Kelly McNeill writes: “If sources quoted in a recent report published on The Register are to be believed, then many consumers may end up even more confused about MHz than even before. The report suggest that Motorola is scheduled to start high-volume production of the company’s upcoming G5 processor, in speeds ranging from 800 MHz on the low end to 1.6 GHz on the high, as soon as February 2002. If the speculative reports are true, Apple will have to market computers to a newly reeducated demographic that now believes MHz is unimportant. Apple’s new computers will be significantly faster but almost identical in MHz to those PCs employing misleading MHz levels.”

Joe Barr writes: LinuxWorld: “It’s not Big Brother we need to fear, it’s the Little Brothers with
which we do business that encroach on our privacy.”

Joe Barr writes: LinuxWorld: “It’s not Big Brother we need to fear, it’s the Little Brothers with
which we do business that encroach on our privacy.”

MSNBC: “In November, Microsoft plans to invite other companies to discuss plans
for developing an authentication network based on Kerberos. Assuming that
effort moves forward, users of Web services or corporations that incorporate
the latest version of Kerberos won’t have to sign up for Passport in order to
log on to multiple sites with one user name and password, Muglia said.”

The Register: “Here’s an embarrassing one, security firm Alternative Computer Technology appears to have got
infected with the Nimda virus which not only infects Windows PCs but also sticks itself on Web
servers, so some browsers pick it up automatically when they visit an infected site.”

Kelly McNeill writes: “When the first computer chip design pioneers huddled around in their low-tech, under-financed labs, one of the decisions they had to make was whether to stick in a clock. They needed something that would regulate all the components of the microprocessor in a reliable way, if they were to build something people could depend on. They decided there was no way around it, they had to go with a clock. Design historians say they made the right choice at the time. In any case, chip designers ever since have been trained to design microprocessors to work to the steady, if lightning-fast, beat of a clock. It’s worked great so far. But there will come a time soon when those tiny, oscillating crystals in chips will bump head on into the laws of physics. That’s why a handful of designers today are working on chips free from the constraints of man-made time.”

Mozilla: “Some time ago mozilla.org announced its intent to seek relicensing of Mozilla code under a new licensing scheme that would address perceived incompatibilities of the Mozilla Public
License (MPL) and Netscape Public License (NPL) with the GNU General Public License (GPL). Many people provided useful comments on this proposal, and in particular identified
Mozilla-related license issues that could arise with developers using the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for their own code.”

LWN’s newest issue is now online, with security, kernel, and distribution updates, plus commentary on the latest Linux news.

ZDNET: “Microsoft is ready to go ahead with the full-scale launch of its new Windows
XP operating system next month, with a major event in New York City as the city
recovers from last week’s attack on the World Trade Center, Chief Executive Steve
Ballmer said Wednesday.

“If New York wants us, I’m sure we’ll want to be there,” said Ballmer, fielding questions from several hundred
software executives at a Chicago Software Association luncheon.”

kazekiri writes: “
VA Linux Japan announced the sale of new 1U & 2U Linux server products,
press release is

here (Japanese text).
Look at this page,
VA1222 & VA2252’s body color is elegant white, and the preinstalled OS
is Red Hat Linux with VA Enhancements 7.1.1.
Besides, there is big news. VA Linux Japan will support Debian
GNU/Linux with these machines from the end of October.
apt-get, apt-get yeah!”