Author: Vince Kimball

al Qaeda virtual communities. A recent New Yorker article describes the growth of an al Qaeda virtual community, which supports terrorists cooperating logistically, spiritually, and informationally: The Internet provides confused young Muslims in Europe with a virtual community. Those who cannot adapt to their new homes discover on the Internet a responsive and compassionate forum.… Continue reading al Qaeda virtual communities

Project Oxygen:Ubiquitous Computing. Project Oxygen at MIT is moving to the prototype stage, a “…five-year, $50 million effort to design computer systems that are as ubiquitous as the air we breathe and as easy to communicate with as other people…” it “…is expected to be a collection of technologies embedded in workplaces and homes working… Continue reading Project Oxygen:Ubiquitous Computing

Novell takes SuSE Enterprise Linux to the next kernel. JBoss bundle [The Register]

Public Beta: Delphi 7.1 Update – Database supplemental. This public beta contains updated database runtime and source files for Delphi 7. By John Kaster. [CodeCentral Delphi entries]

Free Microsoft Small Business Guide to Security. Thanks to a tip from The Office Weblog, I'll probably be spending part of my day reading this document (PDF) and seeing what sort of things I can pick up. [Life of a one-man IT department]

New: FileMaker Work Requests. FileMaker, Inc. released FileMaker Work Requests, an application for creating, tracking, and reporting on work orders. [MacInTouch]

Mea Culpa on Groove and Peer-to-Peer. Ray Ozzie correctly points out that Groove has solved the serverless coordination problem, including the subnet splitting problem. This is a notable oversight on my part, all the more so as Ray and I go back together 20 years. I was on the Groove board for many years and… Continue reading Mea Culpa on Groove and Peer-to-Peer

Upgrade your Putty Clients IMMEDIATELY!. To all the Windows users using Putty for SSH, please upgrade your putty clients IMMEDIATELY. PuTTY 0.55, released today, fixes a serious security hole which may allow a server to execute code of its choice on a PuTTY client connecting to it. In SSH2, the attack can be performed before… Continue reading Upgrade your Putty Clients IMMEDIATELY!

321 Studios Shuts Its Doors. The software company, which had argued that movie fans have a right to back up their DVDs, couldn't afford to fight the deep pockets of the Hollywood studios. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]

What, Me Register?. News sites that require registration are just annoying their readers. As a result, many users get revenge by submitting bogus information. So why not drop the charade? Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. [Wired News]