Thursday, March 29, 2001
UserLand: Home
My RadioUserland site running on my office desktop. There are many good things here to be explored.
Posted by Elmer @ 05:24 PM EST [Link]
mozdev.org - bookie: index
Bookie is an application which keeps all your bookmarks on a central server so that you can access bookmarks from anywhere on the web.
I have a server which is currently using XML-RPC and implements three commands: getRoot, getNode and getChildren. It returns RDF data in the same format that Mozilla itself internally for bookmarks. This is all I need to iterate through a tree.
Posted by Elmer @ 05:21 PM EST [Link]
Welcome to davenetics*
Spun from the award winning enewsletter. This site has some interesting features.
Posted by Elmer @ 05:18 PM EST [Link]
Wednesday, March 28, 2001
Linux Today - Red Hat Security Advisory: openssh
Posted by Elmer @ 04:52 PM EST [Link]
Scholastic backs out of eToys inventory purchase | Computerworld News & Features Story
Scholastic Corp. has backed away from plans to purchase Web technology, toys, customer lists and other inventory from defunct online retailer eToys Inc. ...
After the close of trading yesterday, New York-based Scholastic said it "concluded that the acquisition of selected eToys assets did not meet [its] threshold for accelerating or reducing the costs of its Web initiatives."
Posted by Elmer @ 09:03 AM EST [Link]
Tuesday, March 27, 2001
ZDNet: Interactive Week: ArsDigita Gives Open Source a Try
Arsdigita, a producer of web site content management and e-commerce applications, is scheduled to announce today that the 4.0 version of its software is available as open source code.
Posted by Elmer @ 07:42 PM EST [Link]
Linux PR: Avaya Labs Releases Free Linux Security Software to Battle Hacker Attacks in Programs and Web Sites
Avaya Labs announced today it is releasing Libsafe(TM) 2.0, an enhanced version of its free security software for the popular Linux operating system. Libsafe version 2.0 adds the ability to protect against security attacks that exploit ``format string'' vulnerabilities in software, including programs that are widely deployed as part of the Internet infrastructure.
Posted by Elmer @ 07:36 PM EST [Link]
Microsoft Helps Britain Build 'E-Government'
Posted by Elmer @ 04:41 PM EST [Link]
ZDNet: Specter 5.01 -- PC Magazine PC Labs
Network Security's Specter 5.01 ($899 list) is an intelligent, flexible intrusion detection system that presents a realistic honeypot to fool hackers. Running on Microsoft Windows 2000 or NT, Specter performs real-time counter intelligence against hackers, capturing details about the source of the attack. Specter can be set up by anyone with a basic knowledge of Web services and protocols.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:52 AM EST [Link]
Children's book publisher bids for eToys technology, customer list | Computerworld News & Features Story
The publisher of the Harry Potter series and other children's books placed the winning auction bid for the product inventory of defunct online toy retailer eToys Inc., but the purchase is contingent on also getting Web-related technology and other assets in a separate bidding process this week.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:44 AM EST [Link]
Sunday, March 25, 2001
Dell Dimension XPS D Processor Upgrade Information
Posted by Elmer @ 12:05 AM EST [Link]
Overclocking the AL440LX
Posted by Elmer @ 12:05 AM EST [Link]
Saturday, March 24, 2001
Groove teams with Microsoft for enterprise collaboration | Computerworld News & Features Story
Looks like just about everybody is jumping on the .NET/Hailstorm bandwagon. What happens if MS gets broken up?
Posted by Elmer @ 08:16 AM EST [Link]
Friday, March 23, 2001
LocalBusiness.com - Atlanta - News - ChangeAddress shutters doors
The online address-changing service, which launched its services in August 2000, gave movers online access to a network of more than 50,000 banks, magazine publishers, credit card companies, alumni associations and businesses. Users could go online and notify select institutions of an address change.
The company's Website -- at www.changeaddress.com -- was down on Thursday and the company's phone has been disconnected.
Another one bites the dust, right in my backyard. Interesting thing is that a lot of these .coms are good ideas, but the business models are all messed up.
