Thursday, May 27, 2004

WebSideStory files for $57.5 million IPO. NEW YORK - Web site analytics company WebSideStory Inc. added its name Thursday to the growing list of tech companies planning to go public, filing registration papers to raise up to $57.5 million through an IPO (initial public offering). [InfoWorld: Top News] This is their second go 'round. They pulled an IPO back in 2000 citing 'unfavorable market conditions'. 6:49:13 PM    comment []  trackback []

krdesktop 0.4. krdesktop is a KDE (QT3) front-end for rdesktop. This provides a GUI interface for Windows terminal services or any other RDP-based screen sharing system. It was written using Quanta's Kommander. [freshmeat.net] 2:23:27 PM    comment []  trackback []

Chrooting Apache. The chroot daemon allows you to run a program and have it see a given directory as the root (/) directory. This effectively locks the process into its very own filesystem ("chroot jail") isolated from the real / filesystem. In this article we will look at how to install the Apache Web server in such an environment. [NewsForge] 2:22:16 PM    comment []  trackback []

Macromedia offering Flash Player 7 for Linux. Macromedia on Thursday is announcing availability of Flash Player 7 for Linux, a version of the company’s rich Internet client that is bundled with Linux operating systems from several vendors and boasts SOAP support. [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:20:17 PM    comment []  trackback []

Released today, a new version of Yahoo's toolbar, a beta, that has an anti-spyware feature. [Scripting News] 2:18:59 PM    comment []  trackback []