Better late than never, ZDNet reports that Caldera International is “bucking a trend” by charging for each copy of Linux customers use.

PRNewsWire: “Liquid Audio, Inc. (Nasdaq: LQID) today announced that the U.S. Patent Office
has awarded the company a patent (#6,219,634) for its efficient watermark
technique used for distributing secure digital music files. This newly
patented invention covers a technique for embedding and detecting watermark
data within an audio signal in a computationally efficient way. The optimum
level for the watermark signal is determined using mathematical algorithms
that require significantly less processing power than other techniques. This
greatly increases the watermark decoder’s ability to detect the watermark
inside recorded music.”

Wired: “Everything, everywhere, all the time. That’s the promise of many of the 11 digital music subscription services this year. The only problem: You’ll need a second job to afford music online.”

The Register: “If there was a “stunning victory” for Microsoft Thursday, the DoJ certainly hadn’t
heard of it. Ashcroft stayed on message, and the theme remained very clear: federal
laws have been broken.

“My own view is that this is a victory for the Department, and so the Department is
not, I believe, in a weakened position here,” Ashcroft said off script. “The court did
find that Microsoft had engaged in unlawful conduct to maintain its dominant position
in the computer operating system arena.”

Wired: “Instead of shelling out money to buy a new PC game, users now have the opportunity to go on the Web and rent a streamed version by the hour.”

The Register: “AMD is preparing to take its Athlon MP server line to 1.4GHz real soon now.

Certainly, the part has appeared on at least one online chip reseller’s price lists.
Take a look at ENPC.com, we were told, so we did, and there we found this page.”

Wired: “The Microsoft founder says he’s happy with the appeals court decision and thinks the ruling may open the way for a settlement.”

“In this article we will try to answer the following three questions:

1.How well will the Pentium 4 and Athlon perform with software that is compiled with newer compilers (MS Visual 7.0 and Intel C
5.0.1)?
2.Can better compilers automatically create SSE-2 optimized code from simple C++ code?
3.Can Pentium 4 aware compilers boost the Pentium 4’s floating-point performance past the strong FPU of the Athlon?” More at Ace’s Hardware.

“System administrators worldwide recently reported signs that another self-spreading program, or worm, had started to
infect Linux systems. The worm’s existence has given rise to two schools of thought. One, which feels that the worm will
help in securing the system while the other is of the opinion that a worm is a worm after all and has to be eradicated. In
this article we bring you the arguments put forth by the `cool about Cheese’ school.” More at FreeOS.com.

“In this article we introduce Network Information System (NIS) in brief and describe how to setup NIS on a Linux system.

When running a local area network, one of the goals is usually to provide an environment to the users that make the
network transparent. An important step for this is to keep vital data such as user account information (e.g. /etc/hosts,
/etc/passwd and /etc/group files) synchronized between all hosts. For host name resolution, a powerful and sophisticated
service – DNS exists. For other tasks, there is no such specialized service. Moreover, if you manage only a small closed
intranet without Internet connectivity, setting up DNS may not seem worth the trouble for many administrators.” More at FreeOS.com.