Month: March 2004

Vonage To Offer Wi-Fi VoIP Phones. Vonage said that it will start offering VoIP phones that operate on Wi-Fi networks later this year: The phones will let subscribers make and receive phone calls when in range of a Wi-Fi network, either in their homes or public places. A Vonage exec said the move is in… Continue reading Vonage To Offer Wi-Fi VoIP Phones

HOW-TO: VNC secure tunneling using Windows PuttY ssh client.. Quote: “Secure connection to remote desktop using open source VNC or Tight VNC software (that is normally doesn't encrypt traffic other than password). As a “side-effect”, shorter response times achieved due to ssh efficient traffic compression.” Comment: A nice step-by-step answer to part of my question… Continue reading HOW-TO: VNC secure tunneling using Windows PuttY ssh client.

Increasing Business Intelligence.  ITtoolbox, the producer of the Business Intelligence Knowledge Base, recently launched a series of blogs that take a first-hand look into the daily challenges faced by real-world IT professionals. Addressing business intelligence, technology strategy, project management, software development, and business analysis, the blogs are insightful, personal approaches to organizational technology challenges. The… Continue reading Increasing Business Intelligence

Knowledge Mismanagement. Two interesting perspectives on knowledge management were published online recently. The essays provide thought-provoking bookends to the consideration of how information is used within organizations — and how teams collaborate. In Technology Review, Alex Pentland contends that data mining doesn't go far enough. Companies need to be “reality mined.” Studies of office interactions… Continue reading Knowledge Mismanagement

Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! – Making Sense of It All. Lars Garshol, Development Manager at Ontopia posted a fantastic article on the relationships between different classification tools – topic maps, ontologies, taxonomies, and more. Well worth the read, since it's a clear explanation that separates similar concepts that too often get muddled. [ia/ blogs]

Patching vs. Intrusion Prevention. I better start this entry off by stating that for a living (what puts bread on my table) I write computer security tools and technology, with my latest research into mandatory access control driven by providing “process rights management” through host-based intrusion prevention. Ya its a mouthful, but basically I have… Continue reading Patching vs. Intrusion Prevention

Proactive sales in a small ISV. Eric has posted a great MSDN article on the function of proactive sales in a small ISV. I love reading his insights on this sort of thing. As the owner of a small ISV myself I completely understand and relate to his writings. This article is no different. Wrestling… Continue reading Proactive sales in a small ISV

Writing SW for Users Clay Shirky has just posted a terrific (and fairly long) article on what he calls Situational Software.  By that, he means software that is written by members of a small group for its own use.  He contrasts that sharply with what he calls Web software, by which he means more traditional… Continue reading Writing SW for Users

Downloading doesn't hurt sales: new study. “Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero.” “The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis” (.pdf file), a new study from two professors at UNC and Harvard Business, finds that internet downloading of copyrighted, commercial materials did not harm sales during… Continue reading Downloading doesn't hurt sales: new study