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Zooko Journeyman wrote in to send us This Page which collects headlines related to the impending Year 2000 Crisis. All this hype makes me wish I learned some cobol or fortran so I could go back and bill obscene rates to fix code.

Zooko Journeyman writes " Dave Winer wrote an article suggesting that JavaSoft could open the source to Java. Wednesday he had an e-mail exchange with Bill Joy in which Bill Joy argues against opening the source."

Eric Jones wrote in to tell us that XMame 0.30 is out. This awesome app emulates some 300 arcade games on your Linux box. Very cool. Check out the Mame site and the The X version.

This story was sent to me by 11 people, but vertigo was the first. It has a lot more of the same information about the Bonk/Boink attack, but more importantly is the the comments at the end from Jiva DeVoe, the primary source for the article. His solution to the security hole is to run Linux. It then mentions how much better Free Software is for security. It gave me warm fuzzies.