Our friends at Linux.com have this story: “So you think you’ve got what it takes to administrate a server farm or office network with
hundreds, if not thousands of users on it? The unfortunate reality of being a Systems
Administrator is that sometime during your career, you will most likely run into a user (or
lus3r if you prefer) whom has an IQ of a diced carrot and demands that you drop
everything to fix their system/email/whatever.”

An anonymous reader points us to this article: “The talk of Linux Australia at the moment is about Linux.conf.au. This four-day gathering of some of the world’s most influential Linux developers is being held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney from 17 to 20 January.” The story’s at Linuxworld.com.au.

ZDNet reports: “Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the availability of a beta version of its en-terprise portal product, SharePoint Portal Server, previously code-named “Tahoe.””

From PR Newswire: “Apple(R) (Nasdaq: AAPL) today announced that Mac(R) OS X, the next generation
Macintosh(R) operating system, will ship on March 24, 2001 for a suggested
retail price of US$129. Mac OS X is the world’s most advanced operating
system, combining the power and openness of UNIX with the legendary ease of
use and broad applications base of Macintosh.”

jeramy b smith writes “A new status report for the latest release of XFree86 on PPC/Linux.”

Apparently, mobile phones do cause some health hazards after all. BBC News reports that the wireless units can interfere with the operation of diagnostic machines in hospitals.

From Wired News: “If there’s been anything at all revolutionary about the PS2 so far, it’s been a revolution of hype — a
huge marketing campaign that promised a near-magical gaming system. But that promise, according to gamers,
has so far gone unfulfilled.”

Wired News covers the latest hardware announcements from the annual Mac gathering: four new G4 models with CPU speeds ranging from 466MHz to 733MHz.

From LinuxWorld: “Just like elsewhere, Linux in Poland most often handles Internet and LAN jobs. But would you expect a four-star hotel to run all
of its operations on Linux? As the case of the Hotel Jan III Sobieski shows, you can run your entire business on Linux — if you
do it right.”

LinuxNews.pl writes “On the ftp servers nightly builds from new Mozilla Roadmap branch have just appeared, wchich probably means that during this month new Mozilla release 0.7 should become a fact. According to the Mozilla Roadmap it should have been done in the third quarter of last year, but.. nobody’s perfect. Now we hope that it will be worth to wait for it.

You can check what’s wrong with the current builds of mozilla. Seems like
lot’s of unused code lies down there.”