My Archives: June 2001
Friday, June 29, 2001
KnowNow, Inc.
KnowNow provides Internet-scale event routing solutions that seamlessly integrate information among Web services, applications and users -- enabling the real-time enterprise to fully leverage the Internet to drive revenue, reduce costs and enhance business relationships.
KnowNow solutions combine recognized Internet standards, a proven event-driven communications model and existing industry practices with the scale of the Internet to increase productivity, reduce time to market, leverage existing IT resources and lower total cost of ownership.
Posted by Elmer @ 10:29 AM EST [Link]
Thursday, June 28, 2001
Linux PR: K12LTSP will be officially released on July 4th, 2001.
K12LTSP is an easy to install, Linux based terminal server package designed for schools. It comes ready to run with lots of programs for classroom use. It works with low maintenance, diskless workstations that are immune to viruses and mischievous student tampering. K12LTSP is based on RedHat 7.1, StarOffice from Sun microsystems and the Linux Terminal Server Project.
Posted by Elmer @ 10:08 AM EST [Link]
Microsoft Drops Controversial Tagging Feature from Windows XP
Facing severe criticism and a potential public relations debacle, Microsoft is pulling one of the features from Windows XP. The planned inclusion of "Smart Tags" in both the new operating system due Oct. 25 and in the upcoming browser Internet Explorer 6 has been indefinitely postponed.
The decision by Windows Group Vice President Jim Allchin follows a furor after the feature surfaced for the first time in a beta version of the operating system earlier this month. The decision is such a hasty about-face that the feature will still appear in the pre-release version of the new OS, due out next week. There wasn't time to excise the necessary code from that release.
Posted by Elmer @ 09:51 AM EST [Link]
Wednesday, June 27, 2001
Linux Today - VA Linux leaves the hardware field
VA Linux Systems today outlined its new strategy focusing on application software, as well as significant restructuring steps designed to immediately improve cash flow and reduce operating losses.
As part of this strategy, VA Linux will exit the systems hardware business. Hardware orders will be accepted until July 10, 2001, with the goal of completing all deliveries by the end of the fiscal year, July 28, 2001. Staffing levels will be reduced by approximately 35 percent from the fiscal third quarter level of 436 employees. The majority of layoffs will occur during the current fiscal quarter, with the remainder over the next several months, as VA completes certain obligations to its customers, primarily in the area of hardware service and support.
Posted by Elmer @ 05:08 PM EST [Link]
Welcome to the MSDN Library - Developing Simple Smart Tags
This article describes how to create, deploy, and manage simple smart tags for Microsoft Office XP by using Extensible Markup Language (XML) files. (10 printed pages)
Hey, roll your own...
Posted by Elmer @ 04:50 PM EST [Link]
Smart Tags
Smart Tags are a feature of Internet Explorer that add smart links to pages you view. Smart Tags enable real-time, dynamic recognition of content on Web pages and offer you relevant options as you work. By hovering and clicking on these smart links, you can get access to additional information or perform convenient Web tasks. For example, a Smart Tag might detect the names of major companies on the Web and tag them, allowing you to access stock quotes and company information.From the horses mouth, so to speak.
Posted by Elmer @ 04:43 PM EST [Link]
InternetWeek > Transformation Today > Not-So-Smart Tags > June 18, 2001
The Web loves a good brouhaha. Especially when it involves Microsoft.So the recent uproar over Microsoft's purported plans to embed so-called "Smart Tags, " which critics claim could let Microsoft "edit" your Web content, in the next version of Internet Explorer has not surprisingly caused a major uproar.
This thing has legs, at least in part because Microsoft seems unwilling to back down from its attackers.
Posted by Elmer @ 09:52 AM EST [Link]
The Smart Tags Weblog : Disabling Smart Tags under Apache 1.2 and later
Posted by Elmer @ 07:13 AM EST [Link]
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
ZDNet: eWEEK: Department of Defense adopts StarOffice
In a significant win for open source desktop productivity suites, Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced that the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) would implement up to 25,000 units of its StarOffice 5.2 software.
