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cmdrheath asks: "My company is looking to purchase a new laptop for the boss to use, and while I know that TFT beats DSTN out every time, (better color, visible from more directions, etc.) I am curious as to where this new HPA technology fits into the picture. Has anyone on Slashdot had any sort of experience with HPA screens? How do they look? Should we still try to go with TFT?"

Many people are submitting The Obvious article about Jon Katz not belonging on Slashdot. I guess I'm glad that in the end its up to me. Personally, I think most of his articles are good. xach sent us a deja news bit that goes much further. I agree with most of the stuff in these articles, but I also think most of Katz's articles are worth reading, but when he mentions his book, I press the back button. You can too.

Zach Beane writes "Macromedia has made the Flash specification publicly available." Good-let's hope we continue to see more of this, and that the release of Communicator by Netscape was only the first step by companies of this sort.

Zach Beane writes "If you finger jc@crack.com, you'll see that he's offering the source code for Satan Paint, the tool Crack used to do sprites in Abuse."

Zach Beane writes "O'Reilly is plugging a Freeware Summit they're sponsoring. Notable personalities there include Linus, Larry Wall, Eric Allman, Phil Zimmerman, and Paul Vixie. Press release is here

Zach "Gimp News" Beane writes "Network World has a columnist who wrote an interesting column about creating an alternative to Microsoft by investing effort in Linux. The web version of the article is at this link.