Dell will begin offering its computers in almost any combination of operating system and application configuration customers can imagine, says Infoworld.com.

Rep. Stephen Horn, R-Calif., who made a name for himself by grading
government agencies on their Y2K computer readiness in the months leading up
to last year’s millennial date rollover, is at it again, gearing up to release a report
card on government computer security. From ComputerUser.com.

This article by Richard Stallman at FSF.org tells us, “If you know someone who is writing a manual about free software, and looking towards commercial publication, you have a chance to help the Free Software
Movement a great deal with a small amount of work: by suggesting the idea of publishing the manual under the GNU Free Documentation License.”

The Korean Ministry of Information and Communication fell prey to hackers who managed to bring the Web site to a standstill for 10 hours Saturday. From the Korea Herald.

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the encryption program created by coding supremo Phil Zimmerman almost a decade ago, may not be as secure as many encryption experts have said, according to this report from ComputerUser.com.

A hilarious future ditty on Salon, by Iuma Dylan-Lucas Thornhill, whose parents just won $5,000 for naming him after a Web site.

SiliconValley.com says he’s the kind of guy the national news magazines came looking for a few years back
when they decided to show the world what Silicon Valley was all about.

A large Southeastern university IS team fights off a massive
distributed denial of-service attack and lives to tell about it. From NetworkWorld Fusion.

Quit whining. A Microsoft monopoly isn’t always a bad thing, says Salon, — especially if it kicks off a renaissance in gaming creativity.

Once Liberty Crack executes, it could delete all of the applications on a Palm device. From IDG.net.