Here’s a useful IDS resource – more grist for my ADSL line worries.
Monthly Archive for December, 2000
Question: given this article which suggests using secure web forms for secure e-mail, etc communication, can we tunnel XML-RPC in SSL? Given this, anyone with a secure web server can offer fully-encrypted communications (including automated computer-computer discussions), so long as they have something that talks XML-RPC. Neato.
This is a great idea. Like stock market prices for brown/white goods, etc. Will they make money? Can’t say for sure yet.
Today’s word: Wapathy. I approve.
Great note showing how Australia was getting the internet in 1999. Here’s the UK version.
Very frightening article about the lack of security in SSL/SSH.
These guys really like links. Amazingly much.
How to obscure URLs using numbers. Unbelievable / MS thinks about a lot when setting up abrowser. Is this all in the RFCs?
Looks like “Rubus” has got rid of quarter of their workforce. Ouch.
Looks like the yum yum mails were a hoax. Shame.
Can p2p make broadband viable by pushing costs out to the edges (this links to the last mile argument Adam Curry made a little while ago).
You can get your own free WAP site if you want. Hurrah! Of course I’ve done one!
An interesting techie site. Oxymoron?
An irritating site (too much movement), but it looks like I should learn some Java.
Quote from the end of the piece:
“I was discussing you argument with my colleagues and one of them mentioned the term ‘flashturbation’ (n. The practice of using Macromedia Flash on Web sites for nothing more than demonstrating its cool “whiz-bang” features) – v. funny…”
Interesting idea: allow free online access to content, but charge for pasting, printing etc.
I really like NetTracker – a web log analysis package / tracker. I haven’t heard of it before, and it is reasonably cheap (i.e. <$1000 for a five-site license).
She’s either gone to a lot of trouble or it really was her. “Credited with the phrase ’surfing the net’.”
Extraordinary list of all of the alleys and passages in central London. It must have taken years to put this together!
Labmice is a great resource for Windows issues – I think I might understand LMHOSTS now (the only way to log on to the work network over ADSL – yuk!).
PS the search screen now works.
I’m glad that the novel 253 is online – it’s about a day on the Bakerloo line.
Other hypertext novels to look at: The Heist, The Company Therapist, Lies, Same Day Test, l0ve0ne.
Very useful site if you want to know what DSOs are. A less useful one.
Universal Usability could be interesting.
Not a lot of meat in this article, but GE did manage to get 6m pages online in 90 days. Yes, I know, databases make this easy!
Read the book for free, buy it for $40. What on earth is going on here? I like Americans with a sense of humor.
If in doubt, use a librarian to search the web!
Six facets of information architecture, bizarrely subsumed under a moral code.
An unusual EC directive allows online buyers to sue EU online retailers under their own country’s law. Very rare for the EU to do something that loosens central control.
Amusing – IBM is pulling back from Win2k. Read it here.It’s all over! GartnerGroup Predicts Dot-Com Doom And Gloom: “We believe that the vast majority — perhaps 95 to 98 percent — of all dot-com companies will fail over the next 24 months”. Smoking!What on earth is he talking about? … “even if he did call them ‘random access devices’ a few times in a lapse into technospeak.” Good discussion of what all of those boxes are that we stare at day-in, day-out.