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kwisti wrote in to say that Be has announced that BeOS will be Officially released at COMDEX . Is it just me, or did a few versions get skipped in there *grin*. Speaking of comdex- I need eyes and ears out there, so if anyone wants to report, feel free.

Mike Hostetler has sent in a review of the "red book" Unix System Administration. Not so much a book for the home user, this book is for all of you out there with a network to contend with. If the armadillo book was one you enjoyed, then click below for more info. Unix System Administration Handbook author Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass & Trent R. Hein pages publisher Prentice Hall PTR rating 9/10 reviewer Mike Hostetler ISBN ISBN 0-14-151051-7 summary Must have book for UNIX system administration REVIEW: Unix System Administration Handbook
(a.k.a. The Red Book) Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass & Trent R. Hein (Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0-14-151051-7)

Nutshell
Review: Must have book for UNIX system administration
Rating: 9/10
Mike Hostetler (home)

NOTE: I'm not going to compare this book to ORA's Armadillo Book. I haven't used it, but have glanced through it. They are very much alike. I'll let the readers compare the two in the comments section.

The Scenario

Need a guide to help set up sendmail? Want some assistance in troubleshooting your DNS config? In essence, if you want a go-to book for administrating your UNIX-like machine, then this is the book for you.

What's Bad?

I can only see two things wrong with this book, both of which are small. First of all, I have the second edition (I'm sure the first one is way out of print) which is copyrighted 1995. Needless to say, things have changed a bit. Like there is no discussion about Linux-specific things, unlike their discussions when Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, etc., are different then the norm. Also, some of the way things are done are different now. Like the book says that OSPF is a "new" TCP/IP protocal, though they do accurately predict that OSPF will become wide-spread, especially in large networks.

The second thing is even smaller. This book is written for people who administrate a large UNIX server or servers on networks. People who have their UNIX box at home will get less use out of this book then people who administrate a server in the work place. But, then again, people who aren't on a dedicated network doesn't have as many problems, or they don't have to be as careful about as many things.

What's Good?

As a quote on the back of the book says, "This is not a nice, neat book for a nice, clean world. It's a nasty book for a nasty world." The Red Book is complicated at times but it has to be - the problems it is trying to solve are complicated. This book is alway extremely practical, and no where else is practicality needed more then in system administration. They never say, "this should work" but "if that doesn't work, try this".

The authors definitely know their material, they know how to present it, and they know how to write about complex problems so Joe Admin knows how to fix them. The OS-specific sections, like, for example, when Solaris acts differently then the rest of the world, are especially good. And example config files are present when needed. And, as an added bonus, the cartoons at the beginning of each chapter are quite humorous.

So What's In It For Me?

If you want help administrating your UNIX computer, then don't hesitate - get this book.

Buy this book at Amazon and help Slashdot out.

Table of Contents

1. Basic Administration
2. Booting and Shutting Down
3. Rootly Powers
4. The Filesystem
5. Controlling Processes
6. Adding New Users
7. Devices and Drivers
8. Serial Devices
9. Adding A Disk
10. Periodic Processes
11. Backups
12. Syslog and Log Files
13. Configuring the Kernel
14. TCP/IP and Routing
15. Network Hardware
16. The Domain Name System
17. The Network File System
18. Sharing System Files
19. SLIP and PPP
20. The Internet
21. Electronic Mail
22. Network Management
23. Security
24. Usenet News
25. Printing and Imaging
26. Disk Space Management
27. Hardware Maintenance
28. Accounting
29. Performance Analysis
30. UUCP
31. Daemons
32. Policy and Politics

Mike Hostetler has sent in a review of the "red book" Unix System Administration. Not so much a book for the home user, this book is for all of you out there with a network to contend with. If the armadillo book was one you enjoyed, then click below for more info. Unix System Administration Handbook author Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass & Trent R. Hein pages publisher Prentice Hall PTR rating 9/10 reviewer Mike Hostetler ISBN ISBN 0-14-151051-7 summary Must have book for UNIX system administration REVIEW: Unix System Administration Handbook
(a.k.a. The Red Book) Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass & Trent R. Hein (Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0-14-151051-7)

Nutshell
Review: Must have book for UNIX system administration
Rating: 9/10
Mike Hostetler (home)

NOTE: I'm not going to compare this book to ORA's Armadillo Book. I haven't used it, but have glanced through it. They are very much alike. I'll let the readers compare the two in the comments section.

