The Industry Standard reports it, we’re just pointing in their direction: “Can Microsoft rescue the technology economy?
Some savvy investors think so. The theory is that
the introduction of Windows XP on Oct. 25 will be
met with a surge of related personal computer
sales, first to businesses and later to consumers.
To take full advantage of XP, the thinking goes,
will require not just an upgrade but also new
hardware.

If the theory is right – and you certainly wouldn’t
know it from the recent news out of the PC
industry, where demand has been sinking and
prices sliding – then XP could also boost a range
of related companies.”

eWEEK reviews version 2.08 of the Linux Terminal Server Project, calling it “a stable
open-source offering that converts virtually all major
distributions of Linux into an X Window terminal server for
thin clients.”

DebianPlanet explains a recent outage: “We experianced some offtime as a result of the slashdotting we receive following the
article on Woody’s freeze. Our generous sponsors uklinux.net, temporarily suspended
our account, when the load on the server became excessive, the problems were
worsened by the poor PHP-Nuke code, which lead to the MySQL server overloading
and leading to a load on the server of approximately 50 at certain times. Because the
server is a shared resource running essential services for uklinux.net (mail etc) they
took the wise decision to drop the site.” All is well, now.

Microsoft may have dodged the breakup bullet in the United States (for now), but a European Commission investigation of the company could produce a less desireable outcome. European governments have less of a burden than their U.S. counterparts when proving economic or competitive harm, and one of the two EC investigations has resulted in a “Statement of Objections” which, as this Interactive Week story says, often leads to an adverse opinion against a company.

Anonymous Reader writes “LinuxEmu has done an interview with the gnuboy coder Laguna. He is talking about the past, novadays and present state of his masterpiece. Laguna is also talking about the open source,
lamers requesting roms and of course our beloved OS Linux. The interview is available here:
http://linuxemu.retrofaction.com/gnuboy-interview. html.

Intel’s latest Pentium 4 chips are now availaible in 1.6 and 1.8GHz flavors; Intel now offers its P4 family of chips in 100MHz increments from 1.3 to 1.8GHz. The company says users can expect a 3 to 7 percent gain in performance from each increasingly faster chip, however, benchmarks show that even the new 1.7GHz P4 still trails behind AMD’s 1.33 GHz AMD Athlon chips in some areas. Story from PC World.

The Gramm-Leach-Billey Act goes into effect this Sunday July 8, and a few thousand U.S.-based Web sites could be in hot water for non-compliance with the act’s new disclosure terms. A financial reform measure, Gramm-Leach-Billey includes terms that address how companies collect and share non-public personal information with third parties, and requires companies to offer consumers an “opt-out” of passing personal information along to third parties. Full story at ZDNet News.

Looking for truly innovative devices at this years’ TechXNY show was akin to searching for a needle in a haystack. As this San Jose Mercury story at the Chicago Tribune says, such shows are “packed with gee-whiz products we can really do without.” Among the few items that impressed the correspondents the most were software that transforms Motorola pagers into e-mail devices, Compaq’s ultralight, ultrathin Evo N200 laptop, and color laser printers priced for the consumer market.

LinuxPR: “Kmud is a free graphical MUD client for Linux and other Unix platforms running
KDE. It is an useful and easy to use program for all people who want a nice
graphical interface instead of a simple telnet for playing MUDs. Kmud is published
under the GNU General Public License.”

LinuxPR press release: “LogOn Technology Transfer recently concluded a successful pan European
Linux@work series that stopped in 9 cities and attracted more than 2,500
participants.

The Linux@work events were designed for IT professionals as well as for the
Linux community members and focused on real solutions for putting Linux to work
in business. Each event was featuring a one-day-conference and an exhibiton
area. Exhibitors demonstrated the latest in products and services for Linux.”