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Dell plans cut-down Linux server

Apache 1.3.4 released

Perl Institue update: loads of new modules, guys!...

It really is easy to make your own CDs

Go PUBLIC ENEMY! Severs ties with DefJam records ...Chuck D says "Our goal is to disrupt the industry"

HACKT UP!

Here, in its entirety is Zhou Lan's letter pleading for her husband:
Dear Chinese Consulate General of People's Republic of China New York City

Dear Sir or/and Madem:

My name is Zhou Lan, wife of Zhou Yongjun, thereby authorize Mr. Li, a business partner of my husband in New York City to hand in this letter to Chinese government on behalf of me with the following contents: My husband Zhou Yongjun had been disappeared since December 21 last year after being refused entry at Shen Zhen city in Guang Dong Province and vowed to come into mainland China for business reason. He is the publisher of World Wide Chinese magazine and a student in 1989 in Beijing Political and Law University. He went to USA in 1993.

As a Chinese citizen of People's Republic of China, I therefore respectfully request the Consulate General to shoulder the responsibility to help and protect the citizens's rights and interests when they are in need. I would like to ask this consulate to investigate my husband Zhou Yongjun's whereabouts and give me and his young baby an answer as soon as possible. My number is 212 xxx-xxxx.

As President Jiang Zeming and Chinese government said in many occasions that Chinese citizens have the right to come back to China safely and without any problem. Zhou Yongjun is on business trip and wanted to visit his old parents after years of separation from them. He was incorrectly refused entry in December by Shen Zhen authority and an unpublished book by Huang Xiang was confisticated along with the cash he had.

It's been more than three weeks that I and his friends had not received any phone call or seen him. We believed he had disappeared in mainland China. As a citizen of People's republic of China, I therefore respectfully request this consulate to investigate into my husband's mysterious disappearance.

I can not sleep and eat normally because of my worrying about his safety. Also our child's illness is getting worse without seeing his dad after about one month. I sincerely hope the Chinese government would investigate into this case and give me and the young baby an answer about where he is now. We want him to go home and be with his son!

Sincerely,
Zhou Lan
A Chinese citizen of People's republic of China01/12/1999

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Russian hack of TUCOWS

STOCK WATCH

Is Microsoft (MS) cooking their books???

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IN THE ETHER

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sound to me like Murdoch has been hanging out with too many bitter old-boy brokers...the times are a changin'...

360 degree TV...

SAR tech eyes China...

Tiny spy planes of the future

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but Firmage says he was mis-quoted

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GROUPER NUGGETS

Now about that Gitic... Greenspan arrives in Beijing who is stepping up its financial crackdown...
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Goldman's Corzine stepping down...

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