The Scenario

Need a guide to help set up sendmail? Want some assistance in troubleshooting your DNS config? In essence, if you want a go-to book for administrating your UNIX-like machine, then this is the book for you.

What's Bad?

I can only see two things wrong with this book, both of which are small. First of all, I have the second edition (I'm sure the first one is way out of print) which is copyrighted 1995. Needless to say, things have changed a bit. Like there is no discussion about Linux-specific things, unlike their discussions when Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, etc., are different then the norm. Also, some of the way things are done are different now. Like the book says that OSPF is a "new" TCP/IP protocal, though they do accurately predict that OSPF will become wide-spread, especially in large networks.

The second thing is even smaller. This book is written for people who administrate a large UNIX server or servers on networks. People who have their UNIX box at home will get less use out of this book then people who administrate a server in the work place. But, then again, people who aren't on a dedicated network doesn't have as many problems, or they don't have to be as careful about as many things.

What's Good?

As a quote on the back of the book says, "This is not a nice, neat book for a nice, clean world. It's a nasty book for a nasty world." The Red Book is complicated at times but it has to be - the problems it is trying to solve are complicated. This book is alway extremely practical, and no where else is practicality needed more then in system administration. They never say, "this should work" but "if that doesn't work, try this".

The authors definitely know their material, they know how to present it, and they know how to write about complex problems so Joe Admin knows how to fix them. The OS-specific sections, like, for example, when Solaris acts differently then the rest of the world, are especially good. And example config files are present when needed. And, as an added bonus, the cartoons at the beginning of each chapter are quite humorous.

So What's In It For Me?

If you want help administrating your UNIX computer, then don't hesitate - get this book.

Buy this book at Amazon and help Slashdot out.

Table of Contents

1. Basic Administration
2. Booting and Shutting Down
3. Rootly Powers
4. The Filesystem
5. Controlling Processes
6. Adding New Users
7. Devices and Drivers
8. Serial Devices
9. Adding A Disk
10. Periodic Processes
11. Backups
12. Syslog and Log Files
13. Configuring the Kernel
14. TCP/IP and Routing
15. Network Hardware
16. The Domain Name System
17. The Network File System
18. Sharing System Files
19. SLIP and PPP
20. The Internet
21. Electronic Mail
22. Network Management
23. Security
24. Usenet News
25. Printing and Imaging
26. Disk Space Management
27. Hardware Maintenance
28. Accounting
29. Performance Analysis
30. UUCP
31. Daemons
32. Policy and Politics

moonboy writes "A Salon article about the hacker who was caught using his companies spare processing power to look for primes. Cool read." You can read the story if you like. This happened quite awhile ago, but this is a nice writeup on it, with some interesting comments about how hacking has changed.

Mike Hostetler has graciously taken the time and energy to send a review of Neil Matthew and Richard Stones' Beginning Linux Programming. The title isn't quite what it would seem, so if you want more info, click below. Beginning Linux Programming author Neil Matthew and Richard Stones pages publisher Wrox Press rating 6.5/10 reviewer Mike Hostetler ISBN 1-874416-68-0 summary A good sharpen-your-skills-book REVIEW: Beginning Linux Programming Neil Matthew and Richard Stones (Wrox Press, ISBN 1-874416-68-0)

Nutshell
Review: A good sharpen-your-skills-book
Rating: 6.5/10
reviewed by Mike Hostetler (home) The Scenario

I bought Beginning Linux Programming in an effort to sharpen my pathetic C skills. The book touchs all sorts of subjects like TCL, CGI, and HTML, but mainly is introducing C programming in the UNIX environment - exec, pipes, redirects, threads, sockets, and, yes, even semaphores.

What's Bad?

Beginning Linux Programming was an ambitous effort from the beginning - the point was to touch on each subject but not get too bogged down on details. That, I think, is it's biggest downfall. The book gives a simple example of each idea and then goes on to the next concept. Naturally, the focus of the book is not to give you a deep understanding of each and every concept, but it definitely made me hungry for more.

Also, the word "beginning" in the title is misleading. In most people's thinking, "beginning" would mean "just learning how to program." However, this books already assumes you have some (but not great) knowledge of C. You will not learn how to program in C from this book. However, you will learn how to program different UNIX concepts in C.

What's Good?

This is one of the most readable Linux/UNIX books I have ever read. Matthew and Stone are good writers and good explainers. And they know their subject matter - no doubt about that. Also, there is a plethora of code in this book - lots of examples to go by. And, for the lazy ones, all the code is downloadable from the Wrox web site.

So What's In It For Me?

