Check in at ZDNET for live video of all the Comdex keynotes. The
kickoff was Sunday, Nov. 12 with Bill Gates.

CNET.com reports that in a poll of more than 4,300 tech workers, career site Techies.com found that employees at publicly traded companies had the
highest annual salary at $58,048, followed by $54,604 for workers at non-public companies and $48,330 for government/non-profit
employees.

When attempting to upload files with Ipswitch’s
WS_FTP 6.0 and later, the following error may
appear: “503 No PORT command issued first.â€
According to Ipswitch, the problem can be
worked around by setting “Passive Mode†to off.
This setting can be found on the Host Info tab on
the connection screen. From MSNBC.

From the Wall Street Journal: The group assuming
technical management of the Internet, which will
likely select new suffixes for the world’s Web
addresses at a meeting later this week, has
essentially narrowed its choices to about 13
possibilities, eschewing suffixes such as “kidsâ€
and “xxx.â€

use.perl.org lists the latest module releases.

Intel is introducing two Celeron
chips, one running at 766 megahertz and the
other at 733 megahertz. Both use Intel’s 0.18
micron manufacturing process, which allows
the company to fit more transistors onto a
single chip and to get more of them out of a
single silicon wafer. From ZDNET.

IDG.com reports that users receive Navidad via e-mail in the form of an attachment with the name
NAVIDAD.EXE. Users receive the attachment as a reply message to an
e-mail sent to an infected user. Once the virus has infected a PC, it prevents
users from launching any programs of the .EXE type, which includes basic
applications such as Microsoft Word. Navidad is the Spanish word for
Christmas.

From Dallas News:Even the most gadget-crazed techies admit that pen and paper are hard to beat for convenience. On Sunday night, Bill Gates was expected to unveil the latest developments in Microsoft Corp.’s efforts to introduce what it calls a Tablet PC, a full-fledged personal computer that uses a pen and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard.

This machine had been modified to be Y2K compliant, (as posted on the Teledyn bbs)and had been their main production system until Sept.
No one mentions what it was doing for its last 30 days (playing nethack?).

Showing once again the characteristic
relentlessness of his company, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
kicked off the Fall Comdex trade show by demonstrating a
handful of technologies aimed at further blurring any distinction
between Windows and the Web. Seattle Times has the story.