ZDNet explores what Microsoft would be like if CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates were to leave the company. Is Microsoft Bill, or are they separate entities?

Linux World explains what, exactly, a run level is. From shutting down (0) to rebooting (6), run levels often confuse users new to Linux.

Linux PR has an announcement by Loki about two new games the company will be porting to Linux. Rune and Heavy Metal F.A.K.K 2 were released for Windows and Mac to positive reviews recently.

Computer World reports that AOL is suing a Floridian company for millions of pornography-advertising unsolicited email messages sent to AOL users resulting in as many as a quarter million complaints in a single day.

“This is the first of two articles by Joe Orton on WebDAV, the distributed authoring protocol for HTTP. The first article
explains what WebDAV is, and the current state of client and server support.” Article at ApacheWeek

From ApacheWeek: “Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL) increase the security of Client Authentication Realms by enabling server
administrators to block client certificates that have been revoked because they are known to have been
compromised.”

“After Netscape claimed that this new version 6 has “the best standards support of any browser engine available. It supports more Web standards more deeply, more consistently across platforms and devices than any other browser engine in history.” We simply couldn’t resist giving this new release a try.” Read the full review at LinuxLookup-Anonymous Reader

EE Times reports: “The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday (Jan. 4) that it
will examine whether frequencies below 3 GHz can be utilized to help speed the
introduction of third-generation and other advanced wireless services.”

Bloomberg via CNET News.com reports: “Royal Philips Electronics, Europe’s largest consumer-electronics maker, will bring in nearly $43 million less
annually when some of its CD patents expire in Asia and Europe this summer.”

At Linux Today, from a post to the Kernel Mailing List: ” In a move unanimously hailed by the trade press and industry analysts as
being a sure sign of incipient braindamage, Linus Torvalds (also known as
the “father of Linux” or, more commonly, as “mush-for-brains”) decided
that enough is enough, and that things don’t get better from having the
same people test it over and over again. In short, 2.4.0 is out there.” Thanks to NewsForge reader tjhanson.