IDG News Service on NetworkWorldFusion News reports, Compaq Computer Corp.’s newly released OpenVMS Version 7.3 builds on the company’s
promise to enhance the 24-year-old operating system
it acquired from Digital Equipment Corp. two years
ago, users and analysts said.

This is Part 1 of evil3d.net’s review looking at
performance on AMD based systems under
Windows and Linux.

This article from Linux Planet takes a look at how to configure pppd, the Linux
point-to-point protocol (PPP) daemon.

Linux.com has an interview with several developers at Loki, which ports computer games to Linux. Coming soon: Mindrover, Sis Meier’s Alpha Centauri, Deus Ex, and Tribes2.

ZDCOUK reports that Commissioner Kathleen McEvoy found that the Adelaide Institute
had breached section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act by
publishing material on the site, the consequences of which were
‘vilificatory, bullying, insulting and offensive’ to the Jewish
population.

An Associated Press report at Globe Technology says that the federal Justice Department and the Information Technology Association of America, a trade group,
has launched the Cybercitizen Partnership to encourage educators and parents to talk to children in ways
that equate computer crimes with old-fashioned wrongdoing.

Reader Dan Sparks writes: Compaq’s TestDrive just added a quad processor (666mhz) Itanium experimental machine with 2GB running Linux. Log onto the test drive site and try out Intel’s newest technology
for free. Ed. note: you must register at the site in order to use the features.

Geezers are the fastest growing demographic for online music. “And they are not technologically ignorant, either,” says a retail consultant. From Business Week.

Last week, Oracle blasted onto the home pages of many news sites with its million-dollar
gimmick. Oracle wants companies that power their websites with Microsoft’s SQL server or
IBM’s DB2 server to switch to Oracle’s new 9i application server and 8i database. But Larry Ellison can change his mind anytime he wants to. From Upside Today.

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