Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Hackers breach Defence HACKRES have reportedly accessed top-secret files inside the Department of Defence. Defence Minister Robert Hill told an inquiry into computer security in the public service about three external security breaches in the past three years, the Herald Sun said today. AMD Makes Massive Roadmap Update Advanced Micro Devices has added a slew of new processor code names to its road map, timed to coincide with a meeting with Wall Street analysts Thursday morning. NVIDIA Puts Its (New) Cards on the Table NVIDIA tries to hit back at ATi's launch lead with its news enthusiast and mid-range graphics cards: the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and the FX 5700, respectively. Does NVIDIA raise the bar for highend and mid-range graphics performance? Do incremental performance gains that both ATi and NVIDIA's new cards offer really matter in game play? Not that much really, but the very good news is that some really great graphics cards out there will become that much cheaper. Smash the Windows To be truly free in the 21st century, we have to ignore the flashy graphics and really get inside our computers Q: Would you rather have beels and whistles or performance and stability? Security Flaws Rankle Microsoft Microsoft's offer this week of cash bounties for informants who help it collar virus-writers reflects more than just an escalation of the war on those who would exploit the dominant power in software. SuSE Deal Could Make Novell Ripe for Acquisition Now that the initial reactions to Novell's US$210 million acquisition of SuSE Linux have passed -- and questions on the who, what, when and how much of the deal have been answered -- the broader implications are beginning to hit home in the Linux community. Getting to Know Fedora Core 1 I have installed Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow) to see what has changed between it and Red Hat Linux 9 and to get a feel for this new and powerful Linux operating system. For some people, the name Fedora will not be a familiar name, for others (Red Hat Linux or OS enthusiasts), Fedora could (In some ways) be considered to be the 'new' Red Hat Linux 9.x or 10 release, the not so long awaited sequel to Red Hat Linux 9, which came out in late March 2003. However, Fedora Core 1 is not Red Hat Linux 10 (as I try to explain) NASA's Role in Future Lunar Exploration Questioned Proponents of returning humans to the Moon told a U.S. Senate subcommittee Nov. 6 that NASA might not be the best institution to fund and run such an ambitious mission. This sort of comment is to be expected after continual f*ckups. European Planet-Finding Mission Cancelled European space-science managers buckled under financial pressures and cancelled a planet-hunting mission slated for 2007 and a Mercury lander that had been scheduled for launch around 2011. Space artifacts missing in Kansas More than 100 artifacts from the U.S. space program have disappeared from a Kansas museum, according to an audit conducted after items began appearing in private collections. Body parts found in FedEx package WORKERS at an American express mail company discovered a shipment of two human legs and an arm when one of the boxes was found leaking at a company depot, police said. (C) Shouting Red Goanna Inc. A wholly subsidiary of Screaming Blue Wombat Inc. / Avenging Green Seahorse Industries