Barraged by reporters, mobbed by chat room fans, courted by talk shows, DotComGuy has struck a high-tech nerve since beginning his self-imposed exile this month. The twentysomething, former corporate computing drone has agreed to stay in a house until 2001, foraging out into the world only via the Internet, which he asserts will supply all his needs.

- A glass house -

Police on Monday raided the home of Jon Johansen, the Norwegian programmer who reverse-engineered the DVD Content Scrambling System (CSS) to allow DVD playback on computers running the Linux operating system.

- MPAA plays hardball -

The International Y2K Cooperation Center has released a global scorecard on what it terms the "minor" impact of bad year 2000 date code had on computer systems worldwide.

- Few problems -

Memo to readers: You're typing too much. I know because I used to. I'd key in the same passwords, e-mail responses -- even whole paragraphs -- over and over. (Hi, my name's Steve and I'm a typaholic.)

- Minimize strokes -

That would be PC or Mac.

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