From CNet News:
“WorldCom fired its top financial executive Tuesday after discovering that the company had improperly accounted for almost $4 billion on its
corporate balance sheets during the past five quarters.

In a statement issued late Tuesday, the company said an internal audit revealed that expenses had been booked as capital expenditures. Taking the new
information into account, the company said it would have reported a net loss for 2001 and the first quarter of 2002.”

From The Register:
“Sun Microsystems is buying infrastructure start-up Afara Websystems, Sun VP David Yen said today.
Afara says it produces IP traffic management systems on its one-page web site, and is backed by embedded systems investor Raza Foundries.
Afara already has a connection to Sun, employing for a while Kathirgamar Aingaran, one of the principle authors of the 64bit UltraSPARC V9 family. (V7
and 8 were the 32bit SPARCs.”

Ash writes “‘Ever gone to a website with your favorite browser to find out it ‘isn’t supported?’ How about attempt to do online banking without Internet Explorer? If your experiences are anything like mine you’ve found out that comercial world expects IE. It’s so sure that your going to use it that a large amount of companies use proprietary browser or language extensions blocking non IE users all together.’ Read the short story here.”

Koki writes: “This issue of the IBM developerWorks journal covers everything from porting your MFC apps to Linux to mastering Linux debugging techniques. It offers new strategies for developing with technologies like wireless, XML, and Java technologies, as well as with products like WebSphere and DB2. It also includes popular, in-depth technical articles. Register today to have the August 2002 issue of the printed journal mailed to you for free.”

Koki writes: “This issue of the IBM developerWorks journal covers everything from porting your MFC apps to Linux to mastering Linux debugging techniques. It offers new strategies for developing with technologies like wireless, XML, and Java technologies, as well as with products like WebSphere and DB2. It also includes popular, in-depth technical articles. Register today to have the August 2002 issue of the printed journal mailed to you for free.”

“To get a real grasp on this editor’s power, you need to know the basic ideas embodied in it, and a few fundamental building blocks that are used
throughout its many functions.

“One cause of editor misuse is that most users, even experienced ones, don’t really know what the editor is good at and what it’s not capable of.
Here’s a quick rundown on its capabilities.

“First, it’s strictly a general-purpose editor. It doesn’t format the text; it doesn’t have the handholding of a word processor; it doesn’t have
built-in special facilities for editing binaries, graphics, tables, outlines, or any programming language except Lisp.”

jeff writes: Tuesday, June 25th, 2002, from the home of Wayne’s World, Aurora IL
Tonight LIVE on
www.thelinuxshow.com. At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Jeff Gerhardt, Doc
Searls (Linux Journal), Arne Flones and Russ Pavlicek; have another strange and wonderful show lined up tonight on The Linux Show!!

Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the last few weeks tonight. In particular, we will talk about the risk being taken by Lindows, and Peru’s congressman Villanueva’s coordinated effort with Argentina, Spain, France and Mexico to legislate Linux and Open Source in government infrastructure.

Segment Two- The end of an Era Wake up folks you have just been screwed!

Tonight we are sad to infom you of a change to The Linux Show. Last Thursday the Librarian of the Library of Congress, in the excercise of authority to to settle arbitration road blocks, fixed prices on an industry group and thus established a new cost for broadcasters. This new cost is ONLY levied on those who are Webcasters. The process in this case is called a CARP or Copyright Aribitration Royalty Panel. If the Panel can not come up with a working formula, then the Librarian is empowered to set the prices as he or she sees fit.

You could call this taxation without representation, except that it is not a tax at all, but a payment from one industry group to another. For detail of this CARP settlement look at the document located at http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates_fin al.html.

This proceeding was to “obstensibly” provide a new income stream to artists. However, the money passes through the hands of the recording industry first, and then the recording artists label, and then it gets to the artist in a diluted form. In essence, This fee is a Welfare Program for the Recording Industry.

The main stream broadcast industry was able to get themselves excluded from this fee. So, this fee preserves the status quo within the broadcasting industry, by putting a fee on the backs of the only serious competition that broadcast has seen come along in years. So, this fee is also a Welfare Program for the OLD Broadcast Industry.

Had OLD non-innovative broadcasters been subject to this same fee structure, a radio station would have to pay the recording industry a fee amounting to greater than their collective advertising revenues. Examine as an example a radio station in a secondary market that has 100,000 average listeners per hour, would generate fees in excess of $6,750,000.00 per year. This would cripple the broadcast industry, and therefore was NOT approved. However, this identicle level of fees was assessed to webcasters. So, if you did not sit on your laurals, and tried to innovate in new technologies, you get punished for it. The status quo gets rewarded.

This means the death of the Webcasting Industry as we know it. Freedom of CHOICE has been taken away from you by the recording industry again. Just like the artificial $16.95 retail cost of a CD that was created by the recording industry is a constant screw job on the consumer, you have once again been screwed by the imposition of CARP.

