Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Monday, April 28, 2003
Saturday, April 26, 2003
Syracuse University geologists raise questions about controversial theory of species survival
Syracuse University geologists raise questions about controversial theory of species survival
First proposed in 1995 by Carl Brett of the University of Cincinnati and Gordon Baird of the State University of New York at Fredonia, coordinated stasis attempts to describe the emergence and disappearance of species across geologic time by suggesting that species living together in the same environment go through long periods of stability—some six million years—and then undergo a rapid, almost complete turnover, during which old species disappear and new ones emerge. Until 1995, most researchers believed that species emerged and disappeared independent of each other throughout time.
Snort.org
Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more.
Snort uses a flexible rules language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, as well as a detection engine that utilizes a modular plugin architecture. Snort has a real-time alerting capability as well, incorporating alerting mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba's smbclient.
Snort has three primary uses. It can be used as a straight packet sniffer like tcpdump(1), a packet logger (useful for network traffic debugging, etc), or as a full blown network intrusion detection system.
MP3.com: Kim Justice
Every song that's not yet on a CD collection is freely downloadable. Everything else, you can listen to in streaming form as often as you like. You might also consider buying one or both MT CD collections. Thanks!
Intel's art of gentle AMD persuasion misfires
Intel's art of gentle AMD persuasion misfires
The problem with a strong-arm approach to computing is that the engineers and nerds that make up the core of technical buyers tend to strongly disapprove of what they view as "slimy" marketing. Marketing efforts are typically seen, at best, as a necessary evil, and at worst as the lies of a company that cares only about their profit line. A company's perceived image and the goodwill it's generated in the community can be tremendous commodities.
Friday, April 25, 2003
Monday, April 21, 2003
Business 2.0 - Web Article - Good Vibrations
Business 2.0 - Web Article - Good Vibrations
Robert and his colleague J.K. Huang have discovered how to use what they say is a unique combination of magnetoelastic and piezoelectric materials to efficiently convert tiny vibrations into electricity. An obvious application could be the small sensor "motes" I wrote about in February.
Blocking Chat Programs
A lot of people seem to have problems blocking Chat programs, specificallyAOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and ICQ. Here is some information that may help you cut these programs off at the BorderManager server. Thanks to Kevin Sinclair for his input on the IP subnets and Yahoo Messenger on this.
Blocking Chat Programs
Sunday, April 20, 2003
Designer-info master frameset
The appeal of the electronic eBook compared to the traditional chewed-up wood version is obvious. For the publisher there’s the immediate and enormous cost-saving in terms of design, materials and delivery. For the reader there are the further benefits provided by electronic text such as searching, bookmarking and copying. What really clinches the case though is the idea of the universal library: with just one device you can access any book.
But what type of device? Plenty of dedicated eBook candidates have appeared over the years, such as the paperback-sized Franklin eBook Rocket, and research still continues on new technologies such as paper-like displays. Generally though it looks like the market has already made its choice. Rather than demanding its own dedicated device, eBook reading is now seen as a natural application for the burgeoning handheld market alongside PIM, mobile telephony and MP3 playback.
Saturday, April 19, 2003
Friday, April 18, 2003
The Register
Microsoft has enraged the developer community after a Redmond executive last week threatened a software developer to prevent him from demonstrating a Microsoft application running on Linux.
The situation is confusing because Hentzen had done the demonstration before, with no problems. Also other developers had been led to believe from Microsoft that "as long as licenses were in order" running VFP on Linux as developer environment was permissible.
Hentzen has written to Microsoft asking for clarification to this conflicting advice. He told us this afternoon he was yet to receive a reply.
Thursday, April 17, 2003
DRUDGE REPORT 2003®
DRUDGE REPORT 2003® SEALED PAPERS: MARVEL ASKS COURT TO REVOKE SONY'S 'SPIDERMAN' LICENSE
**Exclusive**
**Must Credit Drudge Report**
SONY may be on the verge of losing its SPIDERMAN blockbuster franchise, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal, after MARVEL CHARACTERS INC. accuses the Japanese media giant of fraudulent inducement to make a contract and engaging in unfair competition.
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Monday, April 14, 2003
We Love the Iraqi Information Minister
We Love the Iraqi Information Minister This site is a coalition effort of bloodthirsty hawks and ineffectual doves united in admiration for Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information (currently on administrative leave).
Friday, April 11, 2003
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
Tuesday, April 08, 2003
TheWorkCircuit.com - Arrests unnerve high-tech workers in Malaysia
TheWorkCircuit.com - Arrests unnerve high-tech workers in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Indian-born Narish Ayer was abruptly awakened by police on March 9, handcuffed and hustled to a local police station in this city's Brickfields district as part of a roundup of immigrant high-technology workers that has embarrassed the Malaysian government. To quell the uproar, the government has publicly apologized for actions that threaten the country's growing outsourcing industry, which relies on immigrant labor.
Monday, April 07, 2003
Your Next PC: Legacy Free?
Your Next PC: Legacy Free? PC vendors are on the verge of breaking the legacy bottlenecks.
• Key Players in the Plame Affair