Yet another standards battle is looming on the horizon as AMD and Intel back new standards to connect CPUs to other chips. AMD has HyperTransport, a standard backed by the eight companies in charge of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium, including Apple. Intel prefers 3GIO, and has plans to sponsor an industry standards body to govern its choice. Full report at CNET News.com.

Junkbusters and the Electronic Privacy Information Center are among the five groups expected to the file a complaint the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday regarding Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system. The privacy advocates will ask the FTC to prevent the launched of Windows XP, claiming the Microsoft’s inclusion of Passport and other software will erode unknowing consumer’s privacy. Read the full story at CNET News.com.

Version 0.8 of procman, a process viewer and system monitor is now available. The latest version adds new configuration and display options, and a Turkish language translation.

What is procman:
Procman is a process viewer/system monitor. Some of its features are:
* icons for processes
* ability to hide processes that are of no interest
* tree view for process dependencies
* ability to not show threads - could cut down on the "mozilla uses 220 
MB
of memory" questions ;)
* nice easy to use interface - I hope, let me know if you think 
otherwise.

Dependencies:
Procman depends on libgtop version 1.0.6 or greater, and gal version
0.8.99.something and higher. Gal version 0.9.1 is suggested and 
packages are
available at ftp.ximian.com in the pub/ximian-gnome/ directory. Or you 
can
use Red-Carpet to get Gal.

Availablity:
The home-page for procman is here:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/kfv101/procman
Binaries for RedHat 7.x and Debian Woody are available and RedHat 6.x
packages are in the making.


New in 0.8:
* dialog to edit the hidden process list
* put cpu/mem/swap meters on faster timeout for better display
* preferences dialog
* new config option to not show icons. Speeds up load time a lot
* new config option to show threads
* Turkish translation

The latest edition of Kernel Cousin Debian Hurd is now online at kt.zork.net. The hot topics in this edition include PPP progrress reports, the soon-to-arrive F3 CD-ROMS, and advice on configuring X11.

Phil Hunt has released version 0.1.0 of Herbrip, the Herbivore Reference Implementation in Python. Herbivore is an an e-mail encryption initiative with the goal of encourage more people to use encrypted e-mail by making strong encryption more accessible. Herbrip is a command-line implementation of the Herbivore protocol. More information available at the Herbrip home page.

The CD-Rom Control is an X Window GUI for mounting, umounting/ejecting
the cd-rom drive. It comes in 3 ‘flavours’: Tk, Gtk and GNOME. It has an
autostart function and periodically checks the cd-rom drive to see if
the status of it has changed.
Version 3.6 is now available featuring major bug fixing to the timer
function.

Download it from
http://website.lineone.net/~dazzlepm/cdrom
or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/crcontrol

Borland today announced the release of Kylix Open Edition, a version of the company’s rapid application development software package optimized for building Open Source programs. Kylix Open Edition ships with CLX libraries under the GPL license, therfore, any applications that are built with a CLX library must make their sources freely available and distribute them under the terms of the GPL license. Full information at Borland’s Kylix Open Edition product page.

BSD Today has more information on the telnetd buffer overflow problem that was announced in a TESO security advisory. Get links to fixes, discussion, and more information.

New releases of Jython and BDFL top this week’s list of links of interest to the Python user and developer community. Read the full report below.

    BDFL releases 2.2a1!  Finn Bock releases 2.1a2 of Jython!
        http://www.python.org/2.2/http://www.jython.org/

    Python works well with XML.  In particular, WSDL
        http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/webservices-onlinecourse-bytitle/D092605075D1D67D86256A7E0042432D?OpenDocument
    and XSLT
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyana/
    are both available to Pyprogrammers.

    Nick Mathewson reaches conclusions after examination of data.
    His particular display of radical behavior has to do with newbie
    behavior, interpreted as reflections on the usability of Python
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f55698979c9dc75d

    Jon Udell explains WinForms, WS, .NET, and where Python fits in.
        http://www.byte.com/documents/s=804/byt20010712s0002/

    Stephen Figgins outlines what's involved in combining Python and
    C++
        http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/07/19/pythonnews.html

    David Mertz reviews PythonWorks Pro 1.2
        http://www.webreview.com/2001/07_20/developers/index02.shtml


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Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:

    Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional
    center of Pythonia
        http://www.python.org
    Notice especially the master FAQ
        http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html

    PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the
    daily python url
         http://www.pythonware.com/dailycomp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software.  Be
    sure to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce


    Michael Hudson continues Andrew Kuchling's marvelous tradition
    of summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every
    other week.
        http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/summaries/http://www.amk.ca/python/dev

    The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collect Python resources
        http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/   

    Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
    mailing lists
        http://www.python.org/sigs/

    The Python Software Foundation has replaced the Python Consortium
    as an independent nexus of activity
        http://www.python.org/psf/

    Cetus does much of the same
        http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html

    Python FAQTS
        http://python.faqts.com/

    Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction
        http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py

    Python Journal is at work on its second issue
        http://www.pythonjournal.com

    Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive
    what AI can generate
        http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python

    Archive probing tricks of the trade:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

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LinuxHardware takes a closer, harder look at Intel’s flagship Pentium 4 processor. The new review adds a couple new benchmarks and makes a price vs. performance comparisons that were not considered for the initial review.