Server appliances are special-purpose computers that handle network jobs such as encrypting
communications, storing files or sending streams of video. They’re designed to be cheaper, easier to use,
or more powerful than their general-purpose brethren. From CNETnews.com.

Wired.com reports: An Austin, Texas company is creating a new sci-fi webzine as a recruiting tool for tech workers. Will it really lure geeks?

Microprocessors giants such as Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have been performing a risky technological high-wire act ever since their chips — some as fast as 1GHz — began exceeding the system bus speed, according to several industry experts. PCWorld.com reports.

Microsoft has announced that its consumer products — Windows 95, 98, and Me — are vulnerable to a utility available on the Internet that allows a person to get into password-protected file shares without knowing the entire password. IDG.net reports.

3dfx’s Voodoo4, reports Anandtech, is finally here, but is it too little too late from the former king of 3D? Let’s find out as we pit it against a number of competitors including the GeForce2 MX and the newly released Radeon SDR.

From IDG.net: The troubling ways of the “I Love You” virus that hit computer networks about five months ago are still tormenting some users, who were hit by one of the more destructive variants of the virus that appeared Friday.

From XTRA.com: “You may wonder how the Internet was created, and what makes it work.
The seed for the Internet can be traced back to J.C.R Licklide of MIT, who in 1962
wrote about his “Galactic Network” concept. His vision was of a global network of
computers that could be easily and quickly accessed by anyone – near enough to
what the internet is as we know it today.”

BountyQuest CEO Charles Cella explains, in this story at Salon, why his Web site is offering cash to patent destroyers.

“The Democratic Party has often said that there is a great “digital divide” in America. According to Democrats, the digital divide is manifested in the high price of personal computers, the software that runs them and the outrageous cost of Internet service that allows only rich white males to use them. This separates all minorities and economically challenged persons of America from the miracle of technology.” –Kelly McNeill

From LinuxPlanet: “It seems like development on the Linux 2.4 kernel has taken forever. By Open Source standards, it has:
whereas we used to see new kernel releases come by at a fast and furious pace, the Linux kernel
development team now seems mired in this seemingly impossible task of actually releasing Linux 2.4.”