Black Watch commander tells how MoD let down troops in Iraq. Black Watch troops were sent into battle in Iraq without the equipment they would have needed to survive had Saddam Hussein used chemical or biological weapons, according to their quartermaster. [The Scotsman]
Month: January 2004
Yahoo studies up on search
News.Com: Yahoo studies up on search The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company on Monday formed Yahoo Research Labs, a team of scientists that will investigate and develop future Internet technologies, said Gary Flake, the group's principal scientist. A top priority is Web search and related advertising… [Tomalak's Realm]
Spam belt tightening done badly rejects legitimate mail
Spam belt tightening done badly rejects legitimate mail. Wanadoo, the French ISP, recently volunteered its entire dial-up IP range to the SMTP blacklists: BTOpenworld, a leading UK ISP, followed suit last week. Yahoo is touting their own proprietary extensions to SMTP; BT recently managed to mess up the DNS configuration of post.btinternet.com, resulting in them… Continue reading Spam belt tightening done badly rejects legitimate mail
Ithaca ISP Adds Hotspots
Ithaca ISP Adds Hotspots. Ithaca, NY, LightLink adds hotspots to its wireless mix: LightLink provides a multi-mile wireless link to my friend, colleague, and co-author Adam Engst, with whom I wrote The Wireless Networking Starter Kit. LightLink is providing free Wi-Fi equipment to qualifying locations, and will offer both free and paid access. Guests who… Continue reading Ithaca ISP Adds Hotspots
Greenspun
Greenspun: “A thoughtful voter could easily write off Howard Dean as a non-entity after spending 30 minutes at his Web site.” [Scripting News]
“Don't back up system state and mailboxes at the same time with Exchange 2003/Windows 2003”
“Don't back up system state and mailboxes at the same time with Exchange 2003/Windows 2003”. “When you use the Backup utility in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to back up the Exchange Server 2003 information store and the Windows system state data at the same time, the backup operation does not complete successfully”… KC explains all,…… Continue reading “Don't back up system state and mailboxes at the same time with Exchange 2003/Windows 2003”
FactCheck.org – Annenberg Political Fact Check
FactCheck.org – Annenberg Political Fact Check. We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit, “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Our… Continue reading FactCheck.org – Annenberg Political Fact Check
White collar brain drain
White collar brain drain. Creative Class War, an article by Richard Florida originally in the Washington Monthly, discusses the brain drain of creative professionals. Which, for the first time since the educated classes fled Germany, is moving out of the US. The author thinks the reason is connected to the politics of the current administration.… Continue reading White collar brain drain
Another Windows-based blogging app
Another Windows-based blogging app. Clarke Scott says that BlogJet is a cool little Windows blogging app. I love their tag line “it comes with Windows 2020.” Heh. [The Scobleizer — Geek Aggregator]
We Can Trap More Crooks With a Net Full of Honey
Washington Post: We Can Trap More Crooks With a Net Full of Honey. Michael Schrage. It underlines a growing reality: In our high-tech, multimedia era, deception and deliberate misrepresentation are going to become integral tools for public institutions and private enterprise to use in protecting their networks, their information and other valued assets. [Tomalak's Realm]