The BBC reports that half a million Sony Playstation 2 games consoles go on sale across Europe Friday, and most of them are already sold before they hit the shelves.

From Eric S. Raymond: “The controversy over the presidential vote in Florida has resulted in
an unprecedented rash of press inquiries about `chad’. These have
come to me, apparently because the Jargon File has the most voluminous
entry on this word of any readily available source.
In response, I have released the 4.2.3 version of the Jargon File as a
special Presidential-election-cliffhanger edition with an updated
`chad’
entry. Enjoy!” Here’s the non-frames version of the Jargon File.

zez.org: about code has this article about CVS up today. It is the second part of a series. “CVS is a Version Control System which helps multiple developers manage software projects. In this second part I’ll show the basics of committing your changes to a project, adding new files, creating patches and explaining version numbers.” Those of you who missed the first part can read it here. –pkej

ExecuTrain announced on 24 November that it is offering
access to its online Linux library of courses at a reduced rate for
December and January. The courses form part of ExecuTrain’s
Virtual Campus (EVC) program. The story is at LinuxWorld.com.au-Anonymous Reader

The BBC reports on the testing of a new kind of helicopter: the nanocopter. No bigger then a virus, it is expected to have great use in medical research and treatment.

Security Focus’ Bugtraq warns of a buffer overflow exploit in modprobe, the programme used for loading kernel modules.

MacWeek comments on the utter lack of attention given to Apple’s Darwin project lately. The Darwin project is open source, argues the article, it’s not all Apple.

PC World IDG reports that “[f]orty-one countries stretching from Iceland to the former Soviet republic of Georgia could be close to approving a treaty that would fight cyber crime” within Europe.

ZDNet has an editorial on the legalizing of the on line music trade. Instead of spending their resources going after people who trade music, argues the author, go after the positive side of the trend and make this a winning situation for the corporations as well as the people listening to the music.

From LinuxPR: Linux2order.com, the online resource
offering the largest and most current selection of Linux applications on the
Internet, is on target to surpass 9,000 titles by the end of the year.

When the site was launched this summer, it offered more than 5,000 titles, and
has maintained a steady growth to more than 8,000 titles by the end of this month.
The company is in final preparations to add at least additional 1,000 titles by the
end of the year.