Ok, so this has little to do with Open Source, but it’s funny. The humor site, Segfault, has a bogus graph of marijuana users by type of computers they use. “Gateway” comes out on the low end.

Popular Power has posted a preview release of client software that lets Macintosh users participate
in the company’s distributed computing system, from MacWEEK. Popular Power released a Windows client in April and a Linux version in July, and plans future
releases for Solaris and BSD Unix.

Linux PR: Akopia, the world’s leading
provider of open source e-commerce software and services announced
today the release of Interchange 4.6, software that increases efficiency,
improves productivity and simplifies the management of e-commerce.TechWeb has a full story.

The Standard reports, layoffs, no-shows and gallows humor give a Halloween mood to this year’s
conference.

The brainchild of Privacy
International ,a London-based human organization, the Big Brother Award ceremonies were held
simultaneously last night in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to dish out
awards to government agencies, companies and initiatives considered by juries
in each country to have done the most to invade personal privacy. Winners, or losers, depending on how you look at it, are announced in this article from The Register.

“It’s an exciting time to be a Linux user. KDE2 rocks. GNOME is great.
There’s some good software out there, making the sense of dislocation
moving from Windows a lot less traumatic than it used to be. What we can’t be doing, though, is raising unrealistic expectations or
making promises we can’t keep in our enthusiasm to advocate Linux.” warns this article from LinuxPlanet

The ISP grouping is led by Nifty, a subsidiary of Fujitsu and one of
Japan’s two leading Internet service providers, reports IDG News Service, the other service providers include Earthlink from the U.S., Hong
Kong’s Cable and Wireless HKT IMS, a unit of Pacific Century
CyberWorks that operates the Netvigator service, Singapore’s
SingNet, Germany’s T-Online International, South Korea’s Unitel and
Universo Online from Brazil.

Newly appointed Linux League
Commissioner and weekly RadioWallStreet.com contributor, Francis Gaskins, will host a panel of
guests to review Linux trends, with comment on Red Hat, Inc., Microsoft
Corporation, Neoware Systems, Inc., and Corel Corporation, from Business Wire.

From scripting a dialup login and setting the proper time zone to configuring NIS and choosing a realtime Linux solution, Ask the Geek on LinuxWorld has all the answers.

PRNewswire: In upgrading, OEM customers will
benefit from the following additional features offered in the retail version:
increased performance, support for virtually all drives on all buses
(FireWire, USB, SCSI, ATA, and PowerBook Media Bay), auto-updating, password
protection, encryption, speed tests, and Linux and DOS partition support.