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March 01, 2004


March 29, 2004
Wanna buy a domain?
By Brad Shimmin at 10:19 AM
I was just forwarded a terrific piece of email. Here it is in its entirety (with names removed, of course):
Hello,
I am inquiring to see if you would like to sell your
nwc.com. If so, kindly respond with your asking
price for the name.
Best regards,
...
At least now we have a sure-fire means of reaching our business goals for the year. Then again, what could NWC stand for that would be so valuable?
  • Nuclear Winter Cartel
  • No White Chalk
  • Non-Windows Community
  • New World Compiler
  • Nova Scotia Wrestling Club
Do you dear readers have any insight into this mystery?

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March 23, 2004
It's the iLife for me
By Brad Shimmin at 02:11 PM
Tired of your screaming 2.4 Gigahertz Windows XP monstrosity? Take a chill pill with "iLife '84," a 8Mhz, monochromatic adventure in "aaahhh" land. (requires Motorola 68000 processor or older.)

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March 22, 2004
New Issue Online
By Tom LaSusa at 10:44 AM
Greetings Folks.

The second half of our March 18th issue is available online. Here's a look at some of what you'll find inside:

  • A review of All-in-One Security Appliances: We tested five all-in-one devices designed to give small and satellite offices advanced security capabilities in one box.

  • An online only sneak preview of Westbridge Technologies' XMS 3.0: With version 3.0, Westbridge Technologies' XML Security Gateway seeks to lock down SOAP traffic without imposing performance or management overhead.

  • Workshop on Wireless MANs: Ever wondered what happened to wireless metropolitan area networks? The WiMAX consortium hopes you have been -- it's banking on its WMAN technology spilling over to the enterprise.

    Plus our Buzzcuts, Quick Takes Columns and more!

    As always, you can find these and many more stories via our RSS feed with ease.

    Have a great week!

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    Are AntiVirus Makers Scamming Us?
    By Tom LaSusa at 10:35 AM
    You've probably heard the "conspiracy theory" that the gas- and oil-free car was invented some time ago, but the gasoline moguls have kept it buried because, well, they'd be out of business if it ever came to light. The same thing has been said about the Pharmaceutical industry -- if diseases were cured, the medicine makers would be out of work. Hence we still have everything from cancer to the common cold.

    Now, a similar accusation is being made -- at the makers of antivirus software. Security experts claim that the vendors are doing very little to stop the recent deluge of viruses, worms and what not. Worse, the suggestion has been made that these software companies, while raking in tons of cash from record antivirus software sales, aren't working nearly hard enough to improve their software and stop the deluge.

    It's a sad statement, really. If there's no money to be made in solving a problem, then don't solve it.

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    March 19, 2004
    something afoot at the Circle K
    By Brad Shimmin at 12:28 AM
    We apologize for the downtime on the Daily Blog this week. Although such lapses are typically due to an overabundance of "enui," this time, it was that damn'd Berkeley DB in MovableType. A word to the wise: do not forsake a real database for a text file. You will pay dearly.

    After we paid the price and uttered an unusually high number of explicatives, we were able to recover, thanks to the modular nature of MT. The best news is that we are now running on an upgrade (ver 2.661), so look for some Atom fun soon. As you might expect, we're using MySQL. :)

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    March 17, 2004
    New Issue Online
    By Tom LaSusa at 12:15 AM

    Afternoon All,

    Our March 18th issue is available completely online. Here's a peek at some of what you'll find inside:


    Plus you'll find chuckles and career advice with our Last Mile and Career Coach respectively, plus Buzzcuts, Columns and more!

    As always, you can find these and many more stories via our RSS feed with ease.

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    March 15, 2004
    Revision mode strikes again
    By Brad Shimmin at 12:15 AM
    I've often felt that the only people who should be allowed to use revision mode and document meta data in Microsoft Word are lawyers, since they know how to walk the fine line between secrecy and accountability (read, they know how to hide paper trails). Normal people simply can't be trusted to "purge" sensitive meta data from a Word document before sending it out into the wild.

    And yet that's just what America's top lawyer, John Ashcroft, did with a letter voicing concern over P2P networking. Tucked neatly away in the meta data of a draft document written in late February by the Attorney General's office, Wired magazine found the following comment (one of many) which appears to have been entered by none other than the Motion Picture Association of America, user stevensonv to be specific.
    It is widely recognized that P2P file-sharing software currently is used almost exclusively to disseminate pornography, and to illegally trade copyrighted music, movies, software and video games. File-sharing software also is increasingly becoming a means to disseminate computer worms and viruses. Nevertheless, your company still does little to warn consumers about the legal and personal risks they face when they use your software to "share" copyrighted music, movies and computer software. A failure to prominently and adequately warn consumers, particularly when you advertise and sell paid versions of your software, could constitute, at the very least, a deceptive trade practice.
    Well, at least the Attorney General's office utilizes a peer review system in place for important documents...

    (also posted on lessig blog.)

