Enterprises Can Farm Out Security. Denver-based Accucode, a systems integrator, has created a wireless security practice: Accucode will audit a customer's WLAN to identify risk and then perform penetration tests. Accucode will either update the security architecture or design a new system…. [Wi-Fi Networking News]
3rd Wave Hits Atlanta
3rd Wave Hits Atlanta. 3rd Wave, a provider of outsourced IT services for small- to medium-sized businesses in Atlanta, is building Wi-Fi networks without charge for venues around town as a way to drum up awareness of the company: So far, it has built hotspots in 12 venues and expects to have a total of… Continue reading 3rd Wave Hits Atlanta
Dean Says He'll Quit if He Doesn't Win Wisconsin
Dean Says He'll Quit if He Doesn't Win Wisconsin. Reeling from a string of defeats, Howard Dean staked his presidential bid on the Democratic primary in Wisconsin in 12 days. By Jodi Wilgoren and Adam Nagourney. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
The IE Patch (MS04-004) demystified
The IE Patch (MS04-004) demystified. Michael has written a post demystifying what went into the latest IE patch. He also pointed out Microsoft's Knowledge Base article on the subject, with a registry setting to renable this “feature”. Interesting to note that in his first book entitled “Designing Secure Web-Based Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000”, he… Continue reading The IE Patch (MS04-004) demystified
DEVONthink 1.8 and DEVONagent 1.2.1 updates
DEVONthink 1.8 and DEVONagent 1.2.1 updates [The Macintosh News Network]
New Exchange Cookbook Blog
New Exchange Cookbook Blog. Here's another new Exchange blog to add to your list/subsciptions… it's the Exchange Cookbook blog, which Paul Robichaux, Devin Ganger and Missy Koslosky have created as a companion to the book that they're currently writing, to be called of course, the Exchange Cookbook, and is to be published by O'Reilly. Paul is… Continue reading New Exchange Cookbook Blog
[Scripting News
I started my third corporation last week. The new company is called Scripting News, Inc. It owns this site and a few others, and some software I'm working on. It's a Massachusetts corporation. So I guess I'm going to be here for a while. [Scripting News]
OCLC Offers ISBN “Concordance”
OCLC Offers ISBN “Concordance”. OCLC's Office of Research is offering, experimentally, a service that looks up submitted ISBNs in their FRBRized WorldCat, and returns other ISBNs associated with the same work. E.g.: http://labs.oclc.org/xisbn/0441172717 (the ISBN of Dune). This is something we've needed for a long time to improve automated searching in virtual union catalogues and… Continue reading OCLC Offers ISBN “Concordance”
Welch Makes Another Major Book Deal
Welch Makes Another Major Book Deal. John F. Welch Jr., the former chairman of General Electric, sold rights for a how-to business manual to Harper Collins for an estimated $4 million. By Hugo Lindgren. [New York Times: Books]
Watson
Watson. People who don’t build software for a living have a quite understandable attitude that you should write your program, fix all the bugs, then ship it. Why would you ever ship a product that has bugs in it? Surely that is a sign that you don’t care about quality, right? Those of us who… Continue reading Watson