ComputerNewsDaily: “The beige box that changed the world will celebrate its 20th birthday
Wednesday night.

The icing on the cake should read: You weren’t first, but your impact
was revolutionary.

The original IBM PC was introduced on Aug. 12, 1981, and the two
companies that benefited the most from it – Intel and Microsoft – are
sponsoring a party with San Jose’s Tech Museum of Innovation to
celebrate its success and reflect on its significance.”

The Register: “Compaq is sueing three dealer principals for the recovery of $20m in rebates
allegedly defrauded from the company.

Compaq accuses Harry Martin and Shafiq Ahhmed of Millenium Technology Group,
a Virginia-based computer broker, and Stephen Pridemore, of South Carolina
Creative Resources Group Inc, of conspiring to “defraud Compaq into paying
millions of dollars
in unearned rebates and special marketing support funds”.

“Last time I had looked at Licq, a solution for your ICQ needs on Linux. I was supposed to follow up the next with a review
of an AOL IM client. As you can see, I ended up taking a bit longer than a week! This week I take a look at a client that’ll
help you keep in touch with all your “Buddys” on AOL Instant Messenger. Like with ICQ, the only official version
available is a Java client. Once again, the lack of an official native client is not much of a problem and there are several
Linux clones for you to choose from. The one that I am taking a look at is Gaim, a feature rich, easy to use and
lightweight client for AOL.” More at FreeOS.com.

Wired: “Campus Party 2001” at Valencia University is the biggest computer event in Spain, and home to what may be the biggest local connection in the world. Matt Hilburn reports from Spain.

Slashdotters are talking about AT&T and @home’s enforcement of the “no web server” rule in the wake of the Code Red flak.

ComputerNewsDaily: “The recording industry, emboldened by a slew of court wins that have
shut down Napster, is now asking a judge for a final verdict against the
controversial online music company.”

“Perl for the Web is a book I wrote that was published by New Riders in
August 2001. It provides tools and strategies to improve the
performance of existing Web applications in Perl. It also provides
principles and ideas that help Web programmers create an extensible
framework for future growth.” The entire book is online and freely available at Globalspin.com.

DallasNews: “Some federal judges are protesting the monitoring of their computers by Washington managers concerned about personal Internet use.”

LinuxJournal: “If you are running Linux, or most UNIX variants, and you have taken appropriate precautions, you probably have a simple workaround. This workaround
is also useful for the times when your X server crashes, and you need to clean up the carcass. I am writing this on my desktop computer in spite of the
fact that my monitor just died. I’m using my laptop as an X terminal. The purpose of this note is to tell you how to do that.”

LWN’s leading items this week include Lineo, McAfee, Sklyarov, and Metatext.