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    March 14, 2004
    Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie URLs Ain't So Stringy
    By Tom LaSusa at 12:14 AM
    Meet Kevin Gilbertson -- a clever young Web developer from Minnesota. Kevin created a site called TinyURL.com two years ago. The free service takes those annoyingly long urls (the kind you might find on web-generated map sites, newsgroups, etc.) and converts them into a cute little link that fits in your browsers address bar with enough space to write a sonata (okay, we're exagerating...but you get the point.)

    So we decided to test it. On our homepage we have a link on the lower right-hand side for our Network Computing White Paper spotlight on Veritas:

    http://as.cmpnet.com/event.ng/Type=click&FlightID=19849&AdID=
    30635&TargetID=977&Segments=1249,1411,3108,3448&Targets=977,2625,
    2878&Values=34,46,51,63,77,82,90,100,140,222,227,279,382,442,618,
    656,940,1184,1266,1388,1716,1767,1785,1901,1925,1935,1936,1970,2299
    ,2310,2326,2352&RawValues=&Redirect=http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;
    7064623;8776123;n%3Fhttp://www.veritas.com/offer%3Fa_id%3D4692

    We ran it through TinyURL.com, and lo and behold, the new URL became -- http://tinyurl.com/2ncv6

    Give it a whirl!

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    March 10, 2004
    Websense Issues Slacker Alert
    By Brad Shimmin at 01:22 PM
    Ah the rights of spring. Where would we be without the the annual NCAA Tourney and the accompanying online rush to populate conference brackets and drop dibs on the home-town favorite. And where would we be without the yearly finger wagging from Websense about potential revenue losses from legal liability, wasted productivity and of course munched bandwidth.
    Websense today warned its 16,500 customer organizations - which includes more than half of the Fortune 500 - that online sports betting at work may create productivity drains and serious corporate legal liabilities. According to the FBI, March Madness generates nearly $3 billion in betting - most of it illegal. In fact, betting on college sports is legal only in Nevada, where it now brings in more than $600 million a year.
    Maybe we should just turn the Internet over to the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and put an end to this madness.

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    March 08, 2004
    New Issue Online
    By Tom LaSusa at 01:04 PM
    Happy Monday everyone.

    Our March 4th issue is available completely online. Here's a peek at some of what you'll find inside:

    Dave Molta's Feature on Building Secure Enterprise WLANs -- Thanks to new and improved security standards and monitoring devices, you can finally build a WLAN that keeps data thieves at bay.

    Our Review of WLAN Security Monitors -- We put six WLAN security add-ons and three integrated WLAN monitors through grueling tests in our Real-World labs. See which ones rose to the challenge.

    Our Workshop on File Synchronization -- File synchronization tools let you consolidate information for backup and restore data after a disaster. We help you sort through commercial and freeware options.

    Plus you'll find our in-depth Sneak Previews, Quick Takes, Reader Letters, Buzzcuts, Columns and much, much more!

    As always, you can find these and many more stories via our RSS feed with ease.

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    March 05, 2004
    Buffer Overflow, coming to a PDF near you
    By Brad Shimmin at 10:33 AM
    Just when you thought those nifty little PDFs were the next best thing to, well, paper, along comes a rather nasty buffer overflow that allows attackers to execute local code. According to an advisory posted by NGSSoftware, the problem stems from the way an Acrobat reader attempts to execute XML-savvy xfdf PDFs containing form data.
    When the xfdf file is parsed an unsafe call to sprintf is made in preparation for outputting a debug message using OutputDebugString. Whether the process is being debugged or not the vulnerable code is still called. Rendering the file will trigger the overflow.
    Maybe Adobe should forget about XML and focus a bit more on helping readers (regardless of platform) "see" the same content in the same way. There is some good news, of course. According to Adobe, the current product is immune. Time to download.

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    March 03, 2004
    AutoZone, meet the SCO Group
    By Brad Shimmin at 08:15 AM
    Well, it's official. Those whacky lawyers at the SCO Group have filed suit against AutoZone for alleged copyright violations via the company's use of Linux. We'll see how AutoZone responds, faced with a potential extortion fee (did I say that outloud?) of nearly 700 per server. But in the meantime, here's a verbal riff from SCO's team of litigants, I'm sure you'll enjoy:
    AutoZone violated SCO's UNIX copyrights by running versions of the Linux operating system that contain code, structure, sequence and/or organization from SCO's proprietary UNIX System V code in violation of SCO's copyrights.
    I wonder which "organization" they're talking about here, perhaps Kernighan & Ritchie, GNU, Berkeley or Allman?

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    March 01, 2004
    Let MS Secure your Mac
    By Brad Shimmin at 09:51 AM
    ms-appleYou've really got to be careful when you use stock art these days. Take for example Microsoft's Events and Webcasts page, which sports a happy looking bloke, starring into what is obviously an Apple Titanium PowerBook. It's a pet peve, of mine, I guess.

    Sure the logo has been skillfully photoshop'd out, but that shape is unmistakable nonetheless. Perhaps Microsoft is just trying to tell us that we'll be happier if we attend their conferences with a Mac. Perhaps their Web production folks should check their stock art more carefully -- or at least venture out of Redmond long enough to recognize the competition.

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