If you are like me and have pathetic C programming skills and want to improve them, then this is a must. If you know C well but just want to learn how to program in the UNIX environment, then this book probably isn't for you. If you already know C and UNIX programming, then don't bother - you won't get anything out of it.

If you are interested in purchasing this book, and supporting Slashdot, head over to this Amazon page and pick it up.

Summary of Contents

• Development Tools
• Shell
• Files
• Terminals
• Curses
• Unix Environment
• Databases
• Processes and Signals
• Pipes
• IPC Shared Memory/Semaphors/Messages
• Sockets
• UNIX Development Tools
• Debugging and Optimizing
• X Windows Programming
• Tcl/Tk Programming
• Programming the Internet - HTML
• Programming the Internet - CGI
• The FSF and GNU Project
• Getting Started with Linux
• Internet Resources

Mike Hostetler has graciously taken the time and energy to send a review of Neil Matthew and Richard Stones' Beginning Linux Programming. The title isn't quite what it would seem, so if you want more info, click below. Beginning Linux Programming author Neil Matthew and Richard Stones pages publisher Wrox Press rating 6.5/10 reviewer Mike Hostetler ISBN 1-874416-68-0 summary A good sharpen-your-skills-book REVIEW: Beginning Linux Programming Neil Matthew and Richard Stones (Wrox Press, ISBN 1-874416-68-0)

Nutshell
Review: A good sharpen-your-skills-book
Rating: 6.5/10
reviewed by Mike Hostetler (home) The Scenario

I bought Beginning Linux Programming in an effort to sharpen my pathetic C skills. The book touchs all sorts of subjects like TCL, CGI, and HTML, but mainly is introducing C programming in the UNIX environment - exec, pipes, redirects, threads, sockets, and, yes, even semaphores.

What's Bad?

Beginning Linux Programming was an ambitous effort from the beginning - the point was to touch on each subject but not get too bogged down on details. That, I think, is it's biggest downfall. The book gives a simple example of each idea and then goes on to the next concept. Naturally, the focus of the book is not to give you a deep understanding of each and every concept, but it definitely made me hungry for more.

Also, the word "beginning" in the title is misleading. In most people's thinking, "beginning" would mean "just learning how to program." However, this books already assumes you have some (but not great) knowledge of C. You will not learn how to program in C from this book. However, you will learn how to program different UNIX concepts in C.

What's Good?

This is one of the most readable Linux/UNIX books I have ever read. Matthew and Stone are good writers and good explainers. And they know their subject matter - no doubt about that. Also, there is a plethora of code in this book - lots of examples to go by. And, for the lazy ones, all the code is downloadable from the Wrox web site.

So What's In It For Me?

If you are like me and have pathetic C programming skills and want to improve them, then this is a must. If you know C well but just want to learn how to program in the UNIX environment, then this book probably isn't for you. If you already know C and UNIX programming, then don't bother - you won't get anything out of it.

If you are interested in purchasing this book, and supporting Slashdot, head over to this Amazon page and pick it up.

Summary of Contents

• Development Tools
• Shell
• Files
• Terminals
• Curses
• Unix Environment
• Databases
• Processes and Signals
• Pipes
• IPC Shared Memory/Semaphors/Messages
• Sockets
• UNIX Development Tools
• Debugging and Optimizing
• X Windows Programming
• Tcl/Tk Programming
• Programming the Internet - HTML
• Programming the Internet - CGI
• The FSF and GNU Project
• Getting Started with Linux
• Internet Resources

kwisti writes "Neil Tagare wants to wire the countries the information age has left behind. Can he do it? He has already wired the world once. Read more about Project Oxygen and Tagere's plans for moving the planet onto a fiber optic network. "

Reuters is reporting that Danish scientists have created a chip where a single atom jumping back and forth could generate binary code. The novelty is that this is the first time it has been done at room temperature. Theoretically, this should allow information densities such that the information of a million CD-ROMs could fit in the area of a single disc.

sjbrown wrote in to send us a link to a press release over at yahoo talking about a new partnership between Corel and Red Hat that will basically mean that Red Hat will be porting their distribution to Strong Arm, and hence, will join Debian in offering a modern distro for the NetWinder.

jsm writes " Using a little-understood property of twin particles called "entanglement", researchers at Caltech have used two beams of light to transport a third beam of light a distance of one yard. Essentially, they're making a copy of the original beam, so it's arguable whether the beam has been transported or merely duplicated. Still, it may be applicable to larger objects (philosopher's stone, anyone?)." I hope this means that someday I can get around without using a car.

