Wednesday, December 15, 2004

NewsForge | Linux consultants find a niche in growing market NewsForge | Linux consultants find a niche in growing market - "Once the hallmark of a laid-off dot-commer, the job title "consultant" is now legitimately paired with "Linux." Linux consultants, often called in to supplement the in-house staff of large corporations, are also finding fertile ground in the growing number of small businesses seeking powerful and cost-effective IT solutions that let them compete with bigger firms. Who needs a Linux consultant? As it turns out, lots of people. Consultants we interviewed for this article are providing a range of services, largely focused on small businesses and small to medium-sized ISPs. Their service portfolios include Web and database design, system administration, networking and systems implementation, and programming projects." 3:12:43 PM    comment []  trackback []

GoToMeeting 1.0. For those who don't require extras such as videoconferencing and want a reasonable pricing model, GoToMeeting 1.0 is a great way to make virtual meetings happen. [PC Magazine: New Product Reviews] 3:10:56 PM    comment []  trackback []

PHPObject 1.50a. PHPObject is an open source alternative to Flash Remoting for PHP developers. With PHPObject, users can call a method of a PHP class/library on a Web server as if the class/library was defined in Flash itself. It takes care of client-server connections and makes passing of variables (properties) between Flash MX and PHP easy, and thereby providing a convenient way to connect rich media clients with data and business logic residing on a server. The library, together with a WebServicesConnectivityAddOn, also allows developers to easily consume Web services from within Flash MX. [freshmeat.net] 3:09:40 PM    comment []  trackback []

PHP 4.3.10 released!. PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release of PHP 4.3.10. This is a maintenance release that in addition to over 30 non-critical bug fixes addresses several very serious security issues. All Users of PHP are strongly encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible. For changes since PHP 4.3.9, please consult the ChangeLog. [PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor] 3:06:26 PM    comment []  trackback []

Slashdot | Do Unsubscribe Links Stop Spam? Slashdot | Do Unsubscribe Links Stop Spam? Do Unsubscribe Links Stop Spam? Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 15, @11:18AM from the click-here-to-find-out dept. Kaiten writes "Brian McWilliams of Spam Kings fame has just published a fascinating spammer expose' over at Salon. Using a pseudonym, he was hired to send junk email on behalf of a spam operation that has been burying people (me included) with spam for fake Rolex watches. The article details how the spammers handle the 200,000-plus unsubscribe requests they get each month. Seems that LOTS of geeks actually cross their fingers and click those remove links. And, surprise, surprise, the spammers usually ignore the unsubscribe requests." 12:39:20 PM    comment []  trackback []

Google Goes For Online Library For a long, long time a question has nagged librarians: when will you take all of those dusty old books in the stacks and put them online?  Answers where hard to come by.  Digitizing existing collections is an expensive propostion with lots of pitfalls and few advantages.  Who pays for it?  How does it get done? What about access, indexing, copyright? Then along comes Google.  In a moment Google makes all of those questions evaporate, at least for a select few libraries.  On Tuesday, December 14, 2004 Google announced that it is working with a few libraries to digitze all or portions of their collections and make them available through the Google search engine.  Rather than getting into details, here is a list of links from press outlets and blogs about the new program.  Google to Scan Books From Big Libraries  How Google is working to create a massive virtual library Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database Google Undertakes Huge Library-Search Project Trusting Google   Book 'em, Google Google Will Digitize and Search Millions of Books From 5 Leading Research Libraries Right, well that should give you some idea.  As for me, well this seems like a good thing, but I'm still pondering the details, ramifications, etc.  As it happens, I'll be giving a talk/paper about the future of access to information resources at a symposium in FL on March 10 & 11, 2004.  This gives it a certain spin.   10:14:38 AM    comment []  trackback []

Bugs Bring New Dangers to Acrobat Users Bugs Bring New Dangers to Acrobat Users - "Adobe Systems Inc. has warned of two serious security flaws affecting Windows, Mac OS X and Unix versions of its Acrobat software. The bugs could allow an attacker to execute malicious code on a user's system via a PDF file distributed via e-mail, according to security researchers." [Eweek] 9:49:01 AM    comment []  trackback []

Slashdot | XLiveCD: Cygwin and X For Windows On A Live CD Slashdot | XLiveCD: Cygwin and X For Windows On A Live CD XLiveCD: Cygwin and X For Windows On A Live CD Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 15, @03:41AM from the animated-plastic dept. mallumax writes "OSnews is running a story on XliveCD which runs an X server (from X.org) from the CD using Cygwin. Also included are awk, sed, perl, vim, bash, grep, other text utilities, and most importantly an OpenSSH client. XliveCD is being developed by University Technology Services of Indiana University. Now you can carry Cygwin with you! I have been looking for something like this for a long time. Torrent link." 9:47:11 AM    comment []  trackback []

Seattle University - News and events - University news Seattle University - News and events - University news:"Kellye Y. Testy has been chosen to lead Seattle University's School of Law, one of the nation's top-tier law schools. Testy, 44, currently serves as the law schoolâ019s Associate Dean for Academic Administration and Faculty Director of the Center on Corporations, Law and Society. She succeeds Rudolph C. Hasl, who has served as dean for the past five years." 9:41:26 AM    comment []  trackback []

NewsForge | NYSE announces new trading system with Linux inside NewsForge | NYSE announces new trading system with Linux inside - "The New York Stock Exchange announced its new TradeWorks trading system today, though portions of the system have been in place for months. Described as an "Extreme Availability" system by IBM, it includes up to 3,000 -- 650 are already in use on the floor of the NYSE -- custom made wireless handheld devices used by floor brokers. The handhelds talk to Linux-based workstations, which in turn talk to HP servers, and they speak to IBM Z-series mainframes running a DB2 backend. " 9:36:50 AM    comment []  trackback []

freshmeat.net: Project details for Postgrey freshmeat.net: Project details for Postgrey - "Postgrey is a Postfix policy server that implements greylisting. When a request for mail delivery is received by Postfix via SMTP, the triplet CLIENT_IP / SENDER / RECIPIENT is built. If it is the first time that this triplet is seen, or if the triplet was first seen less than 10 minutes ago, then the mail gets rejected with a temporary error. Hopefully, spammers or viruses will not try again later, even though such behavior is required per RFC." 9:36:10 AM    comment []  trackback []

Linux MIDI: A Brief Survey, Part 3 | Linux Journal Linux MIDI: A Brief Survey, Part 3 | Linux Journal:"An introduction to several Linux MIDI utilities, including JSynthLib, Midirgui and SynthEd. " 9:35:21 AM    comment []  trackback []