No doubt about it, says Chairman Bill! Even if desktop PCs have a slowly-disintergrating position in the marketplace, the big M is gonna do fine forevermore. Read it at InfoWorld.

Direct from the RIAA: “WASHINGTON, D.C., October 12, 2000 – The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced today
that it has launched a new project to develop a standardized system for identifying digital files of sound recordings.
This identification system, to be used in sound recordings world-wide, will build on and integrate with identification
systems already in use. A primary benefit of the project will be to facilitate and accelerate the growth of digital delivery
of music on the Internet.”

ZDNet focuses on failures of free ISPs in Latin American countries; of many that started within the last few years, only a few are left, and those few are also having problems staying in business.

ZDNet story from London says, “Not only were sex sites the earliest to recognise the
opportunities of the web, but they went through the
learning curve much quicker than mainstream web
sites, sex industry entrepreneurs told Reuters at a
streaming media conference here.”

First, check the Salon story about the code used in the Secure Digital Music Initiative getting cracked — possibly sooner than it should be — then read the hundreds of Slashdot comments about the Salon story and its subject matter.

A CNN storytells about a group of hackers managed to break the so-called “world’s toughest code.” The story says,
“It took the Swedes the equivalent of 70 years of computer
time to decipher 10 increasingly difficult codes set by
author Simon Singh in his international bestseller ‘The
Code Book.'”

“The Internet’s oversight body has quietly changed its
own rules to give European leaders a new top-level
domain,”

says ZDNet.

Red Hat has take some hard knocks on Slashdot (and elsewhere) recently, so Bob Young wrote an open letter to Slashdot readers telling his side of a lot of the talk surrounding problems with the recent RH 7.0 release.

Atipa Corporation, an end-to-end
provider of Open Source and Linux solutions, announced today at the Linux
Atlanta Showcase the rollout of a new product line of Beowulf computational
clusters, the Ascendance series, from PRNewswire.

Demonstrating its considerable
clout, ZDNet eWeek reports, Intel Corp. is bringing together the leaders of
Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo
Inc. for an invitation-only “e-business summit” this week
to discuss its call for open standards, greater industry
cooperation and other critical issues — such as its
Itanium processor.