From the Wall Street Journal: The group assuming
technical management of the Internet, which will
likely select new suffixes for the world’s Web
addresses at a meeting later this week, has
essentially narrowed its choices to about 13
possibilities, eschewing suffixes such as “kidsâ€
and “xxx.â€

use.perl.org lists the latest module releases.

Intel is introducing two Celeron
chips, one running at 766 megahertz and the
other at 733 megahertz. Both use Intel’s 0.18
micron manufacturing process, which allows
the company to fit more transistors onto a
single chip and to get more of them out of a
single silicon wafer. From ZDNET.

IDG.com reports that users receive Navidad via e-mail in the form of an attachment with the name
NAVIDAD.EXE. Users receive the attachment as a reply message to an
e-mail sent to an infected user. Once the virus has infected a PC, it prevents
users from launching any programs of the .EXE type, which includes basic
applications such as Microsoft Word. Navidad is the Spanish word for
Christmas.

From Dallas News:Even the most gadget-crazed techies admit that pen and paper are hard to beat for convenience. On Sunday night, Bill Gates was expected to unveil the latest developments in Microsoft Corp.’s efforts to introduce what it calls a Tablet PC, a full-fledged personal computer that uses a pen and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard.

This machine had been modified to be Y2K compliant, (as posted on the Teledyn bbs)and had been their main production system until Sept.
No one mentions what it was doing for its last 30 days (playing nethack?).

Showing once again the characteristic
relentlessness of his company, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
kicked off the Fall Comdex trade show by demonstrating a
handful of technologies aimed at further blurring any distinction
between Windows and the Web. Seattle Times has the story.

Business Week reports that the music-file-sharing service’s future is uncertain if the Bertelsmann deal
forces it to largely abandon the rollicking peer-to-peer network that made it
so popular.

It seems to me that Open Source software as a whole suffers from “messiness” — this is perhaps due to the fact that a lot of Open Source stuff is written by students and hobbyists who do not (yet) have formal training in software engineering or design. This greenness shows in the programs: they (usually) work (kind of), but they tend to be brittle and exhibit interface quirks that an experienced engineer would instinctively avoid. –Kelly McNeill

Shark submitted this link: “The Open Source business model may make for an interesting college thesis. But, when it comes to making some serious money, Linux companies are a disaster in progress”..says this news report in CIOL.–Shark