Thursday, May 13, 2004

Untangling Blogs and RSS. Yesterday, two librarians at Georgia State University, who have started a bunch of weblogs, presented on Blogs and RSS [PDF], for the SLA Georgia Chapter. They started a TypePad weblog, which I assume will not be updated, but you never know. I would love to see a copy of the presentation...We need to get RSS/Weblog presentations in some sort of electronic repository. [Library Stuff] 8:34:58 PM    comment []  trackback []

Project Gutenberg has an RSS feed. [Scripting News] 8:28:58 PM    comment []  trackback []

Google Tests New E-mail Groups. The search company launches a beta of Google Group 2 that moves beyond its Usenet archive to allow the creation of new groups and faster indexing for search. [eWEEK Technology News] 8:27:33 PM    comment []  trackback []

Google to Sell Type of Ad It Once Shunned. Google has decided to start selling ads with graphics, not on Google.com as yet, but on the sites of other Web publishers on which it sells advertising. By Saul Hansell. [New York Times: Technology] 8:26:44 PM    comment []  trackback []

Microsoft unveils final Longhorn road map. With rumors rampant over the release date and what's inside of Microsoft's next major OS release, Longhorn, company executives launched a full-court press on the tech media today, laying out a timetable for its upcoming OS releases and providing more details about Longhorn's features. [InfoWorld: Top News] 8:25:37 PM    comment []  trackback []

Google can do mail lists now, in competition with Yahoo. [Scripting News] But better because it includes the usenet archive.  But Atom only feeds makes me sad.  Why not RSS? 8:24:24 PM    comment []  trackback []

Symantec, Norton need vital patches in next 24 hours. Almost the entire range of Symantec Corp. security software, from Norton Internet Security through to the Symantec Firewall require urgent updates, the company has warned, after a series of four extremely critical vulnerabilities were found by security company eEye Digital Security Inc. [InfoWorld: Top News] 8:20:15 PM    comment []  trackback []

Katie Hafner's do-it-yourself home theater. [Scripting News] 8:19:20 PM    comment []  trackback []

DoS Vulnerability Threatens Wireless Networks. The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team has identified a vulnerability in the 802.11 wireless specification that could open wireless networks to denial-of-service attacks. [eWEEK Technology News] 8:10:46 PM    comment []  trackback []

phpfb4 Core Files - Beta version released (PHP Fusebox 4). Total project downloads to date: 96 Project description: Fusebox 4 Core Files - PHP OS Distribution [Download] [Release Notes] By starkraving@users.sourceforge.net (Mike Ritchie). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 8:09:50 PM    comment []  trackback []

NoMachine NX 1.3.2 R 25/7. NoMachine NX is a terminal server system based on the X11 protocol. It is an order of magnitude faster than VNC and, by translating and embedding RDP and RFB in the X protocol, it is also able to compress Windows Terminal Service and VNC sessions. It provides a suite of libraries and X11 proxying agents implementing efficient compression and optimized transport of X11, HTTP, SMB, and arbitrary protocols like audio over low-bandwidth links. [freshmeat.net] 8:06:40 PM    comment []  trackback []

Wallon worm uses Yahoo, IE flaw to spread. Like other mass-mailing worms, Wallon has its own SMTP engine and grabs e-mail addresses from files stored on compromised computers. [Computerworld News] 8:02:34 PM    comment []  trackback []

Dev-PHP IDE Version 2.0.5 released (Dev-PHP IDE). Total project downloads to date: 93673 Project description: Dev-PHP is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment for PHP. It's fast, powerful and has a user-friendly interfase. It has many cool features, like Function browsing and full integration with the PHP parser and the PHP-GTK library. [Download] [Release Notes] By ursmaeder@users.sourceforge.net (Urs Mäder). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 7:58:54 PM    comment []  trackback []

Justice Department Censors ACLU Web Site  Justice Department Censors ACLU Web Site Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday May 13, @04:53PM from the its-only-getting-wierder dept. phr1 writes "According to the Washington Post, the ACLU was forced to remove a paragraph from their online press release, that specified what kind of information FBI agents could request under the Patriot Act that the ACLU has been suing over. "  [Slashdot] More than a little scary.  Under the PATRIOT Act the gov't can do all sorts of things against all sorts of folks in secret by merely intoning 'national security'.  No good can come of it. 7:40:46 PM    comment []  trackback []

New worm targets Sasser code flaw. BOSTON - A new Internet worm is spreading by exploiting a flaw in the Sasser worm, according to an alert issued Thursday. [InfoWorld: Top News] I hate it when my worms get worms... 7:31:02 PM    comment []  trackback []

Critical 802.11 wireless flaw identified. A serious wireless network technology flaw that could lead to the breakdown of some critical infrastructures in just five seconds has been identified by Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Information Security Research Centre, a finding that is likely to have worldwide ramifications. [InfoWorld: Top News] 7:23:37 PM    comment []  trackback []

Yahoo! News - Novell Offers Enterprise Support To Linux Yahoo! News - Novell Offers Enterprise Support To Linux - "The Waltham, Mass., company's Premium ServiceSM support program covers a customer's entire Linux environment, from servers to desktops to laptops. Novell also announced technical support options for smaller companies, enabling them to buy support for Suse Linux servers or other Novell Linux products. " 1:44:27 PM    comment []  trackback []

Tablet PC Could Quietly Vanish Tablet PC Could Quietly Vanish - The "slate" version of the Tablet PC platform that Microsoft Corp. and its partners pioneered is being increasingly marginalized, a victim of a desire to bring "electronic ink" technologies into notebook PCs, analysts and vendors said. Furthermore, the fate of the Windows XP Tablet Edition OS itself seems to be in question.  Eweek Irony: tablet PCs are just beginning to gain notice amongst law faculty.  Guess that won't last long. 1:42:29 PM    comment []  trackback []

Mandrake, Suse Offer New Linux Features Mandrake, Suse Offer New Linux Features - eWEEK Labs tested Mandrakelinux 10 PowerPack+ and SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional—which each began shipping last month—and we were impressed with their ease of use and with the broadness of their capabilities. - Eweek 1:39:53 PM    comment []  trackback []