Posted by Elmer @ 02:59 PM EST [Link]
Press Releases: DOUBLECLICK ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC CHANGES TO ITS GLOBAL MEDIA BUSINESS
DoubleClick Inc. (Nasdaq: DCLK), the industry’s leading digital marketing solutions company, today announced fundamental changes to the way the company is approaching its media business.
Curtailing the sale of those annoying banner ads. OK, so somebody noticed that banners have little impact, now what? Millions of people are using the web, why can't we sell them something? Because, the way they are processing information from the web is different. They are buying things, books, cars, houses, insurance, PCs, Cisco routers. But not through cheesy banners.
Posted by Elmer @ 10:58 AM EST [Link]
Bottom Feeder's Business Plan
In hindsight, it was inevitable: Philip Kaplan, the wizard behind the curtain of FuckedCompany.com, has decided to monetize his online deadpool of failed dot-coms by charging for subscriptions to "premium features" of the site.
Posted by Elmer @ 10:54 AM EST [Link]
CyberCalendar
Latest update. In use at ELS.
Posted by Elmer @ 07:16 AM EST [Link]
Thursday, March 22, 2001
SSH inventor denied trademark request, 03/21/01
See Open source of contention - SSH! for more.
Posted by Elmer @ 12:43 PM EST [Link]
Wednesday, March 21, 2001
ZDNet: ATI Radeon VE 32MB Full Review
Posted by Elmer @ 05:02 PM EST [Link]
ZDNet: Interactive Week: Spamming Washington
And we thought that all this access would promote democracy...
On Monday the "Congress Online Project" released a study indicating that our elected representatives in Washington, D.C., can't handle all the e-mail they receive.
The study reported that 80 million messages came in last year to Congress. The response from our elected officials? The mail is "routinely ignored" because of a lack of staff or technology to handle it.
Posted by Elmer @ 04:57 PM EST [Link]
Friday, March 16, 2001
4.x Problem Set 1: Basics of Tcl and SQL
Since I've decided to take teknoids.net down this road, I need to learn Tcl, AOLserver, Oracle, and the aD toolkit. this is the beginning.
Posted by Elmer @ 09:25 PM EST [Link]
Thursday, March 15, 2001
Clusters @ TOP500 - Top Clusters
Reflecting the strong emerging trend of cluster computing in high-performance computing (HPC), the team which has compiled the TOP500 list of global supercomputing sites has developed a similar list to rank the world's top 100 cluster computing systems.
Posted by Elmer @ 07:38 PM EST [Link]
ZDNet: eWEEK: Nastier version of backdoor tool releasedA new version of SubSeven, a powerful and well-known backdoor program that gives attackers almost complete control over a victim's computer, is making the rounds on the Internet.
Posted by Elmer @ 12:02 PM EST [Link]
News: Boeing puts Linux, AMD supercomputer in orbit
Boeing on Wednesday bought a 96-processor supercomputer based on the Linux operating system and Advanced Micro Devices processors for use in designing the new Delta IV rocket that launches satellites into space.
The system was built by Linux Networx, a Sandy, Utah-based company that specializes in "Beowulf" clusters--gangs of networked Linux machines that collectively tackle computational problems.
Posted by Elmer @ 12:00 PM EST [Link]
opensource.go.com
Speaking of go.com, you can get the template engine and servlet that runs many Disney sites here, all opensourced and everything.
Posted by Elmer @ 11:53 AM EST [Link]
Disney revives and revamps Go.com portal | Computerworld News & Features Story
Frequently Asked Questions regarding GO.COM
Apparently back from the unplugged, go.com has been revived to be a gateway to Disney net properties. Makes sense, but does it matter? Only time will tell. From the FAQ it appears that many services were dropped. Will users return?
Posted by Elmer @ 11:46 AM EST [Link]
Tuesday, March 13, 2001
Dow Jones, Excite@Home pull out of Work.com | Computerworld News & Features Story
Things todo: crack open a frosty one, sit back, and watch the portals die. I wonder what the work.com domain name is worth? On an interesting note, the statement sited in the article and on work.com's homepage appears to be missing.
