MSNBC.com tells us: “A bug in QuarkXPress 4.1 for Windows 95, 98, NT, or 2000
may cause the program to bomb in this situation, says Quark:
When using the pen after modifying the pen tool to use an
arrowhead style as the default.”

LinuxPR: “RealNetworks will provide a Linux-based software platform incorporating
RealPlayer and RealJukebox as the foundation for an up-and-coming set of
digital entertainment products and services from HP that are planned to be
introduced later this year.”

LinuxWorld: “So what does the LTC actually do for Linux? Frye observed that in the open source community, everyone basically works on what they are
interested in. LTC employees are not free to hack whatever Linux-related code they want, but the LTC works on aspects of Linux that are of
interest to IBM.”

From Netslaves.com: “Linux, much to my slowly dawning surprise, is making buzz. It has gone from a small handful of USENET
newsgroups, a few FAQs, and a smattering of web pages has become the ‘great new movement.’ It has gone from
being a small, hobby operating system appealing to crazy ray tracing geeks to the Jesus Christ of Operating
Systems. It will take down Microsoft! It will change the world! Books are written. Magazines are published.
Fortunes are lost. A million, million screaming Linux fanboys descend from the hills to scream in Linux?s
fine name. Carrying upon their shoulders their great geek heroes, they tilt at windmills. They take up their
vorpal swords in hand.”

Businessweek: “Macs have rarely been on the bleeding edge, so to
speak, of shoot-’em-up gaming. Developers of such
digital gorefests as Quake and Doom have preferred to
write their games first for the hordes of PC users. Could
that be changing, if ever so slightly?”

OS Opinion asks what it is about Microsoft that causes so many people to dislike the software giant, citing such issues as Windows 3.1’s alergy to DR-DOS.

– by Tina Gasperson –
IBM.com does not support Konqueror 1.9.8, a recent version of the web browser that comes packaged with KDE.

When Konqueror is pointed to www.ibm.com, the site redirects to wireless.ibm.com and then displays the following error message:

This browser is unsupported.

 The current supported browsers are:
 UP.Browser (HDML)
 Nokia (WML)
 AvantGo (HTML)
 HandWeb (HTML)
 Palmscape (HTML)

IBM says it loves Linux but it evidently has no clue about what has to be one of the most popular Open Source web browsers. When asked about
the problem, an unidentified IBM spokesperson said, “Huh? Oh, I think our Linux people are
in charge of that.” No IBM-Linux people were available for comment.

NewsForge first became aware of the problem because of a post to the KDE developers mailing list. User “salvador” wrote, “I have used konqueror without difficulty on the ibm.com web site for months, and presumably this problem is simply that they are now using an application that uses http_referer to sort out wireless handhelds from ‘normal’ browsers, and they did not include
konqueror in the list of valid browsers.”

salvador aptly pointed out that the problem is the responsibility of IBM’s web development team, not the “Linux people.”

We tested results with several other browsers, including Opera, Mozilla, and galeon, and all loaded www.ibm.com successfully. It was also reported on the KDE developers list that some users of konqueror 2.1 were not having any difficulty loading the page, leading to speculation that a bug in konqueror 1.9.8 may be the culprit, instead of IBM’s webmaster.

NewsForge editors read and respond to comments
posted on our discussion
page.

Linux Journal reviews ‘Perl: The Programmer’s Companion,’ stating it is the first book that should be read by people preparing to programme in Perl.

PC World reports that the FBI is picking up its pace in fighting what it calls an ‘epidemic’ in cybercrime. Anyone with a computer can be a victim of cybercrime, says the ever-intuitive FBI.

Linux Journal reports on IBM’s less-than Linux-friendly Linux site, as the company launches its advertising campaign for Linux.