Al writes "TIME has an article about Linus and Linux. I guess this means we're mainstream now! " I figure we've seen it all now. Well, there is still Better Homes & Gardens, Rolling Stone and Cosmo...

Recently many people have been asking for a port of Coldfusion to Linux. Allaire has just announced it will do just that. Thanks Jeremy! There is no definite release date yet since Coldfusion relies on third party products which will have to be ported or replaced. Note that this port came about because of user demand. You have a voice: use it! Thanks to Svartalf, James Morris, M1m3R, and xtra.

Kevin writes "The Diamond Rio is being put on hold due to a court order. I really don't understand how it is even possible. If this is successful can they outlaw CD players and VCR's just because they can play illegally copied material? " Personally, I'm willing to buy one of those Rio's just to make a statement against the RIAA goobers who are making this messy. Note to RIAA:The way you do business is going to die. The Rio is just the first step- wait until Radio moves to the Internet. Why would I listen to WXYZ when wxyz.com will play my exact choice of music? Why would I buy a physical object at all? The future is gonna be great: on demand media will make accessing music better for the everyone. Stop trying to protect your ass with lawsuits and instead try to win the new game by offering consumers what we want. Release all your music as MP3 and figure out a better way to profit then the existing distribution system that rips off the artists, and makes things unecessarily expensive and difficult for consumers. Soapbox mode off.

boinger wrote in to send us a link to a yahoo bit saying that ALS has broken the record for the largest number of exhibitors at a Linux conference. I bet this trend continues for every con for that comes along for awhile. I'll be there. I guess I'm one of the exhibitors (VA Research and Cyclic are our official sponsors, so go buy their stuff :) in a booth with t.o and freshmeat so see ya there. No, I won't be naked, but I might go topless for a bit if anyone wants to give me a laptop with a fully functional x key *grin*

kwisti writes " Another Windows versus Linux story, ABCNews.com compares the two operating systems with twist of David versus Goliath parody. They even feature a picture with Rob Young displaying his Red Hat. :) "

Our favorite company has been having difficulties remembering what they innovated (ever) lately. So much so, that on the one hand they claim Linux is a competitor (built by a single individual...) and on the other don't see Linux as a threat because no company owns it. (This last statement was not made by Microsoft itself, but probably reflects what they believe. However, even if Linux were to dominate the PC market, they would still be a dominant force: webTV and Dreamcast are two very effective means of dominating the market of those who would like to access the internet (and want to play games) while not having the money to buy a complete PC. WinCE targets both the above and many PDAs, while Embedded NT will attack markets such as hospital equipment (adding new meaning to the phrase "Oh my God!") and network routers. True, Linux ports may be attempted to some of these platforms, but if they cannot run the games, who will use them?) Now we need only wait until Monday for the fun and games to begin. However students at the Auburn University have already started to have their fun. Read on below. shaldannon writes "Mark showed up a Microsoft recruiting agent tonight in front of an audience of 200+. The Auburn University chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery hosted a meeting for its membership at which Microsoft recruiters spoke on the subject of 'why Microsoft is the place to work.'

Mark, an easy-going guy who also runs the Linux Support Services site, showed up in his green penguin shirt. As the meeting progressed, the recruiter, named Colleen, asked eight volunteers to come forward to help her demonstrate the composition and duties of a Microsoft product team.

I nudged Mark, and we both headed to the front to participate. A half dozen Linux users in the room began to nudge each other and grin when they saw Mark's shirt, which has a quote by the great Linus on the back. The recruiter asked for someone with vision to step forward, to represent the "Project Leader." Mark was the natural choice--because his vision is Linux--but she was totally oblivious to this.

The meeting progressed, with the recruiter going through the various positions in a software team while some of the Linux users in the back (John, in particular) passed notes around explaining the irony of the situation to the rest of the audience.

Towards the end, she asked where we thought Microsoft got ideas for its products. From on stage, behind her, Mark piped up with "from other companies!" She turned and observed, "Someone in here is a smartass," not realizing that Mark was flaunting the greatest challenge to Microsoft, right on his chest--the happy penguin."

Thanks also to Cowering In Fear, ColonelPanic, and Dan Kegel for some of the material used here.

Benjamin Saller Bender writes "This is just another sign that America is slowly weening itself off modems - Hayes is declaring bankruptcy."

Lisa writes "Congress is trying to impose more strict regulations about copyrighted material over the internet and their protection, in accordance with the World Intellectual Property Organization."

