Tim O'Reilly has invited Craig Mundie to speak at O'Reilly's Open Source convention in July and he's inviting people to submit questions they'd like Mr. Mundie to answer in a moderated discussion. Michael Tiemann of Red Hat will also be debating Mr. Mundie at the same conference. LWN's Jonathan Corbet sits down for a quick interview regarding the state of Linux device driver support and a look at what's ahead.
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The code that checks the header syntax of an email logs an error without protecting itself against printf format attacks. Martin has however been very active and has fixed more rendering problems and made some major improvements to the performance of AbiWord. Until we all have retinal scanners mounted on our PC's, passwords are going to be a fact of life. This article says that people are making the same sort of mistakes they've been making with regard to passwords for over a decade, and offers some insight into ways to manage the ever-growing number of logins people have to juggle to get around their computing environment. It looks as if the initial spate of enthusiasm over coming up with an instant messaging standard in the face of AOL's intransigence on the issue is faltering.