A: Project JXTA started as a research project incubated at Sun Microsystems under the guidance of Bill Joy and Mike Clary. Its goal is to explore a vision of distributed computing using peer-to-peer topology, and to develop basic building blocks and services that would enable innovative applications for peer groups. Recognizing this effort would benefit from expert coders outside of Sun (Joys Law: Innovation Happens Elsewhere), the project has posted a draft of a specification and some prototype code to a web site, www.jxta.org under the Apache Software License, encouraging others to join in our efforts. The project now is evolving daily.

“The SANS institute has documented the Adore worm (previously called the Red worm), similar to the Lion and Ramen worms. It scans for Linux systems to see if they are vulnerable to the LPRng, rpc-statd, wu-ftpd and BIND exploits, and, if so, inflicts its damage. Note that LPRng is installed by default on Red Hat 7.0. The worm apparently debuted on April 1. The full write-up (a work in progress) may be found at http://www.sans.org/y2k/adore.htm.” [thanks ed!]

this is interesting. i’m not exactly sure what it means [yet]

“MP3.com on Tuesday said it would make its extensive online music database and streaming technology freely available to developers, letting rivals tap into its hard-won music locker service.” [more here]

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