StarOffice, Sun's open source productivity application suite that includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database applications for the Solaris, Windows and Linux platforms, would replace Applix on more than 10,000 of DISA's Unix workstations at 600 client organizations worldwide, said Susan Grabau, the product line manager for StarOffice.Posted by Elmer @ 11:23 AM EST [Link]
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Sunday, June 24, 2001
CHEX UR SPELLIN!
Our web based Spell Checker, called WBOSS (Web Based Open Source SpellChecker) is designed to work with any text input form on any web page. It is called from a second form, opens a pop-up window, allows the user to check the text, then inserts the text back in the main window's form field.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:44 PM EST [Link]
Saturday, June 23, 2001
Napster lifts some song-swapping limits
Napster has released a new version of its software that allows customers to find many songs that recently disappeared from its file-swapping service.
Late Friday, the company posted software that can more accurately determine which songs it is supposed to be blocking. That will once again allow people to trade a huge number of songs by independent or other artists that were inadvertantly blocked by the filtering system during the past few weeks.Posted by Elmer @ 09:31 AM EST [Link]
A security hole has been found that does not affect the default
configuration of Red Hat Linux, but it can affect some custom
configurations of Red Hat Linux 7.1. The bug is specific
to the Linux 2.4 kernel series. Aside from the fix, countless bugfixes
have been applied to this kernel as a result of code-audits by the
MC project of the Stanford University and others.Posted by Elmer @ 09:28 AM EST [Link]
ZDNet: eWEEK: Red Hat database ready to roll
Red Hat Inc. on Monday plans to offer the PostgreSQL relational database by subscription on its Red Hat Network, sources have told eWEEK.
The initiative will give Red Hat an open-source database offering, something observers say its product line is lacking.
Red Hat officials disclosed their intention to offer an open-source database -- but no product details -- in a conference call with securities analysts Tuesday.Posted by Elmer @ 09:24 AM EST [Link]
Microsoft's foes press officials for second antitrust suit | Computerworld News & Features Story
State officials are being pressed by an industry trade group created by Microsoft Corp.'s biggest foes to file a second antitrust suit against the software maker.
ProComp, a Washington-based group backed by Microsoft rivals including Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., went to Vermont yesterday to convince U.S. state attorneys general at their annual meeting that Microsoft's plans to bundle messaging and media applications with its next operating system would extend its monopoly into other markets.Posted by Elmer @ 09:21 AM EST [Link]
ZixIt says credit card database breached | Computerworld News & Features Story
ZixIt Corp., a service provider for secure and private e-mail systems, said yesterday that someone illegally accessed the credit card database of its independent subsidiary, Anacom Communications Inc.
In a statement issued yesterday, the Dallas-based company said it stopped the fraudulent use of the stolen credit card data when it learned of the breach by taking control of Anacom's network and terminating access to its transaction processing system.Posted by Elmer @ 09:18 AM EST [Link]
Global Crossing completes big optical networking project | Computerworld News & Features Story
A four-year optical network project by Global Crossing Ltd. connecting 200 cities in 27 nations was completed when the service provider hooked up Lima, Peru, to its South American cross-connection, company officials said today. Hamilton, Bermuda-based Global Crossing sells networking and telecommunications services to corporate customers and other carriers.
Posted by Elmer @ 09:04 AM EST [Link]
Friday, June 22, 2001
CODSYS
CODSYS is a Perl/Web-based system for collaboration. The system uses a backend XML file for all data, and lays the contents out in a tree structure identical to the layout of the XML document.
