Anonymous Reader writes “Everyone’s had to look at someone else’s ugly code at some point. Maybe it was the ugly code of several “someone elses”. Not bad logic or spaghetti code, but ugly formatting. Sometimes we just muddle through it, other times we clean up what we need to. But when the code gets real ugly, the ugly turn to indent.” Full story at LinuxLookup.com“

Signal Nine (http://www.signalnine.com), a
community publication covering a wide range of topics, from Linux to the
latest albums, is now live. Come join the staff of Signal Nine on IRC, in
the channel #signalnine on Open Projects (irc.openprojects.net) and let us
know what you think of the site, or just to shoot the breeze.
“Signal Nine is all about having fun,” notes Matt “influx” Michie,
one of the Signal Nine editors. “We’re like your office water
cooler — we talk about stuff that is genuinely interesting to
geeks of all walks of life.”

Signal Nine was conceived as a website where the Signal Nine staff
could stretch their creativity, without having to worry about
fitting their topics into a pigeon hole. Signal Nine has been built
with volunteer effort using open source tools such as
FreeBSD, Apache, PHP and Perl.

Tom “Mr. T” Dominico, another one of Signal Nine’s editors, was
sighted saying, “I pity da foo who doesn’t read sig9!”

Terry “keerf” Warner was seen replying, “unf.”

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Bloomberg (via CNET) reports: “Gateway, a direct seller of personal computers, agreed to
settle charges it misled consumers with promises of free Internet service, the
Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday.

Juno Online Services reached a similar agreement with the FTC. The Internet service
provider settled charges that it wrongly told consumers who participated in a free trial
offer for premium Internet service they would be able to cancel at any time without a
charge.”

The results of the latest benchmark tests from the Transaction Processing Performance Council are in. For the first time ever, Linux takes the top spot on the report. An SGI machine running “Linux 2.4.3” on an SGI 1450 server leaped ahead of nine other servers in the 100GB category, all running Windows 2000.

Zack Brown posts the latest summary of traffic on the Debian Hurd mailing lists.

Linux 2.4.5-pre2 is now available from a mirror site near you. Changelog:

                 -pre2:
                  - David Miller: network syncup (better TCP page fault handling by Andrea etc)
                  - Tim Hockin: moxa driver fixes
                  - Alexander Viro: clean up process reaping procedures, make /proc use
                    the proper fields to notice that the process is gone, gone, gone.
                  - Justin Gibbs: aic7xxx driver update to 6.1.13.
                  - me: fix PCI allocation so that it doesn't stomp on unknown memory
                  - Jeff Garzik: 8139too net drvr fix
                  - Nigel Gamble: merge page fault interrupt gate from preemtible kernel.
                    Fixes problem noticed by Brian Gerst.
                  - Jean Tourrilhes: Orinoco / Airport support diff. Mucho cleanups.

                 -pre1:
                  - Al Viro: clean up driver "invalidate_device()" mess
                  - Andries Brouwer: make sd.c work with USB Dane-Elec CompactFlash Card
                    Reader
                  - me: fix nasty lazy kernel page table update problem
                  - me: undo fork changes. Too many user-level bugs and unresolved issues.
                  - Peter Anvin: iso9660 cleanups
                  - Alan Cox: big merge
                  - Johannes Erdfelt: UHCI pci DMA setup fix

Georg C. F. Greve posts the latest issue of Free Software news. Read all about TerminalServer, GNU HaliFAX, GOSSIP, Jude, and HyperBuilder. Plus: Brave GNU World is now available Portugese (as well as German, English, French, Japanese, Spanish, and Korean).

australia.internet.com: “A verbal war between Microsoft Senior VP, Craig Mundie and Operating System impresario Linus
Torvalds has erupted over the validity of Open Source software. Just how much of the argument has
merit?”

Novice pilot and Linux Planet editor Brian Proffitt asks: “Why did seeing the message from Richard Stallman asking me to start using the term GNU/Linux feel like losing the horizon?”

In a post reprinted at LinuxProgramming.com, Mark Mitchell has set June 15 as the release date for GCC 3.0.