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beanerspace writes: "In spite of Michael Hyatt-like hype, the Washington Post now reports that the 8pm EST deadline for the Code Red worm came and went without grinding the internet to a halt. Darn, I was sorta hoping it would so I could take the day off and go fishing." Why is it that Code Red gets the trumpets and klaxons, while Sircam continues to spread private documents(!) with considerably less attention? Update: 08/01 03:41 PM by T : On the other hand, incidents.org's graph shows a different picture of Code Red's progress, as several readers have pointed out. That's a pretty little curve there, isn't it?

Nachtjäger writes "The Federation of American Scientists has an entire section of their site devoted to US Government secrets, including the lately hyped Echelon stuff. " Interesting project - it's an interesting chronicle of the declassification of massive amounts of papers.

Darren wrote in to blatantly plug his 'Darren's Penguin Habitat' which aims to be a newbie Linux site. g8orade wrote in to say that Applix has Applix Anywhere which is apparently a Java compatible suite of mail, word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software. jimw wrote in to tell us about Vintage Computer Festival if you're into that old stuff, and near Santa Clara. yack0 warned us that Elijah Wood will be Frodo Baggins in the upcoming Lord of the Rings Trilogy of movies. Verne "Mini-Me" Troyer is also rumored to have a part. rawlink sent us a URL with some Hi Res Fractals that prove Rob' First Law of Art: All art is better if you can use it as your background image. An anonymous reader wrote in to plug these Y2k Posters which actually look surprisingly sweet if you're into those classic movie type posters. I dig 'em. Abe Zuckerman sent us pictures of the new Rios (hint: Butt ugly) Randy Rathbun wrote in to note that several new pictures of the empeg have appeared on their website. Mikey LeBeau us pix of a metallic hand-crafted aluminum Palm case for those of us who are entertained by shiny objects. Scooter sent us a report on how offensive South Park the Movie is. Absolutely Hilarious. Finally, matthewg pointed us to After Y2K which pokes some fun at Hemos, Martha Stewert, and Me.

Nachtjäger writes "They've got a DVD player that will display on lightweight glasses. It's 2 little screens, so 3D would be simple, and the expensive part is the DVD player. Oh, and the battery will go for 3.5 hours." Still a tad on the clunky side, but getting there.

peyote wrote in to say Linus has finally released 2.2.0pre1. A good mirror for kernel.org is ftp.tux.org. The file is in the v2.2 directory. See below for Linus's note.

Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:42:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Linux-2.2.0 (pre1) Ok, we're in the pre-2.2.0 series now,
I'm all synched up with Alan,
and I don't have anything pending any more.
Over the internet nobody can hear you all
scream in pain over all your favourite
features that didn't make it. Linus "another year older and wise as hell by now" Torvalds

Topher writes "I've got a Dell Latitude XP 4100C. I got RH5 on there no sweat, but I can't seem to get X running. It wants the horizontal refresh rate in the setup, and says it's VERY important. unfortunately Dell doesn't seem to think it's important enough to tell me. Any ideas on how I'd find out? When I try and run X just guessing the Hrefresh rate, it puts up a zillion tiny horizontal lines on the screen, and I have to telnet in and shutdown. "

Topher writes "You may have seen this before, it's certainly not new, but there's a site that tells how to make an aquarium out of an old Mac, including exactly where to drill and bolt and glue, and everything." check it out here. I wish I had an extra 20-30 hours a week so I could try to do this sort of stuff more often.