My Archives: September 2001
Thursday, September 27, 2001
XML.com: Interactive Web Services with XForms [Sep. 26, 2001]
A form -- whether a sheet of paper or a web page -- represents a structured exchange of data. Web services, as typified by emerging standards like SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, is an excellent approach to exchanging data in a structured way, although usually the exchange is between machines. Since computers are much better at, well, computing, web services is an important and overdue development in the evolution of the Web. Nevertheless, web services applications exchanging information only between machines isn't very interesting: lots of electronically accessible information originates with ordinary human beings.
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'.Info' Web domain addresses go live on the Internet | Computerworld News & Features Story
After months of preparations, a few Web sites are beginning to appear online with new .info top level domain addresses that can be visited using Internet browser software.
More than 52,000 .info domain names have been registered since July, according to Afilias Ltd., the company designated to maintain the Internet database of all .info addresses. Those new domains went live on Saturday, though they aren't necessarily yet online. Another 250,000 unique .info addresses are in the pipeline, waiting to be placed in the database so they may eventually be used by Internet visitors.Posted by Elmer @ 11:36 AM EST [Link] [Karma: 0 (+/-)] [No Comments]
Microsoft stands by IIS despite Gartner recommendation | Computerworld News & Features Story
Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Information Server (IIS) is as secure as comparable products from other vendors, the company said after a Gartner Inc. recommendation that enterprises hit by both the Nimda and Code Red worms look at alternatives.
According to the advisory from Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner, the success of the Nimda worm and of Code Red before that "highlights the risk of using IIS and the effort involved in keeping up with Microsoft's frequent security patches."
Gartner's advisory was issued in the wake of last week's attack by the mass-mailing Nimda worm that infected systems running Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, NT and 2000 (see story). Unlike other worms and viruses, Nimda spread via network-based e-mail, as well as by Web browsers, and exploited back doors left behind by previous viruses such as Code Red and Sadmind.
As it had with Code Red, Microsoft recommended installing patches and service packs on virtually every PC and server running the Internet Explorer Web browser, IIS Web servers or the Outlook Express e-mail client, said John Pescatore, a Gartner analyst and author of the advisory (download .pdf).Posted by Elmer @ 11:33 AM EST [Link] [Karma: 0 (+/-)] [No Comments]
Friday, September 21, 2001
Internet Week > Passport > Microsoft Plans to Open Passport > September 20, 2001
Microsoft said today it plans to open its Passport authentication system to make it interoperable with authentication systems from other vendors.
Microsoft has come under fire from competitors and critics who view Passport as a means for Microsoft to lock down ownership of the Internet and exclude competitors.
But the company said today that it plans to let other companies administer their own versions of Passport, with each company's Passport service interoperating with each other's and with Microsoft's. Moreover, Microsoft said it plans to make Passport interoperable with sign-on services run by competing companies, including America Online.Posted by Elmer @ 10:37 AM EST [Link] [Karma: 0 (+/-)] [No Comments]
Thursday, September 20, 2001
TWiki - A Web Based Collaboration Platform
Welcome to TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use Web-based collaboration platform. Use TWiki to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser. Developers can create new web applications based on a Plugin API.
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BrainBuzz.com - Windows XP Remote Assistance
This new feature is unique to Windows XP and allows a user
to request remote help from a more knowledgeable friend or
support technician (in MS terminology, the user providing
assistance is referred to as the "expert"). Once the request
is accepted, the remote helper can:- See the user's desktop
- Control the user's desktop (with permission)
- Chat with the user using text or voice
- Send and receive files from the user's systemPosted by Elmer @ 06:23 PM EST [Link] [Karma: 0 (+/-)] [No Comments]
Monday, September 10, 2001
DDT Studio - Web Integrator Lite
WI Lite is a web portal generation engine and a basis for any type of e-commerce applications with possibilities to have any DB or n-tier backend. It is written with the maximum implementation of php's OOP features, and experienced php programmers will find easy to incorporate their own plugins into it. However, it is also friendly for people with html knowledge which will enable them writing custom "themes" to change the look and feel of the sites with Web Integrator installed.
It features the possibility for fast plugins, themes and multilingual support development; unified system of user access and user rights administration; unified search with possibility to develop custom search features configurable installation. The application currently has only MySQL support. The perfomance is improved for the account of OOP features. English and Russian language support is included.
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Thursday, September 6, 2001
Distance Learning Yet to Hit Home
In the height of the distance learning boom, software CEO Michael Saylor had an ambitious plan: to use $100 million of his own money to create a free online university with lectures from the world's "geniuses and leaders."
While it might have seemed like a good idea at the time, Saylor's vision for a free virtual education never materialized.
"That kind of thing was never going to happen," said Peter Stokes, executive vice president of Eduventures. "The days of free education are over -%u2013 if they ever really began."Posted by Elmer @ 02:21 PM EST [Link] [Karma: 0 (+/-)] [No Comments]
Feds Stop Seeking Microsoft Breakup
The Bush administration, reversing the Clinton White House legal strategy against Microsoft, told the software manufacturer Thursday it no longer seeks to have the company broken up.
The department also said it will not pursue the bundling issues in its protracted antitrust suit against the software giant.
The agency is taking these steps to obtain ``prompt, effective and certain relief for consumers,'' it said in a press release.Posted by Elmer @ 02:03 PM EST [Link] [Karma: 0 (+/-)] [No Comments]
Tuesday, September 4, 2001
Hewlett-Packard to Acquire Compaq in $25 Billion Deal
Hewlett-Packard (news/quote) said yesterday that it was acquiring Compaq Computer (news/quote) for $25 billion in stock in a bold move to grow as the computer industry struggles with shrinking sales.
The merger, if completed, would produce a company with total revenue only slightly less than that of I.B.M. (news/quote), the largest computer company. But both Hewlett-Packard and Compaq have recently seen revenue slide and profit plunge because of a industry slowdown, and both have announced job cuts.
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Create your own personal board of directors
You're near the top of your career ladder and you think you're ready to take the next step. Don't go it alone. Create your own personal board of directors whose advice and direction will successfully take you over that last rung. With their expert advice, you'll improve your management skills, your strategic thinking, your long-term vision, even your personal style. With their help, you might even make CEO.
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Monday, September 3, 2001
Morphon Technologies - Features
The Morphon CSS-Editor is a Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) editor written in Java. It supports full CSS1 and CSS2 as defined by the W3C. This editor offers an interactive user interface presenting CSS properties using screens that have controls to modify these and show examples and source as you change the controls.
The CSS files produced with the editor can be used for a variety of applications, ranging from XML editors to webbrowsers. All in all, the Morphon CSS-Editor is a tool that can be used by the expert creating CSS for a publisher as well as the starting CSS user trying to style some webpages.
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Saturday, September 1, 2001
Linux.com :: Learn :: Articles - Setting Up a Home Computer Lab to Learn Linux Networking
So what's a nascent Linux networking guru to do? Easy: set up your own computer lab.
This isn't as hard as it sounds. All you need are the space, hardware, and the software. In this article, I'll discuss each of these so that you too can set up your own lab.
First of all, I'm using the term "computer lab" pretty loosely. While I'd love to have a room all to myself for my computers (not to mention all my other junk), I live with my wife in a one bedroom apartment. Even so, I've carved out enough room so that I can have up to four computers running at once.Great idea, good article. Everyone should give this a try if you have any real interest in computers.