Patrick Mullen writes, “The Duke of URL has just posted its eleventh iteration of its monthly Linux Buyer’s Guide. The guide covers building three Linux systems (no SMP this month!) ranging from high-end to low-end and all focusing on Linux.”

PrNewsWire: “Skippy Disc offers its disc resurfacing service at
an affordable $3 per disc. For rental companies and general consumers alike,
this is a substantial cost-saving alternative to replacing damaged DVDs and
games discs that could easily cost ten times that amount or more.”

“The same week that smoldering hostilities in the GNOME development community burst into flame
with the angry resignation of a GNOME 2.0 release coordinator, a longtime KDE developer has
opened fire on that desktop project. The two desktops have long engaged in heated competition,
which now seems to entail which can do the most damage not to the other but to itself.” More at LinuxToday.com.

Shocking, ain’t it? “Many
journal publishers appear to believe that the purpose of scientific literature is to enable them to
publish journals so as to collect subscriptions from scientists and students. Such thinking is
known as `confusion of the means with the ends’. Their approach has been to restrict access
even to read the scientific literature to those who can and will pay for it.

They use copyright law, which is still in force despite its inappropriateness for computer networks,
as an excuse to stop scientists from choosing new rules.” More at LinuxToday.com.

The Standard: “Indian-born
Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of the hugely popular
Internet e-mail service Hotmail, has joined the
ranks of high-tech entrepreneurs hit by the
“dotcom” bust.

In a quiet online burial, Bhatia has announced
the closure of Arzoo.com, his nine-month-old
venture which aimed to be a global platform for
piecemeal software projects, matching corporate
buyers with moonlighters, part-timers and
freelance experts.”

“In this concluding part of our three-part series on Apache Web server, we look at the remaining directives of main server
configuration and understand virtual hosting.” More at FreeOS.com.

The Register: “Euregio – a Belgian ISP and content provider for women’s interests – claims
Women.com copied text from its EasyScopes.com and pasted it in white on a white
background. This meant people visiting the site wouldn’t actually see the text but
search engines would pick up the content and up Women.com’s search engine rating.

Euregio is claiming an abuse of its copyright on the text and wants one million euro in
payment. In the text, the company claims, the word EasyScopes was replaced by
InternetHoroscopes but the rest of it was repeated as is, including spelling mistakes
and grammatical errors.”

Wired: “Alt.comp.virus, a popular source of virus information, is buried under an avalanche of child-porn spam, rendering the message board almost useless.”

ABCNews: “Sure, a tax-free Internet may be a boon for online shoppers. But it’s been a bust for state and local legislatures, which count on sales taxes to generate revenue. Here’s how all that could soon change.”

DallasNews: “RealNetworks Inc. says it has developed technology that will protect copyrighted songs and movies on the Web, enabling Internet retailers to track their sale and use.”