So, today The Linx Show announes our last show using our present format. From this day forward we WILL NOT play music by any artist or song writer, that does not provide
Music on a OPEN basis.

If you are in a band or represent an artist, please contact us asap to be added to our play list.
Please join us on the show, and check our IRC Chat(irc.thelinuxshow.com
#linuxshow).
Remember tune in at 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et. NOTE: we are now on
Daylight Saving Time in the US.
Catch the Linux show at www.thelinuxshow.com

Glykoriza writes: “Lycoris seems to do great at the Linux Desktop, they released their latest beta a few days ago, and they have already made deals with retailers, like Fry’s. OSNews hosts an interview with Lycoris’ CTO and founder, Joseph Cheek.”

Timothy R. Butler writes: “OEone, the developer of the internet appliance-like HomeBase Linux distribution, announced that HomeBase 1.5 has been released. The new release adds a number of nice features on to the system we reviewed back in March. Find out more at OfB.biz.”

Annette Oevermann writes: Applied Microsystems Corp. (NASDAQ: APMC) announces today its entry into the embedded Linux market with the introduction of its popular CodeTEST for Embedded Linux software test and analysis tool suite. CodeTEST® for Embedded Linux is engineered to support all variations of embedded Linux, especially MontaVista Linux® — the industry’s most widely used Linux development platform for embedded systems.

For the first time, developers and testers will have the ability to conduct highly accurate and comprehensive software performance testing, memory testing, RTOS and source code level execution trace, and code coverage on applications based on an embedded Linux platform.

“Developers worldwide using MontaVista Linux have been asking for tools just like CodeTEST,” explains Kevin Morgan, vice president of engineering at MontaVista Software. “CodeTEST allows for hardware tracing of kernel and driver code, allowing you to get profile reports, code coverage analysis, and an excellent code browser that highlights which parts of your code have been executed.”

Embedded Linux users can use CodeTEST to improve the speed and efficiency of their applications, prevent crashes due to memory leaks and errors, analyze test effectiveness, and expedite mission-critical system certifications. CodeTEST ACT -? Applied?s Advanced Coverage Tool -? is now also available to embedded Linux developers for the first time, opening up new opportunities for developers in the avionics industry who need “Level A” coverage and who seek to expedite the FAA?s DO-178B tool qualification process.

“Industry studies report over 40 percent of all unplanned downtime in a product development/test cycle is a result of software failures and errors. CodeTEST helps development and test teams save their company valuable time and money by tackling the very causes of these software failures head on and quickly,” according to Applied?s General Manager Todd Greenwalt. “CodeTEST, for example, measures over 128,000 real-time function executions at once; pinpoints and calculates the impact of things like algorithmic errors, call-pair distribution and Interrupt Service Routines; conducts point-to-point measurements of the highest possible fidelity; assesses how much CPU functions/tasks consume; and produces user-friendly reports so you can easily identify and analyze issues straight away in your software.”

Pricing & Availability

Available immediately, CodeTEST for Embedded Linux is sold as a complete suite or as separate modules for performance, memory, trace, coverage and advanced coverage. For pricing details, contact info@amc.com.

About MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 2.1

MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 2.1, one of the most widely used embedded Linux development platforms, includes an impressive array of cross-development tools for system and application code, unparalleled processor and board support, native real-time performance in Linux, and hundreds of deployable utilities, libraries, drivers, and other run-time components. Earlier this month the prestigious French publication “Electronique,” named MontaVista? Linux® Professional Edition 2.1 as the “Best Embedded Tool and Development Solution for 2002.” Earlier this year, this product was also named “Best Embedded Linux Solution” at the Linux World and Expo in New York. For more information, please visit http://www.mvista.com/pro/index.html

About Applied Microsystems

Applied Microsystems expedites the development, test and deployment of business- and safety-critical embedded systems. Applied is a leading provider of innovative technologies, such as application and low-level embedded software test, debug, and verification tools.

Using Applied?s tools, engineers test, debug, and verify embedded software found in optical or wireless voice and data communications networks; airborne, medical, and automotive systems; industrial automation, console games, and consumer electronics. Applied?s solutions deliver the visibility, reliability, and credibility required in today?s complex business-critical embedded systems. Applied?s most popular tools include NetROM®, PowerTAP®, CodeTAP®, SuperTAP®, and CodeTEST®.

The company can be reached at P.O. Box 97002, Redmond, WA 98073-9702; by phone at 800-426-3925; or by e-mail at info@amc.com. Visit Applied on the Web at www.amc.com.

All trademarks and copyrights are property of their respective owners and are protected therein.

Contacts:

Alice Gannon-McKinley,
Applied Microsystems Corporation,
425.882.5233,
aliceg@amc.com,
www.amc.com/news

Particia Colby,
PR Strategy/New Business,
Pacifico, Inc. (for MontaVista),
408.293.8600 ext. 340,
pcolby@pacifico.com