IDG: “Struggling broadband Internet provider Excite@Home Inc. said Monday its executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) resigned from the
company.

In a brief statement, the Redwood City, California-based company said Mark McEachen had resigned “and will leave the company to pursue other
opportunities, effective September 9, 2001.”

LinuxSecurity: “In light of the interest in the recently discovered Linux based Remote Shell Trojan, vnunet.com has uncovered more details of the worm’s functionality in
a bid to dispel any fear, uncertainty and doubt. Security experts analysing the Trojan have said that it infects Linux Executable and Linking Format (ELF)
files, initially surfacing in the /bin directory.”

Slashdotters discuss further litigation being pursued by lawyers in the MS case, and suing Intel for patent infringement.

BSDToday: “Many people, upon hearing of FreeBSD 5.0’s untimely delay for a full year, have asked what they can do to help 5.0 get back on track. What follows, in no particular order, is a list of outstanding projects for 5.0 and as much information on them as Jordan Hubbard has been able to collect thus far.”

Linus Torvalds: “The old three-argument form is still available as “min_t()/max_t()”, and
pretty much all old three-argument users have just been moved over to this
one. For all the people who hate the three-argument version, if you send
patches to turn things into the two-argument one, I’ll certainly apply
them. I only ask that you verify that you don’t get any warnings in the
process.”

Linux 2.4.10-pre8
From: Linus Torvalds 
To: Kernel Mailing List 
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:49:36 -0700 (PDT)


The most noticeable thing here is how the three-argument form of
"min()/max()" are a thing of the past, and instead we have a regular
two-argument form that is _really_ anal about type-checking. It will warn
if the two arguments are of different types.

The old three-argument form is still available as "min_t()/max_t()", and
pretty much all old three-argument users have just been moved over to this
one. For all the people who hate the three-argument version, if you send
patches to turn things into the two-argument one, I'll certainly apply
them. I only ask that you verify that you don't get any warnings in the
process..

(And the number of type clashes was quite surprising. A lot of the users
of min/max I looked at looked rather suspicious and definitely did NOT
have the same types or even signs).

Other minor changes too.

                 Linus

-----
pre8:
 - Christoph Hellwig: clean up personality handling a bit
 - Robert Love: update sysctl/vm documentation
 - make the three-argument (that everybody hates) "min()" be "min_t()",
   and introduce a type-anal "min()" that complains about arguments of
   different types.

Kelly McNeill writes “Despite its speed advantages I have always speculated that Apple only remained within the 6800, 604, G3 or G4 family of processors primarily because of the licensing restrictions Microsoft imposed upon PC manufacturers throughout the years. In a compelling turn of events, part of the proposed Microsoft penalty for anti-competitive business practices includes requiring that the company no longer lock PC makers into agreements requiring the promotion, distribution or use of Microsoft products. If there ever was a time when Apple could broaden its market share through licensing agreements with other PC manufacturers, it is now.”

ZDNet reports that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is cracking down on cyber-squatting — registering domains illegitimately — in the new .info top-level domain.

From MSNBC: “The first international treaty to combat cybercrime, including malicious hacking, financial fraud, and child pornography over the Internet, is headed for ratification by the Council of Europe this November. Given the global nature of Internet crime, the treaty is an essential first step. But critics say it doesn’t go far enough to protect privacy and individual rights.”

Kelly McNeill writes “From the recently completed Web2001 Internet and Mobile Conference and Exposition, held at the Moscone convention center in San Francisco, came an interesting set of keynote speakers for attendees. Rather than major computer or software company CEOs, we had commentators on Internet culture speaking to a conference full of Web developers and corporate strategists charged with developing Web initiatives. One very important speaker was Dr. Lawrence Lessig, Stanford law professor, speaking on the threat represented by corporate interests to the creativity of the Web. It is this creativity that is being squashed and suppressed by legal wrangling and debate.”

From ZDNet: “Microsoft is drafting a settlement proposal for a new round of talks with the government this week, aimed at resolving the landmark antitrust suit against it, lawyers close to the case said.”