Newsforge reader Martin Schröder writes: “The TeX merchandising project proudly presents the year=2001 TeX calendar.”

Features:

• format ISO A4
• 13 pages (12 month plus title)
• each month and the title with a picture by Duane Bibby, of which two (the title and the picture for February) are new. The others are taken from the books by Donald Knuth, Leslie Lamport, Wynter Snow and from TUG conferences.
• protective cover and backcover
• spiral calendar binding
• price: 10 EUR
• CIP-Data:
  

  the year=2001 TEX calendar
  Jena: IKS Garamond, 2000
  ISBN 3-934601-10-3

• All profits from the calendar go into the TeX Merchandising Fund

The year=2001 TeX calendar is available from:

J.F. Lehmanns

IKS Garamond

Amazon Germany (non-germans please order through Amazon)

A bookshop of your choice

More info here

PDAHealthWare receives top rating for it’s new ‘Health Empowerment Tools 1.0’ personal health software for the Palm OS. The rating received from Tucows.com, 5 out of 5. The software, designed by a physician allows users to manage multiple family members data relating to medication doses/alarms, menstrual cycle/ovulatory reminders, screening for cancers, tracking all lab data, setting physician appointments, and much more.
The software is available at link -Anonymous Reader

From CNN.com: “In a report released this month titled ‘Cyber Threats and Information Security:
Meeting the 21st Century Challenge,’ the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (CSIS) concluded that the government and the private sector should be
concerned about the ‘trustworthiness’ of future Microsoft products in the
aftermath of the hack into the company’s network. Former Deputy Secretary of
Defense John Hamre, a longtime cybersecurity proponent in the defense and
intelligence communities, heads the CSIS.”

one two threeblah,blah, blah, blah

Segfault strikes again, with this report: “The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations announced today that its Carnivore e-mail monitoring system does not,
contrary to previous reports, actually exist.”

Moshe Bar writes: “My new story is out at Byte.com. Here is the link.

From Segfault: Last year saw the threat of the Y2K (or year 2000) Bug that would cause computers to crash when the year changed due to the storage of years in computers using two, rather than four, digits. This year, some are predicting a new bug, the Year 2001 Bug (Y2K+1).

Linus Torvalds: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

This post from Linus to the kernel mailing list is at LinuxToday.–tjhanson

The Free Software Foundation wants to make sure you know about its
Educational Software in GNU,
namely:
Dr. Geo (geometry),
Ggradebook,
GNU Typist,
and some eartraining software called
Solfege.

Wired
reports
on the best IPOs of the year 2000. One computer-related business even made the list!