Microsoft quietly delays Windows Server 2008 ... Sony gives up on Connect music store ... Sweden's OOXML vote declared invalid

In this issue:
* Sweden's OOXML vote declared invalid
* Microsoft sneaks Longhorn delay news in with SP1 details
* Sony throws in the towel on Connect music store
* Dell profit up 46 percent thanks to cheaper components
* French YouTube rival lands $34 million funding
* Secure wireless network brings Wisconsin cities together
* Using netgroups to share files
* Sun seeks developer help to make Solaris ubiquitous
* Thinking, typing and the mysterious case of the missing printouts


TODAY'S TOP STORY

Sweden's OOXML vote declared invalid
The Swedish Standards Institute has declared its recent vote in favor of Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML format invalid. It means that Sweden will probably abstain from an important upcoming international vote on whether to make the format a standard.


IN THE NEWS

* Microsoft sneaks Longhorn delay news in with SP1 details
* Sony throws in the towel on Connect music store
* Dell profit up 46 percent thanks to cheaper components
* French YouTube rival lands $34 million funding
* Secure wireless network brings Wisconsin cities together


UNIX TIP

Using netgroups to share files
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com

Solaris and other SVR4 versions of Unix provide file sharing through NFS and the /etc/dfs/dfstab file. The syntax of this particular file permits you to restrict file system sharing to a limited number of hosts or to share file systems with no restrictions whatsoever. Restricting file systems to a select set of hosts is particularly important if you are permitting the client hosts to access the file systems read/write and even more important if root on the clients will have the authority of root on your NFS server.

You can specify the hosts that are permitted to mount file systems by stringing them together in a colon-separated format with the share command, such as this command which can be issued on the command line or included in the dfstab file for a more or less permanent setup:


FEATURE

Sun seeks developer help to make Solaris ubiquitous
By China Martens

Sun Microsystems Inc. has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java. To come close to reaching that goal, Sun needs to reach out more to developers and endeavor to overcome some long-held prejudices against the OS.


OPINION

Thinking, typing and the mysterious case of the missing printouts
By Sean McGrath, ITworld.com

Thinking and typing...thinking and typing...That is what I am doing right now. I'm doing both together...What worries me is that over time, the latter appears to have become a pre-requisite for the former to happen in my head. Case in point: in order to think this very topic through, I find myself having to type it...hmmmm.


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