From ZDCOUK: “Enterprises grappling with rocketing end-user storage
requirements could soon benefit from 100GB DVD-sized optical
disks and 10GB credit card-sized drives, thanks to pioneering
fluorescent multi-layer disk (FMD) technology from Constellation
3D (C3D).”

Newsforge reader Michel Morelli submitted this link (destination is in the Italian language): “In this article the ZioBudda’s “Pensiero” (a thought) (ZioBudda is an Italian Linux Portal) about the controversy” between Germany and HP.

Fairfax IT reviews the new Toshiba. “This model takes over the mantle as our fastest notebook computer on office applications. Its
combination of performance and low weight plus a good list of features adds to the value. It’s also
$2,000 cheaper than IBM’s comparable ThinkPad T21.”

Rarely has a technology had greater effect on the spread of the global marketplace than the
emergence of the Internet. From CNETnews.com.

Fairfax IT reports that, “with Palm offering Net connectivity at last, a whole new world has opened up for hand-held PCs.”

Wired.com reports on Amihotornot.com: “You never go wrong by appealing to vanity, as the two guys who set up the Am I Hot or Not? website found out.”

zez.org: about code has an editorial by Gunnstein Lye: “We human beings want to understand how things work. That’s why we don’t live in caves anymore, and why we do things like traveling to the moon and building computers. We have collected enormous amounts of information, and the giants whose shoulders we are standing on have never been taller.” –pkej

ConfigMan is liquidating assets and unless sold, will dissolve. We never recovered from the indefinite postponement of our venture capital closing last June. Of special interest is the offer for sale of our unpublished, incomplete configuration management toolkit. Please see ConfigMan’s web site for full details. –John Minnihan

“We’ve just released our open source developer’s agreement. The OSDA allows companies or employees to negotiate into their employment contracts the certainty of owning IP they develop under clear guidelines. This will help all the people out there who develop open source software but are afraid to release it, or more likely, are afraid their boss will react and ask for it to be taken down or ask for a cut of the (non-existent) action. Get it on the main web site, or on SourceForge.” –Andrew van der Stock