Archived on Geocrawler is a posting about the future of Mesa releases — specifically that Mesa 4.0 should be out within a month with full support for the new OpenGL 1.3 features.

Bloomberg: “International Business Machines Corp.’s chipmaking business, which has helped the company weather slowing economic growth this year, is now at the mercy of ailing network-equipment customers such as Cisco Systems Inc. and Alcatel SA.”

MSNBC discusses why the Internet cannot and will not remain immune from control, and that the real question of whether it can be controlled is a matter of how and by who, not a matter of when.

The Globe and Mail reports on the continuing growth of the Internet, and the effect of the industry’s continuing slow-down on Internet usage, particularly in North America.

From CNet: “Since the appearance of Napster and its many clones, a constant refrain has been leveled at the recording industry: Give consumers more than just music, and they might keep buying CDs. … Some early tangible signs of that idea are now beginning to come to market”.

Chris McDonough writes “The Zope News for August 17 has been released. …

Zope is an open source web application server that can be used for managing website content, building intranets, and creating portals. …

The top stories for this Zope News release include: Zope 2.4.0 released, Digital Creations pulls a name change, two security hotfixes released, documentation updates, ZDP alive?, EuroZope eats out, components are on the brain, Zope.org attacked by morons, more on opening up CVS, Zope 2.5 plan published, and the Zope “Weekly” News changes hands. …

For the full scoop, see http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZWN/ZWN-2001-08- 17”

ZDNet reports that Microsoft has announced its Canadian and US launch dates and prices.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/. Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org. Cox writes, “Ok, this completes the main merging/testing stuff that was going on. VM performance reports on this kernel would be appreciated.”

2.4.8-ac7
o Further small DRI/AGP updates (Jeff Hartmann)
o Update master makefile to force offset.h/
version.h/depend order (needed for x86-64) (Andi Kleen)
o Merge x86-64 architecture port code (Andi Kleen and co)
o Merge ixj update (Craig Southern)
o Further ixj cleanup/merge tweaks (me)
| Ie don’t blame him 😉

o Grand config file cleanup (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz,
Steven Cole)
o Add another byteswap vaio (Stelian Pop)
o Correct partition check oops fix (Kevin Flemming)
o via82cxx IDE DMA updates (Vojtech Pavlik)
| Enable 8231/8233 support, handle slightly
| out of spec PCI from 1.3GHz/12.5x Athlon
o Rip min/max use entirely out of isdn (Kai Germaschewski)
| To handle 2.4.9 compat disaster
o Update K6 bug url (André Dahlqvist)
o Possible fix for trix ad1848 fail (me)
o Add pci quirk warning for AMD766 errata 22 (me)
| Based on multiple “yes noapic fixed my
| dual athlon” reports.

2.4.8-ac6
o Pull Linus buffer.c/mem fixes into 2.4.8-ac (Rik van Riel)
o Make writeout smoother on zone specific
shortages (Marcelo Tosatti)
o Fix an md oops (Neil Brown)
o AD1848 isapnp handling (Miguel Freitas)
o sr_ioctl capacity reporting fix (Jens Axboe)
o Starfire update (Ion Badulescu)
o cmpci update (Carlos Gorges)
o UDF update, fix delete BUG()
trap (Ben Fennema)
o Move nmi defines so asm/irq.h isnt required (Russell King)
o Add experimental requirement to intermezzo (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Fix missing include (Tom Rini)
o Small eepro100 test updates (Arjan van de Ven)
o Reiserfs transaction tracking update (Chris Mason)
| Speeds up O_SYNC and fsync
o Update vfs_permission, handle root exec
weirdness (Christoph Hellwig)
o First piece of the CyberPro 5050 audio merge (Peter Wächtler)
o Tidy i810_audio cornercases of OSS compliance (Laurent Pinchart)
o IDE cdrom blacklist updates for DMA (Matt Domsch)
o Merge some i810 updates (Doug Ledford)
o Fix bug in i810 device removal (me)
| fortunately nobody yet has multiple ICH audio in one box 8)
o Natsemi gige driver (Ben LaHaise)
o Allow more I/O addresses on msnd_pinnacle (Steve Sycamore)
o Correct sys_tz definition (Andi Kleen)
o Remove unused prototypes from md (Andi Kleen)
o Fix flags wrong types in usb (Andi Kleen)
o Fix assorted wrong flags, add x86_64 defines (Andi Kleen)
o Fix flags types in i2o (Jes Sorensen)
o Add another vaio byteswap case (Stelian Pop)
o Add devfs support to usb scanner (Yves Duret)
o Fix an ess solo warning (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix flags types in 3ware driver (Jes Sorensen)
o Fix generic serial warnings (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix flag types in firewire drivers (Jes Sorensen)
o Fix flag types in dz serial (Jes Sorensen)
o Extend short name handling in fat based fs’s (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o Fix flag types in n_r3964 (Jes Sorensen)
o x86_64 ifdef hooks for raid and fbcon (Andi Kleen)

Network World Fusion reports that although the Code Red worm is set to reactivate this
weekend, work done by security tems during
the previous two outbreaks of the worm should cause the
damage to be minimal, according to the National
Infrastructure Protection Center.

From Wired.com: “A promotional website for Microsoft’s soon-to-be-released Windows XP operating system said
it would offer the same protection from viruses and hackers that major corporations use.

Not so, said a Microsoft executive who had the reference removed from the website after the Associated Press
questioned it.”