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The BMO Financial Group found some silver linings in a dark cloud after "human error" allowed two servers with confidential customer data to be momentarily offered on eBay last week.

Police, Internet providers bicker over cost of proposed Web monitoring law

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Carolyn Kinsman, a graduate of Sheridan College, says her alma mater put her on the right track to succeed in the telecom field. But it seems others aspiring for similar achievement will have to find a different program to give them a strong start.

The SCO Group Inc. is preparing a new Linux licensing program that it claims will allow users of the open-source operating system to run Linux without fear of litigation.

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer recently declared that the company will discount its software sharply rather than lose market share to open source alternatives such as Linux.

While it's true that the government was able to come up with that color-coded Homeland Security threat level system all on its own, some academics think the feds could use a hand.

Mass production techniques revolutionized industry in the past two centuries, but when it comes to server configuration in the year 2003, the handcrafted approach of configuring boxes manually, one at a time, still predominates.