During a March 1999 CNN interview, while trying to differentiate himself from rival Bill
Bradley, Gore boasted: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the
initiative in creating the Internet.” And it was all downhill from there. From Wired.com.

“It is a place where we must ensure American security as
surely as….sea, air and space.” From The Register.

Wired.com reports: The open-source alternative to Napster is having its share of technical and political problems. Some developers want to stop its promotion and fix its limitations.

An article at FreeOS.com explains various KDE applications you’ll encounter on your travels through Linuxland.

This BSDToday writer says: “I found that a good amount of material covered was useful in my everyday job as a system admin. The most important was the
“Technical Writing 101″ , which took a good portion of the first day’s afternoon.”

From OSOpinion: A new Canadian service, paid for with our tax dollars, supports and promotes Microsoft to the detriment of other OS vendors: This Federally funded program is implicitly restricted to only those Canadians who buy their O/S from Microsoft. The 3Web site presents an explicit message: There is no connection software for Mac, Linux, nor, dare I guess, for BSD or OS/2 or…” –Kelly McNeill

Slashdot is discussing an Associated Press story that declares the unprotected status of anonymous speech.

From OSOpinion: “‘Peer-to-peer’ (P2P) is possibly the latest media-induced buzzword to hit the scene. No doubt countless start-ups and business models will be built around P2P. Some of these companies will find a niche and survive, but most will not. Many of these companies want to come together with committees and form some kind of standard(s) for P2P-based technologies. But is this really something that is necessary? Personally, I don’t think so, and the remainder of this article outlines why I believe this.” –Kelly McNeill

“In Part 2 of our series on firewalls, another big name in software goes Linux. Check Point FireWall-1 helps Linux adapt to the critical area of securing enterprises.” From IDG.net.

From OSOpinion: “Could it be? An operating system that works over the Web. Through a browser? Could it actually be? It was true. First I checked by internal kill list. You know, those things you look at before you’re willing to do business with a company. Were they Microsoft soldiers? Nope. They ran on twelve platforms. Did they want twice my annual income? No. They were priced like Adobe PhotoShop. Were they vaporware? No. They were in their eighth release. Were they a pre-IPO get-rich-quick scheme? I don’ think so. I didn’t see any mention of VCs. Were these guys repackaging an old technology? No, it didn’t look like they were.” –Kelly McNeill