Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Microsoft Releases Its Official VPN Patch for SP2. Microsoft has turned its VPN hot fix into an official Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) fix that is downloadable from the company's Web sites. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] 10:26:05 AM

freshmeat.net: Project details for Just For Fun Network Management System - "Just For Fun Network Management System is a PHP-based network management system that features an integrated syslog, Tacacs, TFTP configuration downloading, SNMP polling, SNMP traps, journalling, auto-discovery, performance graphs (RRD), SLAs, and a lot more. It uses MySQL or PostgreSQL as the backend and works under Linux and Windows." 10:14:17 AM

freshmeat.net: Project details for RSSOwl - "RSSOwl is a wise SWT-based news aggregator. Its search feature lets you hunt down the best RSS/RDF/Atom feeds on the Web, and then organize and share your feeds with agility. Other features include an integrated browser; AmphetaRate, for acquiring news tailored to your tastes; full-text searching through headlines and descriptions; export feed summaries to PDF, RTF, and HTML; the ability to import or export OPML; the ability to exchange collections with others by importing or exporting subscriptions; the ability to import or export user data to and from other machines; automatic newsfeed upating; and much more. " 10:10:54 AM

JURIST - Paper Chase - Docket ~ Legal agenda and live webcasts for Wednesday, September 22    Jeannie Shawl at 7:00:05 AM Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Wednesday, September 22nd. ------- This is a new feature of Jurist that is very useful.  It's always great to see this sort of aggregation going on. 10:07:11 AM

How GNU/Linux and Serial ATA RAID teamed up to save money. Recently Mailroute, a company that provides virus and spam filtering for businesses, switched its GNU/Linux-based servers from SCSI to Serial ATA disks and saved itself a lot of money. The switchover wouldn't have been possible without Broadcom's new SATA RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) controller, the RAIDCore BC4852. [NewsForge] 10:02:06 AM

Crap-free Real Player. The BBC's charter says they aren't allowed to shower their viewers with craptastic ads for random American companies (I'm paraphrasing), so to get Real as a BBC format, Real had to produce an ad-free player. Which you can download. Yay BBC! Now you can enjoy Indian dance music, bagpipes, or classic comedy without ads for Britney Spears merchandise, medication for anal leakage, or whatever else Real decides to shove your way. (via Neil Gaiman's blog) [O'Reilly Weblogs]   9:45:29 AM