The Register reports on a letter it received from the Dutch cracker Dimitri, who disputes their dispute of his Microsoft cracking claim.
He wrote: “I really laught when I read your article. So you think I’m bluffing?” The Register adds, “A link was then given to hack mirror site Attrition which confirmed his side of the
story. The hack message, put up on Microsoft’s events Web site, ran: ‘Patching
your systems is very hard huh. MSG to Britney Spears. I loved your concert in the
netherlands.’ “

A ZD Net columnist talks about selling Linux to uers in Jamaica, and how you can almost see the change of expression on people’s faces when they finally “get” the benefits of Open Source software.

ZDNet UK reports on the new Asian-language registrations of Internet domain names. One company says it registered 16,000 domain names Friday (those Asians are ahead of us in a little time warp).

Bell Worldwide has released PreViking 0.3 under the GNU General Public License. PreViking is an Telephony Deamon written in C that has been designed with a modular structure that easily allows the addition of new services and the support of new hardware. Currently a calling card service is supplied and a service for recording voice prompts.

The Register does a story on Red Hat’s drive toward profits, saying the Linux distributor is on track for 100 percent revenue growth by the end of 2001.

ZDNET reports that Microsoft Corp. shareholders Thursday defeated
the company’s first-ever shareholder proposals
that would have forced the software giant to detail
political contributions and take a vocal stance on
human rights abuses in China.

2600’s layout and design artist, ShapeShifter, is scheduled to go on trial in Philadelphia on Tuesday, November 14. He was arrested during the Republican National Convention and held on half a million dollars bail.

Linux.com has this story: “The first thing you’ll need is fairly obvious. A box of some form running a GNU/Linux flavor of some sort (Or BSD, Solaris,
etc). Fortunately, there are lots of boxes laying around in most educational and business environments running this weird
thing called windows that are perfect candidates for such liberations.”

Wired.com reports: New devices cram up to 20 GB of data into packages small enough for a front pocket. Four USB gadgets that simplify file storage will be on display at Comdex.

Just as two Speakers of the House quit while trying to bring down Clinton, record execs continue trying to take down Napster. From Wired.com.