Posted by Elmer @ 12:49 PM EST [Link]
Microsoft, eBay announce strategic alliance | Computerworld News & Features Story| EBAY AND MICROSOFT ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE TO EXPAND GLOBAL ONLINE PRESENCE
eBay and MS strike a deal that has some pretty interesting implications. Most interesting: incorporation of the eBay e-commerce engine into the .NET strategy. XML access to eBay auctions would come anyway, so that is of lesser importance. eBay's pledge to use Win2k at some level is interesting, but we'll have ot wait and see where that goes.
Posted by Elmer @ 12:43 PM EST [Link]
Monday, March 12, 2001
Ars Technica: The Buyer's Guide
A great site for for tech stuff. Real geeks!
Posted by Elmer @ 03:01 PM EST [Link]
Linux Security Week - March 12th 2001
This week, there are a few articles worth taking a look at. "TCP Wrappers: Part 2," "PortSentry and Snort Compared," and "Deconstructing DoS attacks" will help in the improvement of network security. If you are interested in cryptography, you may want to read "EU denies rumours NSA has broken its encryption system" and "The opening of secrets: Crypto review."
Posted by Elmer @ 02:20 PM EST [Link]
Open source of contention - SSH!
This could be a serious problem for secure shell users since many of us rely on OpenSSH for our remote access. I wonder where the other commercial vendors like the Secure CRT folks will come down on this?
Both sides could lose if access to an important component of Internet security and the good will toward SSH Communications become casualties
Posted by Elmer @ 09:35 AM EST [Link]
ZDNet Software Library - Search Results - 50 Free Web publishing tools
Everything you need to publish online: HTML editors,
database converters, code validators, servers, and more.
Posted by Elmer @ 09:24 AM EST [Link]
News: Hello Crusoe: New notebooks debut
A slew of notebooks that incorporate Transmeta's Crusoe processor will hit the United States over the next two months, including one that includes both a Windows operating system and a version of Linux.
Posted by Elmer @ 09:20 AM EST [Link]
www.rpm.org
This site aims to bring you the latest and most up to date information on the RPM software packaging tool which is taking the world by storm.
Posted by Elmer @ 06:57 AM EST [Link]
SecurityPortal - Weekly Linux Security Digest - 2001/03/05 to 2001/03/11
Posted by Elmer @ 06:55 AM EST [Link]
Sunday, March 11, 2001
ZDNet: MySQL makes a move up-market
MySQL AB's widely used open-source database, MySQL, is taking a big step forward in the corporate world with the addition of transaction support.
Until now, MySQL has been most popular as a content back end for dynamic Web sites because it is lightweight, free, fast and simple to use. There's also a wealth of information online on how to use MySQL and how to work around some of its limitations.
Posted by Elmer @ 11:31 AM EST [Link]
Saturday, March 10, 2001
Putting OpenLDAP to Work
Got LDAP? This article provides a great brief intro to getting OpenLDAP up and running. Wish I had it 6 months ago;)
Posted by Elmer @ 06:31 PM EST [Link]
O'Reilly Network: You Have Mail! [Mar. 09, 2001]
This column is the result of DJ Adams' investigations into the Jabber technology and protocols. Learning about the Jabber technology and protocols, DJ immediately discovered that Jabber could lend itself to much more than just instant messaging.
Posted by Elmer @ 06:28 PM EST [Link]
ZDNet: Interactive Week: Private Domain Start-Up Makes The Rounds In D.C.
But without access to root DNS servers how will most of the net access these domais?
Posted by Elmer @ 10:08 AM EST [Link]
CRN: Daily Archives | IBM To Partners: Here's $3,000 To Get Linux-Certified
At the PartnerWorld conference, held here this week, IBM said it expanded its Linux-focused "You Pass, We Pay" program. Now, IBM will reimburse business partners for up to $3,000 in tuition and test expenses for each employee who gets certified via the Linux Professional Institute or Red Hat Linux, says Richard Sullivan, vice president of solutions and integration management at the vendor's Software Group.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:49 AM EST [Link]
The Register | Apple patents desktop themes
If this is upheld by the courts, and I'm sure we'll see some litigation, it is a very bad thing. Actually, this may be the thing to break software patents.
