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Creating a PHP-Based Content Management System.  [PHPBuilder.com New Articles]

Gateway 7000 Series Ideal Security Solution for Small Office. Gateway's 7000 service access points include all the security and authentication that an office of 5 to 25 users need: Gateway released its two 7000 series models a few months ago and have received very little press. The unit comes in 802.11g ($299) and 802.11a/g ($399)… Continue reading Gateway 7000 Series Ideal Security Solution for Small Office

It's Not That I'm Ungrateful: Ten Reasons Windows Update Will Drive You Crazy. OK, it's the day after the second Tuesday of the month. I know that the second Tuesday of each month is now Windows critical updates day. However, I know that I am safe because I have the automatic update setting turned on.… Continue reading It's Not That I'm Ungrateful: Ten Reasons Windows Update Will Drive You Crazy

What's Vivisimo Up To?. The Pittsburgh Business Times published an article recently about what Vivisimo is doing right now. Vivisimo is great, and I highly recommend that every librarian in existence today at least take a look at it. Clustering search results is one good solution to the problem of the information overload that people… Continue reading What's Vivisimo Up To?

No Boom Today. Disk Warrior just saved my laptop. Yesterday, I was finishing a marathon refactoring in Tinderbox. Deep down inside Tinderbox, there was a simple class called NodeBundle that held a bunch of notes, and that Tinderbox used whenever it needed to represent a bunch of notes. It was built on some Mac-specific technology,… Continue reading No Boom Today

WiMax in rural America. This article in USA Today looks at WiMax which “has allowed several thousand mostly small Internet providers across the USA to cheaply deliver broadband to remote areas via antennas on hilltops, barns and homes.They typically feed off a fixed broadband line to a central antenna site or base station.WiMax is expected… Continue reading WiMax in rural America

Network access for guests. Here's a scenario that I've come to call “the coffee-shop problem” because it pertains to a local coffee shop, though it also applies to a home office that might receive visitors. You have a single DSL or cable connection. The challenge: offer Wi-Fi to visitors without exposing your connected computer (or… Continue reading Network access for guests

Macworld Boston Opens Loudly. There were concerns that this summer's expo for everything Mac would be a dud, what with Apple not attending and all, but flocks of fans say otherwise. Leander Kahney reports from Boston. [Wired News]

Cable a la Carte Still Half-Baked. Why can't you buy only the channels you really want to watch? The answer is different depending on who's asked. Congress tries to sort it out Wednesday. By Michael Grebb. [Wired News]

Apple Ships AirPort Express Base Station. Apple ships its streaming audio, printer sharing, portable base station: Apple announced today that it is shipping its $129 AirPort Express, a 7-ounce base station that has no external power cord in its default configuration, and which combines a single Ethernet port, an audio output jack for streaming music… Continue reading Apple Ships AirPort Express Base Station