eWeek has a followup story on Rijndael being proposed as the U.S. government encryption standard.

From an IDG News Service story on Internet appliciances: “The new Internet Computer is the antithesis of the two MSN machines.
Its OS is Linux, running invisibly in the background. Netscape 4.73 is its
browser. Both load from a CD-ROM. The NIC is the most computerlike of the
three appliances, with a small vertical case, two stand-alone speakers, a tabletop
mouse (with mouse pad), and a full-size computer keyboard that lacks the
shortcut buttons included on the MSN Companions.”

A column at ZDNet examines script kiddies and their potential damage to poor, little corporate America. “It’s so easy to hack now that it’s almost certain that every corporate Web site will be compromised within the next couple of years.” Also, The Associated Press reports that the FBI is pushing for cyber ethics classes in schools.

From a column at ZDNet: “(Reverse engineering) sounds backwards. It sounds devious. But it is about analysis: taking things apart, potentially breaking them, to find out how they work; opening up the hood, seeing what parts are inside and how they are connected. And, although it sounds somewhat less noble than ‘engineering,’ the world needs reverse engineers and needs them badly.”

AbriaSoft, the first distribution of MySQL based database
solutions for the Internet, announced
today its release of the Abria App Pack, an application package
containing popular Open Source applications that are commonly used in
conjuncture with MySQL database, from Internet Wire.

One of the ripple effects of the Microsoft investment in Corel was a
potential change in the status of Wine, surmises LinuxPlanet, a technology that Corel had
mightily championed and used as the underlying technology for its
release of Corel WordPerfect Office 9.

32BitsOnline reviews Xi Graphics’ Accelerated-X laptop display server.

Red Hat previews GTK+ version 2.0’s advantages for users and programmer.

Bringing Linux gamers the most comprehensive testing of 3D cards in Linux, vows this article on LinuxGames.com.

Salon News proclaims, forget Napster and
Gnutella, Jim
McCoy’s Mojo
Nation is the coolest
file-trading service
on the Net.