Have you ever felt really tiny? The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a spectacular picture of two galaxies colliding some 200 million miles away. CNN has the story, and the picture.

ZDNet reports that the price of flat-panel monitors is dropping due to an excess of supply and shortage of demand caused by over-production.

Do penguins fall over when aircraft fly overhead? Some scientists want to find out. CBC has the story.

The RIAA teamed with law enforcement to bust an illegal CD manufacturer in Georgia.

Linux World discusses the world of proprietary compression, the dangers of it, and how to handle many forms of it in Linux.

New Scientist reports on research into Jupiter’s moon Europa, where there is believed to be water and, by extension, the possibility of life.

From LinuxPR: The Linux Professional Institute
announces the live and complete publication of both of its level 1 exams.

Students now taking either exam 101 or 102 will receive immediate pass-fail
results, on exams that have been updated for production testing. Completion
of 101 and 102 are required in order to obtain LPI’s first-level Linux
certification.

Linux.com has a column about Transmeta: “It’s still too early to declare Transmeta as ‘Good,’ ‘Bad,’ or
‘Ugly.’ In the
end, I hope Transmeta can overcome the ramblings of
computer journalists (myself included) to create a truly great
product. Of course, I also hope they’ve learned lessons from
those who came before, like Cyrix, to prevent the same old
mistakes from kicking a good idea squarely between the legs.”

The advisory is at LWN.net: A locally-exploitable security hole was found where a normal user could
trick root running GnoRPM into writing to arbitrary files due to a bug in
the gnorpm tmp file handling.

From Business Wire: Sam Ockman, founder, chairman and CEO of U.S.-based Penguin Computing
Inc., a provider of reliable Linux systems for Internet serving, will deliver a keynote speech, “Global Adoption of Linux and
the Impact on the Global IT Infrastructure: the Vision, the Reality”
at NetWorld + Interop Paris 2000. It’s at
Parc des Expositions de Paris, Porte des Versailles, Paris, France, Nov. 7.