Microsoft's plan to providing Windows XP (aka Whistler) with interface themes (aka skins) may be knocked on the head by Apple, which has patented desktop themes.
The patent, granted on 13 February from an application made way back in May 1998, covers "systems and methods for providing a user with increased flexibility and control over the appearance and behaviour of objects on a user interface are described.
"Sets of objects can be grouped into themes to provide a user with a distinct overall impression of the interface. These themes can be invoked by calling a corresponding theme engine."
The patent is number 6,188,399, and you can read it in full here. It follows on from an earlier patent, 5,959,624, covering a "system and method for customising appearance and behaviour of graphical user interfaces".
Posted by Elmer @ 08:45 AM EST [Link]
Zelerate.org - Home Page
Zelerate AllCommerce, a commerce, content, customer and relationship management system. This high-performance, scalable Internet application is written in Perl and uses a backend database. Zelerate AllCommerce is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Zelerate AllCommerce was established to reflect the successful model of rapid development found in Linux and other open source technologies. In keeping with our commitment to this technological revolution, we've made the AllCommerce source code freely available to ensure a continuous upgrade path unmatched by proprietary solutions.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:07 AM EST [Link]
Friday, March 9, 2001
BBC News | SCI/TECH | Doctors defiant on cloning
Doctors from Italy and the United States said on Friday they intended to push ahead with their plans to clone human beings, despite the objections and doubts raised by religious and scientific groups.
Posted by Elmer @ 11:15 AM EST [Link]
AOLserver - Welcome
AOLserver is AOL Time Warner's Open-Source web server. AOLserver is the backbone of the largest and busiest production environments in the world. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled web server used for large scale, dynamic web sites.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:30 AM EST [Link]
Thursday, March 8, 2001
OpenACS.org
Posted by Elmer @ 10:05 PM EST [Link]
SANS Alerts and Analysis - Large Criminal Hacker Attack on Windows NTE-Banking and E-Commerce Sites
In the largest criminal Internet attack to date, a group of Eastern European hackers has spent a year systematically exploiting known Windows NT vulnerabilities to steal customer data. More than a million credit cards have been taken and more than 40 sites have been victimized.
Posted by Elmer @ 06:51 PM EST [Link]
Yahoo! Updates First Quarter 2001 Financial Guidance
Yahoo! Updates First Quarter 2001 Financial Guidance
Company Begins Search for New Chief Executive Officer;
Koogle to Remain Chairman of the Board;
Company Announces Stock Repurchase Program
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - March 7, 2001 - Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today updated previously reported financial guidance for its first quarter financial results. Yahoo! also announced that its Board of Directors and senior management have initiated a search for a new chief executive officer and have authorized a stock repurchase program.
But, they are still a viable company.
Posted by Elmer @ 02:12 PM EST [Link]
developerWorks : Web services : Getting Started with XML-RPC in Perl
Creating an XML-RPC Web service with Perl is almost as easy as CGI scripting. This article will bring you up to speed on what XML-RPC is and how to use Perl's Frontier::RPC library to create simple clients and servers.
Posted by Elmer @ 12:36 PM EST [Link]
Wednesday, March 7, 2001
Gallery of CSS Descramblers
For that little PERL bit:
Two Perl implementations courtesy of MIT Student Information Processing Board members Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz. The shorter one, qrpff, is 526 bytes. The faster one, 531 bytes long, caches the permutation corresponding to CSStab1, and is fast enough to actually use to watch a movie. The programs take a five-byte title key on the command line (five decimal numbers, in least to most-significant order) and an MPEG 2 Program Stream VOB file on stdin, and output a decrypted version of the VOB file. For example, to play The Matrix: cat /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILE_NAME | qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -
Posted by Elmer @ 05:31 PM EST [Link]
7 lines of perl to decode DVD
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# 531-byte qrpff-fast, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz
# MPEG 2 PS VOB file on stdin -> descrambled output on stdout
# arguments: title key bytes in least to most-significant order
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=(
$m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;$t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16
-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h
=5;$_=unxb24,join"",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$
d=unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d>>12^$d>>4^
$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^
(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
Posted by Elmer @ 05:25 PM EST [Link]
Using RSS News Feeds - Webreference.com
Posted by Elmer @ 11:33 AM EST [Link]
Monday, March 5, 2001
ROADSEND - PHP SITE MANAGER
Posted by Elmer @ 06:30 PM EST [Link]
WAV Place - Index Page
All sorts of sound bits from movies, TV, etc.
