It looks like the long awaited Firefox 2.0 will be released on Tuesday according to news reports.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/289490_firefox21.html
This is following closely on the heels of Microsoft releasing Internet Explorer 7 last week:
http://news.digitaltrends.com/article11561.html
I've loaded RC3 of Firefox, and I've got IE7 installed on a few systems. Here are some of my reactions to what I've seen so far.
Caller ID spoofing is a service that allows a caller to masquerade as someone else by falsifying the number that appears on the recipient's caller ID display. Just as e-mail spoofing can make it appear that a message came from any e-mail address the sender chooses, caller ID spoofing can make a call appear to come from any phone number the caller wishes.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2006/10/18/solving-the-caller-id-problem.html
There is growing concern over the interaction of VoIP systems with the legacy PSTN, and the transmission of caller identity data--most notably, Caller ID on the PSTN. It is not always possible, or obvious how, to handle Caller ID data when moving to or from VoIP and the PSTN networks. There are even business models predicated on the ability of Caller ID to be transmitted to the PSTN with a value that is not "expected"; call centers are an obvious example, where customer-support staff make outbound calls with a Caller ID that may be from one of many possible clients. More troubling is the possibility that Caller ID may be used to trick unsuspecting call recipients into certain actions or beliefs, and it is this concern that's currently creating a legislative threat I believe must be averted.
I have a proposal at the end of this article that attempts to address these issues, but first some background.
While looking for an easy way to keep my Slackware install up to date, I just ran across this article:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/12/1337224
Now that Slackware 11.0 is out, you may wonder what is the best way to update the distribution. Swaret is an open source project that aims to keep various versions of Slackware up-to-date. I use Swaret and some cron scripts to keep my servers current automatically.
A year after the release of 10.2, there is finally a new Slackware release. Please see the release announcement below:
