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.

Eazel, the creators of the upcoming Nautilus file manager, will have a significant say in the direction future
GNOME interfaces will take, according to this article from Linux Today.

These
eSolutions, proclaims Canada Newswire, highlight the unique capabilities of PortalSphere Application
Server including rapid development using a wide choice of tools, lightning
fast data access and business logic processing, real-time event handling,
scalability (10,000+) users and the security and reliability of Unix/Linux.

“The internet of today is already passé”, states this article from Globe Technology.

The new internet–the hypernet–is just around the corner–composed
of a billion net-connected mobile phones, and billions of networked
game-consoles, handhelds, toys and information appliances.