The Register: “Some interesting ATI Radeon 2 specs have appeared on the Web, but we’re
sceptical.

According to a posting at French site Puces 3D, the Radeon 2 will be based on a
350MHz core equipped with six rendering pipelines, contain a programmable vertex
shader and support DirectX 8.1. The chip will be fabbed at 0.15 micron.”

The Register: “If a recent story by ZD-Net is accurate, then it appears Microsoft has a new
marketing tool for encouraging business customers to sign up for their easy-peasy,
but rather expensive, software license subscription scheme in favor of the old,
confusing, audit-it-yourself deal.

The gimmick involves demanding detailed license audits of medium-sized
businesses and making sure they’re considerably more expensive and troublesome
than the new Enterprise Agreement Subscription scheme, which offers free
upgrades and on-line license-management tools along with its higher sticker price.”

LinuxFocus: “RamFs is a very simple file system with some interesting aspects. It is a new things in the 2.4 Kernel.”

Abisource: “Still moving towards 0.9.0. Even though we didn’t see as much action this week as I had hoped, there were fixed quite a few bugs, some
features were polished, and Patrick Lam revealed he’s brewing on endnotes which may just get ready in time for 1.0.”

pkej writes: “On developer.ez.noSteven A. Shaw has written a short tutorial for web masters who wants to learn minimal PHP to do simple customization of their eZ publish sites.”

The Dot: “The moment has come for the last two interviews Tink has prepared for us before the great
summer break. The first interview features the KDE veteran Martin Jones, whose brain
children wander daily on the screens of our KDE boxes, in the form of screensavers. You
might also be enjoying his adorable little toy dubbed AMOR. Martin also speaks to us about his family and
his passion for Qt/Embedded. Enjoy!”

LinuxSecurity: “Previous work to make a read-only mounting of root and /usr on a normal hard disk was working for Sparc and i386 in October 2000. With upgrades to
-current every now and then, I noticed that with my changes to tcpdump, /etc files, cg3 and cg6 drivers, dhclient-script, miscellaneous others — let alone the
*/conf/ files to hard-wire device numbers to disk and tape drives, that it was nearly impossible to keep up with the development changes.”

LinuxFocus: “This articles shows how to record music with Linux. In contradiction to the LinuxFocus tip of January 2001,
not the ‘expensive’ WAV-format is used. Instead, the much smaller mp3-format is directly recorded. 24
hour recordings in CD-quality become reality when using this format.”

Salon: “Microsoft Corp. will shut down the free e-mail
newsletter service ListBot as it pushes to attract users to its paid
service.

In an e-mail sent to users Thursday evening, the Redmond-based
software giant, which bought ListBot as part of its a larger
acquisition in 1998, said the service would be shut down in August.”

Daemonnews: “As we covered in our last article, SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security) are the protocols used to add encryption and authentication to TCP/IP
and HTTP. Now comes the next step, adding SSL/TLS to an installed web server to take advantage of SSL/TLS. In this article we’ll cover the most popular open
source method; Adding mod_ssl to Apache.”