Posted by Elmer @ 02:36 PM EST [Link]
TDCRC -- Titanic Deck Chair Rearrangement Corporation
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Thursday, June 21, 2001
Dobrica Pavlinusic's home page: Document Manager
Document Manager is a document management system with the ability to check-in/check-out documents, track changes, and support multiple users. It supports all usual operations (rename, delete, view, edit) and comes with optional support for a secure HTTP server.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:18 AM EST [Link]
Wednesday, June 20, 2001
HP Mixes Linux With Home Entertainment
Long considered a premium brand in the home office, Hewlett-Packard is hoping to extend its reach into the living room with the introduction of the HP Digital Entertainment Center -- a hybrid, digital audio device that bridges the PC and consumer electronics realms.HP's Entertainment Center, which will be due out this fall in time for the 2001 holiday shopping season, is a standalone device that operates on an Intel 566 Celeron processor with the Linux-based OS. Designed to resemble a component in a regular stereo rack, it comes equipped with a 40GB hard-drive, CD-RW, 3 USB ports as well as the standard S-video connection and RCA video jacks. For the home networking enthusiasts, the device connects to the Internet (or personal area networks) by way of a V90 dial-up modem, Ethernet port or HPNA (phone line) connection. The device is expected to sell for under $1,000.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:57 PM EST [Link]
Overclocking
Want the power of a new processor--for free? Would you care for a more muscular graphics card--without upgrading? You just might have them: all you have to do is learn how to overclock.Overclocking generally refers to forcing a CPU, front-side bus, graphics chip, or graphics card memory to perform faster than it's supposed to perform. Done successfully, it can increase the performance of your system without new components. There's risk, of course--for instance, you can age your PC's components prematurely and void their warranties--but as with any worthwhile risk, there's plenty of reward.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:54 PM EST [Link]
Maps of Networks: Antarctica's ASP technology for intranets, extranets, the web
This is very cool stuff. Check out the library demo.Posted by Elmer @ 08:01 PM EST [Link]
Macromedia Sitespring
Make your team more productive and profitable with Macromedia Sitespring—the flexible Web-based application for managing all aspects of the Web site production process. Sitespring is the only solution that offers an integrated, file-server-based approach to team collaboration, file management and client communicationsPosted by Elmer @ 07:49 PM EST [Link]
ZDNet: eWEEK: Tux: Built for speed
In most cases, a public benchmark is really nothing more than a transaction race where bragging rights and platform pride are the prizes. But every so often, a revolutionary performance breakthrough comes to the forefront during a test.In the case of eWEEK Labs' Web server benchmark, Red Hat Inc.'s Tux 2.0 Web server running on a Linux 2.4 kernel has taken performance far beyond what was previously possible and blazes the way for future Web servers built on the same architecture.
Posted by Elmer @ 07:18 PM EST [Link]
Resources for Web developers | www.techrepublic.com
So much Web, so little time. As a Web developer, so much of your time is consumed by writing code, it can be difficult to keep up with the latest tools, news, and standards for Java, XML, C++, and other
programming environments. This reference compilation of resources, created by TechRepublic contributing writer Suman Bolar, will help you save valuable time.Posted by Elmer @ 06:36 AM EST [Link]
Welcome to EQuill
EQuill’s Visual Teaming Solutions were designed specifically to automate the manual process of designing, reviewing, approving, and maintaining Web sites. Projects that used to take days or weeks can now be completed in hours. EQuill helps you to deliver higher quality Web projects while reducing cost.
Annotations on web pages for example.Posted by Elmer @ 06:31 AM EST [Link]
ZDNet: Dirhtml: Create sorted, formatted HTML files from a directory listing. - ZDNet Downloads
This program creates index.html files from a directory list using the GUI or command line, including HTML code of your own design at any point in the generated file. Your index files can have a title, a background image, custom link colors, meta tag scripts, legal table styles, additional HTML code, and more. This version adds menus and can launch your generated HTML file or edit the custom HTML file from within the program. In addition, files can be sorted by columns or rows and recursive builds can be run from batch files. Version 4.0 add ability to build framed sites with two clicks, and option to create links to folder anchors.
