From FreeOS.com: “Not every task under Linux involves re-compiling the kernel or is accomplished in a
minimum of 12 steps. Here is a FreeOS.com guide giving you the essential tips and
shortcuts for dealing with various mundane tasks that anyone will have to perform on
their Linux system. Valuable, if you want to get from A to B that much quicker.”

Linux Today posted this note from Alan Cox.

“Where do you want to go today?” may
be a Microsoft catch phrase – but the company
seems unsure about where it wants to go with
Internet Explorer. MSNBC reports.

From ZDNET: “The deal, the biggest in U.S. history, closed one day
after the one-year anniversary of when the No. 1 Internet
service provider said it would purchase the media giant.
At that time, AOL shares were trading at $72.875,
valuing the union at almost $164 billion.”

MSNBC tells us: “To avoid Microsoft Access 2000 from locking up, don’t mix
ActiveX Data objects transaction methods with Jet 4 Data
Definition Language transaction statements.”

ZNDET reports that pocket PCs, sporting high quality images that
can zoom in on specific detail without
becoming distorted, are being developed.

The company is relocating its West Coast office, adding a new western
regional manager and is spinning off its computer hardware sales operations, according to LinuxPR.

From Infoworld: “IBM delivered the first in what is expected to be a
series of products that makes it easier for developers and corporate
users to tie its AIX and Linux operating environments together.

The AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications is designed to build Linux
applications that can take advantage of AIX’s full range of
capabilities. It also gives users more flexibility in deploying a mix of
AIX and Linux applications for e-business solutions running natively
under either AIX or Linux.”

ZDNet reports on IBM’s latest ThinkPad, which uses neither keyboard nor mouse. It uses pen and paper for input.

Red Herring ponders Microsoft’s conspicuous lack of presence in the portable gaming market in spice of its effort to break in to the game-console market.