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!

by Robin Miller – Baltimore, MD – I am writing this live, just after midnight on Jan 1, 2001, at a gathering of programmers, sysadmins, and other geeks whose heroic efforts have managed to stave off the potentially world-crushing Y2.001K bug, or “Millenium bug,” which threatened to bring down the Internet and most of the world’s finance infrastructure as the world clicked over into the second thousand years of the Christian calendar.The gathering was organized by Jon Lasser, author of the book Think Unix, and his wife, Kathleen Ellis, maintainer of The Privacy Page. Here, at a slightly down-at-the-heels mansion in the heart of a city innocently celebrating New Year’s Eve with fireworks and noisemakers, concern about more serious matters have dominated all conversation.

Lasser says he “spent far more on this gathering than he spent on Y2K remedation,” which shows how seriously he took the Y2.001K warnings. In a possible excess of preparation, he even had a Baltimore County paramedic on hand, not to mention a keg of beer and plenty of wine and liquor.

The paramedic was off-duty (some said he was there primarily for the beer), but the wine and liquor bottles were certainly on duty and pouring as hard as they could. This activity seemed to be a major part of the planned defense against the dread potential worldwide computer disaster.

The gentleman selected to be Reader’s Digest European of the Year for 2000 is none other than Linus Benedict Torvalds.

LinuxOrbit reflects on the changes to the Linux desktop experience indepth over the course of the year 2000. “Another year peels off the calendar, and it becomes time to reflect upon the year gone by. This year was an interesting year for Linux desktop aficionados. The release of KDE 2.0 was seen as a huge leap forward in desktop environments.“

“Linux Orbit editor-in-chief John Gowin contacted Helix Code to catch up on where their products and projects were heading in the New Year. Miguel de Icaza, GNOME evangelist and developer and Helix Code co-founder was kind enough to answer our ten question interview.”
Slashdot
has the story.