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A reader writes: "There's an interview with San Mehat in regards to .Net & Webservices. He has some interesting comments about what will work and what won't work, and where things are going." San is well known for his Netwinder work, as well as being a good DJ. And, in the interest of full disclosure, San does work for VA Software, the parent company of OSDN, as is DevChannel.

Vic writes "The Ottawa Business Journal is reporting that a new company, Netwinder Inc., is being started to resurrect the Netwinder project. In case you don't remember, this was a small linux-based server appliance started by Corel Computer, which died when Rebel.com went under. See also the National Post article."

Patrix writes "Looks like Jazzware will release under an open source license the next version of their Jazz++ MIDI sequencer! They will also release a GTK+ version for Linux. No info yet on which license they'll use."

-dsr- writes "See: this link for RSA's take on Shamir's (rSa) new high-tech card-sorter. This may make 512-bit keys useless... "

blalor writes " Zac Sprackett has released a client/daemon package for the NetWinders that allows someone with a PalmPilot with the IR port to do basic administrator and monitoring tasks. Very cool! "

In what may prove a significant blow to low cost x86 manufacturers and embedded processor developers such as MIPS, Intel has been working on a ARM 110 and media DSP combination, code named StrongArm 1500. This is also good for Corel Computer's Netwinder. In related news, the price of copper manufacturing is higher than expected. A good round up of the last two weeks events can be read at C'T.

The NetBSD Project claims to be "first to support USB". They have a keyboard driver, a mouse driver, a printer driver, and more all done! Congrats, guys! USB sounds like something really cool - perhaps the NetWinder folks at CCC should take note! Now, let's get hacking on those Linux drivers!

Matthew Tebbens wrote in to tell us that he's revamped LinuxApps.com. Pretty cool. Ben Hutchings wrote in to say that supposedly RH5 has been ported unofficially to the Amiga? Any word on this? Dave Whitinger (of Threepoint fame) wrote in to warn us about his Low Bandwidth News List. 1 message/day like 0xdeadbeef. Christopher Gutteridge sent us the nuttiest thing I've seen in some time: The Visible Mars Bar Project is one of the coolest pages I've seen in awhile. Nate and I were gonna do a Bananna awhile back, but just never got around to it. Definately worth a gander if you're familiar with the visible human project. Seth Vidal wrote in to tell us about netwinder.org, Corel's new site dedicated to Corel's Uber Geeky Linux NC.