Posted by Elmer @ 06:28 PM EST [Link]
AT&T Worldnet Service - Sign up centerAs free ISP's dwindle, ATT Worldnet's i495 offer is pretty good. 150 hrs of dialup access, plus a 'navigation-bar' (really targeted ads), lots of POPs, quality service, only $4.95/month.
Posted by Elmer @ 03:33 PM EST [Link]
Linux Security Week - March 5th 2001
This week many good network security articles were released. You should begin by reading "Network monitoring, access control, and booby traps using TCP Wrappers," "Using SSH Tunneling," and "Be extremely wary not to taint computer evidence."
This week, advisories were released for sudo, dump, lpr, php, sumrpc, zope, and analog. The vendors include Conectiva, Debian, Immunix, FreeBSD, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, and Trustix. It is critical that you update all vulnerable packages.
Posted by Elmer @ 02:01 PM EST [Link]
Sunday, March 4, 2001
Linux Today - Bruce Perens: What's Going On About Open-Sourcing the OpenMail Program
This is an intelligent and well thought out article about what it would take to open source a currently proprietary product.
Posted by Elmer @ 07:41 PM EST [Link]
Saturday, March 3, 2001
e-smith's developers' site - easy-to-install, easy-to-use Linux-based internet servers
This software is brought to you by e-smith, inc., an innovative software company passionately dedicated to helping small organizations take advantage of the Internet to increase their effectiveness and profitability. Our business model at e-smith is to profit by offering a full range of services to users of our free software. For example, we provide professional-quality packaging of our software (including printed colour manual, silkscreened CDROM and boot floppy) as well as a variety of support programs for end users, network solutions providers, and computer vendors. To find out more about what e-smith can do for your organization, please visit the e-smith commercial web site.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:57 AM EST [Link]
ZDNet's RFP engine.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:36 AM EST [Link]
Johnson & Johnson buys BabyCenter.com from eToys | Computerworld News & Features Story
The real value on the web is not being able to sell things directly, but in being able to build relationships and brand. It's not really different than magazine publishing.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:33 AM EST [Link]
Friday, March 2, 2001
MyThreads
A Yahoo-like link directory that uses PHP, FastTemplates, and MySQL. I like it.
Posted by Elmer @ 05:07 PM EST [Link]
ZDNet: eWEEK: Gateway cuts outlook, plans to go back to the box
Gateway Inc. will lose money in the first quarter of 2001, disappointing Wall Street, as it goes back to the box, refocusing on its main business of selling computers directly to consumers, the company said on Wednesday.
Posted by Elmer @ 04:26 PM EST [Link]
Gossamer Threads - Links Directory Management Software
Links is an easy-to-use Directory Management program. Links allows you to run a complex link directory without being overwhelmed by editing and updating HTML pages. It is modeled after Yahoo and inspired by The CGI Resources (see what nice things people have said about Links) and contains all the necessary features to run a successful directory. It is very portable and will run out of the box on UNIX, Windows NT and even Macintosh systems!
Posted by Elmer @ 11:43 AM EST [Link]
Thursday, March 1, 2001
PHPBuilder.com - The Resource For PHP Developers
Posted by Elmer @ 07:30 AM EST [Link]
binarycloud
binarycloud is a platform for building web applications with PHP
It includes basic services like authentication, permissions, a template engine, database abstraction etc., an extensive collection of libraries, and a framework for configuring the system and building your own logic.
Posted by Elmer @ 07:30 AM EST [Link]
phpHeaven
Libraries for DB abstraction, sessions and news syndication are here. Worth a look.
Posted by Elmer @ 07:25 AM EST [Link]
