Thursday, April 29, 2004

There is money in search InformationWeek > Financials > Google Files Long-Awaited IPO > April 29, 2004- "The company's S-1 filing reveals that Google has been profitable for the past three years, showing a profit of $105.6 million in 2003 on revenues of $961.8 million. That's more than 10 times its 2001 revenue. " Wow! That is a huge amount of revenue and a tremendous profit.  Companies that are showing a profit over 10% are not that common. 6:16:03 PM    comment []  trackback []

Yahoo! News - Google Files for $2.7 Bln IPO with SEC Yahoo! News - Google Files for $2.7 Bln IPO with SEC - "Google Inc., the world's No. 1 Web search provider, filed with U.S. regulators on Thursday to become a publicly listed company and sell as much as $2.7 billion in stock in a widely expected initial public offering. " 2:38:26 PM    comment []  trackback []

[teknoids] Directory of Open Access Journals  Hello: I'd like to bring this web site http://www.doaj.org/ to your attention and ask that you submit information on any open access full-text law journals your school publishes on the web to their attention. Current law and political science titles: http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=45 The link to suggest a journal is below: http://www.doaj.org/suggest/ The about link explains the process and criteria used for selecting journals.  [Teknoids mailing list] Posted by Steve Perkins to the teknoids list. 1:37:00 PM    comment []  trackback []

Eweek adds direct link to Yahoo Aggregator for its feeds Eweek has added the following to the bottom if its articles: "Be sure to add our eWEEK.com security news feed to your RSS newsreader or My Yahoo page:   " The 'add to My Yahoo' button adds the feed to the 'RSS Headlines' feature of My Yahoo.  Very nice.  I'm going to borrow this feature. 11:53:06 AM    comment []  trackback []

Microsoft Confirms Bug In SSL Patch Microsoft Confirms Bug In SSL Patch - "Microsoft Corp. has confirmed in a knowledge base article that its patch for a critical bug can cause some Windows 2000 systems to lock up and fail at boot time. The patch is for a particularly critical vulnerability of which experts have begun to see exploits in the last few days. The knowledge base article goes by the unusually long name: "Your computer stops responding, you cannot log on to Windows, or your CPU usage for the System process approaches 100 percent after you install the security update that is described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011." " - Eweek.com About time.  I noted problems with this patch in this post to teknoids. 11:48:45 AM    comment []  trackback []

Microsoft Acquires Accounting Code from Encore. The acquisition gives Microsoft's Great Plains ERP software not-for-profit accounting capabilities that will enable the company to compete on deals within schools and not-for-profit organizations. [eWEEK Technology News] 10:33:42 AM    comment []  trackback []

CNN.com - Music industry sues 477 more computer users - Apr 28, 2004 CNN.com - Music industry sues 477 more computer users - Apr 28, 2004 -"The trade group said the newest lawsuits targeted students at Mansfield; Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island; Emory University in Atlanta; Georgia Institute of Technology; Gonzaga University of Spokane, Washington; Michigan State University; Princeton University in New Jersey; Sacred Heart University of Fairfield, Connecticut; Texas A&M University; Trinity College of Hartford, Connecticut; Trinity University of San Antonio; the University of Kansas; University of Minnesota and Virginia Polytechnic Institute." According to the article these are 'John Doe' suits and the RIAA intends to use subpeonas to get information to link individuals to IP addresses cited in the suit.  It will be interesting to see what Emory's response to this is. For more information, see this Slashdot piece. 9:27:50 AM    comment []  trackback []

Weather.com Moves to Open Source Computerworld.com -   A Sunny Forecast for Open-Source  "Four years ago, Weather.com, the online counterpart of The Weather Channel Interactive Inc.'s 24-hour TV channel, relied entirely on proprietary commercial software to serve up millions of Web pages of maps, forecasts and hour-by-hour weather data every day.  Today, the Atlanta-based Web site serves more than 50 million pages on stormy days, but it runs almost entirely on open-source software and commodity hardware. And since the move to the new architecture, it has slashed IT costs by one-third and increased Web site processing capacity by 30%. " An excellent case study in a very large web site moving from proprietary systems (Solaris, Oracle, Websphere, Netscape) to open source systems (Linux, MySQL, Tomcat, Apache) and seeing big gains in relaibility and scalability without experiencing any of the problems predicted by the vendors being replaced.  There is a timeline for the move here. 8:59:36 AM    comment []  trackback []

In Class, the Audience Weighs In. Professors equipping their students with wireless keypads for classroom give-and-take say they make classes come alive. By Katie Hafner. [New York Times: Technology] CALI has looked into interfacing this sort of device with CALILessonettes to provide a way of making the law classroom more interactive and engaging for students. 8:50:00 AM    comment []  trackback []