From 32bitsonline.com: “Actually, all you have to do is take the current value of all of Microsoft and divide that into the number of
machines ever loaded with WinWhatever, and multiply that by the number of hollow marketing promises that M$
has ever made. That is what it has cost business and end users alike to leave the Redmondites to their own
devices…..several (hundred?) trillion dollars, any way you cut it.”

CNET.com reports that Turbo is planning an IPO as well, in order to keep the bucks rolling in.

CERT said it will release security vulnerability information to the public so that users can take steps to protect themselves. The agency will still notify the software company first, but even if the flaws are fixed by the company, CERT plans to alert customer to problems. From Infoworld.com.

Among others, Hitachi Ltd. announced in September that it will support Linux on all of its
major product lines, including mainframe computers, UNIX servers, PC servers, PCs and
mobile devices. From AsiaBizTech.com.

Canada.com reports that Big Blue is sparing no expense and will hire 1,000 people for the factory, which is scheduled to begin operations in the second half of 2002.

“Those who have computers in their homes, schools and workplaces are much more likely to commit crimes because of the overwhelming urge to do so without being easily caught… The Internet offers an outlet for disturbed people to commit crime and mayhem and must be stopped now!” –Kelly McNeill

From OSOpinion: “I’ve loved FreeBSD since the first moment I saw that devilish logo. I remember running FreeBSD 2.2 during my sophomore year at Georgia Tech on my trusty Cyrix P120 “rebel” box. The OS has always impressed me with its stunning performance and infallible stability. Of course, times change and for numerous reasons I’ve been running Windows 2000 lately. The other day I noticed that FreeBSD 4.1 had been released, so I thought I would give it a whirl on my spare hard drive and write a little review…” –Kelly McNeill

The Korea Times says the most popular MP3 download site in Korea is most heavily used by workers and homemakers in their thirties, not students.
“In September,” according to the article,” the site was visited by 101,000 netizens, of which 35.9 percent were adults in their
thirties, 35.8 percent young adults in their twenties and only 8.3 percent teens.”

“Karl Auerbach, a Cisco Systems engineer and long time critic of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has won a coveted
seat on ICANN’s powerful board of directors.” More at newsbytes.com