Well, a whole bunch of people wrote in to let us know that for some time today, Linux was on the front page of Yahoo! in the News section, labeled as Windows alternative causing stir. It doesn't appear to be there now but you can still see their coverage.

Well, a whole bunch of people wrote in to let us know that for some time today, Linux was on the front page of Yahoo! in the News section, labeled as Windows alternative causing stir. It doesn't appear to be there now but you can still see their coverage.

Jabbo posted this rather interesting website about how Bill Gates made it rich: his mother knew the chief executive officer of IBM who approved the inclusion of MS/DOS with the original IBM PC... Interesting what happened in pre-computer times (like the first version of Unix in 1970 on a DEC PDP-7), unofficially of course. And did you know that Bill's house needs 50 NT servers to run?

Charlie Bennett writes "Mike Burati at PubWeb, Inc. forwarded me a pointer to a story on Yahoo. A company named Sightsound.com holds a patent on the sale of music and video over the internet. the sale of music and video over the internet. "

Josh Baugher wrote in to send us a link to an article that talks about CBS unveiling HDTV on a football game on Nov. 8. It's only in New York, and its only Football, but its a start.

Black Jack Hyde writes "Nick Petreley's new zine LinuxWorld has a web site up and running. The debut won't be until October, but you can sign up now for the email updates. "

Pierce sent us a link to a story over at Yahoo where you can read about An UltraSparc version of Linux. Sun actually has some fairly inexpensive ultra's these days. And this company will apparently build UltraSPARC Linux boxes for you. Not bad.

talon wrote in to send us a link to an EETimes article about the debaate over the term 'engineer'. Apparently a recent plane crash might have been caused by a software glitch, so now Software Engineer Certification might start getting more important.

Svartalf writes "According to this item the FCC is giving serious consideration to releasing the 20 or so year old signal level restrictions so that 56k modems will be 56k instead of 53k under ideal conditions. Yeah, I know, it's not a big improvement- but it's a couple of k per second faster and *every* drop counts until xDSL and cable modems become a large scale thing. "

DigitalDaedalus wrote in to send us a link to a techweb story about rumors that Intel might bid on 3com. 3com is hot these days- ever since they acquired USR. Now the strange thing is that this would mean Intel could own the Pilot. Doesn't that thing have a Motorolla CPU?

talon wrote in to send us a link to an article about Abuse of the Whois Database. Apparently whois requests have doubled every 20 days for the last couple months. It's presumably spam harvesters and the like doing it. The best part is that 32% of the traffic was generated by one company. That one company did more whois requests than europe, though NSI isn't naming names.

talon wrote in to send us a link to an article about Abuse of the Whois Database. Apparently whois requests have doubled every 20 days for the last couple months. It's presumably spam harvesters and the like doing it. The best part is that 32% of the traffic was generated by one company. That one company did more whois requests than europe, though NSI isn't naming names.

A.X.G. writes "Red Hat Software and Frozenriver are going to try to create the definitive GIMP manual, plus try to explore as much as possible use of free graphics applications on Linux."

Howard H. Schlunder wrote in to tell us Steve says Microsoft is going to release a bit of the NT source code, since it will let people write better applications. Can anyone else forsee the licensing terms? Also, I'm a bit bothered by the frequent use of the term "freeware" in recent media bits.

Howard H. Schlunder wrote in to tell us Steve says Microsoft is going to release a bit of the NT source code, since it will let people write better applications. Can anyone else forsee the licensing terms? Also, I'm a bit bothered by the frequent use of the term "freeware" in recent media bits.

Wiggins sent us a link to a story where you can read about a guy who has been banned for life from the running an internet commerce site, as part of his punishment for running a scam auction site. How are they gonna keep tabs on this?

mrorange (aka Patrick Berry) writes "The iMac, which only sold for 15 days in August, may set a record for monthly PC sales. The final count isn't tallied yet, but the only thing that is close, according to the article, is a Compaq machine that sold last Christmas." I finally saw one a few days ago (I don't go outside much). I still want one, but until Linux is good to go on it, I don't really know what I'd do with it beyond run an X-Server on it :)

A.X.G. writes " The new Microsoft tellall book book puts Bill & Co. in a very, very bad (a.k.a. truthful) light. I am sure some slander suits are coming in the near future. here are a few snippets and some statements made by some MS reps. "

Gary William Flake has written a book entitled ``The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation.'' The book's companion website is located at here. Art & Math can work so well together sometimes. Tom Murphy sent us a link to Chris Wenham os OS/2 E-zine's rant on Conspiracy Theories anf the FSF. Mentions Slashdot for some reason too. alank sent us an article on free software that you might enjoy. Gunfighter wrote in to say that recent User Friendly strips will be of interest to Red Hat users, Finally W. O. Frobozz sent us a link to an article about Gary Kildall of CP/M and DRI fame. Worthwhile read.

