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Matt Borowski writes "Netscape 4.5PR2 is out. Get it at the usual places!" The win/mac versions have been out forever. Glad to finally see the Unix version has finally made it online. Now somebody explain to me why I'm still on a 21.6 line shared with 4 other people so I have to wait until midnight to download it?

Andrew Hobgood wrote in to tell us about the Linux Comdex Project. They are seeking sponsors so that they can get a real booth at Comdex to help educate the world about Linux. This sorta thing looks really good to Dilbert's Boss, and let's face it, he's the guy we need to convince for Linux to become a real alternative in business.

First, I'm going to try to designate articles that are meant to be funny. Hope this doesn't spoil the joke for anyone, but we had a few people confused over some of the more subtle jokes. Anyway, Mike Perry wrote in with proof (?) that 1998 is in fact the year of Linux. Its pretty funny. Hit the link below and wonder at the lengths Linux users will go to. Well, since I had no homework this weekend, and with Pi day having just passed uneventful yesterday, I decided to find out what is the most number of Friday the 13ths we can have in our calender, and when it occurrs. I knew we just had 2 in a row, so I suspected that this year might have the record..

So I wrote this little program to open a pipe to cal, and count up all the Friday the 13th's each year over a span of years.

My suspicions were confirmed. 1998 contains the most Friday the 13th's possible in our calender. But, that's not all. I remembered that our calender repeats itslef every 28 years. So I ran a quick check, and my suspicions were again confirmed. The last time we had this many Friday the 13th's was 1970, the very same year UNIX came into being and began to dominate the computer industry.

ed:Spoooooooky isn't it?

First, I'm going to try to designate articles that are meant to be funny. Hope this doesn't spoil the joke for anyone, but we had a few people confused over some of the more subtle jokes. Anyway, Mike Perry wrote in with proof (?) that 1998 is in fact the year of Linux. Its pretty funny. Hit the link below and wonder at the lengths Linux users will go to. Well, since I had no homework this weekend, and with Pi day having just passed uneventful yesterday, I decided to find out what is the most number of Friday the 13ths we can have in our calender, and when it occurrs. I knew we just had 2 in a row, so I suspected that this year might have the record..

So I wrote this little program to open a pipe to cal, and count up all the Friday the 13th's each year over a span of years.

My suspicions were confirmed. 1998 contains the most Friday the 13th's possible in our calender. But, that's not all. I remembered that our calender repeats itslef every 28 years. So I ran a quick check, and my suspicions were again confirmed. The last time we had this many Friday the 13th's was 1970, the very same year UNIX came into being and began to dominate the computer industry.

ed:Spoooooooky isn't it?

I laughed out loud when I heard this. Mike Perry of linuxos.org fame writes the following

"Not only is this great Linux PR, not only is this www.linuxos.org PR, not only is this #LinuxOS PR, but it is Zummy PR! For those who do not frequent #LinuxOS, Zummy is an AI Q/A bot that apparently just passed the Turin Test (that is,to carry on a conversation with a human in a subject that that human posseses knowlege about, without that human realizing that the program is not human). This article from Sm@rtReseller January 26, 1998 (pages 82, and 83) quotes Zummy and one other channel member as Linux consultants. In the author's defense, he may have done this deliberately to prevent people from harassing or K-lining Zummy."

I laughed out loud when I heard this. Mike Perry of linuxos.org fame writes the following

"Not only is this great Linux PR, not only is this www.linuxos.org PR, not only is this #LinuxOS PR, but it is Zummy PR! For those who do not frequent #LinuxOS, Zummy is an AI Q/A bot that apparently just passed the Turin Test (that is,to carry on a conversation with a human in a subject that that human posseses knowlege about, without that human realizing that the program is not human). This article from Sm@rtReseller January 26, 1998 (pages 82, and 83) quotes Zummy and one other channel member as Linux consultants. In the author's defense, he may have done this deliberately to prevent people from harassing or K-lining Zummy."

I laughed out loud when I heard this. Mike Perry of linuxos.org fame writes the following

"Not only is this great Linux PR, not only is this www.linuxos.org PR, not only is this #LinuxOS PR, but it is Zummy PR! For those who do not frequent #LinuxOS, Zummy is an AI Q/A bot that apparently just passed the Turin Test (that is,to carry on a conversation with a human in a subject that that human posseses knowlege about, without that human realizing that the program is not human). This article from Sm@rtReseller January 26, 1998 (pages 82, and 83) quotes Zummy and one other channel member as Linux consultants. In the author's defense, he may have done this deliberately to prevent people from harassing or K-lining Zummy."