Month: February 2005

Quote on Designing Software. A GREAT quote by Jamie Zawinski that I found in a post where he wrote about software development and the reason writing groupware is bad: If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to… Continue reading Quote on Designing Software

The Hula Project. #  Today we are thrilled to be launching Hula, a new project to build an open source mail and calendar server. Hula is a really exciting project already in part because we think that we can fill a hitherto-unclaimed spot in the stack of open source applications and in part because we've… Continue reading The Hula Project

Gates makes waves with new IE version and free antispyware. SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft plans to release a test version of a new Internet Explorer (IE) browser that better protects users from scams and malicious code while surfing the Web, Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect, said Tuesday at the RSA Conference 2005.… Continue reading Gates makes waves with new IE version and free antispyware

Pitching your ideas. I’m guessing that many of you are like me. You have more ideas than you know what to do with them. UIWEB.com has posted an article on How to Pitch an Idea that may help you when communicating your idea to the person next to you or to the person with the… Continue reading Pitching your ideas

SHA-1 Broken. SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified version. The real thing. The research team of Xiaoyun Wang, Yiqun Lisa Yin, and Hongbo Yu (mostly from Shandong University in China) have been quietly circulating a paper announcing their results: collisions in the the full SHA-1 in 2**69 hash operations, much… Continue reading SHA-1 Broken

Colleges' Land Lines Nearing Silent End. The Washington Post reports that across the country, wired phones are becoming obsolete in colleges. Although not many colleges have eliminated them, “almost every major school is evaluating it,” said Jeri Semer, executive director of the Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education. This transformation of campus culture… Continue reading Colleges' Land Lines Nearing Silent End

IT's moment of truth. One of my recent InfoWorld columns (“IT's moment of truth“) is probably the most important one I've written, because it attempts to address a serious spiritual challenge in IT operations. Here's a snippet: The battle for the soul of IT takes place at the same intersection where different approaches to solving… Continue reading IT's moment of truth

Enhanced OS for WRT-54G. Community wireless networking projects just got easier (and cheaper) with a new upgrade to Ewrt, the free Enhanced WRT Linux distribution, created by Irving Popovetsky and Brandon Psmythe of Portless Networks. It modifies the popular Linksys WRT54G and Linksys WRT54GS access points, creating an inexpensive, easy to use hotspot-in-a-box solution with… Continue reading Enhanced OS for WRT-54G

MindManager Wish List. This evening, I met with Marc Orchant via Skype to talk about geek stuff. (Blogs, Podcasting, RSS, etc.) I first met Marc through his office and tablet blogs. Our common interest in using technology to get things done has brought us together for extended virtual geek meetings more than once. (I know,… Continue reading MindManager Wish List