Posted by Elmer @ 06:21 AM EST [Link]
ZDNet: XML Your Data -- PC Magazine PC Labs
When businesses set up an information infrastructure, code once, use everywhere is the goal. One solution lies in using eXtensible Markup Language (XML). PC Magazine reviews three new XML products that can save your data and improve your businessPosted by Elmer @ 06:19 AM EST [Link]
Tuesday, June 19, 2001
Home Director - Innovations in Home Networking
Home Director is leading home networking innovation, providing homeowners and business partners with technology engineered for living with hardware, software and services for entertainment, communications, security and home control.Posted by Elmer @ 10:11 AM EST [Link]
InternetNews - Business News -- YellowBrix to Acquire iSyndicate
Content infrastructure provider YellowBrix, Inc., has entered into an asset purchase agreement with iSyndicate, Inc., which builds Internet syndication infrastructure and application solutions. Existing investors led by Soros-backed Quantum Industrial Partners have agreed to finance the cash portion of the acquisition as well as capitalize the combined company's long-term business plan. Terms of the deal were nor disclosed.iSyndicate's services should complement the Alexandria, Va.-based YellowBrix's product set, making the combined company the dominant provider of information solutions and contextual content services with more than 400 customers, over 300,000 affiliates and more than 100 strategic alliances and technology partnerships
Posted by Elmer @ 09:32 AM EST [Link]
Saturday, June 16, 2001
HoustonChronicle.com - Classifieds: Real Estate: Communities
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Friday, June 15, 2001
Desktop Products -- VMware Workstation -- Screen Shots
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The Manhattan Virtual Classroom
Posted by Elmer @ 09:46 AM EST [Link]
Thursday, June 14, 2001
Coding Technologies | press releases | mp3PRO and more
New high-quality MP3 format debuts
The online world will get its first glimpse of the new MP3 format Thursday, with the first major update to a technology that has become synonymous with both digital music and online piracy.Thomson Multimedia and the Fraunhofer Institute, the companies behind the MP3 digital music format, are releasing an upgraded version of their music format Thursday called MP3Pro. The companies hope to attract software and hardware developers to the new technology but are also providing a version for consumers to play with.
Although the release will be limited, it will include a new player and "ripper," or file creator, that will allow music lovers to create near-CD quality digital music files using only about half the disc space previously required for MP3s.
download free RCA Demo mp3PRO Player/EncoderPosted by Elmer @ 07:37 AM EST [Link]
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
U.S. puts deadline heat on e-government
A U.S. government agency's looming deadline to have all its contracted suppliers list their products on its online exchange is being seen as a big step in getting the government e-commerce ready.
The July 1 requirement by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) will increase its Internet-enabled suppliers from 4,000 to 9,000 and will put about 4 million products on the agency's online exchange, GSA Advantage.
Posted by Elmer @ 04:45 PM EST [Link]
slackjaw
FirstClass is a bulletin board system that wraps forums, file transfer, messaging, and chat all into one neat little package. It's ironic, however, that a server based so much on communication has such wimpy chat features. slackjaw hopes to fill some of that void - adding IRC style topics, personalized greetings, idle timers, last seen timers, away messages, and logging to chat. slackjaw can also be used as a general respository for user email addresses, and users can be mailed from the chat. slackjaw can be laden with phrases to say on events, or can be configured to run silently.Too weird!
Posted by Elmer @ 04:32 PM EST [Link]
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Welcome to the ALPINE Network
The ALPINE Network is a peer based application and network infrastructure designed for decentralized information location/discovery. This is open source software released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.There are a number of known problems with current peer based searching implementations. ALPINE is designed to eliminate or minimize these problems using an alternate protocol and implementation.
Posted by Elmer @ 10:35 AM EST [Link]
Former dot-com workers find homes at porn sites | Computerworld News & Features Story
As IT workers receive pink slips in droves, some are finding job security in an industry that shows little sign of slowing: online pornography.
