Author: Vince Kimball

Wave of Strikes Leaves Much of Western Europe Crippled. Protesting workers in France and Austria shut down subway systems, ports, trains, toll roads, and airlines. By Mark Landler. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Stop Wardriving: Protect Your Wireless Network. Computerworld News has a story on Protecting Organizations From Prying Wi-Fi Hackers. Not sure why this is important? Check out C|Net's step by step explanation of how “wardrivers” can penetrate an unsecured wireless network. Using an unsecured wireless network for client matters is risky. In fact, I recommend lawyers think twice before using even… Continue reading Stop Wardriving: Protect Your Wireless Network

Loislaw vs. Alternatives. The recent ABA LawTech archives have an interesting discussion of Loislaw vs. Westlaw/Lexis. The analysis by Carol Levitt is particularly lucid. [net.law.blog]

Bashman's Problem? (AKA Blogging Domain Name Headaches). What is Howard Bashman's biggest problem? Success. Catastrophic success, to be precise. His dilemma contains lessons for many other lawyers who are considering getting into the blogging game. The popularity of Mr. Bashman's How Appealing blog has created headaches for him. As he notes, Blog*Spot, which hosts his blog under the URL … Continue reading Bashman's Problem? (AKA Blogging Domain Name Headaches)

If You Don't Know These Rules, Then You're Already Fired. Insurer writes about sane WLAN policy guidelines: However, his several suggestions are so basic to enterprise WLAN security, that any IT professional who has deployed any part of a WLAN without adhering to these guidelines shouldn't have a job much longer. Actually, the first of… Continue reading If You Don't Know These Rules, Then You're Already Fired

Why Centrino and VPNs Don't Mix. Intel's Centrino chipset is not compatible with most Virtual Private Networks, an Intel spokesman admits. Unless laptop users disable a key feature of the chip when it runs with a VPN, they get nothing but a blue screen. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]

Haystack. The MIT Haystack project released some preliminary code. If RDF is a grand unified theory of information, Haystack is the universal RDF browser. The Eclipse-like UI eschews dialog boxes for an array of panes; this cleverly eliminaties modality. It's also surprisingly polished for an academic research project. Potential hackers beware; I suspect much of… Continue reading Haystack

Useit.Com: Usability For $200. most important point to remember, though, is that you can do it. No matter what your project, and no matter how big or small your budget, usability is there to help you succeed. [Tomalak's Realm]

AskTog: “Fitt's law.” This is a must read for all OS designers. Longhorn team especially. I'll be looking at Longhorn betas with these guidelines in mind.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

WASTE. I looked at the WASTE design document and as I suspected the protocol is a piece of junk. The gnutellaism of broadcasting all requests just makes no sense. Since I've already gotten some pushback, let me give a specific example: when you use WASTE to send an IM to another person, under the hood… Continue reading WASTE