ZDNet reports that the U.S. and China are bickering over domain names containing Chinese characters, and the .CN (China) top level domain.

MSNBC mocks dot-com companies and their insistence on using buzzword babble when they may not even be sure what the words they are using means, just to sound up to date.

CNet reports on Hewlett-Packard’s hiring of Bruce Perens to help in their Linux initiative.

Andamooka, the open content support site, has added Maximum RPM by
Edward C. Bailey and Nupedia to its online library of open content books. LinuxPR has the press release.

“Anyone know if there’s some Linux-based application that will accept inputs from weather instruments and display the data etc on a school’s
internal or external webpage?” Find out the answer at Simple End User Linux.

From LinuxLookup: ”

About a year ago, I was introduced to the world of 3D modeling. More
specifically 3D Studio Max. Now I’m not the next chief of ILM studios,
nonetheless it is fun to mess around and see if I can model the perfect
coffee mug, or create a pair of underwear with its own particle system.
But there is one issue that stands in my way. As a college student I am
not willing to pay $3,500 to just ‘mess’ around. Isn’t there a better way?”

But if you’d previously got the impression that Sun was “open
sourcing” Solaris in some way, you’d be wide of the mark. Sun says
the Solaris 8 Foundation Source Program is for “Research Use”
only, which encompasses “research, reference, evaluation,
development, educational or personal use, excluding use or
distribution for direct or indirect commercial (including strategic)
gain or advantage.” The Register reports.

LinuxPR announces: “This month, Allan Dante examines WinLinux 2000, a Linux OS using your
existing DOS partition and uses a Windows installation and configuration
program to do it, reading system information about your hardware that
Windows has already been able to gather to help take the guesswork out of
things.”

“While most PDA enthusiasts are embroiled in profound discussions about which
handheld operating system — Palm OS, Windows CE or Epoc — is better,
others are exploring a much different route to PDA nirvana. Linux, the open
source operating system that’s made tremendous inroads in the Web server
world, is beginning to show up in PDAs as well.” From Brighthand.com.

Wired reports: “A year ago, Linux distributor Red Hat was the darling of Wall Street and investors who got in on its IPO. On Monday, it announced it was closing its San Francisco office.”