“Sen. Orrin Hatch thinks content companies have too much power thanks to federal law. Bruce Lehman thinks technology companies do. Both sides prepare to square off in the Senate.” From Wired.com.

From CNET: “Transmeta plans to release its version of the Linux operating system for Internet
appliances and other devices as early as next week so that developers can begin testing it.

The chipmaker is preparing to post Mobile Linux, its take on the Linux OS, under the General
Public License (GNU) process in the near future, company representatives said this week.
Although the exact release date isn’t set, the release could come next week or the week after.”

From BinaryFreedom.com: “In every expo, trade show, and vendor area they are there, womanning the booths with ready smiles and
prepared answers. Expo veterans will note that the “booth babe” phenomenon has picked up in recent years to
become a staple of the events, but what of the women themselves? We talked to several of the women at this
past Linux World Expo, held in New York to find out if they were indeed just a face.”

From LinuxWorld.com: “Conversations with Miller led to a job offer that Plant quickly accepted. In fact, it stunned him. Plant told me, “I mean you can’t actually apply
for a job at Slashdot, you have to be asked to work for them. So they wanted to do a little more in-depth research pieces and things like that,
and I kind of fit the bill for what they wanted … It’s frightening to think that — oh my God — I’m going to be working at Slashdot, which is
pretty much like a focal point for the open source community. And it’s like, wow! Who the hell am I?” “

From PCWorld.com: “Everybody loves the look: a large, skinny screen that occupies only a sliver of your
desktop or hangs like a picture on the wall. And whether you typically work on page
layouts, juggle multiple windows, play games, or watch DVD movies, you’ll find that a
large screen makes most work easier and most play more fun.”

BusinessWeek: “Servers can be scary. These workhorse computers,
whether running Windows 2000 or Linux or Novell’s
NetWare, present untrained administrators with a
barrage of technical concepts and incomprehensible
choices. But increasingly, it’s difficult to run even a
small business without a server of some sort to manage
the local network and control access to the Internet.”

MSNBC tells us: “Opening a Microsoft Excel 2000 workbook may trigger this
error: “The instruction at “0x3005ca13” referenced memory at
“0x00000018”. The memory could not be “written””.

Infoworld.com: “Looking to build on its success with Java, Sun Microsystems
said it is developing a software platform for peer-to-peer computing that it hopes
will provide a common base for writing distributed applications.

Speaking at the O’Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference here, Bill Joy, chief scientist at
Sun, said the platform, called Juxtapose, will be an addition to Sun’s growing family
of Web-based programming languages, which includes Java and Jini.”

“The threats are not comical anymore. I was laughing at Steve Ballmers’ characterization of Linux as
“crummy”. I have to admit that when I read that I thought “If that’s the best he can do, then we’re in the home
stretch.” What was baffling was why he didn’t go all out and say it was “Ugly”, or “Butt-ugly”? I don’t know
— but crummy? Well!” From LinuxToday.

LinuxSecurity.com: “In yet another set of advancements to the kernel IP packet filtering code, netfilter allows users to set up, maintain, and
inspect the packet filtering rules in the new 2.4 kernel. This document explains those changes and tips on how to get
started.”