Some articles: “Tempted by .NET?,” “Smooth iron,” “March of the IDEs,” “Real Life Linux – Vital signs,” “Linux inside,” “Free speech – Enforcing the GPL, Part Two.” PDF format, at LinuxUser.co.uk.

The Register: “The open source movement wouldn’t exist without Microsoft, Bill Gates told his company’s
shareholder meeting earlier this week. Open source is also a follower, not an innovator, and destroys
jobs, the economy and world peace (we made that last bit up).

Gates was responding to a question from the audience. The transcript doesn’t say who it was, but the
question itself makes you wonder how the blazes some Linux-loving hippy longhair got into the
meeting in the first place.”

rod mccall writes: “Runtime Revolution announces the launch of version 1.1 of its new Cross-platform development environment. Revolution operates on Linux, Unix, MAC OS (Classic and OS X) and Windows. The new version includes support for MAC OS X, cross-platform database access for ODBC, Oracle and MySQL (depending on licence), enhanced multimedia and internet support. Using Revolution’s user interface layout tools and built-in English-like programming language, developers can create standalone, double-clickable applications for any supported platform. Since its launch in July of this year, Revolution has joined the ranks of
the leading developer tools and was recently awarded a top score rating of
five mice by MacUser magazine (UK). A recent independent study showed that
an application written in Revolution can take half the programming effort to
develop when compared to a leading competitor. A free Starter Kit Edition is available for you to download from: http://www.runrev.com/.

theHighlander write: “From CIOL: Palm CEO Carl Yankowski has resigned as Palm finalizes its plan to split its software and hardware groups into two separate, but wholly-owned businesses. The ex CEO said that the split in the company caused a change in role that no longer matches his aspirations”

Kelly McNeill writes: “Web trackers — software technology designed to track an individual’s Web surfing habits for marketing purposes — are becoming a more prevalent part of the Internet user experience than ever before, despite growing awareness of the privacy issues associated with them. The tracking companies that make and sell the software appeal to potential clients by presenting themselves as “solutions providers.” While they emphasize their ability to collate the information they collect, the real hard work of these market research firms is obtaining the actual data to analyze”

DebianPlanet: “I never ran into much trouble when compiling a Linux Kernel on my PC (using make menuconfig, make
install, make modules, make modules_install etc etc), but every time I try to compile a kernel (2.4.x) on
a PPC machine (I tried on those three : PowerMac 7300, G3/266, and G4 Cube 450), it just won’t work!”

ZDNET: “HP also alleged that Lim copied
seven years’ worth of a colleague’s
e-mail records, connected to
computers to which he had no
access privileges, transferred
confidential HP information outside
the company and deleted records
of his actions.”

LinuxSecurity: “This week, advisories were released for procmail, lpd, webalizer, sendmail, w3m, htdig, iptables, and the Linux kernel. The vendors include Caldera,
Conectiva, EnGarde, Red Hat, and SuSE.”

MSNBC: “Version 3.53 of both Trend Micro OfficeScan Corporate Edition and Trend Micro Virus Buster
Corporate Edition has a vulnerability in the Web-based management interface provided for client
management. The management console creates an /officescan/hotdownload directory, which can be
accessed without authentication. The configuration file ofcscan.ini contained in this directory can be
accessed by hackers, allowing them to view the password and crack it offline.”

OReillynet: “Diagnosing what went wrong after a system failure can prevent it from happening again. Jennifer Vesperman introduces the tools required for finding out what happened.”