CNN reports that the mayor of Sneek, Netherlands has offered the creator of the Anna Kournikova virus a job. Mayor Siebold Hartkamp doesn’t know what kind of job “OnTheFly” should be offered, but figures the kid would do well as a computer security expert.

From Slashdot: “Philip Zimmerman, the creator of PGP[?] has left Network
Associates. NA had bought PGP Inc back in December 1997, and PRZ has
been working there since then – his depature marks an interesting turn in the life
of PGP.” The post includes a message from Zimmerman to PGP users.

New Perl modules this week include: Finance-Quote for fetching stock prices via the Internet; Net-Jabber for access to the Jabber instant messaging protocol; Schedule-Load for remote system load, processes, and scheduling; and DDL-Oracle, a module that reverse engineers and defrags object DDL. Full details and more modules at usePerl.

IBM Asia VP Kakutaro Kitashiro revealed IBM’s Linux strategy last week, saying the company was “hoping to
“wrap” its services, middleware and servers around Linux applications from
independent software vendors.” Big Blue believes the move will increase its hardware and services revenue. Australian IT has the full story.

Craig Black writes “It looks real nice!! This is what they have to say.

Kapital is our personal finance manager package for KDE and Linux. It is meant to be in the spirit of Intuit Quicken or Microsoft Money, but without the bloat associated with those packages from years of justifying upgrades. Kapital has everything you need for managing all your personal finances. Here’s the Link
http://www.thekompany.com/products/kapital/index.p hp3?dhtml_ok=0
Here’s the screen shots.

http://www.thekompany.com/products/kapital/screens hots.php3?dhtml_ok=0

Craig”

From a report at KDEnews.org: “With the KDE 2.1 release nearing, major code changes are prohibited. Despite this restriction, we started
thinking about how to make KDE 2.1 (or future releases) even more appealing. Carsten Pfeiffer, devoted
KDE developer, remarked that while people are hard at work polishing the visual aspects, KDE suffers
from a marked lack of sounds and sound effects.”

“Kapital is our personal finance manager package for KDE and Linux. It is meant to be in the spirit of Intuit
Quicken or Microsoft Money, but without the bloat associated with those packages from years of
justifying upgrades.” Get the latest news at KDEnews.org.

“Many people still have the impression that Linux is about servers and typing commands in console. Well, that isn’t all; Linux is being used on the desktop more and more.
Why ? Here are some reasons.

Everybody likes music. The technology lets people listen to high-quality music on audio CDs. But if they aren’t using a computer, they are missing a lot. Why change the CD
because you want to listen to other albums? Lots of songs can be stored on the hard drive or CD-ROMs.” Read more at LinuxGazette.

From a report at The Register: “Further evidence that Microsoft intends to support AMD’s Sledgehammer chip
comes from the company’s own upcoming operating system revision, Whistler, aka
Windows XP.

Specifically, the clue is to be found in Whistler’s SDK (Software Development Kit)
and its DDK (Driver Development Kit), which reference the upcoming 64-bit
processor in a compiler directive.”

“Iomega, best known for its consumer storage devices, is to expand its
product line into the professional market with the launch of a 1.3GB
magneto-optical (MO) drive for secure archiving and backup. The
company has also announced new USB Zip drives, including a 250MB
model that does not require an external power supply.” Read more at ZDNET.