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Simon — Review of Mac OS X for Java Geeks (O'Reilly).

Jeremy — gzip vs. bzip2.

Jar Browser 0.9, a Swing app for searching across a collection of jars.

Banks Upgrade Check Fraud Detection. A positive-payee system to identify checks with changes to the payee line.

Cameron — Session IDs: A brief how-to.

Rogers — Microsoft offers free trial of Virtual PC.

Hollywood Lines Up Plenty Of Friends Against Morpheus, Grokster. Friend of the court…

Virgin scores 550 times. Sprint PCS prepaid phones.

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Rusty — MRJ Adapter 1.0 and The FreeBSD foundation has released Caffe Diable, a port of the Java Development Kit 1.3.1.

Glenn — Hogs Get Wi-Fi.

Jay — Open source protestors take to the streets.

Tracking Down Yahoo!'s Millionaires. 25 people who sold their companies to Yahoo!

Cedric — Python replacing Visual Basic? Nah and Components in Java.

JSch 0.1.7, a pure Java implementation of SSH2.

Arjun — Eric Raymond's Blog.

Philip — Java vs. .NET, part 5 – Rich thin clients.

Jeremy — Yahoo! News RSS Feeds Launched.

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D-Link Supports Hotspots with AirSpot. Public Hotspot Gateway.

a san juan — Screwed by the Microsoft JVM.

‘Experts’: Be wary of tech analysts. Analysts are simply getting it wrong these days.

Starting Development for the Series 60 Platform for the absolute beginner.

15 day evaluation of CodeWarrior Development Studio for Symbian OS.

Apache Tomcat 5.0.9 Beta Released.

Arjun — Java FTP client libraries.

Hani — A bile interview with Marc Fleury.

Jim — Brave New World. Jim's got a new blog.

Ant Shell 20030826, a command shell executing Ant tasks.

Amazon Goes After the Flim-Flam Man. 11 lawsuits in the U.S. and Canada against spammers.

SoBig Lacks Originality. Most viruses do. Luckily we've yet to see a true masterpiece.

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LDBC Liberty Database Connectivity, a vendor-independent JDBC driver.

Russ — Struts Target Naming Conventions and Mobile Devices.

Nelson — Python on Windows is complete enough to be a real alternative to Visual Basic.

Ransom demand by SMS. This appears to be the first case of extortion by text messaging.

Fred — SonyEricsson New J2ME SDK.

Rogers — Florida may tax computer networks.

Simon — 118 whatever.

Christoph — HTTP Throttling Reverse Proxy as Web App debugging tool.

Perl 5.8.0 for the SL-5500.

Netgear's 108Mbps WiFi gear. Wireless access points and laptop cards.

David — blojsom 2.0 available or Happy Birthday to me!

Mark — My Briefcase: living from a Zip disk.

On August 26, 1842 — The first fiscal year was established by the U.S. Congress to start on July 1st.