Archive for November, 2001
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day, click the Link and Think link for more info.
Don’t look now, but there’s an vulnerability in the SMS functionality in some Nokia phones that allows malformed messages to crash the phone.
From Salon comes this nifty article by Scott Rosenberg on “little ways to strike blows against the empire.”
There’s a new version (6.0) of the Opera browser out, for Win32 at least. It’s sporting an updated interface which allows for multiple windows in addition to the old MDI interface, if you like that. I’ve noticed some slow downs for no good reason, and some layout strangeness, but overall it’s still pretty good. If [...]
Kiss your rights online goodbye. Dan Gillmor covers the latest.
The Link and Think link is now in the pink.
Yes, I know the Link and Think image is broken, I should have that fixed shortly. The link is good, though.
Salon has interviewed Steven Johnson, the author of “Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software.” Lots of relevancy to peer-to-peer and other decentralized systems.
Well, if you thought that Steve Jobs of Apple was a MS toadie, think again. According to Wired, Steve Jobs is far from satisfied with the DOJ settlement. Things have been relatively cordial between the two companies of late but Jobs considers the settlement dangerous to the education market. This is where Apple has done [...]
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Don’t look now, but search engines, Google in particular, are finding more than web pages. Unclueful web admins are finding that word processing files and the like are now visible to the world. The obvious question, “why are you keeping files on a publically-accessible server?”, is only now being asked. Tee hee.
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