While many mainstream organizations have been hit with hiring freezes and layoffs, many porn Web sites are hiring tech workers. And workers who have jumped to porn sites say the move makes sense; they're using the latest technologies and have job security in a not-so-secure economy.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:40 AM EST [Link]
AltaVista offers corporate network searching apps | Computerworld News & Features Story
Enabling companies to easily find and use the vast digital information they already have is the idea behind new software unveiled today by search engine vendor AltaVista Co.The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company announced its AV Enterprise Search application, designed to give workers access to a wider array of data within their company. The software will work inside corporate firewalls, allowing workers to get more information faster, according to AltaVista.
Also announced today was AV Personal Search software, which gives individual corporate users similar search capabilities on the hard drives of their desktop computers.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:34 AM EST [Link]
ZDNet: Interactive Week: HP Offers Free Web Server
Hewlett-Packard brought out a Java-based Web server that lets users quickly and easily deploy Internet services - and it's free.HP's new Internet Server, introduced last week, will be given away to all comers, including competitors, in the company's bid to get builders of Web services to follow its technology lead and to get back into a leadership role in both the Java and Web services communities. It will become available at the end of June for free download from www.hp.bluestone.com, HP spokesmen said.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:32 AM EST [Link]
ZDNet: eWEEK: New report questions Linux server claims
A major disagreement is brewing about exactly what share of the server market Linux actually holds, and Microsoft Corp. is again an active player in the debate.A recently released Gartner Dataquest report, sponsored by several companies including Microsoft, found that just 8.6 percent of server shipments in the U.S. during the third quarter of 2000 were Linux-based.
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But these numbers fly in the face of other research reports from such groups as International Data Corp. Dan Kusnetzky, an IDC analyst, told eWEEK that his company's provisional figures for 2000 showed that Linux as a server operating system -- regardless of the operating system or machine on which it was installed -- represented 27 percent of the total market, behind Windows at 41 percent.Kusnetzky said there was a definite distinction between an actual server and server software that allowed machines to operate as servers.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:30 AM EST [Link]
ZDNet: eWEEK: IT salaries start to tumble
Average salaries for top-performing CIOs and other IT managers are beginning to fall for the first time since the 1980s, according to a compensation study released today.The study by Janco Associates Inc., of Park City, Utah, found an overall decrease in the benchmark salaries paid to IT professionals in the first six months of 2001 compared to the last six months of 2000. A benchmark salary is considered the compensation that a company would need to pay to attract the best performers in a given IT position, including base salary along with bonuses and benefits.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:26 AM EST [Link]
Information Week > New Product > VMWare Aggressively Prices Intel-Server Partitioning > June 12, 2001
Logical partitioning, a longtime tactic for mainframe and Unix server users, is becoming an option for businesses with Intel servers. Software developer VMWare Inc. this week will introduce partitioning software for standard Intel servers running Windows or Linux operating systems.VMWare already has powerful partners. The company recently helped Cisco Systems create a content server that runs Linux and Windows simultaneously and plans to unveil a similar deal this week with networking software vendor Novell.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:20 AM EST [Link]
Tuesday, June 12, 2001
PostScript Driver Installation Help
Posted by Elmer @ 11:31 AM EST [Link]
Monday, June 11, 2001
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Cognitive Science 2001 -- Converting to PDF
Posted by Elmer @ 05:24 PM EST [Link]
PStill - PostScript/EPS to PDF Converter
Posted by Elmer @ 05:04 PM EST [Link]
Bar association may oppose UCITA | Computerworld News & Features Story
The American Bar Association may vote at its annual meeting in August to oppose UCITA unless the controversial software licensing law is extensively revised.
The ABA's Tort and Insurance Practice Section, a major group within the Washington-based organization, stated in a recent resolution obtained by Computerworld that UCITA should be "extensively revised" to more adequately reflect current law on licensing intellectual property, "with due regard for basic rights of consumers and the protection of licensees from unwarranted unilateral actions of the licensor." This language is included in a resolution that may be considered by the ABA's approximately 530-member House of Delegates, its national legislative body.
