NewsBytes reports that a New South Wales Member of Parliament at the centre of a parliamentary computer hacking scandal has resigned his post.

Linux Journal explains the usefulness of remote sessions in X, especially in times of crisis such as when your monitor ceases to function, and explains how to set up remote X sessions over SSH.

Network World Fusion reports that some companies are planning to ship computers with Microsoft’s Windows XP as much as a month ahead of its scheduled October 25th release.

Kelly McNeill writes “With Microsoft’s petition to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, we see an opportunity to not only revisit the decision made by Judge Jackson last year, but also to bring the highest court a discussion of the merits of the Sherman and Clayton Acts, the foundation of antitrust legislation in the United States. Microsoft has been reluctant over the past few years to make an issue of whether antitrust legislation is even valid to begin with. Most people are rightfully concerned about the concentration of power in the hands of the few. And most people understandably assume that if it’s the law, you shouldn’t question it. But this author seems to think we should.”

Linux PR has an announcement from Connectiva about the launch of its Connectiva Linux version 7.0.

ZDNet reports that “[o]nline film provider MovieFlix on Monday will launch a paid subscription service” offering hundreds of movies for a subscription fee, and paying royalties to the makers of the movies.

Kelly McNeill writes “Although the file format was long thought to be immune to attack, investigators have discovered the first virus that exploits Adobe Systems’ Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Named “Peachy” by McAfee virus hunters at Network Associates Tuesday, the e-mail worm embeds itself in a PDF file that is sent as an attachment through Microsoft’s Outlook address book. Users of the free Acrobat Reader program are unaffected by the new virus, but the revelation is prompting questions over the file format’s basic security.” This article expands on yesterday’s report of the problem.

ZDNet reports that Palm CEO Carl Yankowski says his company is losing corporate market share to Compaq’s IPaq because Palm is not marketing aggressively enough.

Linux Magazine interviews Red Hat’s Matthew Szulik, calling Red Hat “a true trailblazer in the open source community.”

“As newer, faster, better processors emerge some forget that the Pentium 3 processor
is still a lot of power packed into a chip. Those on a limited budget and still craving
more power from an Intel chip will look to the higher clock rate Pentium 3s. The
Pentium 3 is still a fine upgrade path for those running a chip at 500MHz or below.
Those who plan on buying the latest in video card technology will surely benefit from
an upgrade to a Pentium 3 1GHz or above. Considering all of this, we will now take
one last look at single processor Pentium 3 boards based on the i815EP chipset.
Included in this review are three boards: the Abit SA6R, the SOYO SY-7IS2, and the DFI CS61-EC.” From LinuxHardware.org.