Monday, June 21, 2004

PmWiki 1.0.1. Changes: This version provides a couple of minor bugfixes to enhance compatibility with PHP 4.1 and clean up spacing of titles with digits.[freshmeat.net] 7:49:26 PM

jsCSSEditor 2.0. A WYSIWYG/Context CSS Editor for Mozilla. [freshmeat.net] 7:39:37 PM

Handy wireless networking with Knoppix Linux. Last year I bought an IBM T30 Thinkpad, intending to install Linux on its hard drive sometime. Meanwhile, using a Knoppix LiveCD let me run Linux on the laptop while retaining the factory Windows XP installation. The notebook is my travel machine, so I also bought a Linksys WPC55AG PC Card wireless network adapter that supports 801.11a/b/g for the Thinkpad. For secure wireless Linux surfing, I was determined to find some configuration that would work with minimal intervention at boot time and that was easy enough that my wife could load it. [NewsForge] 7:29:22 PM

Zombie Webmonkey: Back From the Dead? Zombie Webmonkey: Back From the Dead? Posted by Hemos on Monday June 21, @10:24AM from the zombie-monkeys-with-straight-edge-razors dept. Mirkon writes "Back in mid-February, the news was broken that Webmonkey, one of the web's most prominent web development tutorial and reference resources, was "shut down," in that no new content would be delivered. A little over four months later - though Wired News (another child of Webmonkey's parent company, Terra Lycos) says nothing, and the Webmonkey Blog (hosted on Tripod, another Terra Lycos subsidiary) hasn't seen an update since January - the Webmonkey home page boldly declares: "We're totally back! Webmonkey is alive and kicking, serving up new articles all hot-n-fresh like a stack of banana pancakes. With syrup." Is this the end of the end for Webmonkey?" [Slashdot] 7:23:36 PM

IE Feedback Fest. The Coffeehouse Forum has been buzzing with discussion about IE and its perceived lack of a roadmap, improvements between OS releases, and standards support.  I have never seen more impassioned threads on Channel 9 in our short 2.5 month history.  This is the kind of discussion that the Channel 9 Team hoped would be enabled through this site.  In fact, Dave Massy an early contributor to Channel 9 (user number 16) and a former Longhorn Evangelist at Microsoft recently moved back to the IE team to work as a program manager on the team wrote up some of his thoughts on his personal blog and managed to get both his own blog and Channel 9 Slashdotted over the weekend. Microsoft is listening, learning, and taking it all in.  Keep the discussion going.  If you want to share your views on this hot topic see any of the following posts on the subject on Channel 9: Wiki: Internet Explorer Feedback Wiki Internet Explorer Feature Requests Forums: IE's Market Share is Slipping When will we see features that Internet Explorer lacks? Does Microsoft care about Webmasters? If there is a new IE [Watched threads for: The Channel 9 Team] 6:36:36 PM

Just For Fun Network Management System 0.7.8 (Stable)  Changes: This release includes new features like disabling the status polling of any interface, system description (kernel and hostname) polling and tracking, a new calendar, new trigger fields, and a UDP poller. There are fixes for the NTP poller, TCP tool, event filter, alarm map, and others. [freshmeat.net] 6:27:52 PM

Microsoft Research, new feeds: News, Downloads, Publications. [Scripting News] 6:16:24 PM