from ZDNN, located at http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn. -------------------------------------------------------------- What's really scary about Y2K By Jim Seymour, PC Magazine August 20, 1999 7:33 AM PT Let's look at the noncomputer side of Y2K: the steps you should consider taking to prepare for any possible interruptions or dislocations a few months from now. Wait much longer and you'll be limiting your options. (Next issue, I'll dive back into hardware and software, with some recommendations on great new products I've been working with at the top and bottom of the ...

Hacking group reveals Net protocol security glitch (InfoWorld) Hacking group reveals Net protocol security glitch By Kathleen Ohlson Computerworld Posted at 11:08 AM PT, Aug 12, 1999 A hacking group said it has discovered a security vulnerability affecting Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows 2000, as well as the SunOS and Solaris operating systems, allowing unauthorized users to intercept outgoing information. The problem is related to the Internet Control Message Protocol Router Discovery Protocol (IRDF) that determines the way computers connect to the Internet. The glitch lets an attacker spoof a route, according to an advisory issued Wednesday by ...

CNN - Sturdy digital bugs capture Microsoft's attention - August 17, 1999 Sturdy digital bugs capture Microsoft's attention August 17, 1999 Web posted at: 4:08 p.m. EDT (2008 GMT) By Robin Lloyd CNN Interactive Senior Writer (CNN) -- Scientists have created digital bugs in an electronic petri dish that can go where no code has gone before -- the planet of robust software. The bugs are really small pieces of computer code, given instructions to reproduce or get their equivalent of food or energy by moving through 'logic gates' and performing mathematical tasks. In a test of Darwin's principle ...

Mitnick cut loose, Script Kiddies pained In a move welcomed by almost everyone between the ages of 6-13 and 18+, the Federal Government has decided to go after Script Kiddies with a vengeance. Now that Kev's been handed 46 months and a $4k fine, with everyone knowing he'll walk in 4 months, the highest members of state have decided that the legions of script kiddies everywhere should now seek extra time with their Guidance Counselors, or, perhaps, Grandpa, in order to divert the pain they'll experience at the realization that their cause is now over. -Cæsar

U.N. Condemns Bombing Of Kosovo Serb Cathedral Reuters 6.44 a.m. ET (1044 GMT) August 1, 1999 PRISTINA — The U.N. chief in Kosovo condemned the bombing of a new Serbian Orthodox cathedral Sunday and a church leader alleged it was part of a systematic campaign by ethnic Albanian extremists. The powerful explosion shook buildings throughout the center of Pristina, Kosovo's provincial capital, and sent a column of smoke into the sky early Sunday morning. "I think there are people who want to destroy, symbolically, Orthodox churches and I find this behavior absolutely unacceptable,'' Bernard Kouchner, the head of Kosovo's U.N. ...

KQED-TV Shared Donor Lists -- Republicans in an Uproar KQED-TV Shared Donor Lists -- Republicans in an Uproar Jonathan Curiel, Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, July 17, 1999 ©1999 San Francisco Chronicle URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/17/MN65497.DTL KQED-TV found itself in the middle of a growing political storm yesterday when it revealed that its donor lists have been used by California Senator Barbara Boxer and the Democratic National Committee. The disclosure added to the anger of some Republican lawmakers who have been investigating the practice of ``list brokering'' by public television stations. KQED's admission comes days after public television stations in New York, Boston ...

House vote protests abuse study findings House vote protests abuse study findings By Jim Abrams Associated Press July 13, 1999 WASHINGTON - The House on Monday unanimously condemned a 1998 article in an American Psychological Association journal that concluded that some victims of child sexual abuse suffered few long-term consequences. The House voted 355-0 to denounce the study in the Psychological Bulletin, one of the association's 37 journals, that Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., sponsor of the resolution, called the "emancipation proclamation of pedophiles." Thirteen voted "present." The association, which represents 159,000 clinicians, researchers and educators, earlier this month put ...

ZDNet - How MS plans to remake Windows How MS plans to remake Windows By Mary Jo Foley, Sm@rt Reseller & John G. Spooner, PC Week July 2, 1999 2:12 PM PT URL: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2288004,00.html?chkpt=hpqs014 Microsoft Corp. is attempting to churn out this month its first internal builds of Neptune, the code name for the first consumer version of Windows built on the NT kernel. Neptune is slated as the follow-on to Millennium, the code name for the final version of Windows based on the Windows 9x kernel. Neptune will be Microsoft's first operating system to make use of the ...

Lott Brands McCain a Hypocrite By A.B. Stoddard ABCNEWS.com WASHINGTON — The Senate leader too k a swipe this week at Sen. John McCain for c rusading against the influence of money on politics while at the same time raising millions for his presidential campaign. When asked Thursday afternoon about McCain’s threat to hold up the Senate if it doesn’t take up campaign finance legislation, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said the Arizona senator should concentrate on his presidential campaign. “When you’re out there, raising money right and left, and then you talk about how you need to reform the ...

The talk in Washington turns again to legacy, as Bill Clinton gazes out the Oval Office window, musing over what might yet be. Chief executives often do this sort of thing in the autumn of their administrations, when friends turn into acquaintances and employees ponder resumes instead of re-election. It must be a time of melancholy for the president, who for all his luck and virtuosity in office has received a bum hand. History reveres presidents who confront crises — wars, depressions and dark nights of the national soul. It has little use for those who manufacture trouble, and even ...

D A L L A S, July 1 —The Reform Party’s highest elected officeholder, Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, is pushing for new leadership to replace Dallas billionaire and group founder Ross Perot and threatening to pull his support back to his home state. The party’s only elected chairman says he deplores the former wrestler’s “ultimatum.” “Jesse has a loud voice and can influence a lot of people,” Russell Verney of Dallas, who now works as a paid political adviser to Perot, told The Dallas Morning News in today’s editions. “It should be done in a positive way.” Mutiny in the ...

Wallets Open Wide For Bush D.C. Event Wallets Open Wide For Bush D.C. Event Fund-Raiser Pushes Kitty Near $20 Million By Susan B. Glasser Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, June 22, 1999; Page A01 The Republican political establishment is throwing Texas Gov. George W. Bush a coming-out party in Washington tonight that will be the largest presidential fund-raiser ever here, but it is just one particularly lucrative stop on a cross-country money tour that is expected to boost his campaign over the $20 million mark by the end of June. From Florida to Michigan to South Carolina, Bush will ...