Gary William Flake has written a book entitled ``The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation.'' The book's companion website is located at here. Art & Math can work so well together sometimes. Tom Murphy sent us a link to Chris Wenham os OS/2 E-zine's rant on Conspiracy Theories anf the FSF. Mentions Slashdot for some reason too. alank sent us an article on free software that you might enjoy. Gunfighter wrote in to say that recent User Friendly strips will be of interest to Red Hat users, Finally W. O. Frobozz sent us a link to an article about Gary Kildall of CP/M and DRI fame. Worthwhile read.

Red Hat Software has won another award. This time RedHat Linux 5.1 receives the Editor's Choice award from the Australian Computer Magazine. Check out the press release for further details.

YuppieScum sent us a pair of techie articles coming from Yahoo's daily news. The first tell us that Samsung has announced 1Gb Dimms. The other gem is that IBM has apparently shipped its first Copper PowerPC Chips to apple today.

YuppieScum sent us a pair of techie articles coming from Yahoo's daily news. The first tell us that Samsung has announced 1Gb Dimms. The other gem is that IBM has apparently shipped its first Copper PowerPC Chips to apple today.

Alex Prestin sent us This Link to a strange picture of the iMac, and what appears to be its long lost little brother. Ewan Leith wrote in to tell the world that "PC Plus in the UK goes on sale tomorrow (the 27th) with Suse 5.2 on the cover CD, along with another CD full of linux programs." Donovan was the first to warn the world that the 2.1.119 kernel is now out. I compiled my 2.1.118 kernel a wopping half hour before the 119 release. Sigh. Colin Walls sent us a link to the latest Spencer F. Kat cartoon thingee. There's another piece of aftermath from last weeks standards hoopla. icetrey wrote in to say "OctobrX and Bishop have chosen me, icetrey, to be the new blackbox themes webmaster. It has a new look, as well as a few new themes for 40.x."

YuppieScum sent us a link to a story on Yahoo about TI and their new .07 micron process for making even smaller microchips. I figure at this rate, we'll be able to implant whole P2s into professors soon.

Chris Howard wrote to tell us about a new chamber to trap antimatter. Eventually antimatter may prove a cheap energy source for interplanetary exploration (as in Star Trek). moonboy contributed this link to a new plasma engine NASA is developing. Finally in related news, Tom Rothamel informed us of a setback for the Delta III rocket (i.e. a successful test, since those are the ones that find bugs): "Well, the new Delta III rocket's first test flight just exploded. I saw it on RealVideo from Boeing."

Dana writes "Online marketer CyberGold Monday said it has a new patent, one that gives it alone the right to offer surfers compensation for responding to online ads." I guess getting yourself sued over stupid patents is one way to get cheap publicity.

Dave writes "This article at yahoo! has to do with a new GPS toy. It lets you send e-mail from anywhere in the world (it'll also tell ya where you are too). The really nifty feature, is that you can lock in certain spots (like where you parked your car) and then wander away (or go to Fry's) and when you come back out, you tell it you want to get back to your car, and it tells you how to get there from where you are! Wonderful lil toy! "

Dave writes "This article at yahoo! has to do with a new GPS toy. It lets you send e-mail from anywhere in the world (it'll also tell ya where you are too). The really nifty feature, is that you can lock in certain spots (like where you parked your car) and then wander away (or go to Fry's) and when you come back out, you tell it you want to get back to your car, and it tells you how to get there from where you are! Wonderful lil toy! "

Eric Harlow writes "The story is listed about a "NT 5.0 reality check" story. You know it's getting mainstream when CNN writes about it." Forbes. CNN. PBS. The Wall Street Journal. Excellent.

Herb Wolfe Jr. writes "I found an article about Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center finding a java virus. Basically, it attaches to a .class file. More info on the virus itself can be found at Symantec "

Torgo Jr writes "A woman is being sued by her credit card company for racking up a large online gambling debt. So what does she do? She is countersuing on the grounds that online gambling is illegal. Personally, I think anyone is foolish for gambling online. Their software plays fair... sure... "