Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Web Services Dynamic Discovery (WS-Discovery). WS-Discovery enables advertisement and dynamic discovery of services on both ad-hoc and managed networks. Services may be organized in a hierarchical scope, and clients can query for services by type as well as scope without heavy administrative costs. This specification enables numerous design patterns for enterprise services; provides a discovery architecture for peer-to-peer services like buddy lists, websites, and file shares; and forms the basis for discovering network-attached devices such as printers, cameras, and PDAs. [MSDN Just Published] 5:38:40 PM

Neat Radio Aggregator Tool. For those that use the Radio aggregator, Matt has created a bookmarklet that will automatically toggle the checkmarks on or off. That was a big issue for me when I used Radio. Sometimes I would just want to check all the posts on the page and would have to go into properties, mark the "check all" button, then go back to my aggregator, do my business, then go back to the properties, unchecked the "check all" button, then go back to my aggregator. How annoying!! This would have been a tremendous time saver. If I ever go back to Radio, I'll have to put this bad-boy bookmarklet in my links bar. Very cool!! [Library Stuff] 11:40:54 AM

Yahoo Search Results Start the Switch, Experts Say. Yahoo Search gets closer to its makeover as search experts report a spike in non-Google results and a new Yahoo bot crawling the Web. [eWEEK Technology News] 11:33:09 AM

XFree86 4.4: List of Rejecting Distributors Grows XFree86 4.4: List of Rejecting Distributors Grows Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 18, @08:53AM from the about-this-small-print dept. Bootsy Collins writes "Yesterday, we discussed Mandrake's decision to revert their release-in-development from XFree86 version 4.4 back to version 4.3 because of issues with the new XFree86 license. To update this, the list of OS distributors opting out of XF86 Version 4.4, and future releases, based on licensing concerns continues to grow. While Fedora seems to be "preparing to support multiple X11 implementations", Red Hat has explicitly stated that they have no plans to ship XFree86 v4.4 under its current license. Also add to the growing list list Debian, Gentoo, and OpenBSD." [Slashdot] 11:25:41 AM

A Computer Lab with No Windows, Part I. An application of the Linux Terminal Server Project in Manitoba's largest high school. [Linux Journal] 11:14:46 AM

Giant List Of Linux-based Live CDs Giant List Of Linux-based Live CDs Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 18, @04:03AM from the good-bookmark dept. nick58b writes "After searching the Internet and not being able to find a list of all available Linux Live CDs, I decided to create one. In its current form, it attempts to makes finding a Live CD easy. There are nearly 100 Live CD distributions listed so far, with functions ranging from clustering to home entertainment, and ISO image sizes from 5 to 702 Megabytes." [Slashdot] 10:57:03 AM

At John Battelle's search-focused weblog, rumblings of a new search engine called Dipsie, and a search engine transplant at Yahoo. Could there be choice in search soon? That would be welcome. [Scripting News] 8:54:32 AM