The child privacy regulations apparently don’t apply to government sites. Bend over once again, American citizens. From a report at Wired.com.

That’s where Microsoft is throwing a big coming-out celebration for Exchange 2000. We could sneak in and wave big Linux signs. Think they’d get mad? Find out more details at Infoworld.com.

CRN believes Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie is up to something big, as an announcement is expected on October 24th about his current project.

From a Linux World story: “The Linux Standard Base has accomplished little, and few distributors are complying
with the slim specifications it has produced. … Passive leaders
are to blame.”

CNet reports that the long-awaited Crusoe chip for laptops has been released on Sony’s Vaio PictureBook.

Slashdot readers talk about the availability of the AMD X86-64 simulator for Linux, called SimNow!. “Unfortunately, the kernel 64 bit port is not done yet, but hey,
you got a nice simulated machine to play with!”

New book at NewRiders.com: “Developers who are looking to participate in this growth area will need to learn new Open
Source tools. GNU Autoconf, GNU Automake and GNU Libtool are key tools for Open Source
application development. These tools are not easy to learn, so some of the leading authorities
on these tools have worked together on this book to teach developers how to boost their
productivity and the portability of their application.”

LinuxCertified.com, a provider of Linux training, will
offer its next weekend bootcamp on November 18-19th in San
Francisco bay area (south bay). These workshops are
designed for busy information technology professionals and
prepare them for Linux Certification exams. The

press release is at LWN.net.

LWN.net has an advisory from Red Hat: A root exploit and several additional bugs in traceroute have been
corrected.

A press release from Business Wire: Cnation, an eBusiness services firm,
today announced the open sourcing of BingoX, its Web Application Development Framework.

Located at http://opensource.cnation.com, BingoX is the framework that Cnation has used for most of its clients’
applications for more than three years and is now available for public use.