NewsForge located this webcam positioned at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 45th Street in Manhattan, brought to you by a company called “Manhattan Riot.” Very little auto traffic, some foot traffic. Seems clear. Here’s another skyline cam— and another from Greenwich Village facing in the direction of the attack.>

From a release at Yahoo Finance: “With great sadness, Akamai Technologies, Inc. today
announced the passing of Daniel C. Lewin, co-founder, chief technology officer and board member of the Company. American Airlines confirmed
that he was on board the Boston to Los Angeles flight that crashed in New York City today.” CNET News.com has a longer report.

Representatives from major local phone companies and wireless carriers said early indications
show little physical damage to their networks, but a crushing volume of phone calls has blocked
hundreds of thousands of callers from connecting with family, friends and coworkers. Most of the
major phone companies have requested that people refrain from flooding their networks with calls. Full story at CNET News.com.

Reported at CNET News.com: “Moments after airplanes separately crashed into
both towers of the World Trade Center, and then later
the Pentagon, Web sites for the major news outlets
were swamped by an overflow of traffic.

Major Web news outlets such as CNN.com, MSNBC.com,
Yahoo News, ABCNews.com and FoxNews.com have been
slow to respond.

Keynote Systems, which measures Internet performance, said that by late morning the Web sites it
tracks were taking slightly longer to reach–more than four seconds, instead of the average 3.5
seconds.”

Posted to the kde-core-devel list: “Although not development related, this is not OT IMHO.

Living almost at the other side of the world, I would like to express
my heartfelt and deepest sympathy for the victims and their relatives
of the cowardly terroristic acts against innocent people in NYC and
Washington DC.”

From: Uwe Thiem 
To: kde-core-devel@kde.org
Cc: KDE Developers 
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:32:09 +0200 (WAST)


Although not development related, this is not OT IMHO.

Living almost at the other side of the world, I would like to express
my heartfelt and deepest sympathy for the victims and their relatives
of the cowardly terroristic acts against innocent people in NYC and
Washington DC. I sincerely hope that most people were able to escape
the towers of the WTC and the Pentagon before they collapsed and I
also hope that our fellow KDE folks in NYC, Bernd and Andreas, are
alive, unharmed and uninjured.

This has been a dark day. An apparently well planned series of crimes
of hate and inhumanity certainly claimed a high number of lives. Let's
hope that the death toll is not skyrocketing.

I would also like to express my hope that the international community
of KDE folks will remain the community of reason it always has been.
Let's continue to stay and work together, regardless of nationality,
sex, skincolour, religion (or non of it), cultur, sexual orientation,
political believes, language or age. Let's be a voice of reason and
hope - in a situation of tragedy and grief like today as we have been
regarding the comuter desktop.

Our hearts and souls are with you over there on the other side of the
Atlantic hit by the deadly deeds of criminals.

Uwe 

NewsForge has noted that NYTimes.com appears to be open for business, though access may be a bit slow at times due to heavy demand. Very clear time-lapse photos of the Trade Center crash.

From an AP report at The Arizona Republic: “In a conference room dotted by portraits of decorated Air Force officers,
the commander in chief announced that the U.S. military was on
“high-alert status.”

“Freedom itself was attacked this morning and I assure you freedom will be
defended. Make no mistake. The United States will hunt down and pursue
those responsible for these cowardly actions.””

Posted at debian.org. In this edition: Over 102 orphaned and 32 up for adoption packages (including kicq, knews, and mcvert) are looking for a new home — maybe yours; accounts of Debian on IPv6-enabled hosts; and new packages for your downloading enjoyment. Plus: How to make short work of idiots who can’t unsubscribe themselves from a mailing list.

Linux Journal: “Then I got to thinking. Many people pick commercial software because, well, it is easy to steal. It gets marketed, so they know it exits. Then they find
someone or somewhere that they can “borrow” it from.

Another data point was from El Salvador. There used to be two Linux users registered with the Linux Counter. Microsoft did a license crack-down
and the number jumped to 141.

If commercial software vendors did their job better–that is, enforced their licensing–it could help the free software movement a lot. We owe it to the
computer users of the world to stop complaining about restrictive licenses for Microsoft software, and get on with the development of open solutions.”

LinuxToday has posted a nice HTML-ized version of the weekly mailer. This week’s summary: “New MandrakeExpert Support Center is Open;
MandrakeSoft Stock-buying Tip; Cooker Weekly News Summary; Mandrake 8.1
Beta 3 Released; What’s a “Raklet”?; Business Case of the Week;
MandrakeForum Headlines; What’s New at MandrakeUser.org?”