PCWorld: “The Web editions of most radio stations have quietly gone off the air this month, thanks to a morass of disputes
involving artist payments, royalties, and copyrights.”

Wired: “The government and private sector collect large amounts of anonymous data. One agency, however, is alerting us to the potential for enough ‘nameless’ data to be collected in various ways so that a real person or picture appears.”

The Register: “Transmeta’s revenues continue to grow – not hard when you start at zip – while its
loss widened slightly during the first three months of fiscal 2001.”

LinuxSecurity: “This week, advisories were released for samba, ctags, kernel, cfingerd, ipfilter, sudo, nedit, netscape, pine, openssh, and ntp.
The vendors include Conectiva, Caldera, Debian, FreeBSD, Immunix, Mandrake, Red Hat, Progeny, SuSE, and Trustix. A
pretty serious Samba vulnerability was described in multiple advisories. If you are currently using samba, please make sure
your system gets updated. As always, please check all vulnerable packages.”

MSNBC: “Windows users also having
problems distinguishing between good and bad applications. As
security analyst Georgi Guninski has recently shown, malicious
users can play a devastating trick on Windows systems using a
CLSID extension, and thereby disguise a potentially dangerous
COM object as a lowly .TXT file.”

IDG.net: “The kit was developed in consultation with the Linux open source community, and is designed to provide the needed software, tools, patches and documentation needed to run the Linux 2.4 kernel.”

J. Ali Harlow writes: “Slash’EM
(a roguelike role-playing game and variant of NetHack) was
finally approved for listing as a stable open source product in the
Open Source Directory last night.

This has been a complicated process, requiring first getting our
license
approved by the Open Source Initiative.

My thanks to the OSD and OSI teams for their help.

This is one more step in the process of making the UNIX community aware of
the delights and frustrations of playing Slash’EM. Currently,
DOS and MS-Windows users outnumber UNIX users by about 3:1.

Are you up to fighting you way through fifty odd levels of monsters with onlya pet to help you? On the way you will meet the oracle, have the opportunity to
complete a number of side quests, learn magic spells and aquire magical items.

As you develop your character you will finally be ready to meet Vlad the
Impaler and the Wizard of Yendor and wrest from them the artifacts you will
need to preform the invocation ritual and gain entry to the sanctum. Here lies
the famed Amulet of Yendor which you must retrieve for you god.

If you succeed in your task you will be raised to demigod-hood. Don’t
forget to post an ascention post to
rec.games.roguelike.nethack
when you do.

Slash’EM is available for UNIX, DOS, MS-Windows, and Mac from our
homepage.

J. Ali Harlow

UNIX Developer, Slash’EM dev-team.”

St. Louis Today: “The man authorities said they couldn’t find answered a reporter’s knock on the door of
his home in north St. Louis County Thursday afternoon. Wearing shorts and a T-shirt bearing the logo of slashdot.com, a computer news Web site that has carried sometimes harsh accounts of
his company’s demise, Hibbits denied wrongdoing at Linuxgruven. The company has faced accusations from the Better Business Bureau
and others that it lured students through misleading ads promising $45,000-a-year jobs.”

Kelly McNeill of OSOpinion writes: “We’ve all read vitriolic screeds — here and elsewhere — written by open source advocates who declare their willingness to fight the good fight and defend to the last breath the principles of open source. It’s all very fiery and very stirring. And yet… when the heat really comes on, most of these speechifiers fold like a cheap suit. When the lawyers come calling, when the threatening letter or e-mail is received, when the threat of fines or imprisonment looms, brave words are forgotten and only the frightening specter of *consequence* remains.”

“Through its ad agency, IBM has spray-painted
advertisements for its servers on the sidewalks at
dozens of street corners throughout San Francisco, from the high-tech nexus known as South of Market to the
historic crossroads at Haight and Ashbury, where die-hard hippies panhandle for change.” More at CNN.com.