RJV asked (through Slashdot) if there is any good medical record software for Unix. “I’m currently a 4th year medical student at an unnamed University program. I’m taking a medical informatics elective with the goal of converting a clinical department over to using Linux. “

O’Reilly and Associates has several tips for better Linux use posted on their Linux section, excerpted from their “Linux in a Nutshell” book.

“The Internet traffic and content distribution market was shaken up last week
when Inktomi and Cisco announced competing consortia to speed Internet
content to users. Content Bridge has been created by Inktomi to challenge
Akamai’s leadership. Cisco’s Content Alliance is based on Akamai technology.
Both groups have many of the same members.” ITWeek story.

“Timpanogas Research Group, Inc.
located in Orem, Utah is pleased to announce it will provide NetWare File
System and Migration Capabilities on Caldera’s SCO Unix Technologies. TRG is
also announcing that it will postpone plans to provide an Open Source
NetWare(TM) Directory Services Implementation on the Linux platform.” Press release at PRWire.

Microsoft is now 25 years old, and the company’s hometown paper, the Seattle Times, is making much of it.

A company in San Jose, California, is offering “geek house calls” for $39 per hour. They don’t claim their people are supertechs, just experienced users who can do things like software installation, PC setup, and answer questions about how to do things like find information on the Internet. Will the concept fly? read the current Modem Driver column at sv.com and decide for yourself.

ABC News ponders dot-com companies that run out of money and ask employees to stick around for reduced (or no) pay — often in return for larger stock options or an equity stake — until they can get it together, and whether workers who go for this kind of deal are doing the right thing or simply nuts.

Dallas Morning News piece about the difficulties non-profits have attracting tech workers because they offer comparatively low salaries. Quote: “Recruiters say it can be difficult to communicate the ideals of community service and
social work to engineers and programmers who are being tempted by big-buck salaries
from dot.coms and other tech companies.”

The Information Technology Association of America says that 70% of US demand for tech workers comes from non-tech companies that employ between 50 an 100 people. These companies, their larger brethren, and government agencies can’t compete with dot-come and other pure tech companies when it comes to salaries and perqs, but they often offer their employees a higher quality of life instead — including shorter hours and less stress. Washington Post article.

Washington Post story talks of LifeMinders, Inc., an online company that asks people to reveal all kinds of personal details about themselves — and has gotten millions to do so by helping to organize their lives in return.