Posted by Elmer @ 04:12 PM EST [Link]
handX software - webLog for Palm OS
webLog for Palm OS allows you to use your Palm OS device to create webLog (blog) entries for a web site. The inherent portability of Palm devices means that you can jot down entries for your weblog practically anywhere. The included conduit allows you to upload the created entries to your web server when you return to your PC.
Posted by Elmer @ 07:42 AM EST [Link]
Internet Week > Orbitz Launch > Orbitz Exec: BEA Patch Would Have Eased Site Take-Off > June 8, 2001
Reports on the launch Monday of the airline-owned travel Web site Orbitz LLC have chronicled a bumpy takeoff, but a top Orbitz executive today said the site is running smoothly.However, Orbitz chief technology officer Alex Zoghlin did say he is wrestling with what he described as a "bug" in the site's application server, from BEA Systems, that is forcing Orbitz to take down its site in full each night for upgrades. An expected fix from BEA--which Zoghlin is pushing hard for--will allow Orbitz to take parts of the site down while others remain running.
Imagine having to shutdown an entire site just to fix or upgrade a small part. Just silly.Posted by Elmer @ 07:24 AM EST [Link]
Sunday, June 10, 2001
Radio UserLand : 10 easy steps to get started with Radio
Radio is a very powerful desktop productivity tool. It allows you to create a desktop Weblog and subscribe to news headlines from other Weblogs (and general news sources).Here is how I got Radio to work for me in ten easy steps
Posted by Elmer @ 09:15 AM EST [Link]
Tuesday, June 5, 2001
dbXML - Core Server
The dbXML Core is a native XML database. As such it is a database server intended to manage large numbers of small XML documents. The documents are stored in collections and the server provides the ability to query these collections using XPath. The server is lightweight, modular and suitable for embedding in custom applications or running as a standalone database.The dbXML Core is written in Java and will run on any platform that has a Stable Java JDK 1.3 available. For Java developers it provides an implementation of the XML:DB XML Database API that makes developing XML database applications easy. For developers working in other languages the server exposes a CORBA API to make access available to any language that supports a CORBA binding.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:40 AM EST [Link]
HTTrack Website Copier - Offline Browser
HTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide website from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting html, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
Posted by Elmer @ 08:37 AM EST [Link]
Saturday, June 2, 2001
XMLHead - Eutychus Info
Eutychus is an object-oriented framework for PHP-based websites. Eutychus manages different kinds of objects to build an HTML document.Posted by Elmer @ 09:15 AM EST [Link]
[fmII] - Detailed release information - RPMs for Java Development xml-soap-2.2-1 (Production)
Posted by Elmer @ 09:13 AM EST [Link]
PSINet slides into bankruptcy | Computerworld News & Features Story
Beleaguered Internet service provider PSINet Inc. said today that it's filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, along with 24 of its U.S. subsidiaries and four of its Canadian operations.The Ashburn, Va.-based company said that its Asian, European and Latin American operations, as well as its Metamor Worldwide Inc. consulting business, aren't affected by the filings, however, and that all of its subsidiaries will continue to provide customer support.
News of PSINet's bankruptcy filings came as no surprise to observers who have watched the firm's downward-spiraling activities during the past few months after overextending itself in a series of acquisitions.
Posted by Elmer @ 09:09 AM EST [Link]
Friday, June 1, 2001
PA-RISC Linux
Linux on your HP.Posted by Elmer @ 07:20 AM EST [Link]
Files: PHP StatIt | PHP DateIt | PHP ChatIt | PHP LetterIt | PHP SearchIt
Posted by Elmer @ 07:17 AM EST [Link]
Hackers Target College Computers
Dave Dittrich is not happy: A software pirate has hacked into computers at the University of Washington and installed a file-sharing program on one machine.It means one-stop shopping for stolen - and now free - software, and plenty of headaches